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<blockquote data-quote="electric-ant" data-source="post: 776014" data-attributes="member: 9845"><p>Eeep - you're right.</p><p></p><p>However, my problem with your version was: <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">You were basing it off a new house-rule seed, whereas Victim was making pretty much the same effect with an existing, playtested, official seed.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Your spell is quite powerful - compare it to a <em>+15 fiery blast</em> weapon - that's a good 9-10 <strong>million</strong> gold pieces right there, it's doing 2d6 less bonus damage, it is of only one possible energy type, and it can't be taken with you in a <em>wild shape</em>.</li> </ul><p>I'd rather you use mine (actually, go ahead and edit mine a bunch; there's definitely room for improvement). For this spell, however, I'll let you take the backlash only once, since the DC is quite high enough without having to spend mondo XP tp mitigate every time you renew it. You could make it permanent for an extra x5 (applied before mitigating factors and after everything else) if you really want it, but I figure without an XP cost and only backlash damage once, it's probably cheaper to up the duration a bunch and have it last a week or a month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="electric-ant, post: 776014, member: 9845"] Eeep - you're right. However, my problem with your version was: [list][*]You were basing it off a new house-rule seed, whereas Victim was making pretty much the same effect with an existing, playtested, official seed. [*]Your spell is quite powerful - compare it to a [i]+15 fiery blast[/i] weapon - that's a good 9-10 [b]million[/b] gold pieces right there, it's doing 2d6 less bonus damage, it is of only one possible energy type, and it can't be taken with you in a [i]wild shape[/i].[/list] I'd rather you use mine (actually, go ahead and edit mine a bunch; there's definitely room for improvement). For this spell, however, I'll let you take the backlash only once, since the DC is quite high enough without having to spend mondo XP tp mitigate every time you renew it. You could make it permanent for an extra x5 (applied before mitigating factors and after everything else) if you really want it, but I figure without an XP cost and only backlash damage once, it's probably cheaper to up the duration a bunch and have it last a week or a month. [/QUOTE]
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