Post by greymarch on Jan 31, 2014 13:20:40 GMT -5
I like the idea of free-form magic casting within a set of guidelines, I played Mage for many many years but I think some more info on creating your own effects, or perhaps an example is needed. From what I understand the player can basically come up with anything under their skills purview and the GM basically think of a TN right?
Ex: Feleth is fighting a Morlock that ambushed her in an alleyway. She wants to use her Holography magic to create a flash of bright light in its face to blind it. The GM looks at the sample Holography effects and sees that effectively it would blind a creature similar to the "Blackout" effect but is only targeting one subject so decides to make it a TN 5 effect, and if successful will give the target a -[h] penalty to attack and defence rolls for [h] rounds. He decides since Morlocks have such senstive eyes that in this case he would increase the penalty on its rolls by an additional -1 if the spell is succesful.
So I guess the other question is, if a player can basically make up an effect whenever they want, what is the point in having a skill check to copy another casters spells? Or is creating a new effect supposed to be something that takes time and research instead of a spur of the moment kind of thing?
Ex: Feleth is fighting a Morlock that ambushed her in an alleyway. She wants to use her Holography magic to create a flash of bright light in its face to blind it. The GM looks at the sample Holography effects and sees that effectively it would blind a creature similar to the "Blackout" effect but is only targeting one subject so decides to make it a TN 5 effect, and if successful will give the target a -[h] penalty to attack and defence rolls for [h] rounds. He decides since Morlocks have such senstive eyes that in this case he would increase the penalty on its rolls by an additional -1 if the spell is succesful.
So I guess the other question is, if a player can basically make up an effect whenever they want, what is the point in having a skill check to copy another casters spells? Or is creating a new effect supposed to be something that takes time and research instead of a spur of the moment kind of thing?
