Rule of 16? Also, Re: [gurps] Harry Dresden?

[Lucas Bodnyk]

I've never dealt much with resisted spells and
abilities, but I reread the rule of 16 today, since it
looks like two of my players will be mages.

Am I correct in my reading of this, that a mage at
skill (anything sufficiently high) can never get
better than a 50% success rate against subjects with a
16 or higher relevant resistance?

Is this a little bit unfair?


Also,


--- "Gerald \"roguebfl\" Grenier" <roguebfl at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Lucas Bodnyk
> <daletheladrien at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've got a player who wants to do a Dresden-clone
> in a
> >  supernatural adventure I'm gearing up for. I'm
> having
> >  trouble figuring out how to model Harry's magical
> >  focuses  alongside the GURPS magic system. In
> >  addition, he needs to model bob the spirit of
> >  intellect as an ally. I'd like to do this in 300
> >  points or less.
> >
> >  Anyone got any bright ideas?
> 
> Higher levels of Margery with Trigger: focus.


This seems like the easy route, if not terribly
accurate. My player seems to want to frame Dresden as
closely as possible, but I'm hard-pressed to do it on
300 points. He's a first-time player (they all are,
actually), so I'm loathe to tell him it can't be done,
but this really isn't a normal GURPS mage.

BTW, I haven't read any of the books or seen any TV
shows, and spoilers are not an issue. My player is...
struggling... to explain Dresden to me, so I'm kinda
working in the dark.

What would really help, from anyone who is familiar
with him, would be pointers on disadvantages I could
use. I might need a lot.

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