Re: (TFT) Magical Tattoos for TFT

[ErolB1@aol.com]

In a message dated 2/9/2007 12:36:28 PM Central Standard Time, 
craigwbar@comcast.net writes:


> What is the rationale again for not allowing others to skin the character
> after death, cut off the tattooed arm or the like, then claim the magic is 
> in
> the ink?   I think that rationale needs to be strong, or we need to live 
> with
> some gruesome "Waterworld" scenarios!   Sorry if I'm not paying attention
> here.

The tattoo's magic only works for the tattooed person. If you killed a 
tattooed person, and then cut off his arm or skinned him, then the magic might still 
work for the arm or skin, but would not do anything for *you.*

> 
> Here's another one: a magical scroll may burst into flames when read...  So
> guild wizards tattoo magical scrolls onto  ENEMIES, say on their forehead.
> After that, if another wizard ever has a problem with the victim again, he
> knows the guy has been trouble to wizards at least once before and he just
> reads the words.  The spell itself could do additional damage to the victim 
> in
> addition to the scroll flames.

Scrolls will only work if written on a highly flammible writing surface. A 
living enemy's body is not such a surface. A scroll written on a living body 
would simply not work. Just like scroll engraved on a steel plate or carved into 
a stone tablet would not work. (No, the metal or stone would *not* burst into 
flame, or melt from intense heat or any such thing. Not in my campaign. It 
would simply be a wasted effort. Nothing would happen if a wizard tried to read 
such a "scroll.") 

Erol K. Bayburt
Evil Genius for a Better Tomorrow
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