Dragaera

Reliability and POV

Kenneth Gorelick pulmon at comcast.net
Mon Feb 16 06:24:11 PST 2004

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.