From: David Cake (davidc@kultarr.cs.uwa.oz.au)
Date: Mon 04 Oct 1993 - 04:37:11 EET
One problem with having Protective Circle always appear as a hemisphere, is what happens if it is cast (somhow!) in the air? Perhaps on a platform, or magic carpet. Can things come up through the floor?
The whole problem of 'personal force fields' etc. is removed if the Protective Circle needs to have a drawn border, which I like a lot. It doesn't matter that much what the other limitiations are if it has to have a drawn border, as the only way then to move a protective circle is to move the surface that it is written on. Perhaps it should be a full globe, just most of it below the surface of the Earth in most cases?
I like the having to scribe a circle, it is a nice counterpart to the warding rods. I also presume that Protective Circles can be removed by breaking the circle, and sometimes this is very easy (eg if it only has Resist Spell, it is real easy to break through it). I like the idea of the sorcerer having to scribe the circle. And there is a reason for High intensity small area circles - time of preparation.
The base protective circle is just a circle, but if you combine it with ceremoy skill and take a long time to create it, I imagine you get those wonderful ornate magic circles - complete with the Gloranthan equivalanet of the Seal of Solomon and the signs of the Zodiac and the names of the Arch-Angels. A nice image.
Cheers Dave Cake ---------------------
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