@James McMurray
Simple. First the engine block(or to be precise the front of it) enters the field and his movement is slowed. The rest of the car is slowed because of the reaction force. Since the car is outside the field the kinetic energie is not absorbed. Instead it is transformed in heat and transformation energie ripping the car appart.
(Like you see it in car accident going 50 mph against a wall.)
The spell fizzels the moment most of the car has entered the area (or most of the car). But at this point the car has lost most of its kinetic energy.
So the truck would probably come to a hold in front of the mage (or to be precise whats left of the truck). (If the area has a radius of 3 m or something like that)
Then the spell would have been deactivated, and the mage could have a non slow motion spit at the remains and walk away.

The spell is broken, because it is slowing everything to a said speed. No matter what forces are behind it. No matter how fast it went before.
This is the problem. You can shoot planes down with it, crash cars, protect you from bullets, restrain people and it is one of the best rescue yourself spells (if fall of a plane, I want to jump out of a car) etc. etc.

One thing no one mentioned.
1- See the group of trolls running towards you after you cast slow. Cast slow on them. Now they won't be able to reach you this turn, no matter how many IP's they have. Assuming you are a magician with at least 2 IP's, cast something to disable them.
2- Next turn, they are moving out of the slow spell area. Cast another one. Cast something else to disable them.
3- If they are still going after you, go back to '2', else stop.

Okay, suppose my designator modulates the sinusoid with 101010101 signal, my squad mate's - with 110110110, and the guy's on the other side - with 100100100. Each of those is used to designate a target for its own missile, and neither we nor the guy on the other side know each other's modulating signals. Now, a mage casts a spell, and all those three missiles go off course and hit the target he designated.

Designate (Realistic, Single-Sense)
Type: P • Range: LOS • Duration S • DV: (F ÷ 2) – 1
This spell mimics the effects of a target designator (p. 34, Arsenal). Once the target is designated by this spell, the caster does not need to maintain line of sight but does need to sustain the spell to keep the target “lit.” The hits from the Spellcasting test are used as the net hits added to the indirect fire test when weapons are fired at the target.

This spell can only create a part of the spectrum that is integrally accessible to the caster. By default, this means it can only mimic a laser designator in the visible light spectrum. If the caster has thermographic vision (either natural or implanted, but not via imaging device), the spell may also act as an infrared designator. If the caster has an implanted radar sensor, the spell may mimic radar and microwave (maser) designators.

[...] it was in [the author's] forum(?) post, where someone suggested using the spell for that, and the author not only agreed enthusiastically, but said he'd award a player for such inventiveness.

If the author of the Heal spell said "I designed Heal for you to be able to inflict cancer and other arthropoda, among other uses", I'd seriously consider if I want the spell in my campaign.

I like how you switch from advocating using RAI to advocating using RAW, James McMurray. It makes your points seem so valid.

Shadowrun books are written by more than one person, and go through various rounds of editing after that. One single author's opinion on what something he wrote should do has no more bearing in a rules discussion than anyone else's opinion. As the person who wrote it, the original author can sometimes help to resolve an ambiguity, when more than one interpretation is possible. But absent an official errata, it is still merely one person's opinion.

Ah, I've already explained my feelings on mixing physics and magic. Buh-bye!




If the group is heavy enough to break your Slow, then using Slow on them to stop them is a really bad idea.

The german one, on the other hand . . *runs for his life*

'Course not, his profile says he's an Immortal Elf. That should have gone without saying, really.

Hnngg, when did that happen? <.<;,

I miss Fortune The Original Immoral Elf

At post #9k?

Whatever happened to the Old Goat? Did he just fall off the map in Oz?

Well, I'll put it this way. I read it because it was the only book in the ER Waiting Room that was published in the last decade, and have yet to pick it up again.

Every other Shadowrun book I have has at least had three full reads.

Even the novels. Yes, even the bad ones.

You read Born To Run three times? I finished because I wouldn't let it defeat me.

Fair enough, I really enjoyed Wolf and Raven, though. Still trying to track down 2XS, though. Any other suggestions?

Awesome, now to find them in Dead Tree and I'm set

Is this thread about novels or a sourcebook called "War"? Just asking....

"War" is even worse than novels!

Is this thread about novels or a sourcebook called "War"? Just asking....

That tells you how bad War! is. We'd rather talk about the novels.

A German Twink Elf at that!

I think I accidentally downloaded that movie once.

I didn't really. Just being my usual goofy self.

Though it wouldn't surprise me if it was out there somewhere.