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From: "Richard C. Osterhout" <rcoster@*****.NET>
Subject: Re: US "eyes" and mages...
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1993 05:59:20 -0400
On Tue, 10 Aug 1993, Stephen Wilcoxon wrote:

> An interesting thought just occurred to me. According to the rules, a mage
> can target a spell by using any enhanced vision from cybereyes. If you
what???? no, only if its optical...ie: if a mage wants the Magnification
X3 option, it must be the optical one, not the electronic....


> allow this to extend to US then it makes some spells effectively useless
> (improved invis. and probably a few more). What's everyone else think on
> this (I'm withholding an opinion for now)?
>
well, first off, invisibility spells only work against visible light, not
heat (thermo) or sound (ultrasound)...this is EXACTLY why the discussion
of the ultrasound came up, because the characters in my party wanted to
use ultrasound to hunt down inviso mages...


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