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From: steven@qubix.UUCP (Steven Maurer)
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Subject: Re: creative uses for spells... - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 9-Jan-84 18:31:36 EST
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    I assume that you mean D & D spells.

    What you are really looking for is holes in the rules systems
    that allow you to do gross things.  This is possible, because
    D&D has never been throughly debugged.   Using these holes is 
    fun, just as long as the monsters don't start doing likewise.


	My "favorite" spell is "feather fall".   This allows you
    to reduce the weight of an opponent to almost nothing, and
    "push" him whereever you want to.   A third level MU once got
    rid of a Xorn, by floating him up 1/2 a mile.....

	"Invisibility" lasts "until the person attacks".   This
    allows an entire party to start off invisible, and continue
    until there is some creature that can see through the spell.
    -- it's also great for familiars.

	"Tensor's Floating Disk" is a cheap form of levitation.
    There is nothing in the discription that implies that the MU
    cannot float himself.

	"Charm Person" can be used to grab whole hoards of Orcs,
    Hobgoblins, and the like (after you have Slept them, of course).
    You can create an entire army of "friends", that will act as
    good cannon-fodder for your characters.

    -- Of course, the grosset, and most stupid, things has nothing
    to do with D&D spells at all.  Just capture a few of the nuke-em
    monsters, and use their abilities to blow dungeons away....

	Box a Basilisk.  Hoards of fun.  Watch characters five times
	your level scream in horror.

	Carve out a Medusa's head.  Somewhat gross, but always good fun.

	Rub various creatures' poisons on your weapons.  Cockatrice
	poison is especially fun.

	Don't kill a dragon, subdue it.   The rules actually make it
	easier to subdue, than kill -- because every time the dragon
	takes subdual points of damage, you must roll again to see if
	if it gives up....

Steven Maurer