From:	00DNA mcmanus@******.albany.edu
Subject:	Targetting with Anchoring
Date:	Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:42:40 -0400

>> > 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?


At 04:03 PM 7/7/99 -0400, Twist0059@***.com wrote:
>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.

Well, I know how that works, but that's not what I'm going after. I'm
thinking of a wand that hold powerbolt or some other combat spell that can
be used when the user wants it to (hence requiring a trigger). Your
example is similar to the Detect Bullet and Bullet Barrier Combination...I
don't want an automatic thing at all...in a different section it says that
if you want the spell to target Anything besides the focus or the user then
you still have to include a detection spell. And it doesn't say how it's
used in that case...I mean not as an automatic detection. I picked Detect
Elf because the book uses either Detect Elf or Detect Ork as an example.
What I was really thinking is Detect Life...if indeed the Detection spell
in this case is just target validation and not target acquisition.
And besides...Detect Enemy...what if this is not for an Enemy...


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