Posted by The Arcane(VIP) on December 30, 2000 at 09:22:25:
In Reply to: Alright so posted by Imbrogno(VIP) on December 30, 2000 at 08:43:32:
> Why won't ragers wear a camouflage cloak? It's invisible they say, but it's quite obviously because of the camouflage.
Obvious to us, not to them. A Rager knows that they need to have truesight up to see the cloak. How could they rationalize it being perfectly natural, if their "see-magic" power is needed to perceive it? In reality, it is poor item design, just the way the charred leather bracers saying that they are obviously magical because they are charred and haven't fallen apart is a poor desc.
> And surely the medicinal properties of vitamins and other pills such as those that cure poisons and diseases must also not be magical. We have pills for curing diseases and neutralizing poisons in real life, surely they're not magical.
Oh yes, because clearly Thera is modelled after Earth in every capacity. There are people (e.g. Christian Scientists) who are distrustful of modern medicines for reasons not too far from the Battlerager dogma. "It's not magical in RL so it must not be in Thera" is *not* a valid argument.
Now, as far as why seaweed is ok... well, it's simple. If you played a Rager, you'd know this. Eating pills will make you sick. If you pick up seaweed off the Aryth surface and eat it, because it's a "pill" it hurts you and weakens you. Eating the seaweed from Hamsah or from Ruins will not do this. If the gods do not consider this form of seaweed to be an impurity and do not punish the Rager for beseeching it, they it is acceptable.
> All I'm saying is that nothing can be explained as being magic or not magic except the spells themselves unless you resort to game mechanics.
> At least that's the way I see it.
No offense, but don't you think you're maybe a *little* bit biased, you know, never having played a Rager, and hating the cabal, and all? I wrote one of those little explanations for every one of the Six Commandments (my task if I wanted to get back into village), and I've spent a lot of time working out solid rationales for almost every aspect of the Battle dogma. And they do exist. And it is possible.