The Spellbook of Mesmerize

[Tornado]

Anything anti-Punisher feels like a good direction

[Lazy Orang]

Yep - and as I explained in Hypnotise's Initial, that is also even more anti-Red Skull, so that sounds good as well!

[Yodaking]

That reminds me, should it subtract 3 down to a minimum of 1 dice or are we going to have it completely negate an attack of 3 or less? I'm thinking still let them roll 1 die personally. Might clear up any issues with powers that trigger after rolling attack dice if they are still rolling the 1 die.

[Lazy Orang]

Originally Posted by Yodaking

That reminds me, should it subtract 3 down to a minimum of 1 dice or are we going to have it completely negate an attack of 3 or less? I'm thinking still let them roll 1 die personally. Might clear up any issues with powers that trigger after rolling attack dice if they are still rolling the 1 die.

I'm cool either way. My preference would probably be slightly to negate it entirely, but it's not a big deal. It certainly makes it less useful against Deadly Strike/Shot though, I should mention.

[TrollBrute]

It triggers before an attack, so any interactions with Deadly Strike/Shot should be obvious. Minimum of 1 has a precedent though, so it wouldn't hurt to add that.

[Lazy Orang]

I Propose Moving Mesmerise to Danger Room Playtesting at 25 Points.


@Tornado - Yea
@johnny139 - Yea
@Viegon - Yea
@Yodaking - Yea
@japes -
@TrollBrute - Yea

[TrollBrute]

Yea

[Yodaking]

We should come to an agreement on the minimum or no minimum before more tests are run but I'll go ahead and vote with my preference included any maybe by the time everyone has voted we will have a clear direction.

yea - prefer minimum of 1 attack die (represents blindly firing/swinging and maybe still getting lucky with a hit)

[Viegon]

Yea

[johnny139]

Yea

Adding the minimum clause sounds sensible.

[Tornado]

Yea

[dok]

I'm more worried about this one being underpriced than Hypnotize. Any spell that happens without requiring investment of turn/OM resources is automatically more powerful.

The saving grace here is that Magical Defense already limits the effect of a massive strike from a big hitter, so the value of nerfing an attack is a lot lower for the full MD figures. This power obviously amplifies other defensive powers, though, such as Mordo's Dark Arts. Presumably that's built into Mordo's cost to some extent though. Still, we should be aware that the existence of this spell will affect the cost of any future magic-user that has any kind of "spare shields = good thing" defensive power (or similar). Any such figure basically has to be tested with Mesmerize on the card at all times.