 Force 10 Manaballs, Should I be worried |
 Mar 27 2006, 09:27 PM
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My friends and I have been chatting and came up with a hypothetical.
Make a mage. Give him 5 willpower and 5 logic (not a terribly unreasonable thing for a mage.) Give him a magic of 5 (also not unreasonable), a Spellcasting skill group of 4 and buy him a spellcasting (combat) focus rating 2 or 3 (whatever one can get at creation.) Let's say he has an Edge of 4. His turn comes up in the Big Fight. He overcasts a force 10 manaball. He rolls 13 dice (Magic+Sorcery+Edge.) If he gets even one net success over his opponents willpower + counterspelling (if any) roll he does at least 11 damage. To everyone in the area of the spell. He then rolls 12 or 13 dice against the drain which has a value of 8. He gets 4 hits on average leaving him with a grand total of 4 points of physical damage whilst his enemies heads all a-splode. If he is merely obliterating one guy the drain is two less. Leaving him with a mild injury and the satisfaction of having one-shotted the biggest badass on the field. How worried should I be about this, because let me tell you, I'm a little worried. |
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Waltermandias Force 10 Manaballs Mar 27 2006, 09:27 PM
Dissonance Are you adding in any other kinds of penalties, su... Mar 27 2006, 09:34 PM Signal You bring up a good point. But at the same time, i... Mar 27 2006, 09:34 PM Dashifen You could worry, if you want to. I prefer not to ... Mar 27 2006, 09:40 PM Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (Waltermandias) How worried should I be abou... Mar 27 2006, 09:47 PM Butterblume Like they told me in my second week of military se... Mar 27 2006, 09:50 PM Rotbart van Dainig ..yeah, grenades on the other hand... Mar 27 2006, 09:53 PM Rooks Yes loose formation is definately handy, then agai... Mar 27 2006, 09:56 PM Butterblume Might be better to cast a bolt on three differents... Mar 27 2006, 10:06 PM The Horror QUOTE (Waltermandias @ Mar 28 2006, 05:27 AM)... Mar 27 2006, 10:23 PM Thanee QUOTE (The Horror) Stunbolt (F/2-1 drain). Cast a... Mar 27 2006, 10:32 PM The Horror QUOTE (Thanee @ Mar 28 2006, 06:32 AM) QUOTE ... Mar 27 2006, 10:34 PM Azralon QUOTE (Waltermandias @ Mar 27 2006, 05:27 PM)... Mar 27 2006, 10:37 PM Grinder QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig) Combat Spells aren... Mar 27 2006, 11:06 PM Fleinhoy From my viewpoint magic should be nasty. Going up ... Mar 27 2006, 11:25 PM Shrike30 My understanding of the rules is that damage/drain... Mar 28 2006, 12:40 AM Azathfeld QUOTE (Waltermandias) His turn comes up in the Big... Mar 28 2006, 12:52 AM FrankTrollman QUOTE (azathfeld)Is there a mage on the other side... Mar 28 2006, 01:19 AM Azathfeld QUOTE (FrankTrollman) QUOTE (azathfeld)Is there a ... Mar 28 2006, 01:25 AM Waltermandias QUOTE 4) If your mage is casting at Force 10, then... Mar 28 2006, 01:27 AM Nikoli Or as I have said to many groups, Snipe unto the N... Mar 28 2006, 03:47 AM Edward Buy the time your puling out the force 10 mana bal... Mar 28 2006, 04:35 AM Signal QUOTE (Edward @ Mar 27 2006, 11:35 PM) Buy th... Mar 28 2006, 04:58 AM Edward Now I think about it the mana ball could be useful... Mar 28 2006, 06:50 AM Kaeden How about the big bad astral signature left behind... Mar 28 2006, 02:24 PM The Jopp QUOTE (Edward)
Probably better using stun ball h... Mar 28 2006, 02:41 PM Gomez In my second game, the mage of the group threw a F... Mar 28 2006, 03:18 PM Clyde What were his stats like? Willpower 7, Logic 6? ... Mar 28 2006, 03:22 PM Gomez Magic 6
Spellcasting 6 (+2 Combat Spells)
Willpow... Mar 28 2006, 03:38 PM James McMurray He spent over 1/2 of his build points (207 of them... Mar 28 2006, 06:53 PM GingerbreadMan Minor Note for the GMs out there. Play the range ... Mar 28 2006, 08:02 PM Cain QUOTE He spent over 1/2 of his build points (207 o... Mar 28 2006, 08:08 PM James McMurray Also don't allow a mage without some sort of r... Mar 28 2006, 08:10 PM JustSix QUOTE (GingerbreadMan) Minor Note for the GMs out ... Mar 28 2006, 08:10 PM GingerbreadMan Sorry, I mean the casting is obvious, not the effe... Mar 28 2006, 08:16 PM Magus That would depend on your aspect of Magic. My herm... Mar 28 2006, 08:28 PM Butterblume QUOTE (GingerbreadMan)Beside being obvious to ever... Mar 28 2006, 08:32 PM Apathy It seems to me that the common problem with aoe da... Mar 28 2006, 08:32 PM Waltermandias The area thing is something to definately take int... Mar 28 2006, 08:47 PM Apathy There's lots of threads on this forum, and sug... Mar 28 2006, 08:59 PM Gomez Maybe if you change the drain code when a mage ove... Mar 28 2006, 09:09 PM Dashifen QUOTE (Magus) That would depend on your aspect of ... Mar 28 2006, 09:16 PM Dashifen @Waltermandias
Also, don't forget the easy hou... Mar 28 2006, 09:20 PM Waltermandias Fair enough Apathy, and we will probably just go w... Mar 28 2006, 09:23 PM The Horror Last night my players came to realise how truly ov... Mar 29 2006, 01:35 AM Crusher Bob For you to effect anything in your AOE, you have t... Mar 29 2006, 02:48 AM Deadjester I am curious what the idea is behind the AOEs bein... Mar 29 2006, 03:00 AM James McMurray QUOTE (Crusher Bob) For you to effect anything in ... Mar 29 2006, 04:44 AM Azralon QUOTE (Deadjester) I am curious what the idea is b... Mar 29 2006, 05:01 PM Deadjester Presently in our game, only site of impact is of i... Mar 29 2006, 10:13 PM Butterblume We always played that indirect elemental spells hi... Mar 29 2006, 10:20 PM Dranem It's all fine and dandy playing the rule of av... Mar 29 2006, 10:38 PM Apathy I'm mostly saying this to see if I understand ... Mar 29 2006, 10:59 PM James McMurray That's how it looks to me. Mar 29 2006, 11:31 PM Shrike30 That's how I've always run it, too. Mar 30 2006, 12:28 AM
Azralon Me three, Apathy. That's how we've been re... Mar 30 2006, 03:56 PM  |
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