On Feb 16, 2004, at 9:16 AM, Casey Rousseau wrote: > Noam Izenberg wrote: >> I kind of wonder why aerial combat or Chinese Cinema-esque wire >> fighting (without the wires) is not a bigger deal in general where >> magic is concerned. I'd think a levitating Athyra would be a major >> advantage in a field combat > > A) Could be that it has been tried in the past and fallen out of favor > because of the relative ease of countering. (See _Dragon_ for > discussion > of uses of sorcery in combat.) > B) I'd think that self-levitation to the degree of acrobatic > maneuvering > you describe would require an inordinate degree of concentration. It > might make it hard to _fight_ effectively. The only self-levitation > we've seen has been fairly slow moving. > > I nearly think you have misremembered the arrival of the Necromancer.