Question

[VBMEW-01]

Has anyone figured out (100%) what the following things mean:

Close Burst 5
Area Burst 5
Close Blast 5

We've some ideas, but I wanted to run it through a few more heads before making my mind up.

Thanks

 

[dm4hire]

Close Burst is centered on caster.
Area Burst is centered around point you select within range.
Close Blast is centered on a point acting same as Close Burst but follows explosive rules, which we haven't seen yet.

I'm assuming the last one is what you are having questions about.

 

[Darkthorne]

I believe is as below. X is where the caster is at

Close Burst
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] X [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []


Close Blast
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
X

Area Burst
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []
[] [] [] [] []




X

 

[WhatGravitas]

I believe is as below. X is where the caster is at

Actually, AFAIK, bursts count from the centre square outwards, like that for a close burst 5:
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][]X[][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][]

The non-close burst looks the same, with the target square as 'X'. If the caster is larger than medium, it radiates from the edges of the space... like that:

[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][]XX[][][][][][]
[][][][][]XX[][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]
[][][][][][][][][][][][]

Cheers, LT.

 

[Kordeth]

Lord Tirian has it right. A burst X radiates out X squares in all directions from a single, central square, which is either your square (close burst) or a square within a specified range (area burst).

A close blast X is a square area X squares on a side, at least one square of which must be adjacent to you. We haven't seen anything to indicate that there's such a thing as a ranged blast, but if there is, presumably it would follow the same rule: one square of the blast would have to be adjacent to the origin square.

Note that this means a burst 5, for example, is actually slightly more than twice as large as a blast 5. A burst 5 would be 11 squares on a side (five squares in each direction, plus the originating square), while the blast 5 is 5 squares on a side.

 

[Darkthorne]

I accidently deleted the bit about making it smaller as I wasn't sure how big the "5" would be inside the post window . Thanks for the correction though

 

[VBMEW-01]

Thanks ya'll, it really cleared it up for me and hopefully other head-scratchers out there.

Its actally pretty much what I was thinking, but I was a bit confuddled by the last one.

Thaksaheap