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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <jweste%smtp@******.HZEELAND.NL>
Subject: Re: Spells to spoil PLAYERs (was: GMs) day - Reply
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 08:37:45 +0200
>> I fell like a snail shamane for the rest of the evening. Reaction was
> 4
>> so I got a max. initiative of 6 (forget to mention some stun wounds)

Actually, SR2 says that Init modifiers are substracted from Reaction
_first_, before you roll Initiative. So if your Reaction drops to 0 or
less, you can't move at all. Not that I use the rule that way, I feel it
slows down (N)PCs a bit too much (the shaman I talked about earlier, with
the Reaction +3D6 spell lock, has a base Reaction 2: a Dwarf with
Quickness 2 and Intelligence 2).

>I would like to see the NPC that cast that Hellblast......
>Resisting a 9D Physical Drain (casting spells on the astral is a bit
>dangerous) is .... well difficult.

I don't believe he said the NPC was on the astral. He could be on the
physical plane, astrally perceiving. That would give him Stun damage.
Still difficult to resist, I agree, but it won't kill him.



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Message no. 2
From: Stefan Struck <struck@******.INFORMATIK.UNI-BONN.DE>
Subject: Re: Spells to spoil PLAYERs (was: GMs) day - Reply
Date: Wed, 18 May 1994 12:55:18 +0000
Gurth wrote:
> I don't believe he said the NPC was on the astral. He could be on the
> physical plane, astrally perceiving. That would give him Stun damage.
> Still difficult to resist, I agree, but it won't kill him.
I had a few words with my GM on this subject and he insisted it was only
a Fireball spell, no Hellblast. So drain was something like (F:2)+3D
ergo 6D. He had forgotten that Drain is physical damage when casting from
astralspace and this one cost him only a big beer (Reissdorf-Koelsch, was
sonst).
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