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From: showard@udenva.UUCP (showard)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Re: Illusionists
Message-ID: <983@udenva.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Dec-85 18:10:56 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  2 18:10:56 1985
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References: <334@snow.warwick.UUCP> <675@k.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: showard@udenva.UUCP (Mr. Blore)
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Keywords: falling, bridges, London, down

In article <675@k.cs.cmu.edu> tim@k.cs.cmu.edu (Tim Maroney) writes:
>By the way, it is impossible to create a sensation of falling using the AD&D
>iluusions, or any other kind which says "you can create an illusion that
>affects sense X and Y".  The reason is that falling is an impression
>produced by the sense of balance, a function of the inner ear, and it isn't
>listed in any of the sensory illusion spells that I know of.

   You can create the illusion of falling with the Phantasmagoria spell, which
was in Dragon several months back and now appears (I assume) in Unearthed Arc-
ana.  Also from the new spells, we get an answer about illusionary bridges.  In
the description of the 7th level spell Mirage Arcane, it says that a bridge 
could be part of the illusion but it could not be walked upon.  Using the prin-
ciple that a low-level spell cannot be more powerful than a high-level spell, 
this argues that, short of Alter Reality, there is no way to walk across an ill-
usory bridge in AD&D.

--Mr. Blore, the DJ who would not die
--aka Steve Howard, ...udenva!showard
--"Just because something's impossible doesn't mean you can't do it"

  "Well, actually it does.  Never mind"