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post Oct 8 2003, 09:42 PM
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No, not the lottery. :)

It dawned on me the other day just how powerful this spell is, especially if cast against an area that doesn't have spell defense up.

Take a starting mage with 6-6-6 for Sorcery-spell pool-willpower
Cast powerball at 1D using 12 dice
Drain is 3D, with 6 dice usually taking a moderate stun.

With 12 dice, a Body 4 person will likely be dead- okay so far.

But with 12 dice, the mage will on average roll at least one 10 which means *every* object within the area of effect takes deadly damage. No resistance roll. Gone. Every gun, grenade, knife, piece of armor, sidewalk, drone, deck, whatever! :eek:

Perhaps even cyberware if you rule that that gets a separate save from the Body of the person with the cyber.

Is this how you folks play it?
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- Whither   Powerball   Oct 8 2003, 09:42 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Actually, they'll only get a 10 about 2/3 of t...   Oct 8 2003, 10:07 PM
- - Kanada Ten   The force of the spell must be at least half the O...   Oct 8 2003, 10:08 PM
- - Whither   QUOTE (Kanada Ten) The force of the spell must be ...   Oct 8 2003, 10:29 PM
- - TinkerGnome   Mages tend to be better off with manaballs (or stu...   Oct 8 2003, 10:30 PM
- - Kanada Ten   QUOTE In terms of visibility, would you add visibi...   Oct 8 2003, 10:32 PM
- - Large Mike   QUOTE (Kanada Ten) And Powerball only affects thi...   Oct 8 2003, 11:35 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Nope, by canon if a magicuser casts powerball forc...   Oct 8 2003, 11:41 PM
- - Abstruse   I believe the FAQ was just updated for this where ...   Oct 9 2003, 12:31 AM
- - Kagetenshi   The "I can't see it, I can't affect i...   Oct 9 2003, 12:43 AM
- - Kanada Ten   QUOTE I believe the FAQ was just updated for this ...   Oct 9 2003, 12:47 AM
- - danbot37   I know its not canon, but I would think a powerbal...   Oct 9 2003, 03:58 AM
- - Fygg Nuuton   powerball doesnt effect the guys around the corner...   Oct 9 2003, 04:28 AM
- - TheScamp   QUOTE You can play it however you want, but if you...   Oct 9 2003, 12:46 PM
- - Sphynx   Yeah, I think you've (Abstruse) mistaken ...   Oct 9 2003, 01:12 PM
- - Blip   So, if a mage pulverized a car with darkened windo...   Oct 9 2003, 02:25 PM
- - Sphynx   QUOTE (Blip @ Oct 9 2003, 04:25 PM) So, if a ...   Oct 9 2003, 02:37 PM
- - Mr.Platinum   Do you know what is even more sick? Casting Multi...   Oct 9 2003, 07:15 PM
- - BitBasher   Not really when suffering the conswquences... when...   Oct 9 2003, 07:25 PM
- - TheScamp   QUOTE While I don´t have any concrete examples I h...   Oct 9 2003, 08:46 PM
- - Cochise   QUOTE (Whither)In terms of visibility, would you a...   Oct 9 2003, 08:55 PM


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