From: dgc@cs.purdue.edu
Date: Tue 09 Jan 1990 - 09:56:33 EET
I was wondering how others have handled casting spells (upon willing recipients) which require that magic points must be overcome to succeed. For instance, say Bill the sorcerer knows "shapechange human to eagle" and wants to cast it on his friend Joe who wants to get to the next town in a hurry. This requires that the intensity of the shapechange be greater than Joe's MP's, PLUS, Bill has to overcome Joe's MP's. So do you allow Bill to cast it with an intensity of one and ignore overcoming Joe's magic points since Joe is a willing recipient? If not, then the most efficent solution (for the sorcerer) is to have Joe spend all but one of his magic points on useless spells, so it will be very easy for Bill to overcome his magic points. But if this *is* the case, then how can Bill ever cast the shapechange on himself??? He has to use an intensity greater than the magic points he has!
[One can do this via stored magic points of some sort -Ed.]
While I'm on the subject, have others interpreted the shapechange spell to only effect living tissue (i.e, arms and armor don't shapechange also if they were being worn at the time the spell was cast)?
How have you all handled this?
Doug
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