11-13-2021, 12:50 AM | #21 | |
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Re: [DF] Placing areas of different mana in Dungeon Fantasy
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Also, I'm not entirely sure if the Suspend Mana and Drain Mana on the DF Cleric's list are supposed to affect mana or sanctity, probably mana. If they have a critical failure with those spells, they're going to lose a level of PI, that's for sure. But yeah, in a place like Yrth, there's bound to be plenty of no mana places around as the result of mages of the old draining places for their own use (and maybe using a chunk of their power in the process).
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11-13-2021, 09:19 AM | #22 | |
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Re: [DF] Placing areas of different mana in Dungeon Fantasy
Not complicated but insane in how much you can do with area spells.
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"Most Mana Vortices are 1 to 3 hexes in radius, but there are rumors of Vortices with radii of up to 300 hexes." (Classic: Magic Items 1 p 64)
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11-13-2021, 03:02 PM | #23 | |
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But good point about the risk of losing a level of Magery/PI. So probably won't be used willy-nilly, but I think in the setting I've been working on I will, at the very least, tend to assume that areas with Very High sanctity have also had their mana drained to protect them against wizardly interference. |
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11-13-2021, 04:26 PM | #24 |
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Re: [DF] Placing areas of different mana in Dungeon Fantasy
I would assume that mana altering spells are projects for NPCs, like say, enchanting. Which basically they are. So if the master of the dungeon wants a conveniently place no mana zone around their treasure vault or above that crevasse to keep people from levitating to the other side to use the extending bridge controls, they can have it.
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11-13-2021, 04:40 PM | #25 | |
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In the Roma Arcana mana actually represents the availability of spirits to perform spells for the mage rather than "energy". Since in Roma Arcana the major numen ("deities") assign duties to the spirits where belief in them is strong Sanctity increases at the cost of mana. (Fantasy p 201) This puts Isis, who followers use Magery, in an interesting situation. Normally her temples would increase Sanctity at the cost of mana but that would make put her followers at a major disadvantage compared to other numen (the Western equivalent of kami). Exactly how she squares this circle is left up to the GM.
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"I would assume Suspend Mana and Drain Mana effect mana even when cast by a cleric. It seems weird for clerics to directly be lowering sanctity, since high sanctity for Good generally means low sanctity for Evil and vice versa." Why would changing mana have any effect on sanctity unless you are following Roma Archana guidelines?
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It would kind of weird for a deity of magic (like Isis) to allow their clerics to cast Suspend Mana or Drain Mana as it is effectively cuts into their worship which if they are under 'get everything' rules hurts them. Lina inverse said it best; it is effecting 'give me some of your power so I can hurt you'. If you were wondering that was because some idiot of a mage tried to cast Dragon Slave on Ruby Eye Shabranigdo. Problem is Dragon Slave is powered by Ruby Eye Shabranigdo. Needless to say the mage didn't last long.
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