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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 5403571" data-attributes="member: 58197">Maybe it depends on what the definition of &quot;is&quot; is?Come on, dude. You're tying yourself in knots trying to avoid a very simple truth: Line of effect is obviously supposed to mean a straight line. 4E is not a physics simulator, bursts are not meant to accurately reproduce the behavior of waves, and there is not a shred of evidence anywhere to suggest otherwise. The ambiguity here is all in your head.I will point out one additional reference: In 3.5E, an area-effect spell could produce either a &quot;burst&quot; or a &quot;spread*.&quot; The sole difference between the two was that spreads could turn corners and bursts could not. If they had chosen to carry the concept of a corner-turning AoE forward into 4th Edition, why would they pick the term that specifically meant it couldn't turn corners? I think it's pretty clear that WotC considered this, decided that it was more important to preserve the &quot;burst&quot; behavior than the &quot;spread&quot; behavior and not worth preserving both, and discarded the latter.[size=-2]*Or an &quot;emanation,&quot; which was just a burst with non-instantaneous duration.[/size]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 5403571, member: 58197"] Maybe it depends on what the definition of "is" is? Come on, dude. You're tying yourself in knots trying to avoid a very simple truth: Line of effect is obviously supposed to mean a [i]straight[/i] line. 4E is not a physics simulator, bursts are not meant to accurately reproduce the behavior of waves, and there is not a shred of evidence anywhere to suggest otherwise. The ambiguity here is all in your head. I will point out one additional reference: In 3.5E, an area-effect spell could produce either a "burst" or a "spread*." The sole difference between the two was that spreads could turn corners and bursts could not. If they had chosen to carry the concept of a corner-turning AoE forward into 4th Edition, why would they pick the term that specifically meant it [i]couldn't[/i] turn corners? I think it's pretty clear that WotC considered this, decided that it was more important to preserve the "burst" behavior than the "spread" behavior and not worth preserving both, and discarded the latter. [size=-2]*Or an "emanation," which was just a burst with non-instantaneous duration.[/size] [/QUOTE]

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