| From: | The Digital Mage <mn3rge@****.ac.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Was GM fair? WAS:Asbestos suit ready.... |
| Date: | Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:13:45 +0100 (BST) |
> >Was this Elf astrally projecting?? If he was and he had the drop on you..You
> >got what you get..However, it sounds as though the Elf was NOT astrally
> >projecting..and in this case..it is impossible to ground spells..Plain and
> >simple..
>
> Well, it got worse when I asked that. I think at that point the GM realized his
error,
> and decided that the elf WAS projecting. Couldn't explain to me how his meat
> body turned and smiled at me, though, or how the meat body even knew he was
> being watched...
>
> BTW, I just remembered something I didn't mention before. I did not cast the spell,
> I activated a spell lock. The GM said he followed the spell back to me and grounded
> through the lock. I still say that I would've had time to react. A mage going astral
> is obvious, isn't it?
First of all an astrally perceiving mage can ground a spell through a
lock, but usually there is no point as because he is in his physical body
he can just spell cast normally (i.e. he doesn't need teh astral bridge to
teh physical plane).
Now correct me if I'm wrong but when you ground a spell out through a
spell lock, or such like, to also affect other targets within teh area
of effect you have to have LOS to them. Therefore in your example teh
physical component of teh spell lock would have been toast, as teh spell
grounded out into it, but the mage would be okay as teh elf didn't have
LOS.
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