[RPM] Potential Energy

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

If you conjure the boulder above them, this is essentially indirect fire, and probably will miss, without doing some kind of fire direction, or having an aiming sensor collocated with the boulder.

The character would need to use a rangefinder (possibly a range-finding ritual) or relevant skill to figure out the distance from himself to the target, then summon the boulder 50 yards above that point. I had originally* written a response to your note of needing Dropping skill with something along the lines of "I'd be fine with requiring a skill roll to actually hit the target," but looks like I failed to paste that into my response to Humabout.

*(I very nearly did it again with my response to Ghostdancer, hence this response being a late edit here)

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

Why aren't you just using damage?

I like the idea of rewarding the character for using a more roundabout method of creating the effect.

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

Calculate the amount of HP a bridge has and go from there. Alternatively, figure it's weight and use Transform to turn it into air. I'd also give the bridge a bonus to its resistance roll equal to its total SM.

As it stands, there are at least three mechanically distinct ways to use Path of Matter to destroy a bridge (or castle wall, or whatever) - External Damage to fling a chunk of matter at it (might be able to get away with Lesser Create Matter - the chunk doesn't need to be complex - and Lesser Control Matter - to fling it forward or make it fall incredibly fast to cause damage without need for build up, although I could see cause to boost the latter to Greater Control Matter), Internal Damage to make it break apart (Greater Destroy Matter due to the damage needed), or simply bypassing the need to damage it by reshaping it into a form that cannot support its own weight (via Lesser Transform Matter; Greater Transform Matter to transmute it to air might not be an ideal option here, as presumably the bridge would return to normal once Duration expired). Is it really so bad to add another option, conjuring a stone above a bridge and letting gravity do the work?