Mana Sending/reading

[Scott Adams]

At 12:14 AM 8/23/99 -0600, you wrote:
>If some one uses the power too much, (i.e. Elf's or Fearry's always having
>it on), I give them headaches (minus's to things that they do) or cause them
>to see too much at once, blinding them. I will give general information
>about what they see, at all times. The only time I give detail, is if it
>matters to my campaign or if they ask good questions that relate to what
>they are looking for (I know judgement call, but isn't that what we are the
>GM's for?). Most of the time those that have ask if they see magic in
>places, they get a little paranoid anymore :), but I have come up with some
>new ways to "mask" the magic, so that they don't see it at times.

This is something i do as well.

>The "masking" is a way of disguising the magic to match the surroundings.
>Lets say that you are having your NPC Chaos wiz. setting traps for the PC's
>to stumble across, and he does not want them to find them all. He uses the
>'ensorcellment' spell to cast a mask on an item, which then transfers the
>magicalness of the trap to a different destination (where ever he places the
>item). This causes the Sensing/Reading/Detection to not show that there is a
>trap right in front of them, but maybe a couple of feet farther up. I only
>let some of my NPC's have the ablility and I try to come up with unique ways
>between them, that way the PC's don't catch on much at first, and the NPC's
>show that they do not always share knowledge globally through telekinesis.

Done that trick as well.  Heck we were all into the dungeon period
I'm sure at one time or another.  I've not visited a 'dungeon' though
for quite some time in most of my games :)

Masking can be done through mis use of other senses  as well..
smells...smoke..sounds.. :)  Some tricks i've done


>As for being able to tell between law vs. chaos, I only allow that if the
>people are fanatical alignment. I figure that the fanatical gives them a
>little bit of an edge to some things, but has some other hard pieces to
>round it out. Example - I have two fanatical Law wizs. and I allow them to
>see when something or someone is Chaos or another type of fanatic. What this
>means is if they see a chaos being/item they must attack/destroy it
>completely. They can not rest until it is gone, or they are dead. I have not
>come up with everthing about fanatics yet, but a good being. As for others,
>I do not allow them to know if some is a wizard with out some type of
>magical interferance, i.e. Detection/Mana Reading.
>
>Just some of my thoughts, and ideas.
>

        Trying to think I don't think I've had but one fanatic type character
or player.  So we never come across such a situation I don't recall
(it was late '80s).  But this is how I would deal with it as well after all
humans perception of another person is what makes us human :)

>White Wolf
>(aka Tobie Bonahoom)
>bonahoom at hotmail.com

Also good to see new face :)

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