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From: "Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Power Gaming in general (WAS: Quickened Spells and Horr
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 11:22:03 GMT
Tom Pendergrast writes

> ((One of my favorite spells is Stunball. Easy drain, and can take hordes
> of people down w/o killing them.))
>
Superb spell, i just have not had a chance to equip a long played
character with it yet, i seem to end up running SR, the games i've
played since the first one have all been short/oneshot/or i really
got miffed with the GM [had something to do with overly short
sessions and spare banshees in funny colors] since.

> > A very good reason to control force, (magic rating - force)*2 to
> > spot, i have been known to have a character downcast a manabolt all
> > the way to force 1 to take advantage of that. Crowed bars are a pain
> > especially when the sleep spell solutions right out because the
> > crowds all around, your team and the folks you are helping are in the
> > way.
>
> ((Drop a StunBall is said bar. (Most) everyone's out, no sees a thing,
> get in, get out, no one is hurt, everyone is hapy (except the chummski
> you were after of course...))
>
Except as i said the team and a group of folks i wanted to escape wre
in the way, i had a sleep spell with pleny enough dice available to
do te trick, completly overdo it in fact.

>
>
Mark

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