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Offline Slife

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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2007, 12:50:27 AM »
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't necromancy supposed to be fundamentally different than normal magic?  That's the impression I got from Dead Beat, at least...
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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2007, 12:53:15 AM »
I got the feeling that the skills of necromancy were the same as regular magic, it just pulled power from a different source. Kinda like the light side and the dark sida of the force.
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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2007, 03:32:07 AM »
It's the same How, but a different What.
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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2007, 09:01:27 AM »
I'm not super-close to my Dead Beat reading right now to be able to say for sure, but I think folks are right here -- it's as much about power sources as anything.
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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #19 on: February 26, 2007, 08:46:07 PM »
See all of the aspects of magic that were mentioned in the beginning are part of thaumatology and evocation. True names are used in thaumatology, ectomancy can be either evoc or thau. The styles of magic are all about how you do it, not what you do with it.
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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #20 on: February 27, 2007, 12:52:45 AM »
I imagine True Names could also be used for Evocations in order to bypass magical protections or to quick and dirty dominate someone.
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Re: Other forms of magic
« Reply #21 on: February 27, 2007, 10:44:06 AM »
Just because something is different in setting, it doesn't have to be mechanically different.  For example, a flamethrower might have the same mechanical effects as a fire spell, but obviously they're not the same thing in setting terms.
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