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From: dave@garfield.UUCP (David Janes)
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Subject: Re: Elves, Magic & Teleportation
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Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 09:29:05 EDT
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In article <1028@dual.UUCP> brad@dual.UUCP (Brad Harrington) writes:
|       Why do you always hear about magical artifacts and such being 
|     made by elves?  The AD&D Players Handbook says that the maximum
|     level for an elven magic user is 11, well at 11th level you can 
|     cast spells up to 5th level... "Enchant An Item" is a 6th level 
|     spell..  

	I think Gygax's reasoning on this subject is that Player 
Characters are limited to these levels, but some super-exceptional NPC's 
have been granted the ability by the ghods to progress to unlimited levels.
I believe there are a few dwarvish magic items to which present similar
problems. (actually, E.G.G.'s reasoning was probably "'cause I said so" :-)

|        Also,  If you are falling at a velocity of say 15m/sec and you 
|     teleport back to your castle are you going to be mashed into the 
|     floor??  If so & if you teleported so you "landed" up-side-down 
|     would you go flying up into the air??  If you were visiting a 
|     planet that was revolving faster then good old Greyhawlk and 
|     then teleported back would you go skipping along the ground at 
|     a few hundred km/hr?? What happens to the air that is displaced 
|     then you teleport in?? Would you make a small thunder-clap when
|     you teleport away?? 

	Read Larry Niven's "The Theory and Practice of Teleportation"
in "All the Myriad of Ways" (I think.) Basically, the same type of 
problem occurs when you teleport to different altitudes, or to the other
side of the earth (it is moving very fast in exactly the opposite 
direction.) When you teleport somewhere, the air in that spot is teleported
back to where you teleported from (neat, hey?)

dave
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