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Originally Posted by starslayer
Intent is everything.
Is your goal moving a sailboat- then yes. You pay for the weight of the sailboat and the speed you want to move it at, then give it a duration for how long you want to move it around. If instead you are just battering an area with wind, then you pay for duration and speed, if there happens to be a sailboat there, it gets buffeted around (but expert control on someone in the boat can tack effectively against your wind)
The intent of the spell in question is clear, the caster is trying to destroy a bridge; the fluff of how is kind of irrelivant, want to destroy a bridge, pay to destroy the bridge.
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Except that you could simply have a spell which lifts 50 tons of stone and then... stops lifting it.
The spell doesn't cost more if you intend to drop the stone on someone's head, and it doesn't cost less if you just intend to make a big pile of rubble.
At any rate, it's downright trivial in RPM to demolish structures. Indirectly dropping a large boulder on someone may do a lot of damage, but it's much easier to dodge than a spell that straight-up does damage to everywhere that includes you.