From:	Cobra <wgallas@*****.FR>
Subject:	Re: Question about Barriers
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 09:47:36 +0200

>This time the topic is regarding the Physical Barrier spell. Is it
>possible to cast a physical barrier in the "wall form factor," and then
>move that barrier around? I think what the player has in mind is
>dropping down an elevator shaft, and throwing a phsyical barrier
>up against the wall where the doors are and sliding his barrier
>down the wall as he decends in case the doors pop open and people with
>assault rifles are standing there.
>
>The description for the spell in the BBB describes the spell manifesting
>as either a "dome" or as a "flat wall." A "personal physical
barrier"
>obviously moves around it's caster (right?) - but what about the big full
>blown version?
>
>What is the correct interpretation of this?

Nobody can give you the correct interpretation but rather interpretation
with some arguments.

At first, the personnal barrier only means that you can only cast the spell
on you. That means that it is linked to you (since centered on you doesn't
apply with a wall). This doesn't allow you to cast it on a friend.

Then, I would state that an area effect spell moves with the target at
which it is cast. If you center the spell on you, it moves with you. If you
cast it on someone else or on a place, it moves with him or it.
Since barrier isn't a classical area effect effect spell, you need to
consider the objective of the caster. If the caster wants a wall before
him, the wall will be linked to him. If the caster wants a wall behind the
door, then the wall will be linked to the door.

- Cobra.