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Message: <blockquote data-quote="A'koss" data-source="post: 1878876" data-attributes="member: 840">Heh, nice... I like the idea, but Steffan has a good point in that it might be better to have a simplier rule for this. 50% chance of getting tagged if you're in melee combat sounds about right.  In our low magic game, all combat spells required an attack roll of some sort to either hit or to be most effective. We were trying to create for believable areas of effect whereby the damage for something like a fireball would be most intense at the centre and progressively less so from there. Fireballs for example would inflict a certain amount of damage on a direct hit and a lesser amount in the surrounding radius. If you missed, it would just continue along that line until it did hit something (or ran out of range). Cone shaped spells are most effective when centering the cone along a particular line (with everyone outside that line taking less damage). Throw in crits and fumbles and bake...</blockquote>