[RPM] "Path of Energy ends where others begin". Huh?

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I still don't quite where you draw the line like that. There's the Halt spell (RPM44), which uses Greater Destroy Energy alone to directly disrupt the momentum of a machine or creature, and that seems to be a case of directly affecting a target. What is ambience in this sense anyway?

Likewise, there's Remove Reflection, which provides very fine control of light on the surface of an object, but works by Path of Energy alone.

Lesser Strengthen Energy alone is used to boost the reception in radios.

You're not affecting the target so much as the momentum. Yes it affects the target in that you need Subject Weight, but it's not directly affecting the target - it's affecting his inertia. Ditto for Remove Reflection. Your affecting the target's energy - not him. That's all that line means.