| From: | Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Astral Magic (Re: New use for Masking) |
| Date: | Fri, 15 May 1998 10:11:50 -0500 |
> In a message dated 5/13/98 11:47:30 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> nexx@********.NET writes:
>
<SNIP>
>
> Anyway, seriously thinking, could you do a spell that performs the "Change the
> Aura" from the idea of getting a projecting magician in/through a given
> magical barrier. Sort of an "astral stealth" or an "astral
symbiosis".
>
> Let's say that a spell has a given Force of 5 when cast by the projecting
> magician. It alters his astral projecting self into something that is more
> pliant or more "acceptable/compatible" with a given mana barrier that is
say
> Force of 5 as well.
>
> The target number for the astral changeling spell would be a 5, the force of
> the mana barrier, with the number of successes (net or singular, depending on
> spell design) amounting to an effective reduction to the effectiveness of the
> barrier in question. The barrier rolls it's force with a target number equal
> to that of the Force of the "astral changeling" spell. Any successes
achieved
> by the barrier would of course reduce those of the changeling spell. If the
> barrier were being monitored or actively sustained, then perhaps the monitor
> (say a watcher for example) or another spellcaster, could add in dice from say
> either the force (as in the case of the watcher) or the Magic Pool (as in the
> case of the magician).
>
> What would a spell like this look like?
>
<SNIP>
Assuming the GM would allow it (I wouldn't), I would pattern it
after attuning yourself to and bypassing wards from Awakenings. I see
this as more of matching auras, using your sorcery skill sorta thing vs
a spell. IMHO of course. :)
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