House rules for more power and less fiddling

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Dyrmagnos
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Re: House rules for more power and less fiddling

Post by Dyrmagnos » Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:53 am

These changes strongly promote meele fighters over any other specialization. For mages their disciplines have very limited opportunity to use karma or strain in any way during combat. They really use (circle 3+) karma at every test because they use it only for spellcasting and from time to time on threadwaving and from circle 5 willpower (maybe for 30% of the spells).

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Re: House rules for more power and less fiddling

Post by etherial » Wed Mar 01, 2017 11:34 am

Dyrmagnos wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 9:53 am
These changes strongly promote meele fighters over any other specialization. For mages their disciplines have very limited opportunity to use karma or strain in any way during combat. They really use (circle 3+) karma at every test because they use it only for spellcasting and from time to time on threadwaving and from circle 5 willpower (maybe for 30% of the spells).
With automagic Karma and no Strain Cost to Willforce, Spellcasters will use it on every Spell. Agreed that this benefits low-Circle Heavies much more than it benefits low-Circle Spellcasters, though.

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Re: House rules for more power and less fiddling

Post by Dyrmagnos » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:21 pm

No - just spells with willforce are mostly not worth to cast. Buffs and debuffs only but they mostly hahave no willpower component.

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Re: House rules for more power and less fiddling

Post by etherial » Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:57 pm

Dyrmagnos wrote:
Wed Mar 01, 2017 2:21 pm
No - just spells with willforce are mostly not worth to cast. Buffs and debuffs only but they mostly hahave no willpower component.
Are you saying that damaging spells are not worth casting?

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Re: House rules for more power and less fiddling

Post by Uli » Wed Mar 01, 2017 4:45 pm

That discussion would be wonderful to read - in a different thread. ;)

I agree, that my communist karma favors melee fighters over spellcasters. I consider that a bonus. :)

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