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  1. #1
    mg26
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    Battle magic

    I wonder does anyone knows if you need to be blooded to
    cast battle magic.....

    just wondering , I am pondering the touught of having 1
    unit of elven spellcaster all casting rain of magic missile
    , and the tought that springs to mind is NO!!!

    Anyway another small question , if one cast uplift to a
    cleric andgets him to lvl 16 , then can the cleric cast the
    awesome Create relic?

    another question how did Mr Ruobbbe The MANSLAYER got his
    hands on the sword of the empire

    last question I ordered the book WAR by Simon Hawk (hope is
    spelled liked that) and my supplier (waterstones-UK) told
    me that it hasnt been printed yet!!!!!

    AARRGGGHHH is it me or the world is getting funnier every
    day?


    Ciao

    Giovanni Garzelli

  2. #2
    Ryan B. Caveney
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    Battle magic

    On Tue, 5 May 1998, mg26 wrote:

    > I wonder does anyone knows if you need to be blooded to
    > cast battle magic.....
    >
    > just wondering , I am pondering the touught of having 1
    > unit of elven spellcaster all casting rain of magic missile
    > , and the tought that springs to mind is NO!!!

    My thought exactly. The house rule I use is that the caster of a
    battle spell must be blooded, and must possess somewhere a source equal to
    the level of the battle spell being cast (but that source need not be in
    the province of the battle, nor need there be a ley line). My reasoning is
    that battle spells are much more powerful than normal spells but not as
    powerful as realm spells, so the usage restrictions should be similarly
    intermediate. Furthermore, limiting the user population to regent wizards
    is the best way I can see to preserve DM sanity and the existence of
    conventional warfare. Of course, the moment someone with a source (7)
    goes out and invents "rain of delayed blast fireballs", allowing the
    outright destruction of a number war card units equal to the caster's
    level per casting, war is pretty much obsolete, also.

    - --Ryan

  3. #3
    Pieter A de Jong
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    Battle magic

    At 11:16 PM 5/5/98 +0100, Giovanni Garzelli wrote:
    >I wonder does anyone knows if you need to be blooded to
    >cast battle magic.....
    >
    >just wondering , I am pondering the touught of having 1
    >unit of elven spellcaster all casting rain of magic missile
    >, and the tought that springs to mind is NO!!!
    The actual answer is no you do not need to be blooded as
    magicians can cast battle magic. And people wonder why I
    figure it took direct divine intervention for the humans
    to win the original war against the elves.


    >Anyway another small question , if one cast uplift to a
    >cleric andgets him to lvl 16 , then can the cleric cast the
    >awesome Create relic?
    Isn't uplift's duration a lot shorter than the casting time of
    create relic as it (create relic) is a realm spell.
    >another question how did Mr Ruobbbe The MANSLAYER got his
    >hands on the sword of the empire
    That was somebody's campaign, not official material.
    Apparently his players are a strange lot!
    >last question I ordered the book WAR by Simon Hawk (hope is
    >spelled liked that) and my supplier (waterstones-UK) told
    >me that it hasnt been printed yet!!!!!
    >
    >AARRGGGHHH is it me or the world is getting funnier every
    >day?
    >
    >
    >Ciao
    >
    >Giovanni Garzelli
    >
    >************************************************* **************************
    >>'unsubscribe birthright' as the body of the message.
    >

    Pieter A de Jong
    Graduate Mechanical Engineering Student
    University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada

  4. #4
    James Ruhland
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    Battle magic

    >
    > I wonder does anyone knows if you need to be blooded to
    > cast battle magic.....
    >
    > just wondering , I am pondering the touught of having 1
    > unit of elven spellcaster all casting rain of magic missile
    > , and the tought that springs to mind is NO!!!
    >
    According to the BoM, you don't have to be Blooded to cast Battle Magic. In
    fact, Battle Magic spells are even available to Magicians (if they are of a
    type of spell the Magician is able to cast, which includes Magic Missile).
    1 unit of elven spellcasters, though? Even the Elves don't have mages in
    such numbers as to be able to creat units of them. Wizards are *rare*, even
    among the Elves.

    > Anyway another small question , if one cast uplift to a
    > cleric andgets him to lvl 16 , then can the cleric cast the
    > awesome Create relic?
    >
    Uplift? I guess I'm bemused.
    Anyhow, I doubt that an artificially enhanced cleric can Create Relic.
    IMO, actually, Create Relic is granted even to the rare 16th level Priest
    only on special occasions, for special reasons. I.E. such a Priest doesn't
    go around "mass producing" Relics.

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    Ryan B. Caveney
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    Battle magic

    On Tue, 5 May 1998, Pieter A de Jong wrote:

    > At 11:16 PM 5/5/98 +0100, Giovanni Garzelli wrote:
    > >I wonder does anyone knows if you need to be blooded to
    > >cast battle magic.....
    > >
    > >just wondering , I am pondering the touught of having 1
    > >unit of elven spellcaster all casting rain of magic missile
    > >, and the tought that springs to mind is NO!!!
    > The actual answer is no you do not need to be blooded as
    > magicians can cast battle magic. And people wonder why I
    > figure it took direct divine intervention for the humans
    > to win the original war against the elves.

    Indeed! That is the reason for my house rule: I cannot explain
    Cerilian history to date if anyone who can use magic can throw battle
    spells. Another way to do it is declare in your campaign that battle
    magic has only just been invented, and require all of it to be
    researched from scratch. It is hard to do even without battle spells, if
    you look at what the Monstrous Compendium has to say about the number of
    spell casters that can be found in a group of 200 of a given species:
    every elven army unit then has an eighth-level wizard and a dozen or more
    lower-level ones, so they can effectively fight and often win when
    outnumbered even five-to-one or more.

    - --Ryan

  6. #6
    Memnoch
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    Battle magic

    - -----Original Message-----
    From: Ryan B. Caveney
    To: birthright@MPGN.COM
    Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 9:20 PM
    Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Battle magic


    >
    >
    >On Tue, 5 May 1998, Pieter A de Jong wrote:
    >
    >> At 11:16 PM 5/5/98 +0100, Giovanni Garzelli wrote:
    >> >I wonder does anyone knows if you need to be blooded to
    >> >cast battle magic.....
    >> >
    >> >just wondering , I am pondering the touught of having 1
    >> >unit of elven spellcaster all casting rain of magic missile
    >> >, and the tought that springs to mind is NO!!!
    >> The actual answer is no you do not need to be blooded as
    >> magicians can cast battle magic. And people wonder why I
    >> figure it took direct divine intervention for the humans
    >> to win the original war against the elves.
    >
    > Indeed! That is the reason for my house rule: I cannot explain
    >Cerilian history to date if anyone who can use magic can throw battle
    >spells. Another way to do it is declare in your campaign that battle
    >magic has only just been invented, and require all of it to be
    >researched from scratch. It is hard to do even without battle spells, if
    >you look at what the Monstrous Compendium has to say about the number of
    >spell casters that can be found in a group of 200 of a given species:
    >every elven army unit then has an eighth-level wizard and a dozen or more
    >lower-level ones, so they can effectively fight and often win when
    >outnumbered even five-to-one or more.
    >
    >--Ryan
    >
    While this is true, you forget one thing: The humans have Battle Priests :)

    When it comes down to it, the humans won just out of sheer numbers.

    Memnoch
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