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From: yba@mit-athena.ARPA (Mark H Levine)
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Subject: Re: Dealing with Illusions
Message-ID: <201@mit-athena.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 9-Jul-84 20:29:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  9 20:29:08 1984
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With respect to disbelieving phantasmal forces:

I play a simple system.  You the player decide whether you do or do not
believe what you see for whatever reason.  The act of disbelieving however
is one of steadfastly holding your ground and concentrating your senses--
it is nothing like dropping to the ground or dodging aside from a real
threat.  Because of this, if you announce that you disbelieve, you may
NOT have any save at all against a REAL thing (be it spell or monster or
whatever).  You better be sure it is an illusion.  If you disbelieve
the appearance of a creature, it gets full surprise against you.

This tends to keep players honest.  They get hit with real stuff much more
often than the occasional illusionist.

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