[StWT] Fairtytale mayhem and the mummy queen

[tonyd]

[Darcy Burgess]

Hey Tony,

My immediate thought for another miscast table effect would be to allow the GM to "complete" one (more?) miscast boxes on the character's spell sheet.  This would be a great substitue for the loss of arcane.

Also, I think that an exploding table would be cool.  Oh shit, I rolled a six...the 7-12 table is where all the bad crap is.  Oh noes!  That's where the doozies should be.

I really think that the main table should be mostly colour (some minor mechanical effects, like spells going off late, at -1 hit, etc).  The exploded table should be where the seriously bad doo-doo is.

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[lumpley]

This is great. I made up the miscast list at the table, the first time somebody miscast a spell, when half the game's rules weren't set. I'm excited for the nudge to revise it.

Exploding tables is a good idea.

I'll be sure to write a solid good-cop bad-cop example.

2 PCs, one a wizard, is grief! I played one time where I was a warrior and my kid Elliot was a wizard, and we were the only PCs, and we got hosed. Elliot's wizard got taken out by a 1XP encounter with some poisonous sewer rats, and no way I was fighting on without backup.

I'm not sure what to do about that, or even if anything needs doing. It is a thing, though.

-Vincent

[tonyd]

Yeah, part of the frustration was a matter of expectations. If you want to be dropping lightning and fire on stuff, you should be a combat mage. I think I needed to understand the difficulty of mages and set appropriate expectations through the character class. If he'd even taken a weapon of some sort, it would have helped a lot. Our mage in the other game is a combat mage, and he lays down some considerable hurt.