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<blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2697630" data-attributes="member: 63">Do you mean like when Egg-chan and Lo-Pan battle in Big Trouble in Little China? The way you're describing it isn't exactly possible with the rules as written, but you could emulate it fairly well with a bit of imagination. Assume that both mages in that fight had the Wuxia Sorcery tradition, both had magical focus, and that Egg-Chan had readied an action to defend himself if Lo-Pan attacked. Lo-Pan fires an Attack spell, and Egg-Chan uses his readied action to counterspell the attack (which, if you use your own Attack spell, is easier, so that explains why his counterspell looks like another attack spell). This continues the next few turns, until Egg-Chan expends his magical focus to cast a quickened spell to enhance his defenses, allowing him to fire off his own attack. Both attacks hit, and each mage calls off the contest for dramatic reasons.Or you could run it where the two mages summoned monsters and then used spells to buff their monsters.I don't have the rules in Mythic Earth, but in my last fantasy campaign I had a house rule that allowed you to give up your action in your next round to cast a counterspell as a reaction. That allowed two mages to have duels without requiring that they each kept readying actions to counter each other.You mean, like, I'm Professor Xavier, and I want Wolverine (who's in Siberia) to see what's happening in my mansion? Just a sec . . . I'll get back to this in a sec.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RangerWickett, post: 2697630, member: 63"] Do you mean like when Egg-chan and Lo-Pan battle in [i]Big Trouble in Little China[/i]? The way you're describing it isn't exactly possible with the rules as written, but you could emulate it fairly well with a bit of imagination. Assume that both mages in that fight had the Wuxia Sorcery tradition, both had magical focus, and that Egg-Chan had readied an action to defend himself if Lo-Pan attacked. Lo-Pan fires an Attack spell, and Egg-Chan uses his readied action to counterspell the attack (which, if you use your own Attack spell, is easier, so that explains why his counterspell looks like another attack spell). This continues the next few turns, until Egg-Chan expends his magical focus to cast a quickened spell to enhance his defenses, allowing him to fire off his own attack. Both attacks hit, and each mage calls off the contest for dramatic reasons. Or you could run it where the two mages summoned monsters and then used spells to buff their monsters. I don't have the rules in Mythic Earth, but in my last fantasy campaign I had a house rule that allowed you to give up your action in your next round to cast a counterspell as a reaction. That allowed two mages to have duels without requiring that they each kept readying actions to counter each other. You mean, like, I'm Professor Xavier, and I want Wolverine (who's in Siberia) to see what's happening in my mansion? Just a sec . . . I'll get back to this in a sec. [/QUOTE]

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