Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Doctor Doom <JCH8169@****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Sustaining spells,
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 92 10:00:03 CET
>> I do however go beyond the rules a bit, in that I require the mage to make
>> willpower rolls vs other distractions to sustain a spell. For example, if a
>This one makes sense! Hmmm... time to adopt it (after seeing our res-
>ident crystal shaman hold obnoxious Turn To GOO spell forever) (and the
>only thing grosser than watching this was watching our GM get around it
>due to a totally-illegal orichalum bullet weapon foci [MUNCHKIN!])

You must admit, Diamond Walker towered over many--most--attempts at
powergaming... He is replete with rule violations and complete fabrications,
expressly designed for the purpose of creating the most unholy of characters.
(Yes, I would like to cast Alter Reality, force Infinity, area of effect.)

However, I would think that there is the possibilty of designing a Turn to Goo
spell that has permanent effects.

>> a) require that the mage allocate 1 die from their magic pool to sustaining
>> a spell. Their T#s are high, and they have 1 less die to work with.
>That fits in really good with SR rules... after all, you have to leave a
>die behind from your control pool if you are silencing an IC.

Herr Brodie, you seem to have rigging on the brain. That is decking, not
control, pool for silencing IC.


Colonel Count von Hohenzollern und von Doom, DMSc, DSc, PhD.

Doom Technologies & Weapon Systems -- Dark Thought Publications
>>> Working on solutions best left in the dark.
<<<
[ Doctor Doom : jch8169@********.tamu.edu ]

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Sustaining spells,, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.