Timeline for Unreliable Magic - Is it worth it?
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| Mar 29, 2019 at 22:55 | comment | added | JamieB | I would picture it as sort of a state machine. Trying to take a used tire and make it new again might shift it to "new" or to "punctured". Trying to take a punctured tire and switch it to whole again make take it to "whole" or "disintegrated". Trying to go from no tire at all to having a tire might take it to "tire" or "your head explodes". Maybe if the sprites can't think of a reasonable worse state, they just blow your head up as a default. | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 19:14 | comment | added | ventsyv | @bobson Not necessarily. If the spirits are intelligent, they might decide that doing that is against the rules and punish you. You cast a spell and you 2nd tire is punctured. You cast again and now your shoes fall apart... | |
| Mar 29, 2019 at 8:53 | comment | added | SRM | @JiK they will probably die of old age. You might get lucky. :-) | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 17:38 | comment | added | Kevin | "if resurrection is beyond magical means" I would guess resurrection spells would be rare anyway if the backfiring were killing the caster. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 15:22 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | Be careful though with such impredictible magic. If you fail to repair one tire, you wreck another. If you fail to repair both, maybe you break 4. The next logical step is 8 punctured tires, and one has to wonder where and how these tires will manifest. It would be a shame if the next car that comes around loses control due to flat tires and runs you over. Eventually the probabilities will favour you, but you need to survive until then. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 15:19 | comment | added | JiK | Note that you will eventually succeed assumes that the probability is indeed 50:50 (as stated in the question) and that one successful cast is at least reverses a failed cast. Also if you start killing/resurrecting people in a million man army where half are already dead, they will die of old age before you end up having resurrected everyone. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 14:40 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | Given the lack of detail in the post I think this answer is the best one. If you kill the person with one spell then cast another to bring them back to life or kill them again? With 50/50 odds it's a no brainer! However, I would hate to be the receiver of this gambling spell if my leg is broken and I am in agonizing pain. | |
| Mar 28, 2019 at 8:20 | comment | added | Frames Catherine White | It might be worth adding reference to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system) | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 23:17 | comment | added | Muuski | I was going to post something like this but with a counter spell/shield idea. Cast a shield before the spell, you have a 25% chance that the original spell and the shield will both fail at the same time. Repeat for even better chances. | |
| Mar 27, 2019 at 23:12 | history | answered | Bobson | CC BY-SA 4.0 |