 Casting Indirect Combat Spells on Oneself..., The fine art of suicide. |
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 Aug 22 2007, 09:30 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 500 Joined: 3-January 07 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 10,517  |
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Can a mage cast indirect combat spells on themselves (i.e. fireball, ball lightning) with the intent of injuring other targets that would fall within the area effect of the spell? If the answer is yes, can said mage use his own counterspelling to attempt to avoid damage? Could a mage make this work even while blindfolded? (I.E, I close my eyes and can see my eyelids, which are part of me.) |
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Aug 22 2007, 09:38 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Yes, but it isn't very smart. Centering the spell on himself means that he doesn't get to dodge (he might if the GM is extremely permissive, but attempting to both shoot yourself and dodge the bullet is a cowing offense in my book), so he'll take the full brunt of the attack with all of its successes. He'll be able to stage down the damage with counterspelling, body, and 1/2 impact armor, but he will certainly be hurt.
It is a last-ditch tactic. |
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Aug 22 2007, 09:53 PM
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Technomancer Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,638 Joined: 2-October 02 From: Champaign, IL Member No.: 3,374 |
That being said, such a person could also design their own area-of-effect spell that centers an elemental effect around the caster but doesn't hit the caster.
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Aug 22 2007, 09:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 500 Joined: 3-January 07 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 10,517 |
Yeah, but in that case, the caster wouldn't really be the target of the spell. At least I don't think that there's any way to design a spell that does that. Therefore you couldn't pull that trick while blindfolded. |
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Aug 22 2007, 09:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: 19-May 03 From: In your base eating your food. Member No.: 4,607 |
Geez, that sounds like it'd have more drain than offensive mana barrier. Call it, "slaughter everyone but me". :P |
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Aug 22 2007, 10:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 524 Joined: 12-April 06 Member No.: 8,455 |
Call it "Elemental Aura".
*runs* |
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Aug 22 2007, 11:52 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...actually had a mage PC do that once (SRII) when several sec guards surrounded her at a train station. She cast a ground zero Force 5 Stunball at Serious effect using her Spell Defence, high wisdom, and Karma pool (to to reroll failures) in order to stage it down to Serious & managed to avoid any additional stun form drain. All the guards went down, and so did all of the norms in the radius of the spell, some of whom were less fortunate as the damage for them rolled over into Physical. That was the first and last time I ever played a mage. |
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