Ghost of Malthus's page

Bow down and worship me!

I felt like a ghost of a deity, until all you arrived.

Ommm...

Motorcycle ashtray, teats on a bull, and this thread...

Ghosting for everyone?

ghosting?

EDIT: Nope. Eaten post.

::Sneaks up on Jess Door::

BOO!

BOO!

Hellooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

Too many posts... AOAOAOAOAOAOAOW...

May Abadar have mercy on your souls.

gp

EDIT: Odd. It said 3 new posts, but I still don't seem 'em.

Boo!

GP

GHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST
POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST

I only see one new.
Ghosty posties?

My first ghost of the new thread!

::sips a scotch neat::

DEATH TO GHOST POSTS!!!** spoiler omitted **

Well, on the upside, I can spend more time with Vic.

The ghosting of posts
or
the posting of ghosts?

BOO

Ghost of Malthus wrote:

Ghost of Malthus wrote:

boo

again

AI!!!

GREAT ABADAR'S GHOST!

Oh... that's me.

Ghost of Malthus wrote:

boo

again

AI!!!

boo

again

boo

Adam Daigle wrote:

Mairkurion {tm} wrote:

I could have sworn that Wicht had a post about this earlier, but now I can't find it anywhere.

Yep, Wicht cleared that up for me a couple of years ago. It's on page two of this thread.

Bah. Damn thread necromancy. Didn't realize this was so old... or that Wicht had already posted my post. Can I claim a two year ninja?

Go for it. All in the spirit of the thread.

The posty with the ghosty.

gp

::Passes from one wall of the thread to the other::

::Organizes census::

Have you procreated, Mr. Rimmer?

The postess with the mostest.

*Does a quick census*

Woe is I.

Boo...hoo

GP?

gp

G - h - o - s - t - i - n '

P - o - s - t - i - n ' . . .

G - h - o - s - t - i - n '

Let
there
be
post!

boo

boo

I like your new avvy, CrimJ. Although, once again, it will take some getting used to.

boooooooooooooooooooooo

GP

BOO

gho-stin'

boo

BOO

gp

G. K. Chesterton wrote:

smnrf

Nice avatar there. It's uncanny!

If you like that, look for pictures of Malthus online. Then, imagine him as a ghost.

Major ghosting.

Gary should stop spending all his time shmoozing a certain lady and exorcize!

Boo?

So I've been reading through the spells and noticed that the transmutation school has easily twice the number of spells as any of the other schools. This wouldn't be such a big issue except that a lot of the spells just don't seem to fit as transmutation (ie: transformation) spells. They literally don't actually transform anything. So why are they listed in that area?

Some examples from Lv3:
Flame arrow: deals /extra/ 1d6 damage, but still does the physical arrows normal damage (so obviously something is being added, not changed, or else the arrow wouldn't be there to deal the normal damage). This should probably be evocation.

Flash Fire: specifically says that it does not require any ammo to be loaded in order to work, no transformation going on here. Also likely should be evocation.

Enter Image: nothing is actually changed, in fact you can't even be hurt by the spell if someone attacks the image you are "in", with everything going back to exactly how it was when the spell ends. Should likely be either Illusion or Divination. Possibly Necromancy.

Imbue with Addiction: You can make an argument that addictions are physiological, but they still primarily affect the mind and actions. It fits much better into the Compulsion subschool of Enchantment, perhaps as the rare "fort save" within that school.

Fractions of Heal and Harm: Healing is specifically noted as "conjuration" (subschool "healing"), even if that healing was being powered by an offensive spell it would probably fit there better than in transmutation.

Don't get me wrong, easily upward of 90% of the stuff absolutely belongs where it has been put. I just don't understand why some spells were crammed in when they really seem to belong somewhere else. Can someone explain the logic behind this?