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Paper is expensive historically, and parchment is even more so. I see the main use for this spell is spending a bit of fatigue ST to make a page clean. A scribe might well make good money reusing old bills of lading and other scrap paper. And the spell might occasionally be useful to get rid of a document quickly. (Parchment is actually fairly tough.) Warm regards, Rick. |
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07-31-2018, 11:41 AM | #12 |
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07-31-2018, 01:19 PM | #13 |
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Assay: IQ 14, 1 St. The castor picks a coin or billet of metal, and touches it, knowing what the ratio is of one metal within. The caster must pick which metal; it will reveal as a ratio of that metal to all other metals in the item.
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In my version of Cidri, they do...
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Good comments!
Designer's intent is that microorganisms exist whether they are understood or not, but the spell was probably the outcome of experiments in "making food better" rather than "encouraging tiny beasties" - it is not intended to cause disease. Certainly if I ever wanted to write Five Downright Evil Spells, PLAGUE would be a good one. I have drafted AMPUTATION but am not happy with it yet. But I digress. I bet if there is not an ASSAY spell out there, the Dwarves are researching it right now. It may be that professional calligraphers need an erasure spell more than anyone! Though . . . Fire is overt and can be hard to control. If you want to eliminate one piece of writing among hundreds, the spell would have its advantages. I am willing to edit the base rules to say that a wizard can use all his summoned creature's senses - if I do that, what blows up in my face? Tentatively: Its other senses are also available, though the wizard will not understand everything that a rat smells or a bat hears! Yes, Pathfinder uses IQ. Edited. |
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Alternately: The Mnoren brought beings from all over creation. The "typical" medieval-tech-level resident of Cidri might not know what a bacterium is, but the Mnoren certainly did, and wizards in their employ might have been educated in arts and sciences from across the multiverse. The spell could have been created by those who had greater knowledge than the poor inheritors casting it now. |
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But that doesn't mean scientific progress can't or doesn't happen. I've assumed that Physickers and Naturalists have advanced the study of biology, possibly even to early or mid 20th century-equivalent levels. So nobody bats an eye when PC's use alcohol to sterilize things, insist on digging a proper latrine away from the source of drinking water, or otherwise act in accordance with our modern understanding of sanitation. Quote:
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Seriously though, images and illusions are creations, just like summoned creatures so I'd be very surprised if it invalidates that use of image/illusion. Last edited by zot; 08-01-2018 at 03:14 AM. Reason: clarification |
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