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From: hakanson@orstcs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: creative uses for spells... - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 7-Jan-84 03:34:14 EST
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orstcs!hakanson    Jan  6 11:34:00 1984

Just off hand, I can recall a cleric who was excommunicated for using an
edged weapon when, because all his weapons had been lost or destroyed,
used his shield on a fallen foe -- through a critical hit, he cut off
the foe's head with the edge of the shield.  (All this in a slightly
modified AD&D world, of course.)

As for spells, how about putting the Druid spell "Hallucinatory Forest"
on the edge of a cliff, continuing on out over the air?  Watch your
Ste...!  Well, you get the idea.  And of course, it's also nasty to
teleport objects inside of other objects (creatures).  The resulting
explosion typically levels a city block, I'm told.  "Water Breathing"
placed on a creature nowhere near water is also known to be fatal.
However, perhaps the most memorable (that occurs to me now) was when
a fellow took a sip of his Polymorph Self potion in order to convince
his captor that it was harmless (he told him it would make him smarter,
or something obscure).  After the captor drank it, our hero told him
"Think of a little bird," and poof! a little bird stood where the captor
had been.  Before he could react and figure out what had happened, our
hero, who was ready to pounce, grabbed the bird and stuffed him in the
drawer of a nearby desk.  I sure felt sorry for the bad guy when that
potion wore off!  Well, I think someone else let him out later, but the
prisoner escaped, anyway.

Marion Hakanson			CSnet:  hakanson@oregon-state
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