Quote Originally Posted by tomaO2 View Post
Yea, yea, and soul spicing is the way to get maximum power in OOTS. Plus, there are builds that are most effective, and all that crap. We know that links are the game breakers, but Erfworld didn't have to go in the direction of using them for EVERYTHING. They were shown as being really dangerous. Like, insanely dangerous. Something that most sane sides don't use. We had the first link end up killing a caster and driving the second insane. Even in book 2, it seemed like Charlie needed to stay linked for an extended period of time, as was shown by King Slately trying to talk to Vanna, and the mention that Charlie had been "blacked out" for an entire turn.
I agree. I do miss the part of caster links where they had an inherent danger about them, taking experienced casters outside the link to carefully unlink the chain so no one gets croaked. And even then we saw that the casters still suffered dizziness, weakness, and other ill effects for it. That risk made linking an interesting gamble.

You can see it in the recent Vanna-Roger-Parson link. Roger gets croaked and Parson gets teleported off. Vanna doesn't seem to be much fazed by that sudden link breakage.