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Snaps · 08-07-2012, 10:30 AM

Area Spells works just like Regular Spells (Pg. 11 of Magic). This means that they effect anything Human Sized within their area. For anything larger you'd need to spend extra energy, just like with a regular spell.

So if you cast a 50 yrd radius spell over a bunch of goblins and 10 foot tall trolls that are attacking, even though all of them are completely within the area of effect, you aren't going to effect the trolls. They are too big. You'd need to spend twice the energy in order to effect them (since they are SM+1).

So in your example, the tree is withing the area of effect, but too big to be effected. The player could have effected it though, he'd just have to pay a lot more energy

08-07-2012, 10:30 AM	#10
Snaps Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Provo, UT	Re: PLEASE HELP! Spell interpretation issue. Area Spells works just like Regular Spells (Pg. 11 of Magic). This means that they effect anything Human Sized within their area. For anything larger you'd need to spend extra energy, just like with a regular spell. So if you cast a 50 yrd radius spell over a bunch of goblins and 10 foot tall trolls that are attacking, even though all of them are completely within the area of effect, you aren't going to effect the trolls. They are too big. You'd need to spend twice the energy in order to effect them (since they are SM+1). So in your example, the tree is withing the area of effect, but too big to be effected. The player could have effected it though, he'd just have to pay a lot more energy