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 Nov 14 2005, 08:19 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 600 Joined: 31-August 05 Member No.: 7,659  |
In the section on astral perception it says that while astrally perceiving you can cast mana spells at astral targets. Can you also target street sams, etc with spells? What penalty to your casting roll?
Saturday we had a battle in the dark and while most people had negatives due to visabilty the mage could target ultra-stealthy enemies with impunity. Is there no modifiers for this? |
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Nov 14 2005, 08:32 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
while you can see a street sam from the astral, you can pass straight thru him. basicly you can only target a astraly solid target while on the astral.
astraly solid targets are spirits, even while materialized as they then are dual beings. other dual beings, like say ghouls and dragons. astraly active magicans, be it via perception or projection. and allso the astral side of a active foci. the rest are visible but ghostly nonsolid objects and creatures. |
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Nov 14 2005, 08:38 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Banned Posts: 3,732 Joined: 1-September 05 From: Prague, Czech Republic Member No.: 7,665 |
If you are astrally projecting, your spells cannot target physical enemies and physical enemies cannot target you.
If you are astrally perceiving, your spells can target physical or astral opponents and physical and astral opponents can target you. So yes, an astrally perceiving magician has the best of both worlds when it comes to shooting manabolts at enemies. He can see enemies with physical or magical vision and target them with spells on either plane. It's hillarious. But it requires that you allow enemies on the astral to attack you without giving yourself the bonus speed of being an astral form yourself, so it's pretty dangerous. -Frank |
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Nov 14 2005, 08:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 511 Joined: 24-March 05 From: On a ledge between Heaven and Hell Member No.: 7,226 |
Well first he would be considered dual natured so anything Astral could attack him without materializing. This would make him a better target for enemy spirits.
While performing a physical task while astrally perceiving your at -2 dice. I would say this would override darkness penalties. Astrally perceiving magician can cast spells on a target in either the physical world or Astral. pg 173 Still looking but can't seem to find it yet. |
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Nov 14 2005, 09:00 PM
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panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
why oh why did i not spot that he was talking about perception?
i must have rule-of-one'd my own perception roll. not a good day to be me this one... |
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Nov 14 2005, 10:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 388 Joined: 24-October 05 Member No.: 7,885 |
don't forget unless you're a dual natured bieng hehe. |
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Nov 14 2005, 11:01 PM
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Hoppelhäschen 5000 Group: Members Posts: 5,807 Joined: 3-January 04 Member No.: 5,951 |
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Nov 14 2005, 11:28 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,718 Joined: 14-September 02 Member No.: 3,263 |
However that quote still leaves the queston open, is does "almost everything in physical space" include the lighting conditions in physical space? In the past i believe you could still have lighting modifiers in the Astral as you were relying on the glow from nearby auras, including the normally present from the giasphere, to see things that had no aura. But if the giasphere glow is blocked, can you see nonliving things at a distance? EDIT: Of course targeting a person that's in the dark isn't normally going to have the lighting penalty. Just the -2 penalty. The problem can only arise for things like targeting a physical spell on an unmanned drone in the dark. |
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