You could give them some sort of altruism-like skill, or the ability to jump in front of a spell's attack and thus absorb its blow. I don't know if I'd want to jump in front of cone of cold as a fire giant though...shiver. nt

You could give them some sort of altruism-like skill, or the ability to jump in front of a spell's attack and thus absorb its blow. I don't know if I'd want to jump in front of cone of cold as a fire giant though...shiver. nt:
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Posted by Imbrogno on July 18, 2000 at 14:47:19:

In Reply to: I like that.... some more ideas along the same line posted by Magtograme on July 18, 2000 at 14:41:07:

> > I can't think of a good name but it'd be something like blitz on Dio's Posmud.

> > You crack the victim on the head with a fist, or your mace, or some other blunt object and break his concentration, causing some of his spells to drop. Kinda like a dispel magic skill.

> or, because a defender is exceedingly hard to attack, because hes dodging about and his superior defensive tactics, a mage casting a spell at him has a small chance of a spell droping (which the defender would notice).
> this could be quite powerful because fly, control trans, wraithform could potentially drop.. but because the mage has to cast on him, and thus be aggresive, it is mostly defensive.

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That's a nifty idea. Warrior 16:31:36 7/18/2000 (0)
hell no... I got unspeaked thru resist by that....., but I would have loved a defender to jump in front :) (nt) Magtograme 14:51:46 7/18/2000 (1)
- You'd obviously have to give them some kind of uber-resist, a defender could only take so much. nt Imbrogno 14:59:27 7/18/2000 (0)

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Comments:	> > > I can't think of a good name but it'd be something like blitz on Dio's Posmud. > > > You crack the victim on the head with a fist, or your mace, or some other blunt object and break his concentration, causing some of his spells to drop. Kinda like a dispel magic skill. > > or, because a defender is exceedingly hard to attack, because hes dodging about and his superior defensive tactics, a mage casting a spell at him has a small chance of a spell droping (which the defender would notice). > > this could be quite powerful because fly, control trans, wraithform could potentially drop.. but because the mage has to cast on him, and thus be aggresive, it is mostly defensive.