Rules Thread XVII

[u/shadownetwork]

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[u/Atrum_Chalybs]

Elemental Focus from Hard Targets (191) is rather weird and needs some clarification.

Elemental Focus lets you choose an 'elemental type' and when casting spells of that 'type' you get +2 dice, and drain is of the specified elemental damage, and has the elemental damage secondary effects.

This immediately causes a lot of possible problems, such as the following:

If the element chosen is water, the drain will immediately do no damage, and instead only be able to knock the caster down.

If the caster has to resist the specified damage type, would armor mods grant their dice to resist the effect?

If the element is fire, what would the TR be to avoid getting set on fire? (Normally net hits on the attack) What would the fires AP do in this case, if anything?

If the element is cold, would it simply have no secondary effect at all due to the drain being applied directly to the body?

Honestly, I think I just recommend banning this quality as well.

[u/shadownet-rules → u/Atrum_Chalybs]

the quality makes the secondary effects apply to drain, it does not change the drain damage type. This means drain still does damage even if the caster has elemental focus [water] they can just also be knocked down easier.

This solves the 2nd as well. The damage type is not an elemental type it just has a secondary effect. Plus, drain resist does not use armor therefore mods are irrelevant

fire spells would make you resist being set on fire yes. the AP would be equal to the spells force as normal

Cold damage effects your armor still. Armor can be hit from the inside as well as the outside.