Re: Souls in elves

[Wright Frazier <khelek>]

Undead are purely bound together by the soul shard they have.  Soulstrike tears up the soul,
and that causes the undead to die if it blows the RC.  Undead don't take damage
from a soulstrike, to them its a deathspell.

re: Golem: Soulstrike wouldn't effect a golem(no soul), but for my definition of Dp
effecting a golem.  Sure it does, you get glancing blows that leave cracks and
nicks that eventually build up and take it apart.  Not the best, but it does work.
Greg's defintion of DP works better here with the view that DP is sucking the blow.

re: Structural Points: Already using that in the ship writeup I'm doing.  Also giving
	artillery 2 different damage values, one for SP one for DP.  A piece of artillery
	that is viciously mauling to a person is not necissarily going to bug a ship
	a whole lot(as you pointed out). 

Also, incase it isn't obvious, I like the SP thing, and think it would be a nice addition,
	but my only regret is that I've seen it used in all the Palladium games, and it
	is a complete bear.  If you start going with the Sp thing for walls, you truely
	should do it for armor as well, and all other sorts of things. 

	So while it could be cool, it'll probably be a pretty big hassel to get hammered
	out unless somethings are just plain exluded from it.

	Another problem with it is this: you give a door 80 SP for example:  How much damage
	do you have to do just to knock a small hole through it as opposed to tearing
	the whole thing down?  Do you have sectional SP?

Wright


> 
> This definition doesn't work for a golem... or the undead.
> 
> > How does it work?  Simple, if you use my definition of DP.
> >
> > Soul strike 'rips and tears' at the soul.  This is a quite unpleasent experience,
> > and results in some serious fatigue and pain, but no honest to god physical damage.
> > It just pushes you closer to that edge, and if its the soul strike that put you
> > over the edge, its probably from having the shit stressed out of your system(i.e.
> > you have a heart attack or stroke).  Otherwise it just tires you out and makes you
> > feel like utter shit, and makes it that much easier for someone to then get that
> > crutial blow in that lops off your head.
> >
> > Wright
> >
> >
> > > > If there is a soul in an elf, for what ever reason,Does he take 
> > > > damage from spells that attack the soul i.e. soul strike or does 
> > > > the soul somehow take the damage.( As the damage translates to DP 
> > > > how would the soul take the damage?)   
> > > 
> > > I'm with greg. I'd hate to rule on this. I'd like to say that DP
> > > are physical but there are some entities that belie this thinking.
> > > Obviously soul-strike doesn't actually damage the soul. Otherwise
> > > killing someone with it would obliterate their soul... doesn't
> > > happen. So soul-strike must latch onto some component of the
> > > target (soul, mind, spirit, who knows... though soul seems the
> > > likeliest) and then causes DP damage... whatever that is.
> > > 
> > > What exactly DP is is a fundamental question that gets asked
> > > repeatedly and no good theories have been put forth. Sadly.
> > > 
> > > As soon as thats answered a lot of other stuff will fall into
> > > place.
> > > 					-Steve
> > > 
> >
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