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TwangCat
  Posted: Feb 5 2004, 11:10 PM
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There is some debate in my group over how Nature Sense works. The player treats it as a suppernatural ability giving automatic knowlege if something natural is poison ect. regardless of circumstances. I think that it's more like wolf lore, an understanding that it's not good for them, but if it's something wolves haven't seen before or at least within the last couple hundred years, the nature sense shouldn't work. The example in game is in a mirror world where poison is a serious issue because the wildlife and plant life were hit by biological warfare and so it's not the planet where wolves are, in fact that are no wolves or anything similar in this world. An alternat example I would like considered is if wolves don't exist in Sanchan and the party is in Sanchan should nature sense work on plants that only exist in sanchan, we know there are things, like coffee.
so three questions
1 - is nature sense a suppernatural ability?
2- if it is should it work in a mirror world?
3 - should it work in Sanchan provided there are no wolves there?

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Targul
Posted: Feb 5 2004, 11:18 PM
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I would say that it is a supernatural ability.

That it should work in a mirror world. It's a mirror to the regular world so what is natural in one should be natural in another right.

And I believe it should work anywhere. I don't think it has anything to do with some type of communication with wolves. You aren't sending the scent to your four-legged brothers and asking them. I see it more like sensing through your heightened senses that there is something wrong with what you are ingesting and as to the plants and animals I would say that it is a natural instinct as to their traits.


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MagusRogue
Posted: Feb 5 2004, 11:23 PM
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I agree with Tarqul's statements. You have to remember what the Wolfbrother prestige class does. It's not just a set of powers, it's your evolution from human to a walking wolf. only thing you miss is teeth and claws.


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TwangCat
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 12:15 AM
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but how would wolves know if they had never encountered it before?
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Sharn Penndroen
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 02:46 AM
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I think there is very little that wolves have not seen. Keep in mind that they are tied to the wheel and are continuously reborn. Time without in they have been there. They probably even have memories of the jocars and all that jazz. Just my two cents. I'd say that under most all conditions Nature Sense would work.


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MagusRogue
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 03:01 AM
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Wolves are also older than humans.... As Elyas says so.


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Sharn Penndroen
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 03:03 AM
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Exactly.


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MagusRogue
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 03:10 AM
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wow, surprised wolfbrother hasn't posted here yet. cool.gif


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Entropic_existence
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 04:50 AM
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Personally I think Nature Sense stems purely from the wolfbrothers heightened senses and has nothing to do with their communication with wolves. I mean if you have a nose good enough to smell the pheremones for various emotional states...I don;t think it's too hard to detect the scent produced by that toxin the poisoner just slipped into your wine. Maybe they can't positively identify the exact poison if they haven't encountered it before but they will know that the wine smells...wrong.

Out in the wilderness if your talking natural plants the same sort of thing applies...we don't have the senses capable of smelling plant toxins unfortunately but most naturally occuring harmful toxins tend to have rather distinct odors (the ones we can smell). I'm sure there is enough similarity that the wolfbrother will be able to tell when something is off.


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Blaeric Fen
Posted: Feb 6 2004, 06:36 PM
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I, personally, think that the nature sense ability would work no matter what. It doesn't say that it works on ONLY things that wolves have come in contact with. It's just an extra warning device.


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