Re: drwoning/blue fields

[Wright Frazier <khelek>]

> 
> We ran it this way for _YEARS_. Wasn't until we started using blue-field
> materials to build stuff that Dan decided a change was in order. So he
> made them unmovable. Then he made them immaterial also. I think Dana Shea
> was one of the first to have a bunch of hamsters with little necklaces of
> deferred spells. No one thought much of it then. But that was then and we
> fear power now.
> 
> Yes, I agree that my opinions leave this totally available again in an
> easy fashion. Its available now just not in an easy fashion. I can get
> around it and anyone who puts some forethought into the matter can also
> get around it. I believe Joe does on a regular basis.
> 
> Also the creation of these BFs is a lot more complex than you let on.
> What does it take to create an item of fireball by this method?
> 
> 8 units for the actual fireball
> 8 units for the defer for the fireball (assume thought trigger)
> 6 units for the BF
> 6 units for the BF defer (it has to be deferred or you'd need the original
>   earth mage to release the field).. 

last 6 isn't needed for an earth mage alone.

> 
> so 28 units per. How many of these do you think you can cast how
> quickly? And this takes a goodly mage to pull it off... and cooperation 
> if your enmassing as well.

At 20 per? I can do 1/day, and my earth mage has been out of game play
for close to 2 years.

> 
> Or you can just leave it relative to Jaern and make earth mages the
> most lethal part of ship combat. Forget about marines and their stupid
> dolphins. Two ships closing on one another. My archer uses one of those
> funky long range bows and some bow skill to put an arrow (with a deferred
> area of effect blue field) onto your deck. The boat is too big to be
> blue fielded but everything (and everyone) else within the area of effect
> gets it and stays put while their boat continues forward. Mmmm... maybe
> their archer lives through it and tosses one back. Even more yummm... is
> this the way you envision ship combat? Hope so because it _WILL_ be the
> standard only pirates will hit you at night from out of the dark where
> you can't shoot back.
> 
> Argue that it doesn't happen now and I'll argue back that its because the
> idea wasn't out there. It is now and it _will_ be used by players and GMs
> alike.
> 
> I'm personally a really big fan of old type 1 blue fields. I think those
> where were it was really at and I've never really understood why they
> changed. I guess a couple of people got real vocal and overruled the
> majority.
> 
> 							-Steve
> 

*shrug* No good solution to this one in my view.  I agree, mine has
flaws, however I don't like the mobile ones with defers and spells that
stay up in'em.  If you make it so defers and spells will run out in
a BF, then I don't care what form it takes, though I don't like the
type 1's.  I like the immaterial ones more.

Wright