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Dashifen
post Jan 18 2007, 10:34 PM
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While perusing Street Magic and generating characters for a game I'm running this weekend, I came across the Sound elemental effect:

QUOTE ("Street Magic p. 165 (in sidebar)")
Sound hits the target with a wave of unbelievably loud noise and gut-churning vibrations.  Sound damage is treated as Stun damage.  Armor has no effect, but sound dampers and spells like Silence and Hush add their rating/hits to the defender's dice pool (effectively acting like sound armor).  If the target suffers more damage boxes than his Willpower, he suffers the effects of nausea (p. 245, SR4) and is deafened for 10 minutes.


Each of the other elemental effects have a visible result on the world around them (e.g., fire-element combat spells cause fire to appear). Blast is perhaps the only other one that doesn't, but the description of that effect clearly indicates that it can at "the gamemaster's discretion [knock over] objects with a Structure rating less than the Force [of the spell]." Thus, while the Blast effect may not be visible, the effects caused by the Blast element are visible.

The Sound element, however, doesn't seem to work like that. I guess what I'm getting at is this: if a mage cases a sound-element combat spell and you're not the target, do you hear a noise?

I want to say no because it's so much cooler when the target's ears bleed and he falls to the ground holding his gut and, if other can hear it, why don't they suffer damage when not targetted by it? But then the rest of me wants to say yes because the other effects are visible by everyone around the spell, even if they aren't specifically targeted by said spell.

Thoughts?
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- Dashifen   Sound Elemental Effect   Jan 18 2007, 10:34 PM
- - ixombie   Indirect combat spells don't behave exactly li...   Jan 18 2007, 10:47 PM
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