From:	Craig J Wilhelm Jr <craigjwjr@******.ORG>
Subject:	Re: MY Take (Binder's Look on Enchanting)
Date:	Fri, 15 May 1998 20:04:32 -0400

Airwasp wrote:
> Hey, enchantments can be used by mundanes, and here is the only example I can
> remember ...

The only magic item type thing a mundane can *use* is an anchored spell
in an object. But even then that requires a willpower test (4).

> Hanna Uljanken (?!?) from Burning Bright had a Spell Locked (?) Increase
> Attribute (Charisma) spell on herself.

She aint *useing* it, some mage spent a point of karma to lock it onto
her. She can't turn it on and off like a magician can and she makes a
nice fat juicy target for a power ball from astral space.

> So, the books do contradict themselves when saying a mundane can't use magic
> items.

No they don't, seems pretty clear to me...

> 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.

Where are you getting this from? Mundanes can't bond stuff.

> 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.

Yeah so? A mundane can wear clothes changed by the Fashion spell too...

> 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.

First of all, how would someone tap into it? Only way I can think of is
to use a mind probe. And even then you'd have to make up a new spell to
*encrypt* their memory (which actually a pretty darn cool idea!).

> 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.

First thing he's gonna have to redesign is physics... The best way that
I have been able to come up with for a feasable Light Sabre is
magneticly bottled plasma. Basicly like a fusion reactors plasma is
contained in a "magnetic bottle", which is simply interlocking magnetic
fields, but that doesn't stop the heat from escaping the bottle and
frying the wielder, which is where magic could come in.

[snip sunell thing]
> And this this would recharge the power
> packs for the Lightsaber.

Not very quickly I would imagine. You have any idea what kind of
amperage you need to power a decent cutting laser?


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