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    02-26-2015, 11:33 AM
    fmitchell replied to a thread Translation Spells - how well do they work? in Fantasy Discussion
    AKA: Translation spells, how the **** do they work? (Which presents another possibility: what if hard-to-translate concepts -- or words the gods don't like -- sound like meaningless noise when the spell translates them?) As another data point, older(?) versions of Tunnels & Trolls allowed...
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    02-24-2015, 05:57 PM
    fmitchell replied to a thread Translation Spells - how well do they work? in Fantasy Discussion
    I always assumed that translation spells operated telepathically: they convey what the target means to say, not what he says. Plus, hey, it's magic. Even then, things can get strange if the target is non-humanoid, e.g. a sapient spider, or comes from a very different reality or plane of...
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    02-12-2015, 06:51 PM
    fmitchell replied to a thread Why D&D? - Complexity is not fun for me in Fantasy Discussion
    I was a GURPS fan like you. Then I took a spreadsheet to the knee. (Seriously, I was a fan since Man to Man, and even ran a GURPS 1-3e campaign back in my college years ... which probably led to my pathological dislike of traditional RPG magic. 4e is actually an improvement, of sorts ... but...
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