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<P><FONT SIZE=2>This god talk has me thinking again about spell balance (for P&P V2)</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Thinking about ol' Tehuti, with a MEL 100 or so...does that give him EL 50 in his spells? he can put you in oblivion for 1.5 trillion years (many universe lifetimes)...don't piss him off.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>But thinking on this...oblivion is damn cheap and easy to cast. At BMC2 it is pretty cheap and easy to effectivly "kill" the target (at high EL it's still cheap to cast, and the target is gone for decades), but even at low levels you can make a bunch of targets vanish long enough to ineffectualize them...Joe Guard is usually pretty low on the MDV, so poofing a King's guards is pretty simple, and you get the benefit of having a clean conscious since you didn't really kill them. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Champions/Hero System had an interesting view on things like this in that the usfulness of the power determined the game cost. Things like "Transform" (i.e. turn a guy into a statue) are as expensive as leathal damage, since if you can do a major transform and remove him from play, you can just as easily do the same by killing him. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Do you have any plans to revamp the spell lists (including adding more spells), and rebalance the costs?</FONT>
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