[ericthered]

You know, I have a setting in which massive long range magic is a fairly common weapon of war (things like making it rain fire on opposing capitals or setting off volcano's prematurely). I hadn't thought about it before, but it'd be fun to require artillary to aim instead of using the ritual magic skill thats really about pulling off the massive power expenditure. And I just might be able to work forward observer in there... leading to a great escape scene for the heroes.