Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: Nightfox <DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU>
Subject: Re: AuraMasking Quickened Spells
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 10:41:18 -0700
>I also read somewhere (log9311d ???) that a quickened spell can be used as a bri
>dge to the real (physical) world, just like a spell-lock. Is this true ?
>Quickening would lose a lot of its advantages if it were (IMHO).
>You have to pay more Karma, you have to be initiated, but you don't have to pay
>money for a spell-lock, but from the astral you're still f***ed if someone or so
>mething drops a physical spell on you.
>


Quickened spells - Tom Dowd has unofficially stated at one point that you could
ground through a quickening - at other points I believe he has said that you
can't. It is my opinion that for game balance and fairness that one should not
be able to ground through a quickening - after all, if you could ground through
a quickening - you could ground through a sustained spell - since thats all a
quickening is - a tying off of the mages end of the spell into astral space.


Tom Dowd is very good at the cyber, tech and history part of ShadowRun, but
IMHO he is not as good in the magic issues.

BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!
Daniel Waisley + SCA - March of Ered Sul - Flagstaff AZ
DJWA@******.UCC.NAU.EDU + Nau fencing club.
"Nightfox" + Brotherhood of the Cryptic Demesne -household
BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!
GE - d+(-) -p+@ c++(++++) !L u(--) e+(*) m+ s+/ !n+(-) h* f+ g+ w+++ t+ r+ y+
"infinity = zero" - Daniel Waisley "Nightfox"
BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!BOINGEE!!!

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.