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<blockquote data-quote="Black Omega" data-source="post: 1659092" data-attributes="member: 79"><p>It wasn't exactly a surprise "He'll never see this coming." thing. The character forgot she was being stalked by a ninja and walked off from the group to try a sending. When the attack came, she simply ran back inside and the group reacted fast enough to grab on. As did Hantei XVI, though to the mirror. I tend to agree the character should be able to control who the spell effects. One side of me wishes people didn't fight about this so much, since it's a staple of the genre, something or someone grabbed on and going with the 'teleport' or whatever. But by the rules, I think the cleric clearly controls who goes.</p><p></p><p>The linked hands is not as much an issue, the group didn't exactly circle up and grab on hands to hands. But it seemed a minor issue that got hand waved.</p><p></p><p>And I'm aware of all the other ways this could work out, you are quite correct there. I'm more interested in this particular case because some of the PC's seem interested in supporting him and if the PC's were going to go in that direction, this would be the time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Black Omega, post: 1659092, member: 79"] It wasn't exactly a surprise "He'll never see this coming." thing. The character forgot she was being stalked by a ninja and walked off from the group to try a sending. When the attack came, she simply ran back inside and the group reacted fast enough to grab on. As did Hantei XVI, though to the mirror. I tend to agree the character should be able to control who the spell effects. One side of me wishes people didn't fight about this so much, since it's a staple of the genre, something or someone grabbed on and going with the 'teleport' or whatever. But by the rules, I think the cleric clearly controls who goes. The linked hands is not as much an issue, the group didn't exactly circle up and grab on hands to hands. But it seemed a minor issue that got hand waved. And I'm aware of all the other ways this could work out, you are quite correct there. I'm more interested in this particular case because some of the PC's seem interested in supporting him and if the PC's were going to go in that direction, this would be the time. [/QUOTE]
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