11-07-2014, 03:19 AM | #11 | |
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Platform Zero, Sydney, Australia
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Re: aiming missile spells
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11-07-2014, 10:47 PM | #12 | |
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Longmont, CO
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Re: aiming missile spells
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The NPC I was asking about this for has a Staff skill of 20 already and rather than upping Innate Attack to a high level also I wanted to couple it with her melee attacks. She is primarily a close combat/melee fighter anyway. And I find it easier to hit in melee (Feint, Deceptive Attack, multiple attacks, etc) than from a distance. Beginning combat with a prepped 6d or 9d Lightning spell doesn't do much good when it never hits. Thanks for all the answers, guys. I think I will probably end up perking it. It would fit in nicely as a style perk. |
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11-08-2014, 09:07 AM | #13 | |
Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: aiming missile spells
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Spells don't just automatically fizzle when blocked; if the spell isn't powerful enough to penetrate the shield, or you're not using those rules, then the spell physically impacts the shield... but if it's a direct damage spell with no area effect, it's not going to have any meaningful effect anyway. In the case of an area spell, like Concussion, the hex it's in when it hits someone's shield is the hex where it takes effect. I don't have my books with me so I can't look up what happens when you try to block area effect attacks with a shield. You certainly can aim for a shield, but since there's no penalty to hit the torso, where the spell will detonate whether they block it or not, there's probably no point unless you're specifically trying to destroy the shield, and if a player tries to get creative (e.g. using the blast from Concussion to knock a shield out of someone's hand) it may come down to a GM ruling. As for blocking all the time being annoying... why yes, it is! There are ways around this, including hitting people from behind, hitting them by surprise, destroying or taking away their shield, using area attacks (choking gas clouds, perhaps?) that can't be blocked, swarming them with attacks so they can't block them all, and so forth. |
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11-08-2014, 04:17 PM | #14 | ||
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: One Mile Up
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