[TORG] Philosophy of Polymorphism

[Travis James Hall]

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> Dominick Riesland
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> By one standard, this is a violation of the "one spell, one effect"
> rule.

Eh. I think a lot of people put way too much stock in the "one spell, one
effect" rule. Really, I think all that was ever intended to mean was that
the purpose of a spell should be statable in a fairly simply, single-clause
sentence.

In this case, the effect of the original spell could have been "turn me into
a creature with which I have an affinity as a vampire". I'm not entirely
sure why a witch would have an identical version of the spell - that sounds
like a writer taking a short-cut rather than doing the job properly. (A
"proper" job might be to define a few forms with which witches have an
affinity - simple enough.)

Likewise, "summon a demon" and "conjure an elemental" sounds like pretty
singular effects to me, despite the fact that some of the specifics will be
defined at the time of casting.

Travis