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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Empirate" data-source="post: 5518381" data-attributes="member: 78958">A spell's target is that which is defined as a 'Target' under the entry of the same name in the header of the spell's description. If the spell description's header has no 'Target' entry, it is not a targeted spell, but an Effect and/or an Area spell.This entry does not pertain to Area spells, obviously; nonetheless, it brings up the interesting point that not all spells must have a point of origin that you can see.Note that you 'select' an Area spell's point of origin - there is no mention of being able to see it. While I cannot prove ex negativo that you do not, in fact, have to be able to see it, to me it seems strongly implied that you can 'define' the point of origin without line of sight, as given under the 'Effect' description above.Further note that with such spells as Dimension Door (not to speak of Teleport or Clairaudience/Clairvoyance), you are free to define your target destination by 'visualizing' it - further evidence that spells can affect things out of the caster's line of sight.While this does not constitute proof that a caster does not have to be able to see an Area spell's point of origin, in my opinion it implies this interpretation, rather than its opposite.</blockquote>