Question about Dodging and stuff...

[Frank Torres]

Your interpreting it right. That's why you have to make a success roll for the
language first, and if that fails, the spell automatically fails, and you still
lose the mana as if you cast the spell.

       Frank


Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:

> Being from Mathijs's group, I was wondering about these supernatural
> languages. We interpret them as being rather powerful. If, for example, you
> have EL5 in a spell, then the language allows you to cast it at EL6, and it
> reduces the casting cost. Question is, to what casting cost should the
> reduction formula be applied? We interpret that as the casting cost for EL5,
> yielding a very low cost for an EL6 effect. Not meaning to make my own
> magic-user less powerful, how do other groups interpret this rule?
>
> Matijs (not Mathijs).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: M.V.Tuynman <Mathijs.Tuynman at STUDENT.UVA.NL>
> To: POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CiTG.TUDelft.NL
> <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CiTG.TUDelft.NL>
> Date: dinsdag 20 oktober 1998 8:42
> Subject: Re: Question about Dodging and stuff...
>
> >At 00:54 19-10-98 +0500, you wrote:
> >(...)
> >>     How extensive to you keep to the supernatural languages? Sometimes
> I'm
> >>very lax and other times its required for some things but to 'obtain'
> spells
> >>from languages is kinda weird at times for me to run.  Comments?
> >>
> >I am quite rigorous in using them. It gives the magic user great power at
> >less cost and quicker casting time (high EL effects within one phase).
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Subject:      Knock outs
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     Ok.  You see it in movies..shows..all the time the guy gives a good
slap/punch to the face and the guy is out.  Well in rpgs this doesn't always
'work' :).  So how do you guys deal with the knock out blow if that's =
intended?

Scott Adams

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