From: Kevin Rose (vladt@interaccess.com)
Date: Fri 01 Jul 1994 - 11:56:06 EEST
Pam Carlson:
The easiest way to work the Wards trigger is to base it on the Find Enemy
spell. So intent to harm the caster is required. Not necessarily physical
harm, but some sort of intent to do something, such as stealing. A dog
wandering in looking for a handout isn't trying to harm anyone. Your
neighbors 6 year old chasing your child (child being considered chattle of
the caster) during a fight could well be. (Gee, sorry my spell killed your
daughter, but it was an acci ARRRG gurgle.)
An animal that is not actively hostile would be able to wander through a ward with no problem. If it is considering the caster or his dependants as a meal it would be another matter. In the same way someone who is intending to steal from the occupants would set the ward off. A hungry dog that smells food and has a vague concept of stealing food (from the caster) is probably not hostile for the purposes of this spell. (But this is arguable.) Someone coming in with no hostile intent could enter, but if he stole something or attacked the caster or his dependents the ward would get him on the way OUT.
Realisticly I don't think you could make it act as a giant bug zapper or roddent repeller. Their just isn't enough mind or intent there. (And it is gross also.) It might work against the bobcat after the sheep if A) A sheep had cast the spell, or B) The bobcat had a personal grudge against the caster. Otherwise, the answer is NO. It protects the caster.
An option is to allow the caster to explictly state the trigger conditions, per the enchantment rules. This get pretty gross, so I would really think about this.
The reason wards usually work on temples and such is because someone trying to steal from or attack a temple is automaticly an enemy of every member of the temple. If a Wind lord, while planning to kill the wrong thinking high priest of Orlanth, walks though a ward of the high priest it WILL go off. Again, the operative word in the description is "caster".
Shape of the ward
There is no requirement that it be square. Any quadralateral will work. I might suggest that at least a .5 meter width is essential, but that isn't what it says. The advantage of the area version over the linear version to protect a field or such (if you decide to let it work this way,) is that it will get the birds too.
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