From:	Ereskanti <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Question about Barriers
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 12:35:26 EDT

In a message dated 5/25/98 2:35:55 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
nesius@******.COM writes:

> This time the topic is regarding the Physical Barrier spell. Is it
> possible to cast a physical barrier in the "wall form factor," and then
> move that barrier around? I think what the player has in mind is
> dropping down an elevator shaft, and throwing a phsyical barrier
> up against the wall where the doors are and sliding his barrier
> down the wall as he decends in case the doors pop open and people with
> assault rifles are standing there.

This sounds like a Patrick, but I'm probably wrong... :)

> The description for the spell in the BBB describes the spell manifesting
> as either a "dome" or as a "flat wall." A "personal
physical barrier"
> obviously moves around it's caster (right?) - but what about the big full
> blown version?

This is where the confusion between two game systems come up. IIRC, the
actual, factual "Full Blown Version" (aka, non-personal) doesn't move around
at all. Once it is cast, it is cast, and that's it. No mobilities. Now is
that how I have played it in the past? No, but I do believe that is what is
actually is.

For some reason I remember this "Barrier" Conversation coming up before.

> What is the correct interpretation of this?

The -correct- interpretation is whatever works the best to help the game move
along. In that method, even the BBB is wrong fairly consistently.

-K