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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Naathez" data-source="post: 1794350" data-attributes="member: 17791">26 replies... I never ... had so many.... (tear rolls down cheek)now.First - I seem to have been unclear about one thing.  Thouhg, now that you mention it, I might consider it, in my ORIGINAL idea the "spell" (Magestrike is actually nice, might call it that) was NOT a spell. That is, it DID not bypass damage reduction, or anything. Simply, it was as if the mage shot a weird - looking crossbow bolt from his hand.Thus, all ranged feats  are MEANT to apply, if slightly modified. And at the same time, ANY AND ALL limitations regarding crossbows, not the least of which is the move action to draw one or reload one. And antimagic fields aren't meant to stop it... in a way, imagine it like a kind of conjuration effect - a fire mage conjures a tiny meteor, whose flames aren't strong enough to burn anyone, but whose propelling force allows it to deal damage. (Oh, and it's PIERCING cause... er...  oh, cause the meteor is all jagged and spiky.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ) But it's NOT conjuration, because mages who give up conjuration to specialize still have it. It's basically a crossbow built inside the mage's hand or staff. Only without a trigger, or it might be dangerous to scratch your eye. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /> And I don't think mages would overlook the damage cantrips... mostly because THEY HAVE energy types. After all, I don't think the biggest problem keeping mages from using crossbows is the WEIGHT of the thing... AND I think that in a mage academy, assuming there was one, mages fould be taught how to defend themselves even when their spells were over...(Sigh, how I hate anything that's limited in use per day...)Secondly... all these ideas are food for the mind! glad to see my topic is calling up such good mindwork... keep it coming, I appreciate! And attention Italian users...  my email is open to you all! Well actually open to ALL users of Enworld.  Don't know if it shows in my profile, it's <a href="mailto:fabioghirelli@virgilio.it">fabioghirelli@virgilio.it</a> And as a side note, the (rather free, you can't give off the sheer poetry in a translation) translation of MY part of Dante quotation was "Thus were quieted the bearded cheeks of the ferryman of the murky swamp, whose eyes were surrounded by wheels of fire." Yes, the ONLY reason I wish everyone spoke Italian would be so they could read Dante...Come to think of it...Dante went through hell, purgatory and heaven....d'ya thing he got epic? It was SOME dungeon... <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" /></blockquote>

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