| From: | Jeremiah Stevens <jeremiah@********.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: At a LOS |
| Date: | Tue, 2 Dec 1997 11:23:17 -0500 |
> Lehlan Decker wrote:
> /
> / Who says the spell has to go in a straight line? I don't see
> / a person jumping between the mage and the target causing the spell
> / to go prematurely. The spell would just go around them, since the
> / mage synched the spell with the target aura. (I think there are
> / references to this in awakening and the BBB, but I don't have them
> / with me at the moment).
>
> Where ever it is that the rules discus casting spells using mirrors
> it says that spells travel along a straight line frome the caster to
> his target, not from the caster to the mirror to the target. That
> implies that spells travel in a straight line.
>
> If someone jumped between the mage and his target I would rule that
> it would either break the mages LOS (he couldn't see the target so he
> couldn't cast the spell) or cover modifiers would be applied to the
> mage's target number. Because the mage does sync the spell with his
> target, and if he can't see the target he can't sync the spell (can't
> cast the spell).
But, combat spells are instantaneous, thus, by the time the target had a
chance to do anything, the spell would already be off and running. Once
the spell has been synched with the target's aura, it attacks the target,
moving around anything in its way. Thus, the only time that a person could
interrupt spellcasting would be during the aura-synchronization process.
However, this would be virtually impossible for mundanes or non-astral
mages, since, by the time spell casting was noticed, the spell would
already be cast.
