| From: | Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU> |
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| Subject: | Spell Targeting |
| Date: | Wed, 1 Mar 1995 23:20:00 +1100 |
> He hits everything in the area of effect if its a damaging manipulation -
> he gets to choose his targets (aligning the spell to their auras) if its a
> combat spell (Note that this also has a flipside - you canot hit targets
> that you canot see).
No a magician _cannot_ chose his victims when he casts an area effect spell.
The spell will get _everyone_ who is in the area of effect who the caster
can see. Also note that a mage cannot allocate spell defence dice to his
friends to protect against a spell he cast.
> if you ask me this means that you can avoid alligning the spell to the
> auras of those you dont want to hit.
Other than the fact both SR2 and the Grimything say otherwise ...
> Damaging manipulations on the other hand are a different thing...
Yes. They get _everyone_ in their area of effect, regardless of whether the
magician can see them or not. Think magical grenade.
Sean Sheridan writes:
> Damion Milliken said in his response to the question about combat spells
> in melee combat that a mage can only harm others with an AE combat spell
> if he can see their aura, and that all visible auras are effected.
> He then said that the casting magician is affected also. Can the mage
> actually see his own aura? Would he be seeing all of it?
Well, the book doesn't actually say if it gets the caster or not, but
somewhere (I'll look it up if neccessary) it says that magicians can cast
touch spells on themselves automatically. Using a bit of deductive logic on
this, we can assume therefore that the caster knows his or her own aura
pretty imtimately, and so they either "see" their aura all the time, or they
do not need to see their own aura to effect themselves. Couple this with the
"effects all targets in the area" bit about area effect spells, and they
mage will zap himself with the manaball too.
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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong E-mail: adm82@***.edu.au
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