| From: | Doctor Doom <JCH8169@********.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | Questions, questions, questions... |
| Date: | Tue, 20 Oct 92 21:51:00 CST |
Question #3
Do you folks believe you could design a sustained Combat Spell?
My reasoning is because I want to develop a Sleep spell that only
affects the target(s) while the mage sustains it. If it wouldn't
qualify under Combat, would I then have to default to Damaging
Manipulation? What sort of drain would you calculate it to be?
--->
There are a few ways you could do that spell. You could call it a
manipulation, and make it an area control thoughts or something similar to that
which took control of the person and SAID sleep. Drain that way would be
(if we were calling it a special control actions)
Bse: M/2, Area-S/2, Limited Target-M/2 (If you disagree, say so)
You could also work it out as a damaging manipulation if you really
wanted to be, see, the spell rreally isn't damaging!
>>>>>[ As far as a sustained combat spell is concerned, I'm not TOO sure
about
that one, seems to be bending the rules a bit. But I do have some related
experience along those lines: In one RUN our group ran across a book, the
contents of which were "scribbled text that looks like a code." Naturally, one
of our group picked up the blasted thing, and its nepharious nature was
revealed when we ran into a Rat Shaman outside the building. Miss Rat cast a
spell onto the player carrying the book, and thus locked the spell (via the
seemingly innocuous book) Over-stimulation on him. He was a bit too...
pre-occupied...to notice anything else until someone destroyed the lock.
]<<<<<
-- Doctor Doom <21:30:13/10-2-52>
--->
Question #6
How long (time) do you folks charge your player to raise a skill?
--->
In the games I've played, I haven't been charged time to raise skills,
although it does make sense. I'll think about that one... maybe it would be
the new skill rating in days or something...
>>>>>[ I've never been limited as to TIME...but one interesting limitation
is
in learning a NEW skill. In my old group, the Rigger asked the Decker (me)
to give teach him some skill in Physical Sciences, as no one else in the group
had it, and he didn't see looking for it anywhere else. Admittedly, the GM did
not REQUIRE this, I don't even know if she knew about it, but it makes a
thought-provoking idea. ]<<<<<
-- Doctor Doom <21:45:07/10-20-52>
DISCLAIMER: ALL THESE COMMENTS ARE MY OPINIONS, AND I HAVE BEEN REPLYING
AS TO SHADOWRUN FIRST EDITION, IF YOU RUN SR2 THEN SOME THINGS
MAY BE DIFFERENT!
