On 7/7/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > And then we could go into the technical pros and cons of having a > "shield" that works well to a certain extent while not interfering > with one's offensive capabilities, versus a "breastplate" that perhaps > offers better protection than the "shield", but very severely limits > one's set of tactical responses. Somewhat off-topic: Do we have any reason to suspect that gold Phoenix stone is likely to shield its holder from offensive magics in the way that Spellbreaker can? IIRC, we only know that it prevents scrying, and interferes with teleportation of its holder. (I would just say it interferes with teleportation *by* its holder, but it appears to me in Issola-2 that Teldra contacts Sethra and Sethra teleports both Vlad and Teldra to Dzur Mountain. Sethra is obviously outside the stone's field effect.) On the other hand, if it could shield against e.g. sorcerous blasts, I'm surprised it's not more widely-known and -used. And it's not just a matter of Vlad's ignorance, either, or else Morrolan would have recognized the correspondence between it and the black stone he finds so interesting in /Phoenix/. They just block different things. -Maximilian -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.