 Aura Thickness, How thick is your aura? |
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 Aug 18 2003, 07:05 PM
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Shooting Target  Group: Members Posts: 1,965 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 2,032  |
If someone is wearing a rapid-transit heavy jumpsuit; is their aura still visible? What about hardened military grade armour? Is it visible if someone is on the other side of a thin wall (think office cubicle separator)?
Just some points to ponder. |
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Aug 18 2003, 07:12 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,359 Joined: 25-June 02 From: Vancouver, B.C., Canada (go Canucks!) Member No.: 2,904 |
I tend to think that clothes (like jumpsuits) which generaly form to the wearer to some degree are considered a part of the person wearing them, thus not hiding your aura at all. As long as your humanoid shape is recognizable, your aura shows. That's why being behind a car's tinted glass blocks mana spells while normal glass doesn't. And I base this on absolutely nothing.
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Aug 18 2003, 07:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 639 Joined: 22-April 02 Member No.: 2,638 |
SR2 used to have rules about aura visibility (back when seeing an aura was a pre-req to spellcasting). According to those rules, only the thickest milspec armor offered any obstacle to aura visibility. IIRC, it didn't prevent targetting outright, but created a target number modifier instead, i.e., partial cover.
SR3 stripped this out of the rules, so it's really up to the GM's interpretation. |
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Aug 18 2003, 07:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 287 Joined: 28-March 03 From: In the middle of the SOX Member No.: 4,350 |
Huh? I understood the rules to say that any solid obstacle, even if see-through in the real world, blocks astral perception, which is what Lilt asked. Now if you're talking about targeting a spell, that's something else, as anything that blocks LOS makes it impossible to target the spell. SR2 required aura perception to cast a directed spell? You mean the mage has to be astrally perceiving at the time he casts? And accept the +2 modifier associated with that? I don't think so. |
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Aug 18 2003, 08:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 214 Joined: 8-June 03 Member No.: 4,696 |
The +2 only applies to mundane tasks, not magical ones. Casting spells or summoning spirits while perceiving doesn't incur the penalty, nor does, say, assensing or removing spell traces. |
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Aug 19 2003, 02:49 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 639 Joined: 22-April 02 Member No.: 2,638 |
No. All I said was that you had to be able to see the aura, i.e., you possessed the power of astral perception. Again, that was because all magic flowed between auras. Therefore, if you couldn't see auras, you couldn't cast spells. SRII, P.149:
From the same page, regarding armor:
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Aug 19 2003, 09:22 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,965 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Edinburgh, Scotland Member No.: 2,032 |
Ah. Thanks for those quotes. Any chance of a vague description of the effect different armors had on casting TN?
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Aug 19 2003, 09:30 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 289 Joined: 17-August 03 From: The Waves. Care to Join Me? Member No.: 5,505 |
As one who can see auras (yeah, yeah, call me a kook if you want) I can say that the thickness of clothes does not diminish the size of your aura to sight. The aura surrounds you irrespective of how thick you are.
However you have to see the person to see their aura. I can see the aura of someone through a screen door but not through a normal door. Heh, basing rules on the personal experience of a weirdo... :D |
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Aug 19 2003, 02:02 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 338 |
Bung.
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Aug 19 2003, 02:03 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 40 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 338 |
If you really wanted to get technical about these things, you should also note that an aura would fluctuate in size due to emotional states, as well as magical power and state of health. The aura will always be visible past clothing and armor, but there would be various stages of visability.
If you want to get really jabby about it, it would probably be harder to see someone's aura with an essence of 0.1, than it would be to see someone with the full 6. At six you're more alive, and more able to interface with the astral world. Food for thought. |
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Aug 19 2003, 02:23 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,685 Joined: 17-August 02 Member No.: 3,123 |
I can see auras too (for only 7-14 hours at a time, and depending on availability), and I can say that there are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes a bright piece of clothing gets in the way, sometimes it detaches itself and comes and kisses you on the forehead, sometimes the creature walks through a wall. :P |
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