From:	Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [SR3] Drain
Date:	Thu, 3 Jul 1997 14:32:34 -0700

| >Many people have suggested setting Spell Drain TNs back at Force instead
of
| >F/2. What do people think of this? Please remember, I need to know WHY
you
| >think the idea is good or bad.
|
| It's excuse my french to damn easy for a mage to toss force 6 and 8
| fireballs with out taking much drain or drain at all. They're already to
| powerful this just stands to balance things out. They toss a force 6
| fireball and the reciever has to roll 6's to resist but the nage only has
| threes to worry about. I've seen to many games where a even battle was
won
| only buy the efforts of the mage while the others are getting
slaughtered.
| If they wanna toss a force 6 fireball let them face the full brunt of the
| power required to shoot it off.

They are for the incredibly powerful spells. A force 6 firball is resisted
with 6's by the target and the caster has 6's as well, and they both are
resisting deadly. Under the full force rule, the mage needs 9's and needs
more successes than his target does (assuming the caster doesn't get 8
successes) and is taking more damage than the target. It's just not cost
effect to cast spells this way.

-Caric

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