[X] My Assistant

[Shinobi Killfist]

Till the mage casts a transmute rubber to water spell on the corpsec's armor to kill their chemseals. Then it becomes hilarious.

Dude, if you can target them well enough to pull that off just manaball them and be done with it. People are always trying to be fancy when the basics do the job better.

[Mordinvan]

I really hate that suggested house rule. Clearly, whoever wrote that part of the FAQ either doesn't remember or never bothered to read older source material on the subject. Previous editions, which did a much better job of going into the how's and why's of magic, exhaustively explained why LOS or Touch requirements were needed in the first place in Shadowrun's magic system. If just knowing where the target currently is would work then there's no reason at all that you couldn't use video cameras or the like to target them.

And considering how painfully inaccurate other senses are (seriously, the only two that would even be viable are Hearing and Smell), it's just an absurd notion to put forth considering that alone. Now, the house rule is saying that you can basically just randomly through your spells around and hope it hits something. That's fine for indirect spells, but not for the rest.

Tack on radar and ultrasound, if they're paid for with essence.

[Mordinvan]

Dude, if you can target them well enough to pull that off just manaball them and be done with it. People are always trying to be fancy when the basics do the job better.

Point taken. Sometimes its just fun to hoist someone with their own petard however.

[Shinobi Killfist]

Point taken. Sometimes its just fun to hoist someone with their own petard however.

Yes it is always nice when you make sure someone has enough irony in there diet before you kill them.