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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Madfox" data-source="post: 1082193" data-attributes="member: 1714">Fact 1 - The spellcaster can place an spread spell at exactly the points he wants. There is no chance for a scatter.Facing is unimportant for these kind of spells if the wizard knows the area. He imagines the area while casting the spell and it then shoots towards it. If the wizard is facing in another direction I imagine the blob of flames curve around the wizard in the right direction. If you use any other explanation, you get to ask yourself how the wizard can judge distances without mistakes even at 500 ft.. So in case of a fireball the blind wizard would not miss if he knows the area and casts the spell at a spot. For example, casting a fire ball at that big oak next to the lake in that magical darkness should be no problem. Of course, casting it at the redcap somewhere in the darkness is virtually impossible (unless you succeed at that listen DC lot). Of course, a wizard could still just state a distance and a direction and if the wizard opt for such scatter is very well possible - though only as far as direction is concerned and NOT distance.This does not work very well for line effects and cones. In these cases I would opt for the listen/scatter as well.Fact is that the one time my group had a blind wizard among them, the wizard opted not to cast any spell at all. From a rolep-playing perspective the player had decided that even though he might be able to see who was standing were, his character obviously wasn't and so would never risk his relatives. The player never even bothered asking about how I would deal with it...</blockquote>

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