Bold text originally posted by Kristoffer O:
My main interest was how often people lose their pretenders and how they take it. It is less fun to play when your enemy has almost given up, just because he gambled with his god and lost.
I suspect that people who play risky combat pretenders are prepared to deal with the consequences. The skill and item loss from death actually aren't _so_ bad, but getting a bad unhealed affliction can be devestating.
Considering all the powerfull magic running around (including cheap healing magic that will save you from near death!), it seems odd that afflictions are so permanent. This colors the discussion of Curse too.
You seem to have drawn a lot of ideas from Ars Magica, why not treat healing the way they do? Have a 2 nature skill "Heal Affliction" enchantment that costs gems 5-10 "Corpus Vis".
Regarding communion: I'm not sure, but I believe it has an effect. I also believe that all communicants will suffer from the same fate if one of them is slayed in a magic duel (this might be Dom II, or might not be implemented at all, I'll have to ask JK).
Ouch! That could be devestating... Both sides would boost from communion, and the first one to win a Duel would probably win the rest as well.
Regarding the initiator winning ties. Do you believe the opposite would lessen the impact of magic duels in pretender design and in marignon-arco/pythium balance?
Well, it would lessen the impact of Magic Duel, but I still like the Attacker winning ties. The attacker is taking a great risk, and the oppurtunity cost of the time to cast a spell is significant. These costs need to be offset by some advantage, or IMHO Magic Duell will rarely be used outside of extreme skill difference.
IMHO a better tweak would be to simply have Magic Duel do 200 fatigue damage, perhaps with a chance of causing feeblemind. Don't other similar mind attacks work this way?
I am feeling a hostile usenet dominion with a strong order scale altering my perceptions. 
Usenet has an _orderly_ dominion? Heh, you must have a damn good flame/troll filter. ;-)
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