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From: 9234dwz@houxf.UUCP (An Illegally Tossed Dwarf)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Illusionists
Message-ID: <1049@houxf.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 09:10:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 09:10:38 1985
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-->I always play that an illusionary fireball could cause fireball type
-->damage to a player character who believed that it was real --           

   No question here.

-->                                                           -- but their
-->scrolls and maps (you do remember to check to see if your party's map
-->just got cindered after fireballs, don't you?) would show no damage.

  Here is where I have a couple of questions.
       1) Wouldn't the PC expect that maps & scrolls had been at least
          damaged, if not destroyed and not seek to check them until
          the melee was over. Imagine trying to use a scroll with some
          important detail missing. 
        2) What are you doing checking a map in the middle of melee ?
           If recourse to a map is needed in a retreat, first I'd put
           some distance between myself and the current conflict.
        3) After a skirmish, yes I would check scrolls (& maybe maps)
           then one might deduce that tha fireball had been illusuory(sp)
           and react accordingly in the near future.
        4) If I was your DM and you believed that you'd been fireballed
           and you went to check your pack for damage(you're anticipating
           the probability of damage and you BELIEVE that there MAY have
                                             ^^^^^^^            ^^^
           been damage I would roll some percentage to determine, if upon
           examining perishable items, you BELIEVED that they had been
           damaged (HELL, you still believe that you're down 16 hit points
           don't you ? So the effect of the illusion is residual).
    
-->That was often the only way that the characters in my dungeons ever
-->knew that they had been ``illusioned''.

   I agree but it should only a chance to find out.

-->
-->Laura Creighton		@ sun!l5!laura		
-->

    Dave Peak
    @  ihnp4!hotel!dxp

"All the net's a stage and all the men and women merely ham actors !"
- Rev Peak (apologies to Bill S.)