Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Elves, Magic & Teleportation Message-ID: <466@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Mon, 10-Jun-85 18:31:55 EDT Article-I.D.: ttidcc.466 Posted: Mon Jun 10 18:31:55 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Jun-85 01:44:48 EDT References: <1028@dual.UUCP> <229@azure.UUCP> Reply-To: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (The Polymath) Distribution: net Organization: The Cat Factory Lines: 35 Summary: In article <229@azure.UUCP> chrisa@azure.UUCP (Chris Andersen) writes: >> >> 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?? > > This sounds very similar to past discussions I have heard concerning >the transporters on the Enterprise. I would guess that any solutions in that >case would also be applicable to teleportation. Larry Niven addressed most of these problems in his stories and dissertations on transporter booths. His solution to the intrinsic kinetic energy problem was to electronically divert it elsewhere (into an energy sink) -- not useful in a magical system. He solved the problem of the air by having the contents of the transporter booth go with you (and be exchanged for the contents of the booth at the other end). The DM I play with has the simplest answer to all these questions: "It's magic, dammit!" -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI "How goes the rat race?" 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. "The rats are winning." Santa Monica, CA 90405 -- Paul Lynde (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {philabs,randvax,trwrb,vortex}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe