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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Turn to goo spell effects
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:00:55 +0200
According to Phil Smith, at 8:41 on 17 Jun 00, the word on the street
was...

> With area effect spells the ruling is easy; it can't effect anything bigger
> than it's AOE.

That's exactly the problem: what's the area of effect of a single-target
spell?

> Except having said that, a target might only just excede the
> spell's size in which case it should be effected. Basically I would say
> that a spell can not target a whole building without having the exteneded
> range option on it.

Extended area, surely. Still, a typical house could fit into the sphere
that is the area of effect of an area-effect spell with little trouble,
unless the magician happens to have lost some Magic points.

> Okay, this is a more difficult topic than I thought it would be. The
> thought of being able to turn buildings to goo is a bit too dangerous to be
> allowed ("the prototype's in this one? Okay then...").

Except that in that case, the goo-ed building covers everything you may
want to get out of it, so you'll have to search through the mess...

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