Spells I have an issue with

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

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Recover Energy: Recover Energy pushes every wizard towar dabbling in Healing. I'[m actually inclined to give every college their own Recover Energy spell.

Youth: It's kind of weird for the super old ancient wizards to all end up being young adults. Also it invalidates other very interesting life extension spells.

Enlarge Object: There seems to be a bit of a scaling issue if you've got a lot of energy to dump into it.

Recover Energy<shrug> Mages whgo are living beings are highly incentivised to dabble in Healing anyway. I'm not of a miod to try and lessen the penalties of One College Magery either.

Youth: Nerf Spectators in Ceremonial Magic and the only handy energy source for casting this 100 pt Spell goes away. Except inrather cinematic campaigns you have to work at it to get up the 20pts for Halt Aging. If you use a Powerstone to ge the extra energy you won't be selling Halt Aging in mass quantities either.

Enlarge Object the problem is more than just a bit it's literally world destrying but it's not the Spell it's the scaling rule where cost goes up by SM. The scaling problem is seen in other spells too. My priest of Ra once used Mirror to de-vampirize an entire hemisphere once. It was amusing at the time but vampires weren't a central enemy either. Jettison the cost by
SM rule. sM<scales wrong for this. Affecting the entire Earth is only 44x as hard as affecting a human being. Replace with the old rule that had cost go up by hexes or something like that.