Triggered powers and power pools

[ancalagon-tb.livejournal.com]

consider the following

Tim the Enchanter has a ward he likes to put on his tower door that is triggered (if you mess with the door you get zapped kinda deal). It's a nasty one, with all his power (say 30) into it.

Question one: Is Tim's power tied up in that spell until the trigger is activated? If he casts another spell, does the ward collapse?

Now, supposing the answer to this question is no.

Tim the Enchanter is taking a stroll, and a bunch of rude goblins start shooting arrows at him. Tim is feeling a bit hungover from last night and not up to a fight, so he casts a shield spell of some kind (armor, force field etc) and runs away, arrows bouncing off the shield. Some the goblins have crossbows, so he puts all his power into the shield to avoid injury. Unfortunately for him, some dastardly hafling is trying to break into his tower! If the ward is triggered and the hafling is blown to smithereens...what happens to Tim's shield? Does it goes down as his power is momentarily drained by the ward? Or does the Ward fail because Tim's power is on the phone right now, please leave a message? Or do both work?

Thanks,

Comments

[nightstriker.livejournal.com]

I would personally go about doing this with the delayed effect advantage and possibly charges.

Well I would go for the power on the tower increasing the duration of the power protecting the tower so that it is persistant, and only needs to pay the end once when casting, and then on top of that, depending upon how you want the protections to work you can have a limitation that says "untill dispelledd" or "until activated."

Now if you wanted to have two powers active upon yourself at the same time, and one is a trigger effect. I would take the triggered power, add on delayed effect and charges. This way you can "prepare" your charges number of triggered castings in a day and you can prepare them before hand and not have them interfear with your currently active spells.