Design thread

[Ardath]

@Andrew

It may be better to build an item with an intellego effect which detects the circumstance you want , for instance if you want an item to cast a spell when youa re incapaictated an InCo trigger would be much better than an spell which goes off when you stop moving as that can happen under many circumstances

Yup, good one. An item with 2 linked effects (InCo and the linked effect) is probably the better way to have this.

@amul

I was asking if it would count as a similar spell for all the different realms, with the same R/D/T.

And my personnal answer to that was yes

BTW, for the statue, I'm sorry, I must have been drunk, I realized I have forgotten something while watching for LadyP's enchantment: The basic guideline would probably allow you to move it around like a big lump of stone, like with "The Unseen Porter", but she's right in that you'd need additionnal magnitudes for precise control, and her 2 are about right, which puts your final level at 30.

@amul

That's definitely a cool idea. Long term plans for Tyrion include learning to summon elementals, thinking that he could craft a statue of suitable quality material and then summon the elemental within the statue. This is just as interesting an idea.

If you can summon an elemental, you can bypass the statue IMO, unless you want it to have some mesure of protection from PeVi spells (people would target the statue, not the spirit within), or just to be the controlling intelligence (since more powerful elementals are harder to summon/control, due to penetration).

As I see it, the way to have this into a statue is through 3 enchantments:

• One to allow the statue to move at the command of the spirit, permanent
• One to link the spirit to the statue, permanent
• One to control the spirit, permanent too.

@amul

He's got the watching ward because he is a paranoid bugger, who wants to keep his sanctum safe. Hence, his interest in ring/circle wards, doors with Watching Wards on them, etc. In general, Tyrion is meant to be an exploration of all the bits I traditionally ignore and handwave -- the logisitics of covenant development, the protection of spaces in a world with magic, that sort of stuff.

I like this.
As I see it:

• The wards need to penetrate, so you can have them be "always on", but be unnafected thanks to your Parma. If they penetrate it, you can use ReVI spells and
  Suppressing the Wizard's Handiwork of equal or superior level
• Watching Wards on doors, I'd say Intellego requisites :-/ Either with a bound AC to recognise you, or a InCo spell to recognise your special gestures (Like knocking 3 times on the door). Another way: Have it go on anyone that touches the door (a simple enough condition IMO), and Supress the Wizard's Handiwork.

@amul

This begs the question, does the intellego effect embedded in the Watching Ward have to be a known spell, or can it be a "spontaneous" spell?

IMO, yes, it can be spontaneous, of course.

Late for work, see you.... way later!!!