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Message no. 1
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Dragons and Astral Space (was Re: Astral combat: reach
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 05:30:02 +0000
On 22 Jan 97 at 15:15, Bull wrote:
[snip I hoped Dragons can't go completly astral]
> Actually Sascha, i did... I know this really goes against the rules, but
> then, we're talking about Dragons... Craetures that can pretty much
> transform tehir body into other shapes at will anyways...
[snip part of reply]
> Sorry, but an Astrally Projecting Dragon's body would make a kill WAY too
> easy... Plus it gave me an easy escape later on, when they all confronted
> the dragon... I treat it similar to True Form Spirits... They manifest,
> and tehy are solid, but tehy can turn completely Astral, allowing for FAR
> more fun player torture...
Steven, sorry to say so, but... that's mainly a lack of planing on your
side. Or superior planing on your players' side.

Why do you think a dragon would leave it's meat bod lying in the open?
There'd be some guards for sure, both astrally and physically. If your
players outplanned you - they earned it (and you as a GM failed!!!)

Sorry, I hope you know it was not meant as an attack...

Sascha
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Message no. 2
From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Dragons and Astral Space (was Re: Astral combat: reach
Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 01:45:33 -0500
At 05:30 AM 1/24/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Steven, sorry to say so, but... that's mainly a lack of planing on your
>side. Or superior planing on your players' side.
>
>Why do you think a dragon would leave it's meat bod lying in the open?
>There'd be some guards for sure, both astrally and physically. If your
>players outplanned you - they earned it (and you as a GM failed!!!)
>
>Sorry, I hope you know it was not meant as an attack...
>
I know that Sascha... Don't worry, you should know me well enough by now
to know I don't take these things personally... It's just the way I prefer
to run things...

Basically, when I ran Mecurial (The module that I developed my house rule
in), the players went off in a direction they weren't supposed to, managed
to make some incredible roles, and I didn't have the time to run another
battle. plus, I had played the module before as Bull, and loved it. And
the fact that Kyle Morgan and Perianwyr became reoccuring NPC's made our
games a lot of fun, and I had plans for using Peri in the future, and
frankly, the players would have beaten off his Physical protection. I
didn't want Peri dead, so I simply changed how he was astrally projecting...

Besides, it makes Dragons even nastier... and I think dragons SHOULD be
the nastiest thing in the game, next to bugs and horrors, and I haven't
done anything with either yet...

> Sascha
>
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