Tech Vs Magik

well its nice to see that i started a topic that got so many replies and so few answers
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lol, well i got some answers about the demo, sounds stable that is.

and you might want to ask ratster or Calis about that other thing.

 

thx monkey ill get right on it if i ever see em again....i always seem to miss em lately
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Summoned creatures have their own aptitude, independent of the mage who cast them.

 

jus to get it straight then......a magically summoned creature is not magical?
what about undead? are they magic? since it is the magic that binds them?

 

It really depends on the creature BB. I don't know all the aptitudes of the creatures, but just because they were summoned does not neccessarily mean they are magickly inclined, i.e. a wolf is still a wolf regardless of whether you summoned it or not.

 

So a summoned demon should be magic, but a wizard polymorphed to a mundane sheep looses magical aptitude regarding his effect on technical devices?

 

No, I don't think polymorphing changes the targets aptitude.

 

For thoses that were not in the #arcanum chat the aptitude for undead is 0 therefore a created undead would have an aptitude of 0
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Bad Buck on 2001-05-13 04:12 ]</font>

 

Okay...I'll post again, just for the heck of it. Summon Undead works, unlike Summon Orc Champion and as I've said in other posts it's a neutral monster. It isn't in your control, totally berserk, and you aren't held liable in any way for what it does.

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- Anolis, "If you are, I must've done some pretty swell things that I never knew I did to get back my alignment back up from killing half the town."

 

Your reply seems to me to be in the vein of what alignment the creature is that was not what i asked, i wanted to know what aptitude the summoned creature has. but i think Ratster has already answered my question.

 

Well don't you control the creature you summon?

 

yes you do you get a piccy of him/her/it on the left same as your followers. and you can tell em what to do.
(well you do with the ogre summon anyway) :smile:

 

oh ok

 

Basically whatever you summon is already in the game, I'd suspect it would be at least. Thus if you were to summon a Mechanical Android/Warbot through a spell (which won't be happening without editing as I see it) it would be a highly Tech Aptitude rating creature.

//update
Might as well edit this in instead of double posting, the Summon Undead spell creates a 'berserk' creature that will even attack another summoned Undead. For other critters that don't have the same out-of-control problem you can control them of course. I was just stating my results from the only summon spell that I've seen work so far. Didn't know that Undeads were considered 0s on the tech/magick scale. I suppose that makes sense...no brains and no aptitude at anything I suppose, still if a bot has a tech aptitude and it's mindless...

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- Anolis, "Creatures have the aptitude you think they would I believe...hmmm."

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Anolis on 2001-05-13 17:47 ]</font>

 

Hmm, that's a good question! Why don't you answer your self smartie pants??

LOL

 

Uhm, that was directed towards Bad Buck, actually N/M

ha ha ha

 

Anolis : for your info the summon ogre spell works in the demo as well (which is what i kinda hinted it my previous post)
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Yeah, I read that, I haven't tried it yet, kind of had to really push my char to get the Summon Undead if you know what I mean, heh. I'd be interested to see if it has any reaction/alignment impact, heh.

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- Anolis, "And lo, the mighty Necromancer bent his will to the arts of summoning. It isn't like that level 2 'speak to the dead' spell really does anything in the demo, torture one guy and listen to everyone else moan, big whoop."