Feel Illusions

[OFFICIAL]

Date: Sat, 20 Jan 1996 19:21:23 -0500 From: RMGuru@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [OFFICIAL]: Feel Illusions

Feel Illusions can be very powerful; but only because they are very versatile. They do create (in effect) a real thing (at least as real as can be felt). However, there are lower level spells that "create" stuff on other lists (look at the create food and water spells in Channeling). Feel Illusions are only powerful because they are versatile. They can't do much damage (limited to a MA Strikes Degree 1 attack). They can create an object that can sustain pressure (but not a "strike").

The rationale is this. What is a "hologram"? It is a creation with only a visual aspect. It is "real" in all ways... but just a visual image. That is a Light Illusion. Now presume that the same paradigm can be applied to all other senses. That covers Feel, Taste, Hearing, and Smell. If all five are applied to the same "illusion", the illusion is in all effects "real" (though it took five spells to create... not all of them low level; just one low level create food spell for the same effect).

Illusions are vastly different in RM than in other systems; and this is a sticky point for a lot of folks. You do not "disbelieve" illusions in RM. That would be the same as saying... "I don't beleive that hologram is real!" and then expect it to go away.

The observation that Mentalism/Channeling illusions are different in that they cannot create "Feel" effects is correct. That is the nature of illusions (only Essence can use the most potent versions of illusions).

John W. Curtis III
Rolemaster Series Editor
Electronic Media Director
Iron Crown Enterprises, Inc.


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