>Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:05:54 +0100
> From: stephen.royle_at_...
>Subject: Magic Fumbles
>
>I had an incident on Monady night when a Yanafil Tarnils PC fumbled his
>Empower with Death feat.
>Now how would other people run this?
>Lose the ability to cast the feat for the session?
>Lose the affinity for the session?
>Horrible effect, like from a spell fumble table? With it related to the
>feat used?
>(I'm not advocating a spell fumble table by the way!)
>Any other ideas.
>Luckily for me he spent a HP to cancel the fumble, pheww! :-)
>
>Campaign is going great, fairly Lunar centric, love the system and boy are
>undead hard for a medium/low level group. (Highest PC skill is 1W)
>
>Steve
I apply penalties to the augmenting ability for normal failures, so I'd
apply penalties for the augmented ability only for a complete defeat.
In your case loss of ability seems sensible. (Or something narratively
appropriate and nasty if that is obvious from the situation).
Thom