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The Dresden Files => DFRPG => Topic started by: blackheart on March 28, 2010, 02:21:08 PM

Title: Getting around the Laws
Post by: blackheart on March 28, 2010, 02:21:08 PM
"You killed him!"
"Nah, I shot him. The bullets and the fall killed him."

Max and Vincent, Collateral




So, I've got a player who wants a rote spell called "Fifty feet up and falling". It's an air spell that blows someone straight up into the air and gravity does the rest.
He argues that since the fall is doing the damage (well the ground, actually), not the spell, it's not a violation of the First Law.

I say the Wardens might not see it that way.
Opinions?
Title: Re: Getting around the Laws
Post by: iago on March 28, 2010, 02:25:56 PM
That's a violation. And our text makes it clear that's so as well.
Title: Re: Getting around the Laws
Post by: Rel Fexive on March 28, 2010, 07:03:47 PM
Opinions?

It's like saying if you push someone off the top of a tall building, it's not murder, because the ground killed them.

It's like saying if you use magic to set someone on fire, it's not murder, because the fire burned them alive.

It's like saying if you mind control someone into walking in front of a train, it's not murder, because the train killed them.



Sorry, but the guy's got a warden paying him an unfriendly visit in the not too distant future.