| From: | dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer) |
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| Subject: | Re: FASA's answer to the FAB Question |
| Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:12:34 -0600 (MDT) |
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|FASA Mike speaks! (prompting yet another debate? God, I hope not.)
No debate. I just want to get a head start on the trouble
my players will cause in my game.
|FASA Mike wrote:
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|>Thomas -
|>
|>You have actively hurt my head...
Good. Misery loves company :)
|>>What happens when a motionless astral being standing on the Earth has a
|>>non-magical living physical object (with an aura) placed on top of him?
|>
|>First off, What exactly do you mean by "aura" - like a plant or a magical
|>ashtray. Secondly, the stronger astral enetity will push the weaker out of
|>the way. An astral mage, can move "living plants" out of the way. Much like
|>the physical world no two items can share the same place so in the astral the
|>larger, bigger, or more powerful will displace a smaller one.
Well, that pretty much changes everything. On the one hand
I'm kinda bummed because I wasn't "right". On the other
hand neither was anyone else.
I've allready thought of a few question my players are
going to raise.
1. Can astral beings (ABs) now pick up physical living
beings (PLBs) and move them around?
I'm thinking of ruling that auras are slippery. You can
push someone around, but actually picking them up is a pain
in the ass.
2. Does the aura of a PLB have the same mass as it's physical
form? I.e., a tree has a lot of physical mass. Will it
have a comparativly large aura that a AB can't move, or
does it have a small aura due to lack of willpower in which
case a AB can easily move it?
Just to keep mages from knocking down trees I'm going to
say that physical mass/resistance equals astral
mass/resistance for purposes of moving something.
3. Can ABs wield physical magic swords?
This sounds fun, so I say yes.
4. Got any more?
|>>Is FAB astrally active?
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|>Yes
|>
|>>Is FAB dual-natured?
|>
|>Yes
|>
|>>Is FAB mundane?
|>
|>No
Yeouch! If a corp ever uses FAB on a decently initiated
mage they are in in for it. <in the voice of Otto from
The Simpsons> "Whoa dude. Check it out. Ares is putting
on one narly fireworks show."
And, this makes the idea of linking FAB to the Horrors even
more plausible.
|>Boy I hope all these help...even more, I hope they make sense.
Yeah, they make sense.
-David
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