Horror Adventures, the Lich Legendary Medium Spirit:

[Syferus]

In preparation of my upcoming Strange Aeons game, I've been looking over some of the characters my players are interested in playing.

A player of mine wants to play a Medium that channels the Legendary Lich spirit, re-fluffed as having been partially possessed in some way. The seance boon is especially interesting, but also worded rather oddly to me.

The seance boon states that those affected gain a +4 bonus on damage rolls with necromancy spells. That doesn't seem like it's anything too overpowered, but then my player brought up spells such as Ray of Enfeeblement, or even Enervation.

Is this vague +4 supposed to also apply to _ability_ damage done with necromantic spells as well? It's worded as if it's supposed to, but I don't see how fair that'd be.

Thoughts?

[189birds]

I'm pretty sure this is in the vein of other damage modifiers- i.e. only applies to damaging spells.

[Syferus]

189birds wrote:

I'm pretty sure this is in the vein of other damage modifiers- i.e. only applies to damaging spells.

What damaging necromancer spells are there? If that is the case, and the boon applies only to damage-dealers, is the boon itself at all worth taking?

The Medium doesn't even get a damage-dealing necromancy spell until she has access to Vampiric Touch, at Level 7. (Except for Purge Spirit, which rarely ever comes up.)

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A wizard dip might help, slightly, but...

How is this boon supposed to actually help a Medium do anything if it only applies to hit point damage-dealing spells, which it appears to be suggesting it does?

[189birds]

Off the top of my head I can think of things like Disrupt Undead, Chill Touch, and Unshakeable Chill on the wizard list (0-, 1-, and 3rd level spells). I believe it would apply to things like Harm and Inflict spells, as well.

But yeah, I don't see any on the Medium list until Vampiric Touch.

[Syferus]

189birds wrote:

Off the top of my head I can think of things like Disrupt Undead, Chill Touch, and Unshakeable Chill on the wizard list (0-, 1-, and 3rd level spells). I believe it would apply to things like Harm and Inflict spells, as well.

But yeah, I don't see any on the Medium list until Vampiric Touch.

Yeesh. Now that I take a good look at it, this may actually be the worst Medium Seance Boon published.

Any citation on what exactly this generic "damage" does or does not apply to, anyone?

Thanks!

[Syferus]

189birds wrote:

I'm pretty sure this is in the vein of other damage modifiers- i.e. only applies to damaging spells.

(What is this rule from?)