Blasts

[LEHaskell]

I thought Bursts were the aura like effect centering on you. If not, what's the difference between Blasts and Bursts?
The dragons breath attack is a Blast and it's frightful presence is a Burst effect.

They are different.

Blast is apparently replacing Cone. Unfortunately, my forum-fu is weak, so I can't provide you with a picture, but here's a description:

Take a 2x2 square -- that's the dragon. Now place a 5x5 square so that any portion of the two squares are touching - sides or corners. THAT's the burst.

If you think about it a moment, you will see that this is the 1-1-1 "cone": the sides are 5 squares and the diagonal is 5 squares.

Now, all of this comes with a caveat: I'm only going on other people's descriptions of Blast, but it does fit with all available evidence and is minimally absurd. The 12x12 square donut seems a tad over-powered, w-a-a-y unthematic and already described by a Burst effect. Blast is apparently some different thing altogether.

 

[Benimoto]

Is that really how it works? I thought blasts were the new term for lines. Though now that I think about it, that was mostly just an assumption I was making.

 

[hong]

Yeah, I thought blasts were lines as well. Dunno why.

 

[Saishu_Heiki]

Operating under the premise that SWSE was a 4e type system, blast would be like a blaster (therefore operating as a line) and a burst would be a outward radiating effect (usually with the caster as the epicenter).

Of course, this could simply be playing loose and fast with semantics.

 

[LEHaskell]

Is that really how it works? I thought blasts were the new term for lines. Though now that I think about it, that was mostly just an assumption I was making.

Again: I'm merely hypothesizing based on descriptions I've heard from DDXP. I've heard two rumors: Blasts are lines and Blasts are square areas. The descriptions of the dragon combats I've read, the blasts appear to be some sort of square area. With a little noodling around, I came up with the "Cthuulian Cone", which seems to match most of the descriptions I've read and makes (some amount of) sense.

If (and this is a big IF), Blast is the new Cone, the above is my best guess for how it works.

 

[bording]

I specifically asked James Wyatt about blasts, and he told me that they are a square area that is adjacent to the space of the creature using the blast.

 

[LEHaskell]

I specifically asked James Wyatt about blasts, and he told me that they are a square area that is adjacent to the space of the creature using the blast.

Excellent! I was missing the cone effect and this is easy to use!

Cthuulian Cones it is!

 

[Steely Dan]

I specifically asked James Wyatt about blasts, and he told me that they are a square area that is adjacent to the space of the creature using the blast.

Totally, whereas bursts radiate out a number of squares from the beastie.

 

[bording]

Totally, whereas bursts radiate out a number of squares from the beastie.

Correct!

 

[Guild Goodknife]

They are different.

Blast is apparently replacing Cone. Unfortunately, my forum-fu is weak, so I can't provide you with a picture, but here's a description:

Take a 2x2 square -- that's the dragon. Now place a 5x5 square so that any portion of the two squares are touching - sides or corners. THAT's the burst.

If you think about it a moment, you will see that this is the 1-1-1 "cone": the sides are 5 squares and the diagonal is 5 squares.

Now, all of this comes with a caveat: I'm only going on other people's descriptions of Blast, but it does fit with all available evidence and is minimally absurd. The 12x12 square donut seems a tad over-powered, w-a-a-y unthematic and already described by a Burst effect. Blast is apparently some different thing altogether.

Ah, yes. Makes sense. Thanks