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Old_Troll 01-26-08, 03:36 PM	Love this spell! as it has saved the party's collective butts on two occations. However, some questions still linger without resolution, and some opinions, if not rules would be appreciated. First, is the emination visible to Arcane Sight? Second, if the caster has a 100' emanation, but is seated in a 20'x20' room with doors and windows closed, does it only cover the room? Our ruling was maybe to the first and no to the second. The reasoning is that the spell is monitering the Astral plane space around the caster (which is the medium through which you travel when teleporting) and this is not blocked by Material Plane structures. The maybe means, no on the Material Plane and yes on the Astral Plane. Critiques and alternative answers welcome.
Black Mantha 01-26-08, 03:46 PM	- Arcane sight can see active spells, and the spell is active over the whole area, so I'd say yes. - No, you cast the spell on the material plane (usually), and obstacles block emenations. If they intended otherwise, the area would be a 100' radius sphere.
Old_Troll 01-26-08, 05:53 PM	I don't follow the reasoning that if it was listed as a 100 radius sphere, that it would not be blocked by physical obstacles. A fireball is a 20 radius sphere and it would be blocked (?) Please enlighten.
Wellspring 01-26-08, 06:51 PM	Fireball is a spread, not a sphere.
Merestil Haye 01-27-08, 01:45 PM	LSecond, if the caster has a 100' emanation, but is seated in a 20'x20' room with doors and windows closed, does it only cover the room?Yes, it only covers the room. Think of an emanation as analagous to light radiating out from a light source in a vacuum. If the light is blocked by a solid obstacle, the area beyond it (from the point of view of the light source) is in shadow. If you're in an enclosed room, everything outside that room is in the "shadow" of the wall. Open the door and areas beyond are once more affected. Spreads, by contrast, are more analagous to the behaviour of sound.