| From: | "I.M. Legion" <legion@***.SC.COLOSTATE.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Manifesting Watchers and Magicians |
| Date: | Wed, 13 Apr 1994 09:21:41 -0600 |
> the physical world or not, but whether an area spell that hits the
> afforementioned watcher/mage also happens to hit other "innocent
> bystanders"
I don't believe that any kind of spell cast at a manifested astral, or even
dual-, being from the astral could affect the mundane world. The watcher/
spirit/dual being is a being (with essence, in my opinion) and would take the
spell just as if they were purely in the astral plane. Some of the effects
could be visible on the mundane, such as being on fire from a hellblast
or the like, but the creature is an astral creature and the spell effects
would be restricted to the astral.
With the discussion about the apparent high-power of mages in general, using
this interpretation would balance it out a little more.
I spent the last combat of our most recent session purely in the astral as
an uninitiated combat mage trying to figure out who the initiate was that
we were fighting. Two fire elementals later, I at least discovered which
combatant he was so I could try to affect him from the astral. No luck.
Where I did get lucky was the last elemental I had available (a force 6 earth
elemental) got real lucky in a power contest with the bastard. The earth
elemental took him out in 3 rolls with no loss of force and continued to
trounce a couple of UCAS pinheads before the combat was over. But purely as
a mage, with nothing to ground a spell through on the initiate, I was almost
ineffective in the combat as a whole. This is a little more balanced than
what some people seem to be looking to accomplish (IMHO).
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