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"By Invitation Only" - 2nd, 3rd and 4th law loopholes?
KOFFEYKID:
I have to disagree Moriden, if somebody is allowing you into their mind then it isn't a violation of their mind. Compare it to sex, with consent its enjoyable, without its rape.
The laws have EVERYTHING to do with morality, the laws are there to prevent you from staining your soul with evil, and its hard to ignore that Good and Evil have a great deal to do with Morality.
The third law says Never invade a person's mind. If you are invited in, there is no invasion. This is similar to when Harry and Elaine communicate mind to mind.
Deadmanwalking:
I think healing's a little more possible, but aside from that I mostly agree with falar. Though I do think reversing a Transformation spell is a non-Law violating act.
JustinS:
--- Quote from: Deadmanwalking on April 24, 2010, 08:58:58 PM ---I think healing's a little more possible, but aside from that I mostly agree with falar. Though I do think reversing a Transformation spell is a non-Law violating act.
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Reki seems to have been more of a 'I feed your body the right energy it wants to be able to heal itself', where as we have seen the fea do actual wound mending.
Countermagic is one easy way out. I use magic to shove you off a cliff is a break, I use countermagic to stop your flight spell, or eliminate your super-leap, sure.
If you are transformed by an active spell, you can break the spell. If I reshape you into a wolf, by the time anyone can get to you to undo it, you already got stuffed into a wolf-brain and that can not be undone (if you did want to transform someone and ever get them back, like oh, storing them as a hellhound, then make it a long duration spell, and not a permanent transform).
Falar:
I would think that if you could regrow a hand with magic, then you'd be able to (click to show/hide)fix someone's broken back with magic. Or, heck, even fix their horrifically burnt hand for that matter. I mean, in one case, you're working with something that used to be right, so you're just taking it back (or forwards) to where it will be right again. In the other case, you're making something out of nothing.
However, I think an enchanted item that is a glove that acts like a hand that goes up your arm as well would be a much more interesting and less edgy way to do it. I'm not really sure if that's even possible for Dresdenverse magic to do either, but it would provide the same function to you with none of this mucking about with the Law.
exploding_brain:
In my game, depending on the intent of the PC, how close to the edge of the law they intend to skirt, and whether it might make the game fun, I might make it into a mental conflict. The PC would probably be facing off against the task being attempted and their own darker nature. If the PC takes enough stress to be taken out, or accept an extreme consequence, I'd probably rule that the PC ran out of patience, or became too arrogant in their own power, or just made a bad choice. They gave into the dark side, and acquired a stain on their soul, reflected by the acquisition of a lawbreaker power.
If they take an extreme consequence, I might postpone the payment of one point of the necessary refresh until the end of the scenario. Maybe they'll earn another point of refresh before they become an NPC, maybe they won't. *evil grin*
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