Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4192044" data-attributes="member: 54846">Many reasons. One could be simple availability.Another is functionality. Salt for instance keeps out the dead - but just mixing it in with the masonry just means that the dead can't pass through the wall. It isn't going to do jack against them strolling through the door. This is why it's much easier to just have a line of salt ringing the town, then covering everything inside the town in salt. Same with Running water: a moat isn't going to do the job. Not only is the water not running, but running water has to be in contact with either the mage or the magic in question to diffuse it. A good example of running water in action: in a favorite book series of mine, the main character, a wizard, was captured and chained underneath a water pipe that continually spilled water down on top of him. The running water ground out the magic, preventing him from casting. However, in the same series later on, it took about two minutes for a fire sprinkler system to dissolve a spell in action. On occasions where magic was used while it rained, the magic was just weakened and dampened, but not completely removed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4192044, member: 54846"] Many reasons. One could be simple availability. Another is functionality. Salt for instance keeps out the dead - but just mixing it in with the masonry just means that the dead can't pass through the wall. It isn't going to do jack against them strolling through the door. This is why it's much easier to just have a line of salt ringing the town, then covering everything inside the town in salt. Same with Running water: a moat isn't going to do the job. Not only is the water not running, but running water has to be in contact with either the mage or the magic in question to diffuse it. A good example of running water in action: in a favorite book series of mine, the main character, a wizard, was captured and chained underneath a water pipe that continually spilled water down on top of him. The running water ground out the magic, preventing him from casting. However, in the same series later on, it took about two minutes for a fire sprinkler system to dissolve a spell in action. On occasions where magic was used while it rained, the magic was just weakened and dampened, but not completely removed. [/QUOTE]

Verification