Wizard War! Dispel as an defensive action.

[Demonsong]

Wizard War! Dispel as an defensive action.

Two Wizards throwing spells at each other. It is a great mental picture. And in order to expand on that I was wondering what you all thought of making a Dispel attempts as an Defensive action that a Wizard can Abort to, just like a Dodge or Parry.

Thoughts.

[NuSoardGraphite]

I would most certainly allow Abort to Dispel in a campaign such as the one you described. They do it all the time in The Wheel of Time novells.

[Killer Shrike]

Alternately or in addition to, consider Triggered Dispels.

[Citizen Keen]

I've already started a thread on this - you can see it: here (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6447).

[Citizen Keen]

Something I've considered doing is creating a new advantage: Abortable (+ 1/4) - it has the equivalent of a stop sign on it - requries GM permission, based on the special effect.

[Shadowpup]

I'm pretty sure you can already do this.

[Killer Shrike]

Originally posted by Shadowpup
I'm pretty sure you can already do this. No, IIRC legally you specifically have to hold an action and "Attack" the incoming spell with the Dispel.

So Aborting to Dispel is not technically legal IIRC.

But its certainly a subject to GM's preference sort of thing, like everthing else in FRED, and 1 of those things that seems reasonable to change.

[Ndreare]

I would certianly allow the abort to dispel action. as long as you followed all the other rules for aborting an action.

[Bartman]

Originally posted by Ndreare
I would certianly allow the abort to dispel action. as long as you followed all the other rules for aborting an action.

I have explicitly allowed this in the one FH campaign I ran. Of course you could only abort to dispel attacks. You couldn't for example abort to dispel a Force Field so a faster teammate could get a shot in on an undefended villian. I found it to be in genre, not at all unbalancing, and gave mage on mage combat some real flavor.