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<blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 1420299" data-attributes="member: 149">Look your player is probably using an &quot;out of game term&quot; because it best sums up what he is looking for. Actually, it really isn't all that much of an &quot;out of game&quot; term, it you think about it the meaning of &quot;in combat&quot; is really pretty clear. The char is in a situation where there is some immediate threat to him, even if it isn't directly to him at that immediate second.Just use common sense. Walking past a dueling ant and aphid and having that trigger it is just being dammed silly. If the sorcerer was in a bar where a brawl had just broken out near him, could reasonably trigger it, but watching a gladiatorial combat from the stands is simply another silly example.I guess your decision is to what degree the magical function operates intelligently. Contingency is a pretty high level spell (8th? I think) so it really ought to be fairly powerful/intelligent in operation. Contingency is after all intended as a &quot;Guardian Angel&quot; kind of spell, so making it operate stupidly really violates the context of the spell. It would certainly not be out of bounds to give it a certain amount of awareness of things that the player is not aware of because of the intent of the spell.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rackhir, post: 1420299, member: 149"] Look your player is probably using an "out of game term" because it best sums up what he is looking for. Actually, it really isn't all that much of an "out of game" term, it you think about it the meaning of "in combat" is really pretty clear. The char is in a situation where there is some immediate threat to him, even if it isn't directly to him at that immediate second. Just use common sense. Walking past a dueling ant and aphid and having that trigger it is just being dammed silly. If the sorcerer was in a bar where a brawl had just broken out near him, could reasonably trigger it, but watching a gladiatorial combat from the stands is simply another silly example. I guess your decision is to what degree the magical function operates intelligently. Contingency is a pretty high level spell (8th? I think) so it really ought to be fairly powerful/intelligent in operation. Contingency is after all intended as a "Guardian Angel" kind of spell, so making it operate stupidly really violates the context of the spell. It would certainly not be out of bounds to give it a certain amount of awareness of things that the player is not aware of because of the intent of the spell. [/QUOTE]

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