Slap Fight!, The Pathos of Wiz Gang Clashes Options

[FrankTrollman]

Here's how Counterspelling works when you have a bunch of mages on your side:

The character with the highest counterspelling skill adds a number of dice to all spell defense rolls made by anyone in the group.

Every other character makes a test with a number of dice equal to their Counterspelling skill. Every success they get adds 1 die to spell defense rolls made by anyone in the group.

So if you have 6 Mages with Counterspelling 3 and 1 Magicican with a Counterspelling of 4, you are on average throwing an extra 10 dice to defend against anyone throwing a spell on anyone in the group. This means that when two Wizgangs go up against each other, they are seriously better off running into close combat and punching each other than trying to drop each other with spells.

So when the Magisters fight the New Merlins on the streets of London, they do so by whacking each other with staves like the geezer fight in Lord of the Rings.

-Frank