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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:30 pm    Post subject: Psi/Magic and Shields
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Any plans to make psionics and spells blockable by shields?

Right now, the only defense that works against any of them is evasion.

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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:41 pm    Post subject:
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You'll need to buy a shield that actually has some protection against psionics/magic, I think...though don't take that for gospel just yet. Only a scarce few medieval shields have that protection. APPRAISE them to see if they do.
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 Post Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2003 11:59 pm    Post subject:
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in my own humble opinion, spontaneous combustion engulfs a person in flames. And rime cloud puts a cloud of cold around a person so you shouldn't be able to dodge or block it unless you have resistance to it. (Stuff like piercing stare and psychic hammer which actually create things to hurt others you should be able to dodge or block though and i think you can i could always be wrong.)
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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 12:01 am    Post subject:
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Even using shields with protection against psionics, I cannot even attempt to block them.

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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 12:02 am    Post subject:
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On the same note, would it be possible to have the messaging reflect where you are hit if attacked with psionics?

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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 12:08 am    Post subject:
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For something like piercing stare or psychic hammer that would make sense.

But as i look at it as from a character standpoint, If i was chris and i'm engulfed in flames i'm not going to be sitting there saying okay my left arm is getting scuffed, i'm now bleeding from my right leg etc. I would be screaming running around trying to put out the flames rather than figure out exactly WHERE i was being injured.
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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 2:56 am    Post subject:
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You'd think being "engulfed" in flames would be a whole body damaging thing...and of course therefore requiring a crapload more pisonic ability, and not do as much damage, or if it did same, evenmore ability. Nothing to dowith topic, just thinking.
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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 6:47 am    Post subject:
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It is intended that some abilities should be shield blockable, while others are not. Piercing stare should be defendable by all three means. Combustion and Rime Cloud, however, are engulfing abiltiies, not one sided attacks, so shields don't make sense.

Mental resist and magic resist are only applied to specific abilities. For example, Blood Siphon is warded off by magic resist. A fear psi would be warded off by mental resist.
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 Post Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2003 9:21 am    Post subject:
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It is intended that some abilities should be shield blockable, while others are not. Piercing stare should be defendable by all three means. Combustion and Rime Cloud, however, are engulfing abiltiies, not one sided attacks, so shields don't make sense.


Certainly.

But as far as I can tell, Piercing Stare, Spirit Slash, and Psychic Hammer are only defendable by dodging at the moment.

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