01-08-2014, 12:53 PM | #21 |
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Re: [RPM] Low-End Grimoire
Wait, is this the answer to Area versus Ranged? If it's that the spell makes you able to detect things, it's Area, but if it makes things detectable, it's ranged?
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01-08-2014, 01:03 PM | #22 | |
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If you were to reverse it, and give Detect Secret Door Ranged instead of Area, you'd probably just find the nearest secret door, and that would be it. Seek Person using Area would cost more - a lot more - to cover the same range, but would have the added advantage of locating everyone that meets your criteria. Essentially, Area lets you detect/affect/whatever a lot of stuff, Ranged lets you detect/affect/whatever one thing. You can, of course, combine the two to detect a lot of stuff within, say, a 10 yard radius that happens to be 1 mile away from you... At least, that's how I interpret it. |
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01-08-2014, 01:23 PM | #23 | |
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01-08-2014, 01:26 PM | #24 |
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Re: [RPM] Low-End Grimoire
For Altered traits. Area spells can only be used at most 2 yards from you - with Ranged you can afflict a Area at range. Otherwise. I'm a tad confused. Could you bullet point specific questions and I'll do my best to help here. :-)
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01-08-2014, 01:46 PM | #25 | |
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Is it sufficient to say that Area and Range are both useful for seek spells, but that the former will find all instances in the area while the latter will find the closest instance within range? |
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01-08-2014, 02:02 PM | #26 |
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Re: [RPM] Low-End Grimoire
Basically, if you are going after a Magic-style Seek spell it's Long Distance Range and then a Area of Effect to find all instances of that type of object/phenomena/etc. in a area. So for example, If you want to find all instances of a iron in a 60 yard area 2 miles away you'd need a spell with a Area of Effect of 60 yards and a Long Distance range of 2 miles. Does that make sense?
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01-08-2014, 02:09 PM | #27 | |
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Pretty sure I've always understood when you'd use both Area and Range, just not necessarily when you'd use one over the other. |
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01-08-2014, 02:12 PM | #28 |
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Re: [RPM] Low-End Grimoire
Long Distance would let you find the nearest orc to you and ignore all the others (if there are any). Area would find the nearest one and any others within the effect.
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01-08-2014, 02:23 PM | #29 |
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Re: [RPM] Low-End Grimoire
And, JP42, note that Long Distance is far cheaper. Detecting the nearest orc within 100 miles would be something like Lesser Sense Body (2), Range 100 miles (6), for a total of 8 energy. Detecting all orcs within 100 miles would be something like Lesser Sense Body (2), Area 100 miles (32), for a total of 34 energy - over 4x as much.
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01-08-2014, 02:25 PM | #30 | |
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