From: boelter3945@iscsvax.uni.edu
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp
Subject: Re: AD&D:  So what happens when
Date: 8 Apr 92 17:01:36 -0500
Organization: University of Northern Iowa

In article <1992Apr7.170841.2859@watserv1.waterloo.edu>, alongley@cape.UWaterloo.ca (Allan Longley) writes:
> Here's some unproductive dribble.
> 
> What happens when you:
> 	(a) Turn a Bag of Holding inside-out?

   Nothing much.  The bag itself is still a bag, it's just that the contents
are stored in an extra-dimensional space.  When the bag is turned inside-out,
this 'space' becomes inaccesible, and just looks like an inside-out bag.

> 	(b) Cast Chainlightning in a Rope Trick?

   Deadly.  Actually, the Chain Lightning spell will function as per the spell,
rebounding off all the targets inside the space, then ending (as it ran out of
targets).  You cannot cast spells out of the interdimensional interface, as per
the spell description.

> 	(c) Cast Rope Trick inside a Rope Trick and the first one ends?

   Yes, it could be, but the spell Rope Trick specifically says, "note that
creating or taking extradimensional spaces into an existing extradimensional
space is hazardous."  See Portable Hole for some suggestions as to what might
happen.

> 	(d) Eat the horse summoned by Mount?

   Well, the spell says that it "conjures a normal animal" and at the spell
duration end it "disappears, returning to its own place."  This would imply to
me that you certainly could eat the horse summoned by this spell, since I read
this as that the horse was brought to you by the spell from some 'place'.  Once
eaten, the spell ends and the horse does not 'return'.

   This could get interesting, especially if you have the spell conjure the
horse from that short-tempered Duke that just happens to have a mage who can
determine where the %&@*# his best horse went to.. :-)

> 	(e) Feed people Troll pieces?

   Yes, why not.  Assuming similar anatomy, a person's stomach acid will
quickly stop any regenerative capabilities of the Troll.

> 	(f) Are an elf polymorphed into a Fire Giant and are about to have
> 	    children with your new Fire Giant wife?

   Well, a) assuming you can hold the Polymorph effect for this long, and b)
assuming you somehow got around the change in height limitations on the
polymorph spell, then there is no problem, because for all practical purposes,
your form is one of a Fire Giant.

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