From:	Robert Watkins <bob@**.NTU.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Questions
Date:	Wed, 5 Apr 1995 19:32:35 +0930

P Ward wrote:
>
> Robert Watkins said :-
> > Hit a projecting mage, and they die. Pure and simple. Inject sedatives, and
> > the needle will kill them. Use patches, or gas, and it might knock them
> > unconcious. Any drug which has deleterious (that's BAD) effects will
> > probably kill them.
>
> Hey, since when did that happen, that house rule or official?
>
Official. Check out the Astral Projection rules. It states (paraphrasing,
as I don't have it with me): "The slightest injury to the mage's body while
Astrally Projecting can result in death".

One DM I knew extended this to include bumps taken in traffic.

> If that is indeed the case, then I've been missing a new way to scare off
> those annoying astral scouts, who make partially prepared targets such a
> nightmare.

> D'ya have any semi "real-world" explanation for that, or is it just in the
> grimmy?

Main book, in the Astral Projection section. Real world explanation: it's
based on myths, I think, about the body being vulnerable when the soul is
absent.

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