Re: Arcane/Astromundi

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>>	Are you sure?  I don't have my stuff near me, but I thought their
>>"telepathy" worked only to tell the others that they were hurt or killed.
>>It sounded like just a game balancer to keep PC's from whacking and arcane
>>here and there to take their stuff and resell it.
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>What the book says is that , due to their racial telepathy, all know if one
>dies.
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>Telepathy *is* their only means of communication, and the one on the
>Spelljammer seems to have gone insane because of being cut off from the other
>arcane due to the "privacy" feature of the Sp[elljammer, ot because of
>distance.

Telepathy isn't their only means of communication, they can also speak...I
believe it has been said that they have high, hollow voices.

>>>That far reaching telepathy would tend to reinforce similarities, and blur
>>>differences.
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>>	You're definatly correct their.
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>>>Hell, the only listed Arcane who seems much different from his fellows is
>the
>>>only one listed as cut off from the racial telepathic net. (LotSJ)
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>>	That was probably just so that PC's could kill him and not "pay
>>the price" (loose all contact with the arcane).
>>
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>No, actually his insanity was a majjor plot device for a possible method of
>escape, and he'e needed alive to make that escpae, as I recall.

I don't think he has to be alive...he's grown a flitter or something like
it, and IIRC he just wants to get the beholders Ioun stones before he
goes...IIRC.


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