From: | "Richard C. Osterhout" <rcoster@*****.NET> |
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Subject: | Re: Did you guys read your mail? |
Date: | Sat, 7 Aug 1993 20:33:10 -0400 |
> Ah, I posted the DLoH ruling on grounding through a quickened spell
> twice in the past two hours (once off my head, then with the hardcopy
> before my very eyes). It said you CAN ground through ANy spell that affects
> the real world, whether Mana or Physical. Did the post get out or
> have you read all your mail yet?
>
> J Roberson
yes, but my point was that the way the rules read (at least the way i read
them) in the rule book (pg 149 of SRII) and the way tom dowd explained it
at gencon last year, you ground spells when there is a *physical*
component, such as a foci or a dual natured being or even a mage using
astral perception (there has to be a presence on both planes, astral AND
mundane)...the attacking mage can cast a spell from astral space, and have
it affect the mundane plane...on page 148 col 2 near the bottom it further
says that a mage cannot cast a spell at another spell...therefore, you
cannot cast a spell at a quickened spell (which also has no physical
presence on the mundane plane) and have it ground out....when you are
grounding a spell through a focus, you are not casting the spell at the
spell or effect that the focus provides, but at the astral presence/aura
of that focus....