| From: | "Gurth" <Gurth@******.nl> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: High profile guns and magic |
| Date: | Sun, 19 May 1996 11:33:13 +0100 |
> > doing something like going for the leg, or whatever. If you use a Mana
> > Bolt, that means you were trying to Seriously hurt someone (remember, a
> > Mana Bolt either does a minimum of Serious, or nothing). Not exactly
>
> Can someone confirm that this is correct? I had thought that if a mage
> cast a Mana Bolt at a person and scored, say, three successes in the
> success test, that person would then be effectively resisting (Force)D
> damage, ie. needing 8 successes to reduce completely, and that light or
> medium damage were both perfectly possible.
The way a combat spell works is as follows:
1) The caster rolls the Force dice, plus any Magic Pool he wants to use
for the spell. Count the successes.
2) The target rolls a Resistance Test against the Force of the spell.
Count the successes.
3) Subtract the target's successes from those of the caster.
3a) If the resulting number is 0 or positive, stage the damage up
accordingly and apply it to the target.
3b) If the resulting number is negative, the target suffers NO damage
at all.
This means, taking your example, that the target must roll at least 4
successes to suffer no damage. If he rolls 0 or 1 successes, he takes
Deadly damage; 2 or 3 successes means Serious damage.
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