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Subject: Re: UltraSpells
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Date: Tue, 30-Apr-85 15:18:40 EDT
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> 
> 	Links.
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> 	Don't throw away those 1st level MU henchmen!  You can
> use up one of their spell points and add an extra  die to your
> fireball!
> 
> 	Thus, three pc's casting a Curse might not have to touch,
> although the range would be  short- and the curse would be of their
> combined level and power (with a capital P).  The rule is: The more
> the miserabler!
> 
> 	I think that the possibilities are endless: let's get your
> views...
> 
> 		"UltraChaos, Inc."
> 
> 		Moshe Eliovson
> 		...!philabs!aecom!eliovson

    My views.....ever read through TFT?  You should.  If memory serves,
    instead of the "read magic" spell, brand-new magic-types come 
    equipped with the "aid" spell.  It can succeed or fail, as per
    everything else (usually, roll 3d6 against dex, but then, TFT is
    stripped).  The points are additive, subject to the normal side-
    effects of "special" rolls:  rolling a 4 is an automatic double,
    and rolling a 3 triples.  We once calculated what you could do
    at a MU's convention with lots of "limited wish"-like spells to
    affect dierolls.  Start with a "battery" of cheap labor, in a 
    tree (structure, not literally).  The focal point of this starts
    the magnification string:  each (high-level) mage has a limited
    wish to ensure he rolls a three.  Say, ten guys to triple each.
    10^3 magnification, applied to maybe 2000 points to begin with?
    Anyway, you get the idea.....somewhere in the mag array, the 
    guy burns to a crisp (YOU try running an arc welder through 30ga
    copper wire!).  Still, 10,000,000-dice fireballs COULD be fun....

	=shp