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"Official" Perspective on Lawbreaking
whitelaughter:
Hi, just bought the DFRPG, and have a question on Lawbreaking:
Does it apply when non-mortals are the spellcasters? (frex when the Leannansidhe acquires a new set of dogs in Changes). It's pretty important given that a Changeling can be running around with some serious juju.
(Of course, 'don't transform others' is easily avoided by having an item that the victim is bullied into using themselves - and that's probably the best use, a magistrate's court's Bible being an Unseelie item of power that accepts oaths daily and transforms oathbreakers into something useful the following midnight - but it's still worth knowing).
Oh, given one of the tangents was the humanocentric aspect of the Laws, it would make sense if the Laws are actually "don't zap your own species": so a Dinosaur Wizard could calmly raise human zombies but would have been hit with an Aspect for copying Dresden's trick with Sue.
Mr. Death:
The laws are human-centric largely because the White Council is human centric, according to Jim, and don't necessarily align completely with the actual, cosmic, metaphysical laws of magic.
That said, breaking the laws, I think, doesn't apply to non-humans because they lack the malleability of free will. Leanansidhe isn't going to be corrupted by using her magic to turn Dresden into a dog, because using magic to turn Dresden into a dog is already in line with who and what she is.
That said, a dinosaur necromancer sounds awesome and I wholeheartedly encourage it.
Sanctaphrax:
Pretty sure it's more about free will than about humanity/mortality.
Faeries can do whatever they want, but changelings are bound by the Laws. And angels, being free-willed (I think) but immortal and utterly inhuman, probably need to stick to the Laws.
whitelaughter:
awesome, thanks.
Hadn't considered the whole 'free will' aspect.
Hmm, so a Changeling who kills with their magic will get Lawbreaker unless they've just chosen to go full fae...and if they chose to go full human, will lose their magic but not Lawbreaker?
Sanctaphrax:
Well, they'd keep the Aspect-based corruption from their law-breaking. But I don't see much point in docking their Refresh.
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