Re: (TFT) Armies and special gear

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

> > From: "David Michael Grouchy II"
> >
> > Castles are practially useless as defensive postions
> > in a world of teleport, gate, and telepathy.
> >
> >     ...
> >
> > My solution
> > is a very minor extension of an existing spell.
> >     The pentagram.
> >
> >     ...
> >
> > The house rule I use, is that no matter what size the
> > pentagram is, it still protects the whole mega hex.

> From: Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>
>
> So you basically divided the cost of permanent pentagrams by 7,
> on a cost/floor-space basis, if they are intended for protection
> only? Makes me a bit nervous.

Mark,
   The spell cost is not divided.  The wizard still casts, and gets, a full 
pentigram spell.  They just don't have to advertise the fact if they only 
want to use it to protect a location.  They can make it very small if they 
wish.  Say a bit of detail carved into a door cil, or stuck into the anchor 
loops of a big chain draw bridge, or even on the face of each tower and wall 
mega hex.  But still at full cost to cast.


> From: Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>
>
> I argued that a keep with pentagrams in the walls,
> floor, and ceiling would be invulnerable - in that the
> contents, though not on the inside of a pentagram, *would*
> be encased in a solid layer of pentagrams and that no magic
> could cross the pentagram barrier - but there are dissenting
> opinions to that.

    That's it exactly.  A magic controled room.  There can be spells inside 
the room.  There can be spells outside.  But none could go into, out of, or 
cross the room.  Though cost of permenant pentigrams and weeks required 
would make it wise to protect the door first, then 'harden' the walls as 
resources permit.


> > From: "David Michael Grouchy II"
> >
> > IQ 17  Substantial Walk(T):

> From: Mark Tapley <mtapley@swri.edu>
>
> Oooh, another neat idea! Can the Wizard pick up more ST
> batteries, or receive Aid spells, while he's taking his
> constitutional?

   Absolutely.  With the right support comunity of aprentices and potions, 
the wizard could live forever as one of the great Lichs of old with his army 
of undead that he personally controls.


> > IQ 17 Flaming Armor(C):  ...
> > ... This spell cost
> > 5 points of fatigue per day it is to last.

> Can the Armor be taken off, or does the subject need fireproof
> bedding that night? How does he/she pee?

    lol.  Umm, the casting wizard can discontiue the spell at any time they 
wish.  The lower legs are not actually flaming so the character can walk 
around without burning the floor.
    If you take any peice of the armor off it stops flamming.  But you can 
lift a chainmail skirt and pee from underneath it.  Without any risk of 
raising steam.

    David Michael Grouchy II


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