From:	Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject:	Barriers'n'stuff
Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 1999 04:51:11 +0100 (BST)

> Fireballs don't have a blast component. Do they?

Well, by blast (as in blast barrier), I'm thinking
explosion, not the actual blast elemental effect. And,
IMO, fireballs are pretty explosive. If I'm
interpreting the blast barrier (or fireball) spell
badly, let me know. I see the blast barrier spell as a
spell designed to protect against all kinds of
explosions, magical or otherwise. Maybe I should give
that one a different name.

> 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)).

That would've been my interpretation for a blast
barrier. But would a plain barrier (stop all physical
junk) stop the physical component?

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

To...stop?

But, AFAIK, there's no such thing as a spell (mana)
barrier anymore. Unless I've missed something, the
closest thing to the old mana barrier is an astral
barrier. Now that WOULD, obviously, stop the spells,
as it stops all astral travel and the physical
component of a DM spell also exists on the astral. But
there aren't any physical barriers that'll stop
spells. So what would happen if an ASTRAL barrier
stopped the spell? Fizzle or detonate where it was
stopped?


====Doc'
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