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<blockquote data-quote="Imban" data-source="post: 4128841" data-attributes="member: 29206">I'm all in favor of it for attacks that have a blast radius. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and if you're using a hand grenade or rocket launcher...In any case, the reason you can only target one square should be obvious. I'm assuming (and this may be a farfetched assumption, but I'm again assuming 4e's designers are not monkeys until I'm absolutely proven wrong) that if you target a colossal dragon, Force Orb's blast does not suddenly become 6 by 6 and capable of hitting 20 goblins packed around the dragon when it is capable of hitting only 9 goblins if aimed at a tightly packed formation of goblins.Basically, I'd be likely to run it like I've always run explosive attacks in RPGs - if it misses its target, we either roll scatter dice for grenades (which, admittedly, isn't for everyone - it's very fast and easy for me, though) or just continue until it hits something immobile for rockets.There are bad rationalizations for everything, but not dealing with &quot;the target pointer for that is darkened because he's got a light blue circle under his feet instead of a red circle&quot; is one of the reasons why I sit down to play tabletop RPGs at all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imban, post: 4128841, member: 29206"] I'm all in favor of it for attacks that have a blast radius. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, and if you're using a hand grenade or rocket launcher... In any case, the reason you can only target one square should be obvious. I'm assuming (and this may be a farfetched assumption, but I'm again assuming 4e's designers are not monkeys until I'm absolutely proven wrong) that if you target a colossal dragon, Force Orb's blast does not suddenly become 6 by 6 and capable of hitting 20 goblins packed around the dragon when it is capable of hitting only 9 goblins if aimed at a tightly packed formation of goblins. Basically, I'd be likely to run it like I've always run explosive attacks in RPGs - if it misses its target, we either roll scatter dice for grenades (which, admittedly, isn't for everyone - it's very fast and easy for me, though) or just continue until it hits something immobile for rockets. There are bad rationalizations for everything, but not dealing with "the target pointer for that is darkened because he's got a light blue circle under his feet instead of a red circle" is one of the reasons why I sit down to play tabletop RPGs at all. [/QUOTE]

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