Magical security at country/state borders, How is it supposed to work? Options

[Odsh]

Thanks for all your feedback.

The mage moving the 500kg box at mach2 had indeed a lot of experience. When casting a spell, he had a dicepool of more than 30 dices, and with karma (which he had plenty of), that meant a lot of successes.

Anyway, I shouldn't have emphasized such an extreme example. I still believe that a mage with more modest abilities can pull off similar tricks, even if not as spectacular.

I guess I'm just getting tired of the invisibility+concealment and levitate+movement combos which are used and abused in every imaginable situation. When they are infiltrating a building, I have wards and all kinds of magical protections and counters at my disposal to make it somewhat challenging. At much larger scales - like for example crossing country borders - such protections are not realistic. And firing a missile at anything that appears on the radar seems a bit extreme to me (except maybe at the Tir boundaries).

[Cthulhudreams]

Well, the russians shot down a a passenger liner like that. Its not exactly new per say.