| From: | "Wendy Wanders, Subject 117" <KGGEWEHR@******.ACS.MUOHIO.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Area Spells |
| Date: | Mon, 28 Jul 1997 11:47:16 -0500 |
> Here's another "thought experiment":
> A magician casts a physical area-of-effect spell
> at a point in the middle of a wheat field. Does it
> only effect the wheat stalks towards the front that
> he can see well, does it effect a nice neat circle
> in the crop, or does it effect a few dozen or so
> stalks that happen to be the ones his mind
> "noticed"? Substitute a crowd in a passing
> subway car if you think a field of wheat is too
> boring...
Well, in a wheat field, you stand tall enough to see down over the stalks
further back, and would hit all but a few odd ones. The crowd of people, well,
you can't see them, a Combat spell can't hit them. Use a DM, if you want to
hit them around the 'cover' of the poor slags in front of them.
losthalo
