Message no. 1

From:	Wafflemiesters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	persoanl barriers
Date:	Tue, 3 Mar 1998 01:08:47 -0600

About personal barriers:
The only description of the 'personal' effect I remember reading is
in the grimoire, in spell design, where it states that if a spell has
the 'personal' modification, it is considered cast at the caster, and
thus modifiers for voluntary target, touch or limited range e etc. is
inappliccable. I have not been able to find - anywhere - something
that says this changes the way the spell basically works. So I am
still very curious *where* it says that personal barrier spells are
'body armor'.

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Fade

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For certain spells, its the only sensable interpretation.
Case in point- assume you have a nice , high force, personal mana
barrier running. If that has a 6 meter radius, what hapens when the
living / astral attacker (lets say a manifest bug spirit, just for fear
factor) charges somebody standing right next to you. Nothing, right?
Its a persaonal mana barrier, after all. Doesn't protect you teamate.
Oh well. Okay, now he's done and he turns on you. OOPS- its already
inside the barrier. How did that happen?

If you assume the persoanal barrier is "form fit", this can't happen-
attacks onthesubject are always blocked, andtheonly ones that CAN be
blocked.

On the other hand, designing the spells without AoE and with "self"
range gives lower drain than listed for the "personal barries". Oh well.

Mongoose