| From: | DANIEL WAISLEY <LGLUMKA@***.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | MAGIC !!!!! |
| Date: | Fri, 16 Apr 1993 14:55:14 -0500 |
MAGIC
** Cracking of knuckles **
Well,
Herr Doom. When I first read the discourse you gave I was highly
impressed. I it sounded really good on the first glance. You see
I tend to agree with you - what tangible things do initiates get
from initiating besides centering. Well at first I loved the post
then I got the post against it and read it. I started to change
my opinion.
I agree with the second person in that your system is GREAT
for combat spells but it really does lack for those detection and other
spells. After all, a better spell (higher force) should be better at
detection than a low level spell. This doesn't happen in your new
way of things.
So I have decided to bring forward something I have been working on.
Have you ever noticed when you initiate (get better at magic) that
area of your spells increase (magic attribute) and it gets harder
to keep them small (those successes are harder to get the higher
your magic is)? Or that holding that power focus (that focuses your
magic) increases your magic attribute and the size of the spell to much
for it to be effective any longer? Well fear no more because I have
come up with a solution. With initiation do not use your magic
attribute as it stands for spell area - rather you take your base (the
6 - any loses) magic attribute and either add or subtract your
grade. Yes boys and girls, at level 5 you could be casting that
wonderful 1 meter fireball instead of that 11 meter one that you
normally have to cast!! But wait "what about power focuses?" you say,
well here I leave up to you either you can just ignore the focus if
you want to when determining the area ( a non initiate will then
always have area 6 if he or she wants) or you can use the focus like
grades in initiation, raising and lowering the area of the spell
by the focus rating ( a power focus 3 would let you effect an area
from 3 meters to 9 meters!!).
Now, does this not sound like a wonderful thing to do for initiates
who because of their "better understanding of magic" can not control
the size of spells?
Nightfox
wow I might have come up
with something intelligent!!
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Daniel Waisley Lglumka@***.grove.iup.edu --------(-- IUP FENCING
SCA - Shire of Robledol, Households - Cryptic Demesne (fencing) + Brotherhood
of Agincourt (archery),
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sorry for any bad grammer or spelling, etc. My mind works at 637
thoughts per minute, and my hands at 1.2 letters per second
