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From how far away can you hit someone with an evocation?
Biff Dyskolos:
--- Quote from: Deadmanwalking on April 30, 2010, 07:00:26 PM ---I can see a Wizard with a telescope as a Focus item and a specialty in sniping Red Court...
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That must be why Ebenezer asked Harry where the telescope was! ;)
Biff Dyskolos:
Hmm...
After thinking about lenses I started thinking about mirrors. Is it line of sight or direct line of sight. After a quick search I couldn't find the answer; but I did find this,
--- Quote from: YS:250 ---Also, magical energy can only travel a certain distance before you need a more permanent construct to direct it accurately, and that’s the kind of thing you need thaumaturgy for.
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There seems to be an unspecified range to evocation. So a telescopic sniper evocater may not be possible. Damn!
exploding_brain:
The cool stories of setting up the proper sniper shot are more like thaumaturgy anyway. I could see performing a ritual that assists the conduction of energy from one point (the sniper's nest), to another point (the predicted location of the target). Then when the hit goes down, you actually cast the evocation, with the assist of the results of the ritual.
Or look at the phobo-phage redirection ritual. That certainly had the same feel in the book as a sniper setting up a kill shot.
neko128:
The Shadowrun answer to this is that range of magic is infinite, as long as you see the original image. Therefore, telescopes, microscopes, optic lenses, even fibre optic cables are fine, as long as the image is purely "analog" optical and never digitized; but any kind of computerized or video system breaks the link.
The real bitch of this is that it directly leads to the idea of a security setup where a mage sits in a room somewhere in the building, with an optical (not digital) switch that links a pair of goggles or magnifying screen to fibre-optic cables running to fisheye lenses in the ceiling of every room in the building. So when a security guard watching his motion detectors or video banks notices movement, he tells the wizard what room it's in, and the wizard switches the goggles to that lense, and *poof* they're targetable. Cunning PCs will abuse this heartily.
Moriden:
--- Quote ---The real bitch of this is that it directly leads to the idea of a security setup where a mage sits in a room somewhere in the building, with an optical (not digital) switch that links a pair of goggles or magnifying screen to fibre-optic cables running to fisheye lenses in the ceiling of every room in the building. So when a security guard watching his motion detectors or video banks notices movement, he tells the wizard what room it's in, and the wizard switches the goggles to that lense, and *poof* they're targetable. Cunning PCs will abuse this heartily.
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Sounds like a sanctum attunement ritual to me. id use more magical theory and less tech but the intent seems the same.
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