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[Sheffield]

Hey everybody,

Newb here with a newb question.

My group has had an ongoing argument about the use of a couple spells and we finally decided it was time to kick it up to a higher court.

The question is about the resistance of spells like Camouflage and Stealth. In the MiTS spell table, these spells are marked to indicate that they either require a willing target or the target may resist the spell. If a character casts Camouflage on him- or herself, they're a willing target and so do not resist.

Here's the question: Do characters looking at the Camouflaged character make a resistance test to see through the camouflage, or do they automatically take the +4 modifier because the spell has already been successful (because the voluntary target did not resist)?

This question becomes more important with Stealth, where there's no modifier given for hearing the Stealth character, but they're just said to be absolutely silent.

The reason I ask this is because if these spells automatically succeed on a willing target, they seem overpowered, as there's no real reason to go over force 1 or 2. But on the other hand, if every character gets to make a resistance test to ignore a Stealth or Camo modifier, the spells become virtually useless even at force 6 or 8, as it ain't that hard to hit a "6" with 4 intelligence dice (and if you hit a "6" odds are huge you hit the "8").

How do you all play this one?