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From: Drew Curtis dcurtis@***.net
Subject: Mages and spirts, take 2
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 13:27:24 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Keith Duthie wrote:

> The main downside of elementals is the cost. On average, for a mage with
> conjuring 6, he'll get one success per summoning for force 6
> elementals. This means that by using six at a time, he's effectively
> paying 36,000¥ per combat - which shouldn't be viable.
>
I need to read these rules more closely then, I was always of the opinion
that you got a number of services equal to the force of the elemental.

At any rate, the mage usually blows karma into his summoning rolls to get
more successes. Seems like there's a decent split between people who
allow karma rolling for out-of-adventure stuff and people who don't.

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