| From: | Ubiquitous <weberm@*******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: [SR2] Spell Targetting -aura |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Sep 1996 15:29:05 -0400 (EDT) |
>I have come across something interesting though. S/R II, page 130,
>under Spell Targeting is a sentence that says, "A magician cannot,
>however, cast spells directly at invisible beings or beings in astral
>space by using enhanced vision or astral perception." Later on is
>another sentence that says, "A good rule of thumb is that magicians
>must be able to see their target with their own eyes or a natural
>extension of those eyes."
I'm not sure about the part that mentions astral perception, but I know
mages cannot cast spells while using digital vision-enhancing equipment.
>Does this mean that a spell caster cannot shift to the astral plane and
>see past someone under an invisibility spell or an unmanifested spirit
>lurking around and then hit them with a spell? The reason I ask is that
>it's been common practice with my mages to astrally perceive to bypass
>lighting modifiers, I don't apply the +2 perceiving modifier with spell
>casting.
I'm not sure about whether a mage can cast spells at targets with an invisbility
spell on them, but I'm sure a perceiving mage cannot cast spells at fully
astral targets.
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"I dyde shyte thre grete toordes." Fables of Aesop,
Caxton translation,
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