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I don't seem to see any posts complaining about magic so I though I would test the waters?
Me and my friends are very new to the system. We've played a TON of (the old) White-wolf world of darkness. We've played billions of years worth of d20. We've somehow been smitten by the shadowrun world (zomg so cool) Anyways - we've not had very much magic vs magic interaction (read: zero). We've only really had 2 combative confrontations so far. 1) We've had magic used against us with no mage on our side. 2) We've had magic with our group, with no mage on the other side. Both situations have raised some questions against a very particular type of spell: Direct Damage. Manabolt (I guess powerbolt too..) I said I would poll the audience. So lets look at the starting character potential. 6 magic + 5 sorcery + 2 specialty combat magic + 3 combat spellcasting focus +2 mentor spirit. 18 dice = 6 hits on average. Average Defence = Willpower 3 = 1 hit on resist. Total Damage Value: Force 6 = 11 Boxes of Physical (Straight to the damage track). 3 stun drain - should be all resist by 10 dice of Willpower + logic lets say. Force 12 (overcasting) = 17 Boxes of Physical (Straight to the damage track). 6 physical drain - half resisted. ----------- So ... on over-cast - you've just one shot the local troll-phatty-muscle-superman. What are people's opinions on the whole direct-damage all or nothing resist spells? Are our experiences skewed? Are we missing something? Is this just normal/acceptable? |
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