Comments on: The Laws of Magic: Part 5 of 8 http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com/2007/07/13/the-laws-of-magic-part-5-of-8/ Bringing the World of Jim Butcher's Dresden Files to the Tabletop Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: HC http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com/2007/07/13/the-laws-of-magic-part-5-of-8/comment-page-1/#comment-2827 HC Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:25:57 +0000 http://www.dresdenfilesrpg.com/2007/07/13/the-laws-of-magic-part-5-of-8/#comment-2827 The side-effects could be both funny and tragic or both at at once. For ex, imagine someone a spellcaster 'programmed' to avoid drugs to get him/her off narcotics, but who the spellcaster didn't carefully define the term 'drugs'. Now s/he can't take an aspirin when s/he has a headache, might have a compulsion to avoid coffee/tea/cola (caffeine), may over time develop 'issues' about food additives and preservatives...and can't take the drugs to control the life-threatening bacterial infection, either. The side-effects could be both funny and tragic or both at at once.

For ex, imagine someone a spellcaster ‘programmed’ to avoid drugs to get him/her off narcotics, but who the spellcaster didn’t carefully define the term ‘drugs’. Now s/he can’t take an aspirin when s/he has a headache, might have a compulsion to avoid coffee/tea/cola (caffeine), may over time develop ‘issues’ about food additives and preservatives…and can’t take the drugs to control the life-threatening bacterial infection, either.

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