| From: | Richard Pieri <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: A few questions |
| Date: | Wed, 23 Jun 1993 10:34:52 EDT |
writes:
Luke> Here's a return question - our GM has noticed that surprisingly
Luke> often, FASA modules fall apart if magic is used intelligently. The
Luke> impression we've always had was that FASA themselves didn't
Luke> appreciate how gross magicians are. Especially when the Grimoire I
Luke> came out and said the spell's victim had to resist against a target
Luke> number of the Sorcery skill, instead of the spell's Force! I gather
Luke> they've reversed their decision in the Grimoire II.
Yep. Shadowrun II uses the Force of the spell as the T# to resist.
Luke> One last question - there seems to have been a consensus that
Luke> Physical Adepts in the 1st edition were overpowered. Was this
Luke> because GMs were allowing auto-successes to be used for things other
Luke> than the skill they'd been bought for? If that was the only
Luke> objection, I think the loss of auto successes was a sad way to
Luke> correct this misinterpretation...
No, but the autosuccesses were pushing PhysAds into the Superhero Zone.
Just an example, a PhysAd with something like 8 or 10 autosuccesses in
Athletics could jump out of an airplane at 5,000 feet, and land on the
sidewalk without a hitch. So they have extra dice now, instead.
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