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General Discussion / Re: Bringing RP/ powerlevelling together. Suggestions please?
« on: September 22, 2008, 12:53:34 pm »
Hmm.. Back to what Prolix said...
It's the same in a lot of areas. When you make your diver's license, you practise emergency reactions as well, like sharing air. Again, the purpose is to get the movement commited to memory deep enough that you will automaticly remember it if there ever is a true emergency. So I think it does make sense that you get training points for casting a spell like life infusion, even if you are not injured.
Or another example: when I started to do rock climbing, I didn't know any of the knots climbers use. After somebody told me how to do them, I bought myself a thin bit of rope that I carried with me everywhere. When I was bored, I would take it out and do the knots over and over again - even if there was no rock in sight. In the end, I could to the knots without thinking, even with my eyes closed - and next time I went climbing, I had no problems to tie into the harness, even though it was raining, so I had water in my eyes and my hands were moving clumsy because it was so cold.
Now, I'm not saying standing next to a training and casting the same spell over and over again is the thing to do (apart from the fact that that sounds really boring, anyway
) .
But if Seren walks back from Oja to Hydlaa and is exausted from running, why shouldn't she summon a defensive wind around herself just for practise while she takes a break? To get the words and the movements down, to make sure she will do them right when she really needs it? And by doing that every time she takes a break, I would assume her to get better at it.
I don't think doing that is so "wrong", even if there are no mosters around the spell could fend off..
Well this is not a new argument, certainly. Tell me though, how do you detect you did a healing spell correctly if you have no injury to cure? How do you tell your defensive wind is effective if the only things it blocks are insects?I thought about that, but I don't think casting life infusion if you are not injured is just "gaming the mechanics". I mean, if you want to be able to give first aid in real life, you go to a first aid course. And there you practice cardiac massage and rescue breathing on a plastic puppet. How to detect if you do it correctly? Well, not from that training, certainly. The puppet isn't going to come alife, no matter how right you do it. But you do the movements repeatedly, again and again. So If you ever come into a situation where it is needed, you will hopefully remember them.
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It's the same in a lot of areas. When you make your diver's license, you practise emergency reactions as well, like sharing air. Again, the purpose is to get the movement commited to memory deep enough that you will automaticly remember it if there ever is a true emergency. So I think it does make sense that you get training points for casting a spell like life infusion, even if you are not injured.
Or another example: when I started to do rock climbing, I didn't know any of the knots climbers use. After somebody told me how to do them, I bought myself a thin bit of rope that I carried with me everywhere. When I was bored, I would take it out and do the knots over and over again - even if there was no rock in sight. In the end, I could to the knots without thinking, even with my eyes closed - and next time I went climbing, I had no problems to tie into the harness, even though it was raining, so I had water in my eyes and my hands were moving clumsy because it was so cold.
Now, I'm not saying standing next to a training and casting the same spell over and over again is the thing to do (apart from the fact that that sounds really boring, anyway
) .But if Seren walks back from Oja to Hydlaa and is exausted from running, why shouldn't she summon a defensive wind around herself just for practise while she takes a break? To get the words and the movements down, to make sure she will do them right when she really needs it? And by doing that every time she takes a break, I would assume her to get better at it.
I don't think doing that is so "wrong", even if there are no mosters around the spell could fend off..
