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So, I was thinking of the variety of house rules I enjoy, and also picturing scenes from various cliched fantasy novels where the hero grads the ROD OF POWER from the evil bad guy and uses it on him to win the bigt battle.

But you can't do that in SR. You have to bond the focus and that takes time and karma. So, I thought, how could I arrange a scene like the above, without destroying the karma bonding system, which I also happen to like.

Here's what I came up with:

Using Foci without Bonding:

A magical type character (one with a magic rating above zero) can use a focus without bonding it. Everytime he does so (uses the extra dice from a focus, whatever the type), he must make a resistance roll, using his magic attribute to resist, against the rating of the focus. The first three times he does this with a particular focus, the drain is deadly. The second 3 times (4-6), the drain is serious, the third three times (7-9), the drain is medium, everything after that the drain is light.

Not sure if this drain should be stun or physical. I kind of like the idea of a character possibly dying if he attempts to use a focus too powerful for him, but it seems like it might be too harsh for this to be physical.

The catch is that if he does not achieve any successes on this resistance test, the character must check for magic loss. This small but real chance of magic loss keps a character from continuing to use a focus without bonding without some risk, even if the drain is light.

Thoughts, suggestions?

Derek
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- Derek   Using Foci without Bonding   Oct 4 2004, 08:07 PM
- - mfb   i'd go the other way. L the first few times, t...   Oct 4 2004, 08:15 PM
- - Derek   Any reason for that? Possibly to discourage conti...   Oct 4 2004, 08:19 PM
- - mfb   yeah, mainly to discourage continued use. if you s...   Oct 4 2004, 08:22 PM
- - OurTeam   How about if you use an unbonded focus you risk de...   Oct 4 2004, 08:37 PM
- - Jason Farlander   Interesting. I like the basic idea. I dont think...   Oct 4 2004, 08:40 PM
- - OurTeam   QUOTE (Jason Farlander @ Oct 4 2004, 01:40 PM...   Oct 4 2004, 09:00 PM
- - Jason Farlander   OurTeam: I wasnt talking about the Magic loss tes...   Oct 4 2004, 09:08 PM
- - BitBasher   Also, can you do this to a focus bonded by someone...   Oct 4 2004, 09:11 PM
- - Bossemanden   Another possibility is to make every use of the un...   Oct 4 2004, 11:42 PM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Bossemanden) This should probably not work ...   Oct 5 2004, 12:08 AM
- - Bossemanden   Sounds reasonable.   Oct 5 2004, 12:09 AM
- - Jason Farlander   Umm... requiring an astral quest to use a bonded f...   Oct 5 2004, 12:17 AM
- - Derek   QUOTE (Jason Farlander) Umm... requiring an astral...   Oct 5 2004, 12:35 AM
- - Fortune   Astral Quests can be pretty much instantaneous, as...   Oct 5 2004, 01:11 AM
- - Jason Farlander   QUOTE (Derek) Meh, but the cheesy fantasy cliche I...   Oct 5 2004, 01:15 AM
- - Jason Farlander   QUOTE (Fortune) Astral Quests can be pretty much i...   Oct 5 2004, 01:26 AM
- - Fortune   In regards to the Invoking thing, I am pretty sure...   Oct 5 2004, 01:42 AM
- - Edward   If you where going to do this (and I wouldn’t reco...   Oct 5 2004, 02:34 AM
- - Cain   QUOTE Meh, but the cheesy fantasy cliche I envisio...   Oct 5 2004, 03:20 AM
- - Moon-Hawk   The damage definitely shouldn't decrease. If ...   Oct 5 2004, 04:15 PM
- - Cochise   I have trouble with that "unbound foci" ...   Oct 5 2004, 04:46 PM
- - OurTeam   After a magician spend 1 Karma Point to start a bo...   Oct 5 2004, 08:38 PM
- - Kagetenshi   QUOTE (Bossemanden) Another possibility is to make...   Oct 5 2004, 08:50 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (OurTeam)After a magician spend 1 Karma Poin...   Oct 6 2004, 12:13 PM
- - Fortune   As far as I know it's all or nothing as far as...   Oct 6 2004, 06:06 PM
- - OurTeam   QUOTE (Cochise)QUOTE (OurTeam)After a magician spe...   Oct 6 2004, 10:25 PM


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