BANG! BANG! BANG! "Well, he did have a spell on him - he must've been dangerous!", Sustained spells for non-criminals. Options Track this topic Email this topic Print this topic Download this topic Subscribe to this forum Display Modes Outline Switch to: Standard Switch to: Linear+

[HappyDaze]

Besides the ward problem, walking around with a sustained spell, directly designates you as trouble for anyone who is astrally perceiving.

The assumption is that all sustained spells are 'combat buffs' and that having them on is like walking around town with a shotgun in your hands. This is often especially true with sustaining foci and quickening. I've seen this appear quite often on Dumpshock, and I disagree with it.

There are a great many spells that non-ciminals would love to have cast on them and sustained via foci or quickened. The Health spells provide such things as boosts to Charisma, Intuition, Logic, and Willpower - things that would certainly come in handy for corporate execs and researchers. Firefighters and divers would both love Oxygenate. Alleviate Allergy and Alleviate Addiction should be reasonable treatment plans for the elite with such problems. In fact, I'm sure that somewhere in the Sixth World, hair loss and male enhancement have been the subject of spell research too. Detection, Illusion, and even Manipulation spells can certinly find some legitimate use too, although the book-provided spells are generally oriented towards the needs of a runner team so fewer examples are available.

I guess that I'm just having a bit of a knee-jerk reaction against what seems to be metagaming (Oh, it's a spell - most of the ones in the book are best for illegal crap - so that guy with the spell on him must be up to something.).