From:	ATREIDE - Aymeric RICHARD <arichard@****.IRESTE.FR>
Subject:	Re: Magic or Tech...
Date:	Sun, 13 Jan 1980 07:22:33 +0100

Feanor said :
> No samies are *much* more deadly than mages. A simple example can illustrate
> this. A mage casting manaball has a TN equall to the willpower of the target
> (this means a 5 - 6 when dealing with someone of any worth) and risks damaging
> himself. A sammie has a TN of 2 (almost) anytime (almost) anyplace. A mage
> with a sorcery of 6 (pretty standard) get to roll force-of-spell-dice+allocate
> pool-dice this summ will almost invariably be less than 12 even if the spell
> is of force 6. A Sammie with a skill of 6 always gets his base 6 dice + any
> pool dice (a samies combat pool ranges for 7-9 dice for starters). Needless
> to say that a sammie doesnt have to worry about drain and its in his best
> interest to use all the available pool dice to kill his opponent ASAP. This
> is an (nearly) constant 12 dice.

As a nice GM, I advise myt players to have a willpower of 3 as a VERY minimum.
Most have 4+. Any merc having 2 in willpower is already dead or about to be.

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