| From: | "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl> |
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| Subject: | Re: Cyberjunkies |
| Date: | Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:01:32 +0100 |
> Wellllll... not sure here </divert flame on> but afaik Invisibility and
> all its cousins bend light around the subject to make it appear
> invisible. The subject and the targets depend on the spell, but all the
> spells have this in common: they bend light. Thus they work against IR &
> laser sights, but since Ultrasound is NOT light <grin> I wouldn't rule
> that any invisibility spell would work against it. Of course, you could
> use a Silence spell (or similar) to great effect there...
We've struck yet another often-explored-but-never-conquered area of the
rules, I think :) At least, I seem to remember this one from the time I'd
only just joined the list...
Anyway, if Invisibility bends light, how does the person under its effect
see anything? So I think one solution was to say that non-improved Invis.
simply made living beings ignore your presence -- but then Awakenings came
out and that one was shot down too (see the Disregard spell on page 137).
The best way I've found of dealing with the spell is just saying that it
makes you invisible, as the name implies, except to IR vision, as the
description says. But I do agree about the ultrasound thing -- it's not
light, so Invis wouldn't help against it. Silence would be quite effective
in creating a "black zone" where ultrasound is useless (though it would
give you away because the thing can't see *anything* there. Come to think
of it, you should be able to use it as a "smokescreen" against an
ultrasound sight, because it wouldn't be able to see behind the Silence
spell's area of effect either).
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