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 Mar 12 2006, 07:19 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 8,316  |
SO if I have a counterspelling of 4 and I have 5 freinds I want to protect can I? and does each one get 4 dice? I.E. do I have to assign each die to a person or do can I covr 30 allies each with 4 dice?
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Mar 12 2006, 07:30 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
i see nothing in the book or the errata that talks about a limit on how many you can cover by counterspelling...
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Mar 12 2006, 07:54 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,138 Joined: 10-June 03 From: Tennessee Member No.: 4,706 |
The only limit is that you take a free action to declare who you are covering and that they all be in LOS. Each person covered gets the full number of dice.
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Mar 12 2006, 09:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 371 Joined: 10-January 06 From: Regina Member No.: 8,145 |
Agreed. The rules state that every protected character (as long as they are within LoS when the spell hits) gets to use the full amount of Counterspelling dice.
No, this is not a break considering that the casting Magician gets to roll Magic + Spellcasting while the target gets Attribute (+ Counterspelling if present). So, if the Counterspelling isn't there its 2 DPs vs. 1 DP. Counterspelling evens the odds for your team. |
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Mar 12 2006, 09:17 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Of coruse, if you have two or more magicians in your party all providing counterspelling then it just becomes insane since you'll have to determine a primaty actor and then roll all the other magician's counterspelling pools to determine the modifiers the primary magician's pool and then have the spell's target roll the primary magician's modified pool + attribute and repeat for ver spell that is cast.
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Mar 12 2006, 09:51 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
i cant find that LOS part. maybe im just reading it wrong or its written into the skill rather then the counterspell section of the magic chapter, but i cant find it (so far)...
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Mar 12 2006, 10:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 327 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 8,209 |
Page 175, bottom right corner:
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Mar 12 2006, 10:48 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
figures...
well i must say that i kinda like the new rules better then the old (the old being one stinking, impossible to understand, mess). |
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Mar 13 2006, 06:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 27-February 06 Member No.: 8,316 |
the old rules were definitely a heaping mess of dreckkkkkola on this issue, but the new system seems like I cvould throw my 5 dice on 1000- people?
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Mar 13 2006, 06:09 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,635 Joined: 27-November 05 Member No.: 8,006 |
If it is all one spell it doesn't seem any sillier or more powerful than affecting the same 1000 people with one spell. Being able to defeat multiple spells as well as just one spell is really the big change. On the flipside using Spell Defense can now cause drain. I don't remember this being the case before? RAW read one way drain is even very likely if your Counterspelling Skill is low and you don't have an appropriately aspected focus, as you only get the Skill dice to roll. However it isn't quite as bad if the resisting dice also get included for determining if it is a Glitch. |
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Mar 13 2006, 06:31 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Counterspelling only causes drain if you're using it to dispell a sustained spell. I don't remember the exact dispelling rules from SR3, but I do recall them causing drain of a sort. Counterspelling simple to ... well ... counter spells does not cause drain.
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Mar 13 2006, 06:37 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,635 Joined: 27-November 05 Member No.: 8,006 |
Unless you Glitch. See the note on Glitches on page 176 immediately below the first line you quoted. |
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Mar 13 2006, 06:37 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
touché :D
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Mar 13 2006, 06:40 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,635 Joined: 27-November 05 Member No.: 8,006 |
That is why I said might, because it doesn't always happen. It is also wierd that they state an absolute like that, but then immediately below have the exception without acknowledging it is an exception. |
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Mar 13 2006, 06:41 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
and having 1000 people coverd by spell defense gives you a whole lot of tests, and therefor a whole lot of chances to glitch. should be interesting ;)
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Mar 13 2006, 06:42 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
True, but the glitch paragraph reads more like a list of suggestions for glitches and not hard and fast rules. Oh well. Thanks for mentioning it. I've tended to ignore the glitch paragraphs, preferring to come up with my own glitch effects on the fly.
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Mar 13 2006, 06:45 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,635 Joined: 27-November 05 Member No.: 8,006 |
A GM insisting on making an individual roll for each of those 1000 people? :| :rotfl: I don't mean from a danger to the mage point of view, I mean time it takes to roll. Even 2 seconds per roll and to identify is 1/2 hour of constant rolling, although I guess you could split the task up among multiple people. Ironically that is when the normally more risky procedure of rolling by himself would be less risky, especially if you have a high Counterspelling. Because the Counterspelling dice themselves are only rolled once. Either way Counterspelling dice are only rolled once, but the multiple rolls of the resisting dice would bring up the odds that at least one of them would be a Glitch. |
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Mar 13 2006, 06:57 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 3 Joined: 9-March 06 Member No.: 8,354 |
Not to mention that unless the mage has a bird's eye view of the action, getting 1000 people in LOS is going to be kind of tricky.
--Bercilak |
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Mar 13 2006, 07:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 617 Joined: 28-May 03 From: Orlando Member No.: 4,644 |
As long as you could see them, then yes.
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Mar 13 2006, 07:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 327 Joined: 28-January 06 Member No.: 8,209 |
Your average (foot/base/basket - take your pick)ball stadium during a game? A large theatre, from a box on the wall instead of the regular seats? Times Square on New Years Eve, while standing on a bench? |
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Mar 13 2006, 09:00 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: 30-January 06 Member No.: 8,213 |
Well If it seems a bit to much, limit it to counterspell rating # of people and perhaps add the magic rating to it.
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Mar 13 2006, 09:25 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Banned Posts: 3,732 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Prague, Czech Republic Member No.: 7,665 |
versus:
So there are two very different presented methods of using Counterspelling to stave off a manablast from killing everyone in a 6-meter radius in a dense theatre. But neither of them involves your character having to make a separate Counterspelling check for each target. In option one, you roll your dice once, and in option two you increase all of their dice pools by your Counterspelling skill and they roll. Either way, defending 80 people from a manaball is no easier or harder than protecting one target from a manabolt. -Frank |
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Mar 13 2006, 09:32 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
Brings up an interesting concept of magical security. Put some counterspelling mages around the crowd or on second floors of surrounding buildings doing nothing but counterspelling all people in LOS. Take that terrorist mages ;) |
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Mar 13 2006, 10:51 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
in some ways this have the same effect as the SR2 mage ability of intercepting a spell as its cast (if the mage was astraly projecting that is).
and franktrollman, i dont see those two as being exclusive. more that the latter quote should have stated that its the counterspelling hits thats applyable, not the number of dice (alltho, if its a non-area spell, those are one and the same). |
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