| From: | The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.ac.uk> |
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| Subject: | Re: FW: Asbestos suit ready... |
| Date: | Tue, 24 Sep 1996 15:02:36 +0100 (BST) |
> |Ok, in a recent PBEM game I was playing a sorcerer adept. I cast
> |clairvoyance and while looking around with the spell, stumbled across an elf
> |hiding in the brush. Well, this elf noticed he was being watched, and then
> |ground a spell through the "eye", which caused my character much grief as
> |his explosive rounds cooked off. Anyway, my question is, did the GM act
>
> But, I do have some of points you can raise.
>
> First, it's debatable as to whether or not you can ground
> through a sustained spell. But that's a GM call, IMHO. So
> in the game you play in it could be legal.
>
> Second, the elf was in physical space and grounded a
> spell? Would someone please correct me if I'm wrong (like
> it's never been done before :) but I thought it was only
> possible to ground spells from the astral plane.
He can ground a spell out if he was astrally perceiving I guess, which teh
elf would have to be doing to botice teh clairvoyance spell anyway.
> Third, if the elf grounded his spell through the eye, then
> that's where the spell would ground out through, hitting
> the elf and the surounding area, not the mage, IMHO. But
> this one's probably a GM call too.
And this si where it gets tricky, if you allow grounding through sustained
spells (which I personally do not) the GM has to decide whether teh
sustaining mage is the physical component of teh spell, or is merely
connected with the spell i.e. is astrally 'holding' it. If it is teh
former then the spell would ground out even if you weren't physically in
LOS. But if its teh latter then teh elf would have to have LOS to your
meat body (or aura if you had been astrally perceiving) to take you out;
and if he had LOS as he was in his physical body he could have toasted
you normally.
I would personally say that your meat body is the physical component of
your aura, not teh spell, and so he would need LOS. However I personally
would say teh spell has no physical component anyway and therefore can't
be grounded out through.
For my full explanation about all this read teh article called The Divide
on my WWW site.
By teh way, this is all IMHO! :)
The Digital Mage : mn3rge@****.ac.uk
"Life is a choice, Death....an obligation."-Me
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