[CF-Devel] DM - God Finger - bleah!

Sat May 29 08:10:55 CDT 2004

This is purely my opinion, but I think spying on someone brings up some
"net-personality rights" problems. It's like "Big Bro" and such things
should be considered.
I know some muds, but in the fair ones creators, game masters, call them
what you want have the spying ability while they _have_to_tell_this_ the
person they are spying on.
You could say "but even players can spy on others unnoticed", but anyone
who brings up such an argument surely does not understand an important
thing: It's about morality. DMs have responsibilities, not only rights.
(So there are some things DMs should never do what players can. Like
spying on others unnoticed. Don't forget - DMs have _powers_ as well!)
(And of course I know there might be situations that you have to spy on
someone _unnoticed_,like someone who is suspected of doing something
"illegal", but if you are fair enough to him and to yourself, after the
case you tell him the _reason_ of spying.)

Besides this all, I agree that DMs should see invisible in DM mode
automatically.(The see invisible spell is useless against God Finger
anyway. Or if it's not, I know there _is_ at least one item that grants
the wearer invisibility against which no "see invisible" spell works.)

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      Greetings Developers,

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      While in DM mode I noticed that DMs cannot "see invisible". A player

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      had equipped God Finger and was invisible to me even though I was DM.

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      I would think that DM, an all powerful being, would be able to see

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      invisible automatically without having to cast the spell "show

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      invisible". A problem player could use God Finger to keep a DM from

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      seeing what s/he was doing. Having to cast a spell to make the player

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      visible would defeat a DMs ability to hide and watch a problem player

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      that had equipped God Finger.

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      Another problem. Players should pass through DMs as if the DM is an

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      ethereal being. If bumped while hidden a player will try to push a

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      hidden DM. I'm betting they see something about this in the message

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      window. This sort of defeats the purpose of being hidden. If players

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      ALWAYS passed through a DM that would be a good thing I think. At the

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      least a player should pass through a DM when the DM is hidden.

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      So, what do you think? Am I being silly or are these something that

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      should be addressed? TIA

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      Gene (poof|Galahad)

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