Privacy in AD & D María Caridad García from Colombia AD & D is a popular role play game in which players represent characters who live in a fantasy world in where magic exists. The protection of privacy is an important issue if you want your character to survive. I want to write about the kinds of methods the characters, usually the mages, have for snooping into the life of another character. They don't have surveillance cameras, but they can use magic crystal balls to observe what the other characters are doing. If they want to listen in on conversations between other characters, they can make a clariaudience spell that allows them to listen in on the chats of those persons. Any mage can eavesdrop on your conversation. Another more dangerous way to spy on someone is to make an invisibility spell so they can monitor a person's private activities. The most impolite spell is 'know alignment" which allows the caster to know the 'aura', or the soul, of the person in order to know if he/she is a good or evil person. But
don't worry. There are many magical ways to protect
yourself from being monitored, taped, bugged,
eavesdropped on, or snooped on; so you only have to
make a couple of spells and your secrets will be
safe. Note: I have been a player of AD & D since 1992.
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