| From: | Joe McNulty <mcnultyj@****.JMB.COM> |
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| Subject: | Misc Stuff |
| Date: | Wed, 27 Oct 1993 13:29:40 CDT |
'normal' group, and in the process of the night we came upon a few things
we never really dealt with before, and I made several off the cuff rulings
that seemed rather gray, and a few were later contested with 'rule quoting'
This was of course done after the session. We don't like to bog down the
game if my rulings at least sound remotely logical...
Anyway, the players are in the Amazon jungle after a plane wreck and are
trekkin' through the forest. So most of the encounters are Critters <
<don't ya just love that word...>, so there has been quite a lot of melee
combat.
The first thing to come up was Full defense melee option. I said in full
defense you cannot do damage to the opponent, even if you exceed the
opponents successes with you un/armed combat test. The book is rather gray
on this point. Depending how you read it, it could go either way. My group
agreed on the point, but I thought I'd see how you guys play it.
The next was with a barrier spell. A shaman wanted to cast Mana barrier
around himself and another mage who was promptly suffering lots of damage
from some not-so-friendly-and-hungry Vampire Bats. I ruled that he had
to withold dice from his test to reduce the radius of the barrier so as
only to place the dome around himself and the mage. Later on, the other
mage quotes the spell from the book as saying the mage can shape the barrier
however they want. But of course, in order to do it in the above example
he would have had to create a fairly complex geometric shape, so I still
told him no. Would anyone else have done different?
Thanks a bunch,
Joe
