02-11-2019, 08:01 AM | #2 |
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Re: Staff in your corner
I've been visualizing the occult strike is more like a static discharge blast than a targeted bolt of arcane energy.
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02-11-2019, 08:20 AM | #4 |
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Re: Staff in your corner
I would think both, right?
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02-11-2019, 09:39 AM | #6 | |
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Re: Staff in your corner
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Second, the wizard must be aware of anyone they want to target with the 'occult strike'. I would expect that the rules assume you can see a target in your rear hexes by quickly glancing over your shoulder, right? That simple action should be sufficient to then unleash an 'occult strike' against said opponent I think.
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02-11-2019, 10:58 AM | #7 | ||
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02-11-2019, 01:38 PM | #9 | ||
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Re: Staff in your corner
A spell can be cast into adjacent side or rear hexes.
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I do think it's an unfortunate spell ability in that it is a bit peculiar and unclear what it implies for roleplaying situations - it does seem to require an ability to sense who is within 2 hexes of you in any direction, even if there were a wall or shadow or complete darkness or the caster is blind or something, which in an RPG wants more than a combat rule in terms of what that power is and whether you can use it to understand who is where around you for other purposes, or not, and in what circumstances it works or not, etc. Personally, I would tend to want to reduce it to targets you could cast a spell on because you know they are there from your own senses, and to not let it zap through walls or other figures, etc. But if it does intend a 2-hex sphere of awareness, then I'd want to flesh that out and maybe apply it to invisible and astral figures, etc. But as with most of the new staff powers, I'd tend to want those to be their own spells rather than bonus abilities you get just for having an already great-and-needed power the staff gives you (i.e. staff mana). Last edited by Skarg; 02-11-2019 at 01:41 PM. |
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02-11-2019, 01:43 PM | #10 |
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Re: Staff in your corner
Yes, but that doesn't make it right. How do you 'wear' a staff?
My impression is that the 'occult strike' works like none of those spell types (which is one my issues the the Staff spells as currently implemented TBH).
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