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| Ardashir |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 18:16:11
And if so, how did it go?
I'm just curious, as this sounded like one of the best ideas in Magic of Faerun (giving mages a way to settle their differences without incinerating each other), and like something that could be used in a lot of ways within the game.
My favorites were one between a potential master and his hopeful student ("How else shall I learn your mastery of Mystra's might?"), between mages who are professional opponents without being actual blood enemies, and the ever-popular young punk spellslinger roaming the countryside dueling other mages over the right to the spells in their spellbooks. I.e., "Either let me copy Snilloc's Icy Sphere, or I'll duel and disgrace you before the whole town!"
Has anyone here any other uses for the mageduel? |
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| Wandering_mage |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 16:17:41
Mageduel's are fun. Each wizard agrees how many rounds of prep they are allowed. No attacks spells are cast during the prep. After about 3 ropunds at most let the fireworks begin. Maybe cut it off after 5 rounds. This allows your players plenty of time to duel and see if they won. Good fun! |
| Lord Karsus |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 04:32:53
-I'll admit, I never liked, nor fully understood, the Mageduel rules in Magic of Faerūn. |
| The Sage |
Posted - 08 Oct 2008 : 01:07:55
You might want to read through the "Magisterial Duel" section in Secrets of the Magister as well, since it may provide you with some ideas. |
| Jamallo Kreen |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 23:46:51
I haven't used a formal mageduel yet, but I plan to have one of my own PC-NPCs sponsor a mage fair in an upcoming game at which magic challenges will probably be spectacular.
So far there has been only one significant magical battle between a Red Wizard summoner armed with a staff of fireballs and a ring of spell turning killed a 7th-level wizard and destroyed his apprentices, 2nd and 3rd-level wizards with a few magic items, trapped a wizard-cleric of Mystra within a cylindrical wall of fire and bade fair to wipe out the whole party and several hundred of their closest friends. He became hoist upon his own bombard, however, when he turned his staff on a cleric of Mask, and saw one of his own fireballs come hurtling back towards himself before he had time to down one of the potions of extra-healing he had been using to shrug off damage from physical attacks and higher-level spells. Quoth the cleric: "I've got one, too, mother farter!" Well, that's not exactly what he said, but this is a PG-13 board.
After something like that I will need to present some "Technicolor" mageduels to keep the players interested in the fair, so I will happily take under advisement any other DM's success stories of mageduels.
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| Alisttair |
Posted - 07 Oct 2008 : 22:46:04
Haven't had the pleasure but I did introduce a Magefair on Mount Waterdeep that had the Wizard PC win a fireball throwing contest and also they saw a Gnome by the name of Zippergwick do an alchemy presentation, mixing potions seemingly at random and the end result was his body exploding all over the stage... |
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