RE: mutate

[Steve Ames <steve@ns1.cioe.com>]

> I just would like one final statement on the whole mutate spell.

Sure.

> 	If I interpret this correctly from everything dan has just said,
> then you CANNOT mutate for creature abilites.  You CAN add limbs and
> skeletal structure or move things around.  You CANNOT imbue a species with
> an ability that it does not already have.  

Two points here... you shouldn't have to interpret, we're told its plain
english. No room for amiguity. Second, adding limbs and changing skeletal
structure _DOES_ imbue abilities. Give a skeletal structure to a jellyfish,
give lungs to a shark.

> 	For example:  I mutate Joe Blow the marine.  I add a pair of
> wings.  Although the wings look pretty, they move and the like, they do
> not work to support a person in flight or in gliding down from great
> heights.  

Physics dictates otherwise. With a large enough surface area, gliding
is certainly possible. With the skeletal modifications that the book
mentions we can hollow out the bone structure and rearrange ligements
and muscles to support the wing structure... in short we can grant
flight. Not a simple mutate... but easily doable.

						-Steve