From:	Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: [SR3] Combat Spells
Date:	Mon, 7 Jul 1997 10:19:01 -0700

| > Caric throws his Mana Missile at Force 4, adding in 4 dice from his
Magic
| > Pool. He rolls 8 dice against TN 6 (NightLife's Will). He gets 1
success.
| >
| > Steve
|
| Just one thing: Caric would be veeeeery stupid if he had learnt the
| spell at level 4. Why not at level 6? costs just 2 spell points
| more, while it makes the spell really deadly. This was a problem in
| my group: every single combat spell was at level 6, and there was no
| thing that could have been done about it.
| Combat spells only make sense at level 6.

I would have for a few reasons.

1) The drain would now be F instead of F/2 which means I have to roll
higher number to keep from knocking myself out, and if this is a spell I
cast often then that is very important.

2) If I learn it at a lower force and it is still going to be effective
than I can use the other force points or karma for something else...as a
mage there is never enough of either of these.

3) A lower force spell is not as easy to detect when cast.

Well there it is straight from the horses mouth.

:)

-Caric

"These pretzels are MAKING ME THIRSTY!!!!!"