From:	"Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject:	Re: Damaging Manipulation Spells
Date:	Mon, 16 Sep 1996 08:37:32 GMT

Ubiquitous writes

> >I've found damaging manipulations nice for a couple of reasons:
> >
> >1). Though an initiate may be able to add shielding dice to his body in
> >resisting, the shielding doesn't raise my T#'s for casting because my T#
> >is a base 4 as per ranged combat not his BOD or WILL.
>
> Even without shielding, this is a much nicer target number when
> casting at those big nasty Body 10 trolls.
>
yes.

> >2). You can call a shot just as if you were shooting him in the head
> >with an Ares Predator (raising damaging category, bypassing armor, and
> >so on) not to mention you can target a particular area of a room and not
> >have to ground through someone to get the spell off.
>
> Hmm, never thought of doing that before. I presumed the effect wasn't fine
> enough to use targeting rules like that.
>
i don't think you are allowed to target sections of things with
spells at all. Though it should be possible with damaging
manipulation on large enough objects. eg pick the door out of the
wall.

> Grounding?!?!?! Now you've
> done it! *grin* >
I think the idea was you don't have to centre the spell on someone,
folfs often stand 10M appart in SR because manaballs etc have to be
centred on a living target, hence the 10m gap requires a 10M Radius
spell. With damaging manipulations however anywhere is valid, ie two
goons 10M appart, drop the spell between them and if its over 5M
radius they both get hit!

10M is popular as its enough over 6M to discourage increased radius
and allows for bad guys with 1-3 grades of initiation.

Mark