From vesper at libra.seed.net.tw Mon May 22 16:35:02 2000 From: vesper at libra.seed.net.tw (Jeremy Martin) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:35:02 +0800 Subject: [RQ-Rules] how many bound POW spirits? References: Message-ID: <3928D516.CE458A10@libra.seed.net.tw> St?phane FRANCOIS wrote: > > Actually this leads me to ask a question. There have > > been > > published examples of a patch of tattooed skin with > > a spell > > matrix on it being usable by others. My question is: > > will a > > Binding Enchantment that is a tatoo/scar pattern > > keep bound > > a spirit when the person having the pattern in their > > skin > > dies or is the spirit automatically released? > > If the spirit matrix itself (enchanted tatoo/scar) is not damaged by death, > then the entity in it should stay trapped until something frees it, either > natural decay, intentional destruction or deliberate release after a > control, to put it into your own storage. > This would be my answer too. Why would a tattoo on skin be any different from an enchantment on a ring? I kind of like the idea of having to beat a bound spirit in spirit combat before you could use it too... Of course, this would lead to people damaging fallen comrades so they don't see their friends' skin being used in the future... And the sorcerer with all the wraiths mentioned earlier? Could you imagine the havoc if he was killed by a Sunspear or similar spell? I would count that as destroying most of the tattooes, which would mean a whole swarm of wraiths... Jeremy From vesper at libra.seed.net.tw Mon May 22 16:54:51 2000 From: vesper at libra.seed.net.tw (Jeremy Martin) Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:54:51 +0800 Subject: [RQ-Rules] how many bound POW spirits? References: Message-ID: <3928D9BB.9FCE6F05@libra.seed.net.tw> > > It is never too late. We also use a rule that if a > > bound spirit is ever reduced to 0mp it is released. > > It doesn't seem like much but you would be suprised > > how often that happens. > > If the spirit is outside of his matrix at the time maybe, but if it's still > inside (like a POW spirit "emptied") ? I'd say yes, it's gone. A spirit isn't much more than it's MPs - take them all and what's left? > > > Besides, have you tried puting these character against > > someone who has a magic spirit with a Control Pow > > Spirit spell? Nothing scares characters more than > > when they start lossing their spirits in the midle of > > combat :::))) > > If the holding matrix has a condition for use, does this condition has an > effect on "external" attemps control ? Yes, but that's an extra POW sacrificed. Ask an adventurer if he wants two bound POW spirits or one that can't be taken... Until he runs into someone stealing spirits, he'll probably take the former. Jeremy