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Questions about Quickening in Missions
Anatoly Trolling Thunder:
Zdravstvuyte everyone!
First-time caller here, love the show!
I was wondering if there was a consensus on how quickening works in Missions games. I noted at Origins this week that there were PC's offering to quicken spells on other PC's for 25K nuyen. I assume the business model of the PC was to quicken spells for cash and then in turn buy more karma. Works for me, but it raised some questions about hitting the limit for total Karma earned and hitting Prime Runner status too soon. Our team is focused on fun play at the convention table and roleplaying and don't want to get to that point too soon.
Our team, The Pirates of Piz'zazz, has someone capable of doing quickening and we started talking about the implications for campaign balance. So my questions are:
1. Is it possible for a PC to pay the karma cost for a Spellcaster PC to quicken a spell?
2. As above, but the PC paying a NPC in karma or nuyen?
3. If a PC pays another to quicken a spell, to which character does the cost get added to the total karma earned?
We're worried about our support mage hitting prime runner status before the rest of the team.
=M=
Michael
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Lormyr:
In short:
1. A PC is allowed to Quicken spells on themselves, as well as other PCs. The PC doing the Quickening must pay all of the Karma costs, however.
2. No PC can receive cash greater than 5,000 nuyen per Mission from another PC. This is in the FAQ.
3. Beginning with Neo-Tokyo, the nuyen to karma rate of exchange is 4,000 to 1. In no case may a PC earn more than 5 additional karma per Mission through this exchange.
So in closing, the Origins folks you speak of did not quit handle the situation by the allowed parameters of the campaign.
Michael Chandra:
So it's possible to make a profit but it's only 25%. Check! And you won't be Masked so the spells are visible and dispellable with just 1 net hit. Not to mention you run into the problem of mana barriers you can't see. Better convince them to overcast!
I once designed an npc who paid both initially and upkeep for masked spells. Divine dodge chances and initiative followed. It's nice to make a pseudo-ally that players fear.
Lormyr:
Mana Barriers can be a real problem if you have more than a couple of Quickened spells, but dispelling them is exceptionally hard. That resist of Magic + Force + Karma spent is really hard to compete with.
Michael Chandra:
Unless they overcast, can't recall if you can do that in SRM in downtime, it's normally 13 dice and 1 net hit kills the spell. And since spells are dual natured, it would be doable from the astral?
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