I guess portal does not mean demons by itself. But since demons will be happy to use it, they are certain to be present for the event.
Technically, yes. But until we find a way to produce this resource outside of Mathilde's Ranald-level lucky one of a kind demon trap we shouldn't consider as if we have unlimited supplies of Orbs.
Okay so there's nothing stopping us from inventing Orb-chuks.
2d6 isn't a uniform distribution, though. Middle values are more likely than extremes, chance to roll 2-4 is 1/6, and chance to roll 10-12 is also 1/6, so it's 2/3 chance to roll a miscast that's "just" a high-strength hit. Still probably not a chance I would gamble with. There is also a question "how permanent is "permanent" Magic Drain" since tabletop only concerns itself with one battle's time frame and thus "permanent" can mean anything from a few hours to actually forever.
Battle Magic is impossible to cast in the RPG. The RPG was never meant to cast Battle Magic, they left that for the Tabletop. If you're curious, ask Boney whether Battle Magic can result in a paralysed finger.
Oh, I'm not trying to downplay the importance of being able to create new Orbs at all. It's just I think that they will scarce enough, so we need to think carefully where it would be best to use them.
I was never that good at math, but my reaction to this is a simple "what". How does that happen? There are more bad results than good results, but there is a higher chance of rolling a good result than a bad result? How does that work?
You're rolling two D6 independently. There is only one way to get a 12 (if both dice roll a 6) but there's 6 ways to get a 7 (1+6, 3+4, 2+5). So there's 6/36 = 1/6 odds of rolling a 7, but only 1/36 of getting a 12.
I looked it up, and what I found out is that a 2D6 is a scam. The probabilities are rigged. I feel betrayed knowing that the middle values are so much more probable. Where's the fun in that.
I play Settlers of Catan which involves rolling 2D6, with the result determining what resources you get. There is nothing more frustrating than building settlements to take advantage of a 6 or 8 being rolled, just to have the dice always rolling a 10 which benefits my opponent but not me.
Never played MathHammer
?I think, there's at least one Bright College spell that would qualify as Battle Magics in tabletop. And I thought we were discussing the mistcasts mechanics in games, not in the Quest. In the Quest they work quite differently.
I have never had the opportunity to do so, and I probably never will.Never played MathHammer
Cool. Maybe we won't have to make a Special enchantment or something to get a look at those primordial Winds. I'm really curious about those, and think Mathilde could learn a lot from it.
My intution - which isn't based on much, admittedly - is that it's a bit like an electric current. Say that electric charges want to go from point A to point B because of some arcane principle called 'electric potential' or whatever. I connect a cable in a straight line from point A to B and electricty flows from A to B just as we think it should. But then I replace the cable with a much longer cable, that twists around in a big loop. Electricty still flows from the point of the cable that's connected to point A to the point that's connected to point B, but it's no longer taking the shortest path; at some points in its path it's moving away from point B! The crux of the matter is that electricty can move easily through the cable, but it has a real hard time moving through air. The shortest path in space from A to B is a straight line, but in fact moving along the cable is much faster even if it's a very long path, just like a road connecting two towns will often take a path that isn't a straight line but will still be preferable to a straight line because it's easier to travel on the road.
Figuratively or...
