Before I do anything else, I need to note the change for John 2's skill to 2@1 Boxing B7@1 attack multiplier 1, slow defensive, weapon-adverse, no offensive modifier, -15 Defense modifier, -15 damage modifier, hand & arm.
Nikolaj, one point that I would make is that I don't pretend to know what the mag bias is in our world. It's entirely possible that what you're trying to do works here, because the mag bias is higher. I might also toy with the theological notion that you don't live in the same universe that, to pick on one person unfairly, Brock does. If I understand aright, you died to this world and were raised in a new one which just happens to appear to occupy the same space and time coordinates--you're living in a different world from those who have not done that. So it might be that the biases in your world are considerably higher than those in Brock's, even though you thought you were in the same world.
Some, on the other hand, would say that the mystery is not that your combined prayer does not work in orc rising, but that you believe it works here. That's one of the reasons I don't pretend to know earth biases--it's a good way to get in a big argument.
Now let me tackle posts from Ahmetia, Brock, Maxx, Nikolaj, and John 2.
Ahmetia did not say that she was going to go to bed, so I won't assume she does.
Brock gets his crew list, finally.
Maxx is imagining that matter would emit a signal of some sort identifying its substance. I find that a rather difficult conception of reality to accept, but that's not my call, really. If the skill works, then matter does that. However, it is within my purview to assess penalties or bonuses based on how likely I think a particular approach is to work, when it is relying on some view of reality that is not established. I think I will penalize this approach by -20 because the probability that such a signal is emitted seems low to me, and even if it is there would then be interference from the signals emitted by other matter, particularly the air molecules between. He requires ten minutes of concentration, closing the eyes, and extending both hands toward the target object. The time gives him +42, and I think +7 for the physical involvement (someone is going to ask, so I'll note that my thoughts are that magic gives +3 per additional body part, that psionics does not require body parts and doesn't generally bonus for them, that closing the eyes is a limitation nonetheless, as is requiring both hands be empty, so I'm giving +3 for each hand and +2 for the eyes being closed). That's +49-20=+29SM for the skill. He rolls 74, so I've got numbers to crunch. The 9@1 biases cancel each other, he has a 1@10 BRA, the world bias is 15@, thats 35+29=64% chance of success unless I missed something, which I don't see.
We're also going to advance his calendar a month to June, making him 15 months old.
I posted the wrong thread; I'm fixing that.
Nikolaj rolls 80 on his prayer for third-party revelation, a 1@2 SAL skill with a +38 SM which makes 50 to which he adds half his 1@10 religion for 60, the +10 alliance bonus for 70, and his 1@9 BRA for 89, so he's solid.
4+6+4=14 on the GE roll for John 2's baton.
Now I'm finished.
--M. J. Young
