Gates, Gate keys, and Gate locks

[Steve Jackson]

Originally Posted by Rick_Smith

I made some suggestions about gates here...

This takes us straight back to Nivenesque perpetual motion by teleportation.

The "free energy" problem is the big one to me and is solved, I think, by requiring the plane of the Gate to be aligned with the vector of local gravity.

I wrote a monster called the Gate Spider which spins webs that make Gates. It will be posted one of these days.

I would like Gates to remain one of those things where the standard wizard texts don't have all the answers. Leaving GMs free to make interesting Gates: cool. Empowering IQ 18 rules lawyers to make interesting Gates that twist time, space, and economics: only funny once.