| From: | Tobias Diekershoff Tobias.D@********.de |
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| Subject: | Watcher spirits? |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:35:49 +0100 |
> But I think the question now is: Are mages actually allowed to choose the
> form of their watchers. I say sorta. I make mages, the first time they
> summon a watcher, decide what style or image they'd like for their watchers
> (something that matches the character), and then after that, all of their
> watchers follow that same theme.
As the mage always summon the same shaped Watcher (a little 30 cm
hight man), it is nearly the way you do it, but if he don't say, that
he summon the "man-watcher" then it'll appear as a tennisball.
> This prevents things like we saw over at DeepRes awhile back where players
> were going on about have a watcher manifest in the form of a door or
> something else equally useful. Or else, have them manifest making particular
> noise--as if watchers are some type of high-quality audio-reproduction
> system. They seemed to be under the impression that having a watcher
> manifest was equivalent to a free illusion spell.
>
> So anyway--basically, I like to let them give watchers a little flair, but
> it's always still a watcher, and no one's ever going to mistake it for a
> hellhound or somesuch.
>
That's right and I wouldn't allow it if they try :)
Tobias
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