| From: | Faux Pas <fauxpas@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Re[4]: [SR2]: Fat-bac -Reply |
| Date: | Thu, 5 Sep 1996 10:37:23 -0500 |
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>Ok, Guys, you've done it. In but a few 100's mails of discussion about
FAT-bac's
>you have turned me from a fat bac user to a fat bac hater, I now see just how
>really really stupid the whole idea is.
That's because everyone involved in the discussion has been mis-reading the
rules. The rule that says that no astral being cannot influence anything on
the physical plane doesn't exist. The rule is an astral being cannot
directly influence anything on the physical plane. Directly influence.
The rule everyone should be paying attention to is the rule about
non-magical living things having corporeal auras in the astral plane. As
the auras are corporeal, they cannot exist together. That blows this
"forced integration" of the net passing through the astral mage some people
were talking about.
What happens when the FAB net covers a mage is the mage's aura influences
the FAB's aura in the astral plane. The effect of this in the physical
plane is that the net appears to wrap around a gap of air. When the physad
attacks the mage with a FAB club, the club's aura hits the mage's aura. The
effect of this in the physical plane is that the club strikes something in
the air. The astral mage is not DIRECTLY influencing the physical plane, he
is INDIRECTLY influencing the physical plane. No rules are being broken.
There is no "forced integration". FAB items won't pass through astral
mages/beings.
>So for my players on the list, rejoice, fat-bac does no longer exist, and
never
>will in any of my games.
>-before you start hopping around in happiness, though: I hope you do realize
>this does mean that I'll divide by 5 the cost of maintaining astral wards,
there
>must be some balance.. [so no fat walls anymore, I guess rating 15 wards will
>have to do. <w>]
Go ahead and rethink this. FAB does work according to the rules in the SR2
black book and in the Grimoire. If anyone can find anything that says
"astral beings cannot influence anything on the physical plane", then FAB
won't work.
Didn't find it, did you?
-Thomas Deeny
the Cartoonist at large is on the web at www2.cy-net.net/~fauxpas
"We were told to turn it down, stuff got broken, and everyone got naked. It
was a successful party."
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