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Sam Baughn · 09-09-2015, 01:06 PM

I'd say that 20% isn't quite enough.

Here's my reasoning: a -20% accessibility limitation is what you get for an ability which is useful about half the time. In an average fight at least half the people involved are likely to be friendly targets, possibly more if you are fighting somewhere with friendly non-combatants. The chances that the closest person in front of you is someone you don't want to fry seems very likely to be more than 50%. You can tilt the odds in your favour by positioning yourself, but accessibility limitations already assume that you do something like that. So -20% would be a bare minimum for the limitation value. Then you need to account for the fact that the closest enemy is unlikely to be the best target, so that adds a nuisance effect, which is surely worth another -5% at the very least.

So I'd say around -30% would be closer to my estimate of what only being able to hit the closest target would be worth.

09-09-2015, 01:06 PM	#8
Sam Baughn Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and some other bits.	Re: [Sorcery] Special Lightning Spell I'd say that 20% isn't quite enough. Here's my reasoning: a -20% accessibility limitation is what you get for an ability which is useful about half the time. In an average fight at least half the people involved are likely to be friendly targets, possibly more if you are fighting somewhere with friendly non-combatants. The chances that the closest person in front of you is someone you don't want to fry seems very likely to be more than 50%. You can tilt the odds in your favour by positioning yourself, but accessibility limitations already assume that you do something like that. So -20% would be a bare minimum for the limitation value. Then you need to account for the fact that the closest enemy is unlikely to be the best target, so that adds a nuisance effect, which is surely worth another -5% at the very least. So I'd say around -30% would be closer to my estimate of what only being able to hit the closest target would be worth.