From:	Devotely Apathetic Apathy@******.com
Subject:	It was bound to happen... (SR3 Spell creation)
Date:	Sun, 19 Sep 1999 16:25:08 -0400

abortion_engine wrote:
>
> Out of curiousity, why does the sword need to be spell-based in nature? Why
> couldn't it just be a normal sword, or perhaps a weapon focus? Is the player
> really set on the appearance, or the effect, or is he just set on having it
> be a spell?
>
> I mean, a light-saber isn't a Jedi ability; it's a device. Be true to the
> genre, and all that.

I may be a device but it is a device with such a highly
mystical nature
that it fits best as a spell. As far as making it a weapon
focus what
weapon would it be based off of? How many weapons that are
renowned for
cutting through most anything do you know? Monowire is
(Well, was haven't
finished reading enchanting in MiTS yet) damn near
impossible to enchant and
doesn't fit the visual concept (Yea, you could use the
monosword but that
always struck me as silly) at all.

Frankly I'd rather have something that looks, smells,
sounds, yadda yadda
exactly like the sabre from the movie (Because the CHARACTER
is basing his
magic off the movies as well as the player) then something
that's close.
If it takes a spell to do it, well that's obviously why only
Jedi use them
and it's the completion of a Jedi's training to be able to
make one on there
own.