----- Original Message ----- From: "Casey Rousseau" <casey at the-bat.net> To: <dragaera at dragaera.info> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:16 AM Subject: RE: Reliability and POV > 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. heh, you'd give them an airborne target to focus their sorceries on.... i'd not want to be that athyra.. to paraphrase an axiom, no matter how subtle the wizard, massed point of attack sorceries will seriously cramp their style... andy