I have a troll magician who is VERY into assensing and astral projecting his way through every problem. With that, plus his offensive spells, he tends to geek everyone instantly. It's a high risk/high reward strategy, since he always ends up taking a TON of damage and almost dying, but I'm looking for something a bit more subtle to keep him from just finding all the awakened and all the cyberware-users before the fight even starts.
A few ideas I've had:
- Astral combat. Have another mage waiting for him, take the fight to astral where he's absolutely useless, lock him in the astral plane and make him hope someone comes to rescue him
- Mana barriers. I used this once, but on a rules check, the size of the barrier makes it pretty useless for acting as a "cloaking field" for any serious number of baddies.
- Move his body. Have someone kidnap his body while he's projected out, he has to find it (with the team's help?)
- Shedim. I already turned the Blackfish gogang into a secret shedim army. I know he's read up on them now, and my understanding is a shedim can just take over him when he's projected out and then... that's it. He's fucked. I'm not even clear on whether there's a way to fix this once it happens other than killing his possessed body.
Any other ideas or recommendations here?
