| From: | gurth@******.nl (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | Idiotic Spellcasting |
| Date: | Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:52:57 +0200 |
> Rather reminds me of the time my Entropy shaman cast... hellblast,
> maybe? Possibly fireball. One of those "You pretty much have to be
> absolutely *insane* to try to cast this!" spells, anyhoo. Been a
> while.
The classic example in my group is of a shark shaman trying to summon a
spirit. He was standing on the flying bridge of a yacht that the group
was trying to steal at the time, and wanted a powerful sea spirit to
help in moving the yacht; so he asks the other players "What Force
should I go for?"
"Force 10!" someone jokes.
"Nah, better be a bit on the safe side and go for Force 8 or something"
says another.
So he decides to average the two, and attempts to summon a Force 9 sea
spirit. First of all, he rolls no successes (duh...), and then because
of his Charisma of 4, he gets to resist 9D physical drain. Ouch.
He is left with a Serious wound, so he's still standing and has to check
if he goes berserk -- he is wounded, after all. Guess what happens...?
And since there is no last victim for him to keep attacking, he spots a
few people sitting on the foredeck of the yacht (did I mention the PCs
were trying to steal this yacht while someone was giving a party on it?
:) and casts a full-force Toxic Wave onto them -- melting much of the
front of the boat in the process...
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