Re: Magical senses Vs Illusions

From: wulfcorbett <wulfc_at_...>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 12:39:59 -0000

> I had a tricky problem come up last night. One of the
> adventurers was usign 'Sense Runic Powers' to watch another
> magician use a Truth affinity to find out who committed a
> murder. Meanwhile another character was using powerfull
> Illusion magic to decieve the magician casting the Truth
> magic.
>
> What does our 'Sense Runic Powers' guy sense? If the Illusionist
> get's a realy good result, should our SRP guy even know that
> Illusion magic was in play?

euuugh... must have been fun to run that one :-)

It all boils down to who got the best level of success, plus exactly what the illusionist was trying to create. If the illusion was intended to hide the Truth, and worked, then the Truth magician doesn't get the Truth. The Rune detector, then, would sense the Illusion Rune. If the illusionist knows the Rune detector is around, he might concoct some illusion that hides both the truth AND his own Illusion...

Then of course, there's the accused, who might get one beautiful roll on his Lie roll...

Wulf