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Message no. 1
From: Drekhead <drekhead@***.NET>
Subject: LOS and sustaining (was Re:FasaMike)
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 1997 21:38:28 +0500
On 5 Nov 97 at 0:09, Spike wrote:

> And verily, did Chris Maxfield hastily scribble thusly...
> |While we're on the subject: For you people who allow a target to wander
> |out-of-view of the sustaining magician - how far do you allow the targets
> |to wander before the spell fails?
>
> In my case, you could have the spell cast in London, and it'd still
> work when you pulled into San Fransisco...
>
> I don't see the problem.
> (I see it as an umbilical cord that streches as far as it needs
> to...)
>
> After all, the casting mage DOES have the penalties for maintaining
> the spell, and is likely to drop it at the first sign of trouble at
> his end...

I tend to agree with Spike here, and that how I have always played
it. Like someone pointed out, spells like invisibility and mask would
be kind of stupid otherwise.

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