| From: | Cobra <wgallas@*****.FR> |
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| Subject: | Re: Old Age Runners |
| Date: | Fri, 8 May 1998 04:42:58 +0200 |
>spell drain. Sure, it made the design more complex, but the munchkin trick
>of casting high drain spells at low force, and throwing away the drain just
>wasn't possible. If you slung major mojo around in SR1, you were going to
>take drain... it wasn't uncommon for drain to need 3 or 4 successes per
>level, so if you throw a big spell around, you'd be assured based on the
>number of available dice that you'll take at least a light or even a
>moderate drain. Now, you can toss Force 4 with Deadly drain spells around
>all day, nearly. (Willpower 6, keep 3 dice back from the spell casting test
>to resist drain).
I think they wanted the same system for everything... Not a bad idea.
It also was possible to do some rule bending in SR1. If I remember well,
stun spell had very low drains which made them quite easy to launch. The
big spells are always very difficult to launch...
And finally, they lost staging they added modifiers to the power so you
didn't lose any variation between spells.
Staging for spell effects made them quite impossible to resist... With a
staging of 1 (and most of the spell used by PCs had such a staging), it was
a ultimate weapon !
Generaly, SR1 was very unbalanced and somewhat usually unrealistic...
>This is one area of SR2 that needs serious overhaul in SR3, IMHO.
I never had any problem with it. When I look at my players, I can see them
suffer from drain. And a light wound is always a big problem in SR (perhaps
too much).
You can calculate drains with force instead of force/2.
- Cobra.
