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Old November 15th, 2007
Nightshade Nightshade is offline
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Originally Posted by Trifletraxor View Post
But, sorcery was quite difficult to learn. I don't know
Not really. A single spell and intensity--which you both could bet as your free magic in RQ3--weren't that hard to improve. The only reason you didn't see more problems with it was because of the way encumberance negatively impacted it.

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how the MW magic works, but if you're a warrior, can you still learn the blast spell f.ex.? Just the blast spell? Then you could fight the critters and blast the Boss. It would be somewhat unsatisfying to GM. I had a ogre talon, with
Assuming you had it at a high enough skill to be reliable. Given you had to learn it in play, that's a pretty big assumption. And at that point you've spent a lot of training time on essentially, a one-shot trick that may not work, can be dodged, and takes extra time to cast. Keep in mind that 12 Int fighting type could only do 6d6 that way (and likely only once), so I'm not sure that's all that much of a killer, honestly. Yeah, its a nice trick, but if its not going to be a nice trick some of the time, why even bother?
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