 "Useless" spells?, Not so much useless; just unusable |
 Mar 7 2005, 05:38 PM
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Decker on the Threshold  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,922 Joined: 14-March 04 Member No.: 6,156  |
I was looking over the spell Analyze Device for a character design, and the more I look at it, the more difficult it is to use properly. First off it's a spell which targets OR, and is meant to be cast on primarily technological devices, which means you'll be throwing against a TN of 8-10+ most of the time. As a result, you'll be getting *maybe* two or three successes (if you're lucky or just spent scads of Karma upping your casting skill.) Since you get one point of an appropriate B/R or background knowledge skill per two successes, this translates to maybe an effective skill of 1-2, and this is for an unusual amount of luck and a serious amount of mojo. Maybe there's something I'm just not seeing, but it seems to me that this spell is useless unless you're playing a 300+ karma supermage.
In your experience, have you seen any other spells that are basically useless in most cases like this spell? |
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Eyeless Blond "Useless" spells? Mar 7 2005, 05:38 PM
Tarantula Well, thats for things like playing with a cyberde... Mar 7 2005, 05:41 PM hahnsoo The idea, though, is that you'd know what a pa... Mar 7 2005, 06:06 PM tisoz You're overlooking the -2 for familiarity with... Mar 7 2005, 06:41 PM JaronK Analyze device can be a lot of fun for investigati... Mar 7 2005, 06:50 PM nezumi Useless spells, huh?
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Min... Mar 7 2005, 07:47 PM Dog Maybe you could control thoughts-self to quit smok... Mar 7 2005, 11:08 PM LinaInverse QUOTE (Dog) Maybe you could control thoughts-self ... Mar 7 2005, 11:03 PM tisoz Freeze water is pretty useless as written. It loo... Mar 8 2005, 12:58 AM Smiley Just 6. Elves have lowlight vision. Mar 8 2005, 01:05 AM Kanada Ten The way tisoz interprets the spell (strict canon, ... Mar 8 2005, 01:20 AM hahnsoo QUOTE (LinaInverse) To change personal habits (ie,... Mar 8 2005, 01:26 AM Crimson Jack QUOTE (Eyeless Blond) In your experience, have you... Mar 8 2005, 02:43 AM Eyeless Blond Got another one/many: Enhance Aim.
So many detec... Mar 8 2005, 07:10 AM tisoz Right, so without the sustaining focus (Minimum Fo... Mar 8 2005, 10:52 AM Critias Or for direct-combat teams that have magic users t... Mar 8 2005, 11:00 AM DrJest Enhance Aim is one of those spells that, frankly, ... Mar 8 2005, 01:41 PM Da9iel Doesn't Gecko Crawl have the same TN, the same... Mar 9 2005, 10:40 PM Kagetenshi Gecko Crawl doesn't increase TN with weight, s... Mar 9 2005, 10:46 PM Eyeless Blond LOL. Now I'm getting this mental image of Spid... Mar 9 2005, 10:53 PM Kanada Ten But Gecko Crawl doesn't overcome encumbrance r... Mar 9 2005, 11:12 PM Kagetenshi Trolls can have it cast on them too, you know.
~J Mar 9 2005, 11:16 PM hobgoblin hmm, a troll, hanging from the wall, holding a car... Mar 10 2005, 01:29 AM fistandantilus3.0 He'd have to be a pretty beefy troll to climb ... Mar 10 2005, 04:57 AM Kagetenshi Gecko Crawl, as we were saying
~J Mar 10 2005, 04:53 AM fistandantilus3.0 Sorry, let me clarify:
With gecko crawl, the troll... Mar 10 2005, 04:57 AM tisoz They do not have to "climb". The spell ... Mar 10 2005, 09:50 AM DarkShade wouldnt that end up with a crumbling ledge and a f... Mar 10 2005, 01:25 PM
Kagetenshi QUOTE (fistandantilus3.0) Sorry, let me clarify:
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