> Also, I think invocation of appropriate magic would be normal
> practice in many situations, although of course people will keep a
> shart eye out for non-normal magic. That is to say, when you are
> browsing the market and check out a booth, the merchant may not
have
> magic up. But when things begin to get serious he'll take the time
> to invoke Issairies, calling upon him very openly, and you would
have
> an opportunity to something similar.
So I'm at the store and the merchant does his Convince Buyer feat on me, say at 10W and all I've got to resist with is my puny default 14 resistance? Once I've left that store I'm not going back there again.
I can see augments as being par for the course but I still don't think using the full blown magical abilities would be looked on that fondly. The difference is that you're being forced to do something rather than convinced to do it. If I'm outsmarted by a savvy salesman that's one thing, I'll be annoyed and mad but I won't be tempted to revenge. Now if I'm another merchant let the magic fly by all means. Just don't pick on the marks too.
Of course if this kind of magic is pretty undetectable then there's no reason why they couldn't do it. Other than say the fact that magical effects wear off. 10 minutes later I'm left wondering why I bought the damned thing and how do I get my money back. Not a problem with using augmented mundane abilities where I just curse myself for my stupidity.
It'd be kind of sad if traders, etc. felt tempted to use their big guns every time they tried to sell something. There's probably plenty of "moral guidelines" as to when and where you use magic. Just because you have doesn't mean you have to use it all the time.
Oliver
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