| From: | Airwasp <Airwasp@***.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: MY Take (Binder's Look on Enchanting) |
| Date: | Fri, 15 May 1998 12:51:02 EDT |
evamarie@**********.net writes:
> Which makes them a good value holding investment for a mundane, maybe,
> but still about as useful to him as a 2 handled spoon.
> If its "loot", and I'm mundane, I'd still rather sell it before
some
> mage "buddy" of mine gets real attached to it, and decides it's more his
> than mine.
Hey, enchantments can be used by mundanes, and here is the only example I can
remember ...
Hanna Uljanken (?!?) from Burning Bright had a Spell Locked (?) Increase
Attribute (Charisma) spell on herself.
So, the books do contradict themselves when saying a mundane can't use magic
items.
I also believe that a mundane could benefit from a Conjuring Foci, in that the
dice they would gain could be used to defend themselves against any and all
spirit attacks on them.
An enhanced Mindlink Spell (Grouplink), that is capable of being used by more
than one individual to communicate with each other is also possible. We have
used this sort of thing for years in the gaming group for the last, oh, 4+
years that I readily know of.
You could throw some form of magical encryption into the spell during the
design stage making it harder for someone to be able to understand the
information that is being transmitted via the Grouplink spell.
Just a few more things.
Then there is the crazy idea one of the guys in the game group has come up
with.
Using the Tool Laser cybereye option, though breadboarding it (getting the
kind used in laser welders and other industrial tools), he is going to be
making a Lightsaber (almost).
To do this he is going to have to redesign several things. First, the
"length" of the beam is going to be variable, having a 10 stage choke, with
the standard length of the blade being 1m.
He is going to be using a Body 0 drone for the purpose of power storage and
economy (these things do need energy to use). Though it is not going to be a
drone though.
He is going to be upping the damage code of the blade up from 4L to something
higher (right now he and I are guessing no higher than 8 or 9M).
And as for the power pack for the thing, here is where the magic comes into
play. The power pack of the saber is going to be removable from the saber,
coming out somewhat like a normal flashlight. He then slots the power pack
into a small case on his belt (or backpack, or wherever - and no, not where
the light never shines, because in this case, it does).
The Power Packs have the Suncell option attached to them.
The recharge unit has in itself, an anchoring which activates when the charge
level of the battery is not high enough, via something clicking physically on
the recharge unit. The spell activated (an enchantment) is a Light spell with
Elemental Light thrown in for fun. And this this would recharge the power
packs for the Lightsaber.
And this is something a mundane can use to boot.
The player in question is also wanting to start up an organization to help
protect the soon to be founded Ork Nation on Yomi. He is going to call it,
yeah this is corny, the Rangers.
More on this in another post.
Mike
