From: gobeski8618@iscsvax.uni.edu (Steve 'Gobes' Gobeski)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Re: FANTASY HERO: duration for spells
Date: 16 Dec 92 21:16:29 -0600
Organization: United Anarchists of the World Association, Inc.

In article <warnold.724387618@nomad.urich.edu>, warnold@gossip.urich.edu (William W. Arnold) writes:
> In <goodin.724371060@sfu.ca> goodin@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Frederick Goodin) writes:
>>Extra Questions:   Can Missle Deflection deflect flying characters?
> Only if the flying character can reasonably be considered a missle.  Usually
> this requires that the flyer have shrinking or the deflector to have growth.

I'd say any flyer doing a move-through on you would DEFINITELY be a missle, but
you'd have to have the MD bought up pretty high ("anything that can be
deflected" level that covers laser beams & stuff like that) due to the large
size of the "missle".  A flyer doing a move-by might count, definitely would if
you have the "usable by others" (or whatever it is, haven't looked it up
recently) advantage that allows you to hit stuff that's nearby or directed at
friends.

> 
>>		   Does a Body Aid heal damage from a Transform?
> depends on special effect of Aid and Transform.  ie, does it make sense for
> it to do so.

Simple answer: NO.  Not any more than a Body aid can resurrect, considering
that a transform allows you to turn someone into something neat because you've
done enough Body to them to kill them twice over (read the note about transform
being based on killing attack).

And if you're referring to the "body" damage of a cumulative transform, the
answer is: NO.  It's not characteristic Body damage in the strictest sense,
which is what your Body aid fixes.

This does raise an interesting question about cumulative transforms: 
how long does the accumulated damage last, and does cumulative "damage" from
Transform X count for Transform Y (if these are two entirely different types of
transforms, or for that matter, someone ELSE coming after you with the same
type of transform at some later time).

You might find this one in the rules, I'll have to look later...
                                                                
>>		   And finally,(for this post anyway) are Images automatically
>>Invisible (the power effects, that is)?  If not, what good are they? (eg., "I
>>make an Image of a horrible monster about to attack the villain." "Villain,
>>noticing the purple beams shooting from your eyes and the high-pitched buzz, 
>>realizes it is an Image and proceeds to Move Through you.")
> no, they're not invisible...  BUT if you're in the area of effect, you can

I'd say they are, since the images are the "power effects."  And then, buying
"invisible power effects" on the images is pretty dumb ("I've got these great
images, trouble is, you can't actually see them...").  Falls under the
usefulness idea, above.  All this IMNSHO, of course.

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