Resisting Spells: resistance floors and resist rolls

Minimum elemental resistances#

Let R be effective Resisting Spells and F=trunc(10R). At 40.0–99.9 skill the minimum for each resistance is floor((F−400)÷15). At 100.0 or higher it is 40+floor((F−1000)÷50). Below 40.0, this skill grants no minimum. The floor is capped by the normal 70-point base player resistance limit.

The Magery resist-roll formula#

For a spell that actually calls the Magery resist check, let R be the target’s effective Resisting Spells, M the caster’s casting skill and C the spell’s circle number 1–8. Resist chance in percent is max(R÷5, R−((M−20)÷5 +5C))÷2, limited to a practical 0–100% chance.

For example,100 Resist against 100 Magery gives 34.5% for a third-circle resist check. Poison uses that check before applying its poison. Common direct-damage spells such as Fireball use the current-era elemental-damage path instead of the old resisted-hit reduction.

Stat curses#

The standard stat-curse magnitude is max(0,8+(caster Evaluating Intelligence−target Resisting Spells)÷10)% of the target’s raw affected stat, then reduced by the caster’s Magery / Necromancy conflict scalar and truncated. Different status spells can use different resistance formulas.