Post originally by James A Beggs at 2003-04-30 07:42:56
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Bankuei wrote:
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Now let's see what magic means in light of that. You can use magic, figure out who's doing what, and off'em without ever seeing them face to face.

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Let's take another extreme...Some mage decides that sinking an entire island to get rid of some of his enemies(or drops meteors on it, or whatever). Yay, he's just changed the landscape.

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You are joking, right?

These two examples are supposed to make us think magic ISN'T abusable?

Look, any GM can limit his PCs if he has to - abusability I define is "how hard does the DM have to work to do so?"

And if sinking an island is possible for a mage, this, IMHO, is WAY too powerful!

For that, killing someone, sight unseen, I would possibly think too powerful too, based on context. Ars Magica does magic right, IMHO, and I was hoping to see it at around that power level here too.