From:	Twist0059@***.com Twist0059@***.com
Subject:	Targetting with Anchoring
Date:	Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:03:03 EDT

In a message dated 7/7/99 1:14:17 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gurth@******.nl
writes:

>
> > But what if there is more than 1 elf. Does the spell allow you to hit
> > any elf or does it hit any elf. IE. It validates the targets or it
> > actually chooses one itself. If the latter...would it be random (the
> > mysteries of magic) or closest target or what?
>
> I'd say the closest target, and if two or more are equally far away from
> the anchoring, I'd determine randomly. Note that I have no particular
> reason for this, except that it "feels right" to use the closest target.


Better to Detect Enemy than something generic like Detect Elf. It also
doesn't require you to pull out the wand, activate it, and then have it
detect the Elf. What happens is it detects the elf without any help from you
(hence the reason for the detection spell) and then blasts him/her. I'd say
the first person to step into the detection area would get blasted.



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