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powered by the apocalypse => Dungeon World => Topic started by: chuckles on October 03, 2012, 02:55:07 PM
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I'm seeing two ways I can interpret the trigger description ("When you craft an ongoing spell into a makeshift shield of arcane energy to deflect an attack"):
1) You've cast invisibility, for instance on the Thief. Then a goblin is dealing damage, and you pull that spell energy into a shield, blocking 1 damage (invisibility is a level 1 spell) and ending the invisibility.
2) The other way I can see interpreting this is that you know the spell Invisibility, so you cast it as a makeshift shield that's ongoing. Later, you're attacked, so it blocks a damage and is ended.
I think the first interpretation is the correct one, though it seems a bit weird to me.
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My players were doubly confused by this move, because there are only a few ongoing spells in the list and none of them are first level, if I recall. Invisibility is a funny example, too, because it's a common ongoing spell but if you're invisible then you're probably not being seen and attacked.
I think we houseruled it into "When you craft a spell into an ongoing shield..." This essentially made it into its own ongoing spell. The player marked off a spell of his choice from his list. While the shield was up, the character took -1ongoing to cast other spells; the shield was dissolved after it was hit.
Definitely could use clarification, our houserule was kinda clunky.
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I think the first one is the correct one, it's not about you casting a new spell or having a specific spell around but more of you withdraw the energy you keep pulsing into a spell to shield you from a single attack. And even something like invisibility is not infalible, there's smell, hearing and try sliming (?) an invisible character, i don't think that a gelatinous cube cares much about what's on it's path.
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Krokus: I figured that was correct. It just seems a bit weird. I could see an occasion where you'd want invisibility up (as it's the only ongoing 1st lvl spell), but you wouldn't actually want anyone to be invisible.
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We've messed around with the Ongoing tag a little. We've replaced anywhere that it says, in the text, anything about maintaining a spell and made Ongoing a tag with specific mechanical effects. There's a lot more there to feed the Spell Defense move than there used to be.
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We've messed around with the Ongoing tag a little. We've replaced anywhere that it says, in the text, anything about maintaining a spell and made Ongoing a tag with specific mechanical effects. There's a lot more there to feed the Spell Defense move than there used to be.
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