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<blockquote data-quote="Terraism" data-source="post: 1539596" data-attributes="member: 278"><p>Yup! It was an interesting idea, I thought, and the fact that I wasn't quite sure what you'd meant by one little thing was nagging at the back of my mind. Lots. The kind of nagging that requires repeat checking, thinking "huh - wonder if they replied yet." <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p> </p><p> Agreed on the brilliance - if you could pull it off, you could potentially slam a <strong>lot</strong> of folks from behind. (Because we don't do combat to terribly often in my game, we go all tactical when combat comes up- so we use facing, too. That'd be <em>really</em> icky then. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> )</p><p> </p><p> Agreed on this point anyway - I don't see any problems with it, as stated previously.</p><p> </p><p> Ok. I've got what you mean now, and I think my problem is the logic of it - which, actually, runs counter to the actual rules. By the rules, since there's no facing, you can cast a cone (originating in your square) in any direction. Nothing <em>says</em> so, but I've always envisioned cones going in the direction the caster is facing. Imagine this:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">A man in robes is facing north. He's obviously casting a spell, and when it goes off... a multicoloured blast shoots to the side, while he's still facing forward.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>Seems <em>really</em> odd to me. I arrived at my guess for how the arrow/channeling trick would work extrapolating that - since I see a caster as needing to face the direction the blast goes, I expect the arrow to "face" that way, too.</p><p> </p><p> Yuppers. I know where you're coming from now, which is good, because the nagging curiosity can stop bugging me at odd moments (yay!). <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> 'Course, now I'm stuck with this funny image of a spellcaster doing this kinda thing and launching a <em>Cone of Cold</em> from behind.</p><p> </p><p> <img src="http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TImgBZf8AVAJ:www.cs.unibo.it/~ljw1004/sticky/sticks/Walk%2520like%2520an%2520Egyptian.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> (And thanks for the reply, just to satisfy my curiosity.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terraism, post: 1539596, member: 278"] Yup! It was an interesting idea, I thought, and the fact that I wasn't quite sure what you'd meant by one little thing was nagging at the back of my mind. Lots. The kind of nagging that requires repeat checking, thinking "huh - wonder if they replied yet." :D Agreed on the brilliance - if you could pull it off, you could potentially slam a [b]lot[/b] of folks from behind. (Because we don't do combat to terribly often in my game, we go all tactical when combat comes up- so we use facing, too. That'd be [i]really[/i] icky then. :) ) Agreed on this point anyway - I don't see any problems with it, as stated previously. Ok. I've got what you mean now, and I think my problem is the logic of it - which, actually, runs counter to the actual rules. By the rules, since there's no facing, you can cast a cone (originating in your square) in any direction. Nothing [i]says[/i] so, but I've always envisioned cones going in the direction the caster is facing. Imagine this: [indent]A man in robes is facing north. He's obviously casting a spell, and when it goes off... a multicoloured blast shoots to the side, while he's still facing forward. [/indent] Seems [i]really[/i] odd to me. I arrived at my guess for how the arrow/channeling trick would work extrapolating that - since I see a caster as needing to face the direction the blast goes, I expect the arrow to "face" that way, too. Yuppers. I know where you're coming from now, which is good, because the nagging curiosity can stop bugging me at odd moments (yay!). :D 'Course, now I'm stuck with this funny image of a spellcaster doing this kinda thing and launching a [i]Cone of Cold[/i] from behind. [img]http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:TImgBZf8AVAJ:www.cs.unibo.it/~ljw1004/sticky/sticks/Walk%2520like%2520an%2520Egyptian.gif[/img] :D (And thanks for the reply, just to satisfy my curiosity.) [/QUOTE]
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