RE: Fw: Invisibility and Making Affinities

From: Dave Bailey <db_at_...>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 14:52:32 +0100


I have to say when I was reffing I tended to extend it to cover anything living or "organic" - leather/hide armour, staff, woad etc was ok, chain, swords & flint wasn't. There was also the sound aspect which players tend to overlook anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hibbs, Philip [SMTP:philip.hibbs_at_...]
> Sent: 15 May 2000 14:45
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> Subject: RE: Fw: Invisibility and Making Affinities
>
> >That's my experience too, however when we implemented the rule
> >that it doesn't cover anything you carry it solved all the problems we
> >were having, kinda limited it to genuine sneeky types.
>
> I can see justifications for ruling that, say, it doesn't affect metal, or
> that
> each Enc point being carried requires 1 extra point of spell, or in HW
> terms,
> add +1 to the resistance per small item carried, with weapons and armour
> adding
> their rank rating. It can be really annoying, though, to take an ability
> like
> "invisibility" in character creation, and then when you come to use it in
> the
> game, it's useless because the referee has crippled it. This could be a
> problem
> in Hero Wars, because all ability interpretations can be vetoed by the
> referee.
> "Sunset Leap? You can only use that at sunset, and it's cloudy, so it
> doesn't
> work."
>
> Philip Hibbs http://www.snark.freeserve.co.uk/
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