| Gwiber |
Sorry of this has been answered before.
Wizard manages to land a Contagion on a bad guy. Blinding sickness. Enough Str damage is done and the save is failed. Bad guy is blinded.
Bad guy. Obviously wanting to survive, and hurt us. Keeps moving, and then, throws a Lightning Bolt at the Party.
Contention:
Some members of the group feel that the bad guy could not accurately throw a Lightning Bolt at anyone in the party because he is blind, unable to see the party members to throw the bolt at them.
The St says that is “opinion” because when pointing out the Aiming Spells rules on the Core, he says the Lightning Bolt spell does not say “Target or Targets” in the description of the spell.
There is some discussion of having the Bad guy roll a perception check, which some of us might buy as a way to level the Bolt. But some of us also feel the Aiming rules specifically state you must see the target.
| Elven_Blades |
Lightning bolt does not require aiming at a specific target. If you are issuing a battle grid and the rules in the book, it simply hits squares as shown on the chart page 215. My group varies this slightly, we pick a corner of our square, then a cross point on the grid, and draw a line. Any square touched by the line tskes damage. This is a house rule, but we feel it enhances spell aiming slightly.
In the case of your blind caster, I would say that our house rule method is not available, since he can not see to choose a precise point on the grid. However, I think it is perfectly reasonable, with a perception check of course, to use the line areas on 215.
In case it comes up, there are rules for targeted spells (I assume that by target, you mean ranged touch spell). However, the perception DCs for targeting an invisible enemy (effectively, the enemy would be considered invisible to the caster in this case) are pretty high, and unlikely achievable by a spell caster. On top of that, 50% miss chance would still apply, even if he does manage to pinpoint enemy location.