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The Corvidian:
What if you bought an EMP hardened computer?
Lord Nedd:
--- Quote from: The Corvidian on June 07, 2007, 03:09:45 AM ---What if you bought an EMP hardened computer?
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It is not clear that the murphyonic field that Wizards put out is EM based. The problem is that every tool they use to test for it gets fried. Butter seems to think that perhaps the field is EM. But we don't really know the cause.
-LN
Soulless Mystic5523:
--- Quote from: Lord Nedd on June 07, 2007, 05:59:38 AM ---It is not clear that the murphyonic field that Wizards put out is EM based. The problem is that every tool they use to test for it gets fried. Butter seems to think that perhaps the field is EM. But we don't really know the cause.
-LN
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But we do know that some electronics are more resistant to magic than others. IE.The lights in the cave in White Night are a good example. Harry even mentions how they must have spent some good money on the lighting system to last so long.
Lord Nedd:
--- Quote from: Mystic5523 on June 24, 2007, 09:11:26 PM ---But we do know that some electronics are more resistant to magic than others. IE.The lights in the cave in White Night are a good example. Harry even mentions how they must have spent some good money on the lighting system to last so long.
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Sure, it is a question of simplicity of moving parts. The more comlex the tool, the fast it fries. We still don't know why, though...
-LN
mikeryan:
--- Quote from: Lord Nedd on June 25, 2007, 04:07:23 PM ---Sure, it is a question of simplicity of moving parts. The more comlex the tool, the fast it fries. We still don't know why, though...
-LN
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When the game comes out, I'll have to pitch it to folks who aren't Dresden fans yet. So I've been thinking of how to pitch this. Otherwise I expect to hear things like "that's stupid and just an cop out way of artificially balancing wizards against non-wizards."
The explanation that I'm leaning towards is that since wizards can bend reality with their will, reality is constantly in flux near them. This isn't usually noticeable to the naked eye, but electronics and complicated mechanical devices can't handle the variations. Hope that'll work.
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