From: Wayne Shaw (shadow@qedbbs.com)
Date: Sun 13 Feb 1994 - 11:46:49 EET
jacobus@sonata.cc.purdue.edu (Bryan J. Maloney) writes:
>
> Now, some spells are definitely "combat" in that their function is far
> less amenable to adaptation to a variety of situations. The only uses
> I can come up with for Speedart and Multimissile is to give one a better
> chance of hitting something else and doing damage to it.
>
Though, I should note, only if you are defining "combat" very broadly.
Is shooting your dinner (as a hunter) "combat"? In a broad sense, of
course; but I suspect a lot of people in most such cultures tend to do a
certain amount of distinguishing between war and hunt magic, even if the
actual spells overlap a lot.
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