From:	Jeffrey Riordan <JRIORDAN@***.gov>
Subject:	Anchoring -Reply
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 1996 09:39:35 -0400

>> Mark Steedman <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
09/16/96 09:30am >>>
Robert Watkins writes
> > Not quite... yeah, you can anchor an Instant
duration spell... but it's a > once-off. As soon as it's
triggered, the spell energy dissapates, and all >
you'd have left is a detect person anchor.
However you only need recast the spell to set it up
again, the karma cost is once off.

> And in the case of something > like Flame Bomb,
odds are the anchoring item is destroyed as well.
What a > waste of Karma.
> Very much so. Anchoring is only balanced because
all the really nasty tricks it can do cost so much
karma its unreal. There are some uses however.

Mark
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Actually the most creative way I've used anchoring
is by placing Flame shield in an amulet with the
trigger of a mental command by the wearer. Gave it to
a physical adept and that's how he would go into
combat one on one with folks. The radius was set at 4
meters (it was a force 8 spell) and all the spell dice
were with held. There was the additional link of
sustaining it for a total of 4 minutes.
Made a neat device that allowed the PA to close with
an opponent, turn it on (willpower test TN4), then fight
HTH with them while block line of sight spells and
adding the +8 blindfire mod for gunshot. Also tended
to keep the opponent's friends out for a while too.
The PA could turn it on and off as long as the total
time on (cumulative that is) was less than 4 minutes.
All he has to do now is go back to the mage and have
it recast. The PA is an Aztalan Bodyguard who
believes in single combat and found his opponents
often didn't.