Are Runes of Protection broken

[nullfame]

ASC is okay by me. I think they are a waste of mana and/or -STM, reduce the challenge, and most threats can be taken down without them. I haven't used one since I learned what a grandmaster mystic was. You summon? Oh, I have a solution for that. Wrong.

What you describe as the "hockey stick" style (we need a glossary) I would be for getting rid of, not because I use it or have a problem with other people using it, but because I hate being on the receiving end.

[chris]

Monster summons used to be centered around the player and not around the summoner. If you wanted to deny any summons you just needed to surround yourself with 8 runes.

Since they're now from the summoner there is always at least one available space to summon in (directly behind)

Perhaps they would be more balanced if
[1] Summoning still centered summons on you.
[2] Each summoned monster has a 50% chance of breaking a rune. Or perhaps, the odds of a summoned monster breaking a rune are a function of its level.

Completely shutting down summoning seems broken ...

[Derakon]

I actually much prefer summoning around the monster instead of the player. It makes more sense to me. It also means that summoning in ASCs isn't completely useless; the summons just shows up behind the summoner (in the old days, you stood at the end of the ASC with rock all around you and no summoning was possible, period).

[miyazaki]

I don't think RoP are severely broken or overpowering. But some of the abuse would be stopped if they existed for a timed duration. Like 25+1d25 or something. I don't like the idea of casing RoP 5 times, resting, repeat to fill any space you want. A duration would give you some time to prepare but not a ridiculous amount.