tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7584465046053664401.post3178398252913692792..comments2024-03-24T09:52:01.274-07:00Comments on Of Slugs and Silver : Continual light/flame - how common are they?Ancalagon_TBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13602961033235852856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7584465046053664401.post-17949374428744542482019-05-18T08:51:55.710-07:002019-05-18T08:51:55.710-07:00Literally light pollution! I love it. Although t...Literally light pollution! I love it. Although this would only occur if continual light is not vulnerable to dispel magic spells. This is where the "tiny details" of the version of D&D matter. For example, in 5e you couldn't take out the light spells by accident while trying to cast dispel magic on a foe, but in older editions you might. <br /><br />So a showdown in the town square might result in the party being fined several hundred GPs for destruction of lights.... Ancalagon_TBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13602961033235852856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7584465046053664401.post-30432678600249064552019-05-16T16:28:55.650-07:002019-05-16T16:28:55.650-07:00I begin to see why older editions of D&D, desp...I begin to see why older editions of D&D, despite exhorting the importance of carrying a light source, also felt safe assuming that players would always have one.<br /><br />The idea that "continual lights" might last 1000 years (or longer!) makes me think that there's a post-apocalyptic future to the D&D world where EVERYTHING glows and it's NEVER dark because the world has filled up with permanent, indestructable glowing objects. Kill any animal and light pours from the wounds due to all the indigestable enchantments it's eaten. Somewhere in the ocean is an entire island made of nothing but continual lights carried by the currents to one spot. And anyone who can manage to travel to one of the few dark places left in the world is in for a surprise - there are even lights in the sky, though you can't see them most places because the lights on the ground drown them out. It would combine the worst features of plastic pollution and light pollution from the real world.<br /><br />A single wizard who knows the "continual light" could rapidly fill the Veins with so many permanent, priceless lights that darkness is soon banished from the underworld, nothing more than a myth parents tell to their children.Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493700749333105771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7584465046053664401.post-2389339567062062802019-05-15T00:59:15.140-07:002019-05-15T00:59:15.140-07:00That sounds like the kind of thing that will be th...That sounds like the kind of thing that will be the target of sumptuary laws "to prevent the ostentatious use of magical enchantments by persons of low breeding". Steveghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07061412994661583425noreply@blogger.com