What would this do?

[Jkeown]

Dispel Teleport 30d6, MegaScale (1" = 1 km; +1/4), Area Of Effect Nonselective (One Hex; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Persistent (+1/2) (225 Active Points); OAF Immobile (-2), Independent (-2), No Range (-1/2)

 

Say you stick this thing at the center of a town or city, what other avenues of attack are available. Would this shut down the average teleport-crazy wizard in most FH games? I must know.

[Lord Liaden]

Well, buying the effect Persistent really wouldn't have much effect unless you first bought it Continuous, since Dispel is an Instant Power. Once you activated it it would only work on the Phase in which it was used, and then only on a Teleport used during that Phase. If the Teleport Power was in a Focus the Dispel would destroy it (if your GM uses that rule), but it wouldn't permanently eliminate Teleport used as a spell or an innate ability.

 

I'd recommend substituting Suppress for Dispel. Suppress is already a Constant Power, so it would hang around all the time, affecting any Teleport attempted within its AoE. For the point totals you suggest you could buy 18d6 of Suppress with the same modifiers; with an average of 63 points of effect, that should be enough to shut down most Teleports in a fantasy game.

[tgaptte]

How about setting the Dispel on a Trigger? Then you could do away with the Persistent, and have it "go off" when ever the condition happened "Teleport attempt within range"

 

Tim

[Markdoc]

The problem with Trigger is that makes it a one time thing. Sure, it goes off when the first teleport is tried, but if the wizard tries again 1 phase later, he's off.

 

Go for suppress, as suggested. Relatively few teleports are over 63 points, so that should stop most things.

 

Also, the big teleports are generally for multiple people, very long range, etc. So suppress would degrade their effectiveness, whereas dispel either works or not.

 

As a GM, I like the idea of the wizard trying to teleport in with 20 heavily armed thugs and only having enough points that he goes - but no-one else arrives with him.

 

cheers, Mark