Nuclear Beasts

Low Mana Zones

I may want to say that if you spend mana out of your personal pool, that you get to ignore the local Mana Rating if it's below zero. I might say that spending mana from your pool always replaces the local mana rating, to avoid real extremes where a mage goes to a +5 zone and spends 15 mana to get a +20 and work some uber-magic really easily. Oops, that's not such a problem... you're still limited by your Drive.

I kind of like the idea of a mage in a low mana zone being able to ignore the -10 for a handful of spells by spending at least 1 point of mana on them (and getting a +1 instead of a -10 for that roll). That would enable them to act at full power briefly, which fits a little better with my original concept. The last version I wrote up wouldn't be much use in a -10 zone, since they'd have to exhaust most of their energies just to overcome the -10 penalty once.