[UA] Cryptomancers and Major charges

[Epoch]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Chris Cooper wrote:

> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
> 
> A global change would not necessarily invoke changing
> everyone into chipmunks, maybe everyone getting a
> minor effect. A million minor effects all across the
> U.S.A. Like everyone getting the 'flu at the same
> time. 

I'd never allow this with an Epideromancer major charge.

> A particularly nasty epideromancer with a major charge
> could loose an ebola plague within a major
> metropolitan city; say New York. It could be a weird
> sort of thaumaterrorism.

I would allow an Epideromancer to make himself some sort of typhoid mary
(and even be immune to the plague he carries).  Don't get me wrong -- a
major charge is badass.  But Epideromancy is not, in my ever so humble
opinion, about causing changes across a large population.  It's an
intensely personal magic.  If you want global changes with Epideromancy,
you have to accomplish them indirectly.

Mike

--
And smale foweles maken melodye

  --Chaucer, the Canterbury Tales


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