Re: Additional Targets in Spellcasting
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 5:24 pm
For Lightning Bolt I interpret that any "Additional targets" are "secondary", including those from extra threads.
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Most spells read to me that if you only roll 1 Effect Test, then assigning the same "person" as multiple "targets" really wouldn't increase the damage dealt. You roll once to determine how much damage "each target" receives, so the 1 target (locked onto twice) gets the result of that one Test as damage.
Compare Lighting Bolt to Bone Shatter (which explicitly gives permission to assign multiple Effect tests to the same target, no more than 2 per target).
Lightning Bolt:
... If successful, crackling bolts of electricity fly from the magician’s fingers, striking the target. The magician’s Effect test determines how much damage is inflicted. The initial Spellcasting test is used against any additional targets that may result. Additional success levels on secondary targets will not cause additional bolts.
Bone Shatter:
The magician makes cracking sounds and then makes a Spellcasting test against the highest Mystic Defense among any targets in range. If successful, he makes one Effect test per Success to determine how much damage is inflicted, directing no more than two Effect tests against an individual target. A target who takes a Wound adds +5 to the Knockdown Difficulty. The magician may affect up to Spellcasting Rank targets.
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Most spells read to me that if you only roll 1 Effect Test, then assigning the same "person" as multiple "targets" really wouldn't increase the damage dealt. You roll once to determine how much damage "each target" receives, so the 1 target (locked onto twice) gets the result of that one Test as damage.
Compare Lighting Bolt to Bone Shatter (which explicitly gives permission to assign multiple Effect tests to the same target, no more than 2 per target).
Lightning Bolt:
... If successful, crackling bolts of electricity fly from the magician’s fingers, striking the target. The magician’s Effect test determines how much damage is inflicted. The initial Spellcasting test is used against any additional targets that may result. Additional success levels on secondary targets will not cause additional bolts.
Bone Shatter:
The magician makes cracking sounds and then makes a Spellcasting test against the highest Mystic Defense among any targets in range. If successful, he makes one Effect test per Success to determine how much damage is inflicted, directing no more than two Effect tests against an individual target. A target who takes a Wound adds +5 to the Knockdown Difficulty. The magician may affect up to Spellcasting Rank targets.