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trooper6 · 01-04-2016, 12:49 PM

Minor/Major/Great Healing are Regular Spells, not Touch Spells...so the mage doesn't have to touch the Fighter for the spell to work.

Yes, you have range penalty...but as per M13, "Pointing with a staff reduces the range to a distant subject by the length of the staff. This is valuable for Regular spells, as a one-yard wand shaves -1 off distance penalties, while a two-yard quarterstaff eliminates -2! You can point as part of the ritual to cast a spell. Tell the GM you are pointing at the subject when you start concentrating. (This might warn an unwilling subject!)"

This means if your staff ends in the same hex as your target, you don't have to touch them, and you don't have a range penalty.

01-04-2016, 12:49 PM	#5
trooper6 Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Medford, MA	Re: Healing in active combat, how to heal allied PC Minor/Major/Great Healing are Regular Spells, not Touch Spells...so the mage doesn't have to touch the Fighter for the spell to work. Yes, you have range penalty...but as per M13, "Pointing with a staff reduces the range to a distant subject by the length of the staff. This is valuable for Regular spells, as a one-yard wand shaves -1 off distance penalties, while a two-yard quarterstaff eliminates -2! You can point as part of the ritual to cast a spell. Tell the GM you are pointing at the subject when you start concentrating. (This might warn an unwilling subject!)" This means if your staff ends in the same hex as your target, you don't have to touch them, and you don't have a range penalty.