>From: "Mike Dawson" <mdawson_at_...>
>Well, I always preferred that sorcery/wizardry, once cast, was invisible.
I know that the rule is that magic is always showy, but it seems to me that there must be exceptions to this. Take, for example, a spell called "Hide in Shadows." That simply wouldn't be of much use if the character had a magic lightshow going on about him while he used this ability. How about an ability like "Lie Convincingly"? If somebody is saying something, and while they do, a lightshow is going off, won't that make the person hearing the lie very suspicious?
So do these things actually have lightshows associated with them, or not, do you think? If they do, how do you explain it not having a reasonable effect? Does the person being lied to forget the light show, or is it part of the magic that they ignore it? Is the lightshow for a person trying to remain hidden only visible to the person using the ability?
How do people work through this issue?
Mike
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