From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: Magical Barriers
Date:	Tue, 26 Sep 1995 15:43:06 +0100

> > > I would like to make a barrier created by a blood mage,
> > > from use of blood magic. Not a personal barrier but a
> > > barrier the size of a small home (a barrier that would
> > > fit inside a circus big top tent). What would it take to
> > > break this barrier? How powerful would it have to be
> > > to be this big?
> >
> > So in order to make a barrier the size of a house you only
> > need more success/more force (I dont quite remember right now).
> >
> Close, but no cigar. The size of the barrier is a dome (in this version,
> I don't think a wall would be right) with a radius of the magic ratign
> of the casting magician. The barrier rating is the spell rating. The
> successes doesn't do anything (one success is enough to bring the
> barrier up).

Thats why its so easy to get a barrier the size of a house up and
going.

> The only chance to alter the size of the barrier is to
> withhold dice from the success test. To make it bigger withold 1 die
> for 1 meter plus. To make it smaller withold 2 dice per one meter.
> So, hmmm.. barrier the size of a circus tent? Tricky. Don't start
> under a magic rating of .. maybe 9 or 10 and a spell with force rating
> 8-10.

Say that you have a spell with a force 10 (6 base force + expendable
fetish + exclusive spell) and your generic magic rating of 6 and a pool
of 6. This would give you 16 dice to roll and a base radius of 6 meters,
if you decide to give up 10 dice you still have 6 left over, this gives ya
a radius of 16 meters (more than enough) and 6 dice to roll the one 6
you need. Blood magic takes care of the drain.

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