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Message no. 1
From: The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.AC.UK>
Subject: Grounding (was Re: Spelllocks....)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:06:37 +0000
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Robert Watkins wrote:

> As an interesting point... the fact that spells ground out at the target
> indicate that grounding through foci should, by rights, require an
> area-effect spell to hurt the holding mage. It must get tangled up in the
> aura or something, for a personal spell to hit the mage.
Yes I was just thinking about that last night. I rationalised it by saying
that the aura of a living being extends 6 inches from their physical bosy
and therefore 'envelopes' the foci to some degree causing the spell to
attack both.

My next question was, if two people are holding a foci at the same time,
can you hit both with a single target spell? (Maybe you have to use the
multiple target rules or something).

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Message no. 2
From: Guido Hölker <guido@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Grounding (was Re: Spelllocks....)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:47:05 +0100
>My next question was, if two people are holding a foci at the same time,
>can you hit both with a single target spell? (Maybe you have to use the
>multiple target rules or something).

You can't at all because you need an area-effect spell for grounding
(otherwise you would only attack the focus itself..)

G.
Message no. 3
From: Georg Greve <greve@*******.HANSE.DE>
Subject: Re: Grounding (was Re: Spelllocks....)
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:11:47 GMT
Guido Hölker (guido@******.COM) wrote:
: >My next question was, if two people are holding a foci at the same time,
: >can you hit both with a single target spell? (Maybe you have to use the
: >multiple target rules or something).
: You can't at all because you need an area-effect spell for grounding
: (otherwise you would only attack the focus itself..)

Not true - a grounded spell hits the person that is in possession of
the focus if it is a single-target spell.

Later,
Georg

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Message no. 4
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Grounding (was Re: Spelllocks....)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 10:46:48 +0100
Guido Hoelker said on 15:47/10 Dec 96...

> You can't at all because you need an area-effect spell for grounding
> (otherwise you would only attack the focus itself..)

And the person holding it.

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