Andrew Janssen wrote:
> --- Jefferson wrote:
>>Andrew Janssen wrote:
>>>Jefferson wrote:
>>>
>>>>Pastsense:
>>
>>Are you saying that magic can't be used to store information?
>
> Not necessarily, but as far as I know, this hasn't been addressed. If a
> particularly violent, magical, or memorable event occured in a
> location, it might leave some sort of imprint that could be accessible,
> but my gut feeling is that you would not be able to, say, go to a
> battlefield and hit a metaphysical "rewind" button and see everything
> that happened, nor could you pick up a sword and use Pastsense to
> determine who last wielded it, unless the last person to wield the
> sword used it to, say, kill a dragon or tyrant or something similar.
Ah. OK. What about using Pastsense to see how a fortress was overrun? Not,
"x opened the gate," but "someone opened the gate." What about, "This magical
device is used to summon locusts?" or "This device requires these things to
operate?"
>>>>Dreamshare:
>
> This is still problematic. Even with the revision from "mind" to
> "body", the rohain would still be interfering with the soul's link to
> its body, and the use of this power on unconsenting sentient targets
> would still draw down divine wrath(possibly with extreme prejudice) on
> the rohain who makes the attempt. While it might be possible to use
> this power on animals and get away with your life, anyone using this
> power would quickly draw the (negative) attention of the gods.
That's OK. So long as it's possible to use under some circumstances.
Jefferson (Exquaestio)
http://www.picotech.net/~jeff_wilson63/rpg/
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