Comments on: Legend of Zelda Adventure System: Notes on Magic http://www.paperspencils.com/2012/09/03/legend-of-zelda-adventure-system-notes-on-magic/ A blog about Pathfinder, or any other tabletop RPG which strikes my fancy Thu, 16 May 2013 03:08:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: LS http://www.paperspencils.com/2012/09/03/legend-of-zelda-adventure-system-notes-on-magic/#comment-155714 LS Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:36:42 +0000 http://www.paperspencils.com/?p=2560#comment-155714 I like the idea of a cardboard magic meter.

You might note that only non-sages need to make a “save to retain magic” roll every time they use magic.

Sages can use magic a number of times per day equal to twice their level. Once they’ve expended all of those ‘spell slots,’ they start making the “save to retain magic” checks.

So a level 8 Sage could cast 16 spells a day, after which they would need to save after each spell.

]]> By: GreyKnight http://www.paperspencils.com/2012/09/03/legend-of-zelda-adventure-system-notes-on-magic/#comment-155512 GreyKnight Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:53:21 +0000 http://www.paperspencils.com/?p=2560#comment-155512 I previously used a “did I run out of magic” check similar to this but I eventually scrapped the idea. Too many powerful mages running out of magic after casting the equivalent of a single /magic missile/. I still haven’t completely solved this problem (I agree that tracking magic points is too much like hard work).

One thing I considered was a tactile cardboard “magic meter”, where you could slide the back part so that the meter decreased by a tick when you used magic. Something similar could work for “hearts” of damage.

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