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Old 06-16-2019, 09:34 PM   #23
Curmudgeon
 
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Default Re: [Magic] Using ceremonial magic to create an unassailable magical fortress

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Originally Posted by Plane View Post
Given that in casual speak, spectator/viewer are synoymous, a different term like "participant" might work better to collectively affect the ritual, with "Supporter" referring to those adding energy who help and "Opposers" referring to participant of any skill working against it (knowing the spell doesn't seem to improve your position there like it does with supporters)

Supporters could be broken into:
*High Skilled Mage Supporters
*High Skilled Nonmage Supporters
*Low Skilled Mage Supporters
*Un-Skilled Supporters (this includes a "Low Skilled Nonmage Supporter")

The HSM/HSN/LSM/US supporters would all collectively be participants as would opposers of any skill/magery.

Would be interesting if magery/skill in the spell made Opposers vary more in how well they could sabotage like it does with Supporters.
I don't see it myself.

There is no variability in opposing participants because they are at best low-skilled non-mages or mages who don't know the spell at all. If they were mages who knew the spell, they'd be used as mages because they can potentially raise more than 1 lousy point of mana. The same applies to skilled non-mages who know the spell.

Unskilled supporters are the only class of willing assistant that can oppose the ceremony, (presumably because they're the only class of supporter that wouldn't know exactly what the ceremony/ritual entails. Any mage or skilled non-mage knows what the ceremony/ritual involves and wouldn't agree to be a willing assistant if they weren't okay with it. An unskilled supporter, on the other hand, might change their mind partway through) and lower the mana generated. Being able to lower the mana by an amount five times greater than they could generate on their own is already pushing them into being disproportionately effective. One opposed unskilled supporter, by himself, can almost cancel out the mana generated by two lesser skilled supporters [HSN or LSM] generating all the mana they can [6 points]. They don't need to be made more effective than they already are.
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