From:	Florian Schaetz (Irian) iryan@********.de
Subject:	senses and magical targets
Date:	Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:02:43 +0200

> >Perhaps it'd be a good idea to pop this can o' worms open... why is it,
> >exactly, that metahuman magicians rely on line of sight to cast spells?
> >I agree that you should be able to cast spells at things you're touching;
> >this would make playing a blind magician a good bit more viable...

And magemasks totaly senseless...

> >On a note that's more likely to come up, could a troll or dwarf mage (who
> >would tend to think of infravision as a normal part of sight) zap
> >somebody who was trying to hide behind something by the heat signature?

In this case, I would say: No, because there's no direct sight-line to the
target's aura....

Irian