Ideas to make Magic stronger, yet balanced

- Make magic weapons (as a rule of thumb) considerably stronger than their tech/non-magic size/stype counterparts). A featherweight axe shouldn't even be a tech weapon per se, it's just metal, so it shouldn't be stronger than a magical axe. Real Tech weapons for me would include: Pyrotechnic Axe, Pyrotechnic Bow, Envenomed Bow, Envenomed blade, Charged Sword, Charged Axe, etc...so these should have damage comparable to magic weapons.

Now how to make magic really stand a chance, and vice versa.

Create a new School of Magic called Disruption, and a Techonological Discipline called Anti-Magic.

Anti Magic
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Basically makes items which do extra damage, proportional to the tarets magical aptitude. Summoned creatures would also take exra damage as well.

1) Anti-Magic Mix (Saltpeter + Electrolyte) - Recipe compounc.
2) Anti-Magic Blade (Balanced sword + anti-magic mix)
3) Anti Magic Axe (Featherweight axe + anti magic mix)
4) Anti magic Bow (Compound bow + Anti magic mix)
5) Anti Magic Grenade (Explosive grenade + anti-magic mix)
6) Anti Magic Plate (Basic plate + AMM)

Might have to reaorganize things so as to include mental inhibitor and disruptive shield and all that.


School of Disruption
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Basically will reek havoc with technological things, especially those that involve electricity and fire.

1) Feedback - causes surge in techonological weapon, making user take the equivalent of a melee/thrown/bow/fired hit for every spell hit. Weapon takes light damage.

2) Translucence - causes user to become translucent, taking reduced damage from techno attacks.

3) Drain - Dissipates the energy/fuel off any weapon that uses charges or fuel.

4) Rust cloud - Doesn`t damage player but does serious damage to all worn items based on metal like weapons, shields, armor, metal boots, metal gauntlets). Can reduce a group of platemailed maulers into naked streakers. Area spell.

5) Overload - the ULTIMATE anti-technological spell. Will cause a random technological item worn by the target to overload and be destroyed...the items "hit points" being converted into damage. I'm not sure if I would change this to include the users technologcal aptituted as damage and/or maybe have ALL techno items worn overload.

 

Quite a nice idea. Perhaps all spells and tech items should have such effect based on their level and caster (constructor) aptitude? This'd be a good example how magic and tech react. Also this way all possible items and spells would be possible for "antimagicking" and "antiteching" and one could buy and use both anti-magickal and anti-tech thingies easily while not being a mage or techie himself, which would make neutral characters more powerful and thus more poular.

 

Indeed....

And truth be told.at least as far as the "Anti Magic" part goes....a good "mod-grammer" could probably emulate most of the effects with the current Arcanum capabilities.