Re: (TFT) Are TFT Magic Items Too Complicated?

["Dan Tulloh" <dwtulloh@zianet.com>]

> > It shouldn't allow the drinker
> > to create a gargoyle,
> > summon a wolf or make a floor slippery though.
> 
> Here I must disagree.  I can see where you may have
> the thought that potions affect the user, and
> therefore the alchemist can only produce such effects.
>  But a slippery floor seems a reasonable effect from
> the alchemist's art.

but not from drinking it ... pouring it on the floor, maybe.

>  And while Gems exist for Gargoyles and Wolves, it 
> seems to me alchemical preparations might be made 
> to create images or illusions of whatever the alchemist 
> intended, and of course concocted for.

I couldnt disagree more.  How would such an alchemical
preparation work?  The drinker might be able to SEE an
illusion (ala LSD), but shouldn't be able to conjure one.

Dan
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