| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Wavy Davy) |
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| Subject: | self-masking quickend spells [Warning - munkineouxs potential!] |
| Date: | Fri Mar 9 13:50:01 2001 |
and Quickening to be allowed to create quickend spells that are self
masking? ie do not count towards you limit of automatically masked
spells/foci, masking needs penetrating seperatly.
It would allow for spells to be diguised astrally as not being there.
Kinda like masked wards.
I would suggest that you have to pay double karma and time,
make some sort of masking test based on the force of the spell in
addition to the quickening test, maybe twice initiate grade against
force? And it would probably increase the (two) drain codes, and you can't do
the extra karma thing for dispelling purposes.
Sound reasonable? Too munckin potential perhaps? Maybe it
should be it's own meta magical ability, learnable only after you have
the first two abilitys?
eg Amber wants to quicken Increase Charisma 4 on herself. But she doesn't
want it to be obvious, as it could be seen as 'cheating' by her fellow
magical socialites, but she does want to worry about maintaining the
masking, or maybe she has other foci/spells already.
She makes a sorcery test as per standard quikening rules and slowly
feeds it karma. As the spell grows, she uses her knowledge of masking
the make it invisible to astral eyes. She pays 8 karma total, has to
roll her sorcery verses her charima (8), hopfully getting 8 success (for
the whole +4 boost), then rolls twice her grade (2*2=4) against the force of
the spell to see if she can mask it effectivly. If she fails, it would
still be quickened but not masked. Record the number of successes, as
if another initiate tries to penetrate the masking, they will matter.
She then makes her second drain (there maybe another sorcery test - i'm
going from memory :) with a +1 drain code because of the fiddling with
it. It has a base time of twice as long as normal, reduced by succeses if
desired. Its force for dispelling purposes is 4. Even if she wanted to
increase the karma cost for dispelling, she couldn't as she was too
concerned at making it invisible too make it tougher. Cant have your
cake and eat it. :)
whadyathink?
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