Magic Strategy for Legend Quest

In Legend Quest, spell casters have to balance how much power they use by the amount of fatigue they can endure. For this reason, I love halfling spell casters. They get a +1 to Willpower (as compared to humans) thus giving them an extra 6 points of Fatigue. They also get a boosted Agility giving the best shot at winning initiative. But how to balance? For those folks a little later in the game (experienced), the best thing to do is to get a power talisman. Here’s why: Let’s take the disintegrate spell for example. 1½P damage for 1D fatigue, or 2-15 damage given for 1-10 fatigue points taken. That’s still great if you can hit two targets, but not as much if you only hit one. However, with a +1 Power talisman, this becomes 3-30 damage dealt for 1-10 fatigue taken, hitting 2 guys, that’s 6-60 given for 1-10 taken. Now you’re really cooking with gas! As you can image, the benefits start to dwindle as you cast more powerful spells. If you cast your disintegrate at a power level of three + one for the talisman, then you get 6-60 damage done for 3-30 taken. Still not bad, but you’re only doubling instead of tripling. If the spell caster knows a major spell, like disintegrate or sunburst, they can probably keep up this type of attack for a while without fatiguing themselves into oblivion. Hitting with a Pow 2 disintegrate is still big damage, and because of the talisman, my halfling sorcerer (assuming a Willpower of 7) can keep it up for 7 or 8 consecutive turns. That is a really big deal! especially if he’s hitting two guys every turn. Summary - Just because you have four power levels doesn’t mean you have to use them all every time. Keep some “dry powder” for the next fight.