Fizzle Magic

[Alex Koponen]

Never actually had to deal with it.
Thinking about it I suspect that there is a simple playable solution (da
mana's gone man!) and a more complex realistic solution that would slow
play. (You can recover some or even all of the mana at half the casting
speed if you take the time AND make the skill/will roll. Note: you can
fumble/abysmal on this roll as well.)
MEL, EL and W should all affect the roll.
Actually some spells you 'gather' the energy to use all at once. Other
spells are a continued spending until the effect happens in the size
desired.
Personally I think I'd GM the simple way.

    Alex

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Adams <longshot at DARKTECH.ORG>
To: <POWERS-AND-PERILS at geo000.CITG.TUDELFT.NL>
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 7:32 PM
Subject: Re: Fizzle Magic


> At 08:58 AM 2/22/02 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hiya.
> >
> >> > Never thought of it, really. I would allow the Mana to be regained
> >>fully
> >> >if a Difficult Will check was made. Failure indicating only 50%(rd)
would
> >>be
> >> >recovered.
> >>
> >>That might work but if its a multiphase spell ie
> >>phase 1 - 2 mana
> >>phase 2 - 2 mana
> >>
> >>and the enemy all killed on 2 in above situation then the first phase's
> >>mana
> >>could
> >>not be regained...how I would amend it..
> >
> > I'd use the total Mana used to cast the spell. My reasoning is that the
> >spell wasn't cast; in the process of casting a spell, the Mana "spent"
each
> >phase isn't actually "spent" so much as it is being gathered. Once the
total
> >amount has been gathered, there is enough for the magic-user to release
it
> >in order to create the spell. So, the mana 'spent' in phase 1 was still
> >available to the magic user. Backing up this little theory of mine is the
> >fact that if a magic user is hurt during the casting of a spell, the
spell
> >is wrecked. If the mana was already "spent" (and not being stored, as I
> >suggest), why would the spell be wrecked? shouldn't the MU be able to
just
> >continue where he left off? Obviously there is some important connection
> >between phase 1 mana spent to phase 2 mana spent.
> >
>
> I always envisioned it as mana spent each phase.  I never thought of it
> as a build up.  I'll have to consider that.
>
> Any other comments from the other folks?
>
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