Re: Sulfuric Vortex

Sorcier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>David DeLaney wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 13:01:19 -0500, Sorcier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Chris Wiegert wrote:
>> >>     Form of the Dragon is one idea, but I'm not sure if the life-resetting
>> >> part of it is considered "life gain" so this may not work.
>> >
>> >Hm, it says, "becomes 5", not "gain enough to reach 5".
>> 
>> That is a gain if your life was less than 5, and a loss if your life total
>> was more than 5. Sulfuric Vortex will stop the former from occurring.
>
>Just as an aside: Damage is always a loss, 

Right. ("Zero damage" == no damage == nothing happened == no life loss, of
course.)

>but losses aren't always damage, correct?

Right. It has to say 'damage' to be damage; direct life loss ("You lose 2
life") and 'life total setting/shifts' - Biorhythm, Lich, Blessed Wind,
Mirror Universe, etc. - aren't damage and can't be prevented by damage
prevention, or "caused to be dealt elsewhere instead" by damage-redirection.

>I was going for a similar take.
>"Setting" and "Gaining" sometimes have similar effect, but I wasn't
>ready 
>to just assume that one really causes the other.

Setting to a higher value = gaining. Setting to a lower value = loss. Setting
to the same value, which can happen, is neither a gain nor a loss.

Dave
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