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nerdvana 03-30-2011 05:03 PM

Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack
 
Is it Contact Agent or Melee Attack (C range)? Both are -30% so I figure it doesn't "really" matter what the official answer is, but I'm curious which is "right" for this.

mlangsdorf 03-30-2011 05:06 PM

Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack
 
Melee reduces it to a touch attack.

Contact Agent can be applied to ranged or melee attacks, and requires that the attack hit bare skin. It is stopped by any DR that isn't Tough skin. You definitely don't want to use Contact Agent to represent a melee attack.

PK 03-30-2011 05:16 PM

Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack
 
Use Melee Attack to make it a touch-only attack. Then you also add Contact Agent (for a total of -60% or -65%) if you have to touch bare skin.

nerdvana 03-30-2011 05:27 PM

Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack
 
This is to emulate haveing to touch an object you are enchanting magically, so this sounds like Melee Attack (-30%), Contact Agent (-30%) and some sort of Accessiblity. I currently have the accessiblity set to -30% for "Properly crafted object. Does this sound right?

David Johnston2 03-30-2011 05:57 PM

Re: Proper Limitation to make Affliction a touch attack
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by nerdvana (Post 1148243)
This is to emulate haveing to touch an object you are enchanting magically, so this sounds like Melee Attack (-30%), Contact Agent (-30%) and some sort of Accessiblity. I currently have the accessiblity set to -30% for "Properly crafted object. Does this sound right?

Contact Agent functionally limits acceptable targets to living things. Anything that has DR but not the skin armor limitation can't be contacted.


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