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DFRPG / Re: Houserule proposal: first Rote spells in scene give no default stress
« on: July 21, 2014, 10:57:13 PM »
The big battle during White Night:
Fuego
Force Shield, extended and made reflective (it's notably more expensive than earlier versions)
Forzare as a area attack
another Force Shield which lasts for multiple exchanges
a rift to the Nevernever (which is elsewhere said to be very magic-intensive)
brings up the shield again
another Forzare blast, with Hellfire, multiple targets
a massive fire spell that turns an entire area to molten stone
another shield activation
and one final shield powered by Lara's kiss, which might involve a consequence - although there is no textual evidence of any lasting effects
Even assuming Sponsored Spellcasting handled the fire, and one of the force blasts, that's an absolute minimum of six castings. Assuming that Harry accepted mild consequences (which there is absolutely nothing in the text to suggest) he'd still have made four normal castings, which would fill his mental stress track completely. Assuming he didn't additionally extend any of the durational spells - that would put him way over the limit.
(I'll point out that Ramirez casts many potent spells with multiple targets that are nevertheless lethal despite having some serious injuries which would preclude his accepting consequences to cast, too. He does not seem to possess any kind of Sponsored Spellcasting.)
And, of course, he was subject to a massive psychic attack which would also produce stress and temporarily incapacitated him. Which by the rules he would be far more vulnerable to than most of the people in the battle, because he'd been casting spells, and in the RPG rules that produces stress on the mental track.
Fuego
Force Shield, extended and made reflective (it's notably more expensive than earlier versions)
Forzare as a area attack
another Force Shield which lasts for multiple exchanges
a rift to the Nevernever (which is elsewhere said to be very magic-intensive)
brings up the shield again
another Forzare blast, with Hellfire, multiple targets
a massive fire spell that turns an entire area to molten stone
another shield activation
and one final shield powered by Lara's kiss, which might involve a consequence - although there is no textual evidence of any lasting effects
Even assuming Sponsored Spellcasting handled the fire, and one of the force blasts, that's an absolute minimum of six castings. Assuming that Harry accepted mild consequences (which there is absolutely nothing in the text to suggest) he'd still have made four normal castings, which would fill his mental stress track completely. Assuming he didn't additionally extend any of the durational spells - that would put him way over the limit.
(I'll point out that Ramirez casts many potent spells with multiple targets that are nevertheless lethal despite having some serious injuries which would preclude his accepting consequences to cast, too. He does not seem to possess any kind of Sponsored Spellcasting.)
And, of course, he was subject to a massive psychic attack which would also produce stress and temporarily incapacitated him. Which by the rules he would be far more vulnerable to than most of the people in the battle, because he'd been casting spells, and in the RPG rules that produces stress on the mental track.