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Message no. 1
From: PDL@****.dacom.co.kr
Subject: Spell Usage
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 96 19:47:41 PDT
How do people play the non-combat abilities related to the
critter form spell? For example, If you change yourself into
a polar bear, can you survive in extreme cold. If you change
yourself into a wolf, do you gain low light vision and lose the
ability to perceive color?

What are the effects of a increase mental attribute spell?
For instance, can they aid in Decking? What happens to a
trolls when their charisma is raised, are they suddenly more
likable?

Patrick
Message no. 2
From: Luc <rjwate01@*****.louisville.edu>
Subject: Re: Spell Usage
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:26:41 -0500 (EDT)
> How do people play the non-combat abilities related to the
> critter form spell? For example, If you change yourself into
> a polar bear, can you survive in extreme cold. If you change
> yourself into a wolf, do you gain low light vision and lose the
> ability to perceive color?

I would say yes because those abilities of mundane animals is caused by the
natural defenses that the species has developed.

> What are the effects of a increase mental attribute spell?
> For instance, can they aid in Decking? What happens to a
> trolls when their charisma is raised, are they suddenly more
> likable?

I would say no but VR2.0 disagrees with me. According to the old decking
rules (unless I'm remembering it wrong) magic could not affect deckers after
they jacked-in (unless of course hindering...yes casting sleep on a jacked-in
decker would hurt him and make him suffer penalties). By VR2.0 rules
intelligence affects hacking pool and it says that magical boosting of the
attribute does affect the hacking pool (would quote text and page number but
ya picked the one day that I didn't bring VR2.0 to the lab :)).

--
Luc AKA BobW

EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME!
BUT THE CORPSE STILL HAS THE FLOOR!
--Kevin Spacey as Lloyd in The Ref (1994)

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Message no. 3
From: Brian Johnson <john0375@****.tc.umn.edu>
Subject: Re: Spell Usage
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 14:30:44 -0500 (CDT)
> How do people play the non-combat abilities related to the
> critter form spell? For example, If you change...
> yourself into a wolf, do you gain low light vision and lose the
> ability to perceive color?

I thought wolves/dogs can see colors in a limited sense. Any wildlife
types out there on this one?

I'd give the other powers, considering that critter form is the one that
changes you into a 'stupid' animal, that isn't aware of its previous
existence as a person...

>
> What are the effects of a increase mental attribute spell?
> For instance, can they aid in Decking? What happens to a
> troll when their charisma is raised, are they suddenly more
> likable?

I'd suppose that increased willpower would help you resist black ice, but
not affect the TN of the ice to hit (similar to spell defense).

On the quickened/anchored spell...

I think you can trace them, but the quickened spell can definitely be hidden
with an astral quest, so only an initiate can follow it, and they don't
know the rating of the quest, so they would probably not do it.

You might be able to hide the anchored spell, but you might not be able
to trace it until it becomes active, which makes it moot.

?
Message no. 4
From: Bryan Jones <bdj@***.net>
Subject: RE: Spell Usage
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 15:06:05 -0500
>I thought wolves/dogs can see colors in a limited sense. Any wildlife
>types out there on this one?
Nope they only see in black and white.
Message no. 5
From: Luc <rjwate01@*****.louisville.edu>
Subject: Re: Spell Usage
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 16:26:52 -0500 (EDT)
> > How do people play the non-combat abilities related to the
> > critter form spell? For example, If you change...
> > yourself into a wolf, do you gain low light vision and lose the
> > ability to perceive color?
>
> I thought wolves/dogs can see colors in a limited sense. Any wildlife
> types out there on this one?

>From what I remember dogs dont see color and have very poor
eyesight...nearsighted equivalent as I recall.

> I'd give the other powers, considering that critter form is the one that
> changes you into a 'stupid' animal, that isn't aware of its previous
> existence as a person...

I would think you gain all the perceptions and physical defenses of the animal
even if it is the spell that allows you to retain you past memories...since it
is a physical change to that animal while only retaining the cognitive
abilities of your "human" form.

--
Luc AKA BobW

EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME! EXCUSE ME!
BUT THE CORPSE STILL HAS THE FLOOR!
--Kevin Spacey as Lloyd in The Ref (1994)

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