From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject:	Stripping Spell Locks (was Re: Magicians)
Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 1996 07:00:22 -0700

Steve Collins wrote:
|
|I find this to be a problem in my games. If all the PC mages are going to be
|doing this then it is necessary for all the NPC mages have to do this or else
|they're toast. This makes it too easy for the PC's to accumulate huge sums of
|cash by stripping the spell locks off their fallen victims and selling them.

Question: if you kill a mage with an active spell lock, how
do you strip the spell lock off of him? I don't think you
can, because when the lock is active it isn't present in
the real world, and only the mage it was bonded to can turn
it off.

One could argue that the bond is broken when the mage dies,
but if the bond is broken when the mage is killed, does the
lock materialize in the real world, or does it go floating
off into astral space?

-David

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