| From: | Sheldon Rose <scrose@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Stage Magic in SR |
| Date: | Thu, 14 May 1998 16:43:46 -0500 |
>
> Lehlan Decker said on 10:28/14 May 98...
>
> > > A pincushion impersonator?
> > >
> > ROTFLOL :)
>
> Glad somebody liked it :)
>
> > Or one of the magician's assistants for the swords in the basket trick. :)
> > I seem to be very OT today. Not good.
> > Hmm...wait I can bring this back to shadowrun.....I wonder if present day
> > style illusionist and magicians would still be around, or would they have
> > been totally replaced by the "real" thing.
>
> One of my players wanted his character to be able to do "magic" tricks, so
> we gave him a Special Skill that allowed him to do that. For generic magic
> tricks we rolled an open test just as for musicians (see Shadowbeat),
> while for specific things like making something disappear or appear
> from/in his hand, I let the player roll against a TN based on how
> difficult I (with my absolute 0 knowledge of how such tricks are done)
> thought it would be.
Stage magic and slight of hand are not going to disappear IMO...
I do think it will be more along the likes of complex card tricks and
like which do require a great deal of time to learn to do well. "Non
Magical" illusions are still going to be popular in night clubs and on
the streets. If anything they will become more popular someone who wants
to be a mage but just don't have the stuff would be attracted to this...
A few tech toys and little sight of hand and they can at least entertain
and some folks might even think they have real magic...
