Brilliant Energy in the Meatlocker


Rules Questions

Silver Crusade

Brilliant energy ignores non-living matter. Now, this raises some questions. Assuming that an individual was equipped with say...blindsight or some sort of tremorsense and in a room with large slabs of mobility impeding raw meat hanging from hooks, would our observant friend be able to perforate his attackers through the meat through the use of brilliant energy projectiles and would he suffer the concealment penalty if they were within his 'sight' radius?

Similarly, could you make a turret by hooking up something like a xorn inside a wall with a brilliant energy crossbow and have him shoot through the wall at people nearby without fear of reciprocation (well until they broke the wall down).

Something about this seems awesome, but also horrendously abusable so I'm wondering if you guys can see anything that would rationally stand in the way of this. Aside from the obvious that brilliant energy weapons and blindsight/tremorsense 30ft radius doesn't grow on trees.

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Raw meat's no longer living--but why raw meat? Use deathtraps or spinning blades or something.

Blindsight he'd not suffer a concealment penalty. Tremorsense he could pinpoint locations but would still suffer concealment.

Generally blindsight involves some other sense besides sight, so it might be blocked by walls.

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