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From: Neal A Porter <nap@*****.PHYSICS.SWIN.OZ.AU>
Subject: Re: MAGIC
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 12:26:53 +1000
>
>Well this moslty pointless discussion on Quickenings (Its been done to death a
>few time - I should possibly repost my thing from fall 93 on it)
>go me thinking about sustained spells.
>
>I began to wonder about sustained spells, especially things like critter form
>and shapechange. If you notice that while changed - you can engage in combat,
>but you get a +2 TN because of spell sustaining. I believe I have an Idea to
>rectify this and I want in put to help brainstorm ideas
>(remember in brainstorming - there are no "bad" ideas and you DON"T
critisize)
>
>Name
>Weaving, knotting, circuiting, (like weaving the best)
>
>the basic idea is that through the use of this skill/ability/ whatever
>a magician will be able to have his/her sustained spell stay around for a short
>amount of time after connecentration is broken
>
>First of all - should it be a metamagic thing or not

Deleated the good ideas.

> Daniel Waisley

How about just redesigning the spell to allow this 'lag' time after
concentration has been dropped.

Public service anouncment from the mage who regularly changes into an
ashtray to avoid attention, spell is a variant of the shapechange.


A'Deus.

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