Timeline for Unreliable Magic - Is it worth it?
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| Mar 30, 2019 at 6:40 | comment | added | Misha R | On the other hand, if the outcome is decided by intelligent sprites, they may understand that more punctured tires won't make things any worse. One tire or four, you'll have to walk. So it may be fixing the tire vs breaking your legs. | |
| Mar 30, 2019 at 0:50 | comment | added | ShadowRanger | @ChatterOne: The battlefield situation, for some military cultures, is already like that, e.g. "No one gets left behind". Actual soldiers risk their safety to carry wounded to safety knowing they'll be slower, easier targets while they do so. Risking personal death by magic is still going to be a thing when the other options are "Leave buddy to die" or "High risk of death saving them non-magically". | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 13:57 | comment | added | ChatterOne | I like the idea but I think you're being a little optimistic. If you try to heal someone, maybe you'll both end up dead. If you try to fix a puncture in a tire, maybe you'll get a puncture yourself. It all depends on how bad it can go. | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 12:28 | comment | added | Gloweye | Not even counting combat related magic... if my fireball has a 50% chance to do something random, there's a decent chance it'll still be harmful. | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 8:51 | history | edited | SRM | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2019 at 0:16 | comment | added | atakanyenel | Saw the related answer now... | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 0:15 | comment | added | atakanyenel | And if you have two punctures you can cast it again. You either have fixed car or 4 punctured tires. This time probability favors you. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 22:59 | comment | added | Jesse Amano | Many of these cards are very powerful and desirable under the right circumstances. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 22:34 | comment | added | Giu Piete | It's also the case that it hardly matters, think of all the millions of individuals and companies who have invested significant resources in IT 'time saving' devices and etc and then spent all the time they might have saved learning how to use it or fixing problems with it, when a type writer and filing system would have cost less...yet they persevered into bankruptcy.. Society benefits from those early adopters, but not necessarily the early adopters themselves. There's always plenty of people willing to try the shortcut or 'great leap forward'...or lottery ticket | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 21:25 | comment | added | MacA | And me as well. Ah, well. Great minds think alike? (nervous grin) | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 21:23 | comment | added | cegfault | Beat me to it by a minute or so ;) | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 21:17 | history | answered | AngelPray | CC BY-SA 4.0 |