From:	Iridios iridios@*****.com
Subject:	Barriers'n'stuff
Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 1999 23:24:43 -0400

Rand Ratinac wrote:

> > Right, although if the DM has the elemental effect
> of blast (or just seems blast-like) I'd probably have
> the blast barrier block it.
> > Da Twink Daddy
>
> So you're saying that a blast barrier would block the
> "physical component" of fireballs, hellblasts and
> other explosive spells because they WILL possess the
> "blast" effect when they go off?

Fireballs don't have a blast component. Do they? Not having read
Mits, I'm not completely sure how DM spells travel. Spells like
fireball and hellblast would probably have a small globe of energy
travel to the target (the physical component of the spell), they would
then "go off" at the target. This would, IMO, bypass the barrier as
there is no blast yet (and in the case of fireball, no blast at all
(IMO)). Now a hellblast going off outside the barrier would be
stopped (or reduced) by a blast barrier.

A spell barrier and/or a physical barrier should be able to the DM
spell just fine.


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Iridios
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