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


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>On Tue, 5 May 1998, Pieter A de Jong wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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>--Ryan
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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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