Help for: MAG 'magical resilience'
A stat determining magical defense
(Last Modified: Wed Feb 12, 2003)
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MAG, or magical resilience, is almost solely related to magical defense.  It
has two important functions when dealing with spellcasting.  The first is
your chance to resist an aggressive spell cast on you.  The more resilient
you are, the more likely it is that you will completely resist spells cast on
you, causing them to have no affect.  Each time you resist a spell, there is
also a small chance to counter it, bouncing it back to the caster.  This
affect can be increased with the psionicist's counterspell skill.  The other
funciton of magical resilience is to reduce the damage taken from magical
sources, including spells directly cast on you and those from wands and
staves.  In this case too, more resilience means better defense against
magical attacks.