Re: Souls in elves

[Keith Klumb <kklumb@expert.cc.purdue.edu>]

I thought DP was your ability to make a potential leathal shot a scratch.
	As in a sword through the back will kill you pretty much
regardless. It's the fact that you shift around so the sword only gives
you a cut instead of cutting you in half.

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On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Steve Ames wrote:

> > Soul strike does damage to the soul, any other interpretation is only done
> > by folks who play priests of Anubis.  If it did damage Elves, that would
> > not fit with the spirit of the group. (no pun intended).
> 
> So if I kill you with soulstrike than your soul is out of DP and is
> destroyed? No afterlife for you? Don't think so. DP seems to be linked
> to life-force. Any disruption in body/mind/spirit/soul seems to also
> cause a disruption in life-force. That said... that definition sucks
> because it doesn't fit a lot of other cases: Hirudo (no life force),
> golems, ships, etc...
> 
> The fact that a ship has DP kind of implies that DP aren't a skill
> and they are not related to mind, soul, spirit or life force (a 
> ship possesses none of these).
> 
> As I've stated in the past, and often, there does not seem to be a good
> definition of DP. If we seperate some things out than we could have
> damage points and structural points (ie for lifeless things) then we
> could get encompassing definitions for each. Undead don't have DP
> either.
> 
> > How would dp be done to a body with 2 souls?  One soul and an elf?  Dont
> > know, but since DP is usually treated as a skill, and it goes with the
> > soul or whatever in a body hop, then either can be effected.  
> 
> I don't treat DP like a skill. I don't rightfully know how to treat
> it. 
> 
> > Transmog just accounts the whale's dp into its rating, so that is why you
> > get it's dp.  You have to be 100th rating to do it too.  
> 
> True enough.
> 
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