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Michael Thayne · 06-04-2021, 08:11 PM

Lethal Lightning
Keywords: Missile, Obvious.
Full Cost: 26.5 points/level*.
Casting Roll: None. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit.
Range: 100 yards.
Duration: Instantaneous.

Creates a lightning bolt that inflicts 1d burning surge damage on a single target. Metallic armor counts as DR 1 against this attack, but nonmetallic armor protects normally.

If any damage penetrates DR, the victim must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of penetrating damage, or be rendered unconsciousness for (20-HT) minutes followed by -2 to DX for another (20-HT) minutes. If the victim critically fails the HT roll, or fails by 5 or more, the victim suffers a heart attack instead.

This is also a Weather spell.

Statistics: Burning Attack 1d (Nuisance Effect, Behaves erratically around conductors, -5%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Disadvantage, DX -2, Secondary Heart Attack, and Unconsciousness, +350%) [26.5/level]. Notes: This spell originally appeared in GURPS Magic: Death Spells, p. 22.

* Calculate the total cost and then round up.

06-04-2021, 08:11 PM	#27
Michael Thayne Join Date: May 2010	Re: [Sorcery] Michael's daily sorcerous spells thread Lethal Lightning Keywords: Missile, Obvious. Full Cost: 26.5 points/level. Casting Roll:* None. Use Innate Attack (Beam) to hit. Range: 100 yards. Duration: Instantaneous. Creates a lightning bolt that inflicts 1d burning surge damage on a single target. Metallic armor counts as DR 1 against this attack, but nonmetallic armor protects normally. If any damage penetrates DR, the victim must make an HT roll, at -1 per 2 points of penetrating damage, or be rendered unconsciousness for (20-HT) minutes followed by -2 to DX for another (20-HT) minutes. If the victim critically fails the HT roll, or fails by 5 or more, the victim suffers a heart attack instead. This is also a Weather spell. Statistics: Burning Attack 1d (Nuisance Effect, Behaves erratically around conductors, -5%; Sorcery, -15%; Surge, Arcing, +100%; Side Effect, Disadvantage, DX -2, Secondary Heart Attack, and Unconsciousness, +350%) [26.5/level]. Notes: This spell originally appeared in *GURPS Magic: Death Spells, p. 22. Calculate the total cost and then round up.