From: Andrew Barton (100010.533@CompuServe.COM)
Date: Fri 18 Apr 1997 - 18:13:08 EEST
David Cake gave an interesting and useful discussion on killing people. His
idea of using Tap POW to destroy a soul, though, doesn't work with the rules
as written. The text of the Tap spells includes a well-buried line 'no
characteristic may be Tapped below one'.
IMG, that's how it works. The reason is that reducing SIZ or POW to 0 would
involve the total destruction of a physical or spiritual entity, an effect
of far larger scope than reducing a characteristic.
In Gloranthas where the Tap spell can cause reduction to 0, a Tap POW weapon
is particularly nasty, but it needs a high Intensity to cause spirit
destruction with a single blow. In worlds where magic spirits can know
sorcery spells, a solution is to summon a spirit and teach it the spell
(summoning one that already knows Tap POW is very risky!), then bind it into
the weapon. If the spirit itself receives the MP from the Tap spell, then
each successful Tap will increase its chance of overcoming MP on its next
hit, which seems an appropriately nasty property.
In RQ2, btw, spirit destruction was much simpler, because spirit combat and
draining magics took characteristic POW rather then MPs.
Andrew
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