RE: Witchsmeller

[Lyle H Janney <lhjanney@adpc.purdue.edu>]

Hmmm, dunno, Jevan.  A non-combat-related, non-power-gaming
use of magic... I like it, but I'm not sure it'd really be understood by
the target audience of AQ:Jaern (remember, we are talking juvenile
minds here).  I am all for the idea of lending more depth (particularly,
the kind of depth we are talking here; 6 EU for , what is it? 10 minutes?
of watching for magical surveillance, and requiring a skill roll to ID the
exact spell being used to boot) to the few spells that would be good
targets for such expansion.  However, these expansions of definition
will probably be limited to the campaign, if they are ratified at all.

Your thoughts, Dan?

Lyle

-----Original Message-----
From:	Jevan Furmanski [SMTP:furmansj@expert.cc.purdue.edu]
Sent:	Wednesday, July 08, 1998 2:38 AM
To:	GM List
Subject:	Witchsmeller

On the last week's adventure I ran, the subject of witchsmeller got
breached with respect to survalence.  If a mage has cast hear from the
next room to over hear your secret conversation, can you see the area of
effect with witchsmeller?  What does magic look like?  Does witchsmeller
just make magic perceptable so all effects permanant and temporary in the
area of effect become known to the mage?  If the magic is perceptable, can
a trained mage see the patterns in the magic and identify the spell (hey,
another use for the skill)  This could make the scrying group very cool,
and air mages much more three dimentional.

Jevan