10-07-2017, 03:50 PM | #21 |
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Re: Casting Continual Light On Living Targets
What about someone's hair or fingernail? Either is obviously fair game after being cut off; are they considered part of the owner's (living) body while still attached, despite being unliving matter? What about a snail's shell? The shell of a paper nautilus, which it can exit and reenter? Can I cast on a chopped off arm before all the cells are dead? On tissue kept alive on a petri dish? Should I stop asking questions like this and just avoid casting it on anything being treated as a "character" in game?
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10-07-2017, 09:11 PM | #22 |
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Re: Casting Continual Light On Living Targets
Well probably that one. But one issue that often gets overlooked in these discussions is that magic can apparently behave differently in "identical" situations based simply on intent. So it might well work on some of those targets when you are casting it to provide useful light, and utterly fail on exactly the same targets if you are casting it to inconvenience them in some way.
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10-08-2017, 07:55 PM | #23 |
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Re: Casting Continual Light On Living Targets
Cast it on a wig, which the person then wears.
Or switch to another magic system that doesn't have a hard living/nonliving rule. >.>;
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10-09-2017, 12:04 AM | #24 |
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Re: Casting Continual Light On Living Targets
With or without specific rules, that sounds like stepping on the toes of proper illusionists. I'd be okay for it to fool mooks, but confusing mundane magic light bulbs with celestial nimbi seems unlikely for most NPCs.
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10-09-2017, 12:13 AM | #25 |
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Re: Casting Continual Light On Living Targets
You can always just replace it with R-Will. Since objects don't have Will, they don't resist.
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10-09-2017, 01:42 AM | #26 |
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Re: Casting Continual Light On Living Targets
A living animal's hair and nails would count as part of a being/creature/subject to me ... remember, fantasy settings don't work like ours do, and spells use the GURPS definition of words not the definition in an academic discipline.
And if someone's clothes catch on fire, they have options (stop, drop, and roll; pour water on it; strip off the affected garment; ...) which are different than if a blowtorch flame suddenly appeared inside their body.
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10-09-2017, 04:52 AM | #27 |
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