I am seeking advice on the Paizo forums for our Alchemist bomb vs. mirror image questions. I think we worked out most of it. The only part I am still questioning is what happens when a bomb successfully hits a figment. We will see what kind of answers come of my post.
Re-reading the bomb rules, I came upon a distinction that I want to make sure is clear.
Targeting a foe requires a ranged touch attack against the target's touch AC. A direct hit dealt damage as normal. A miss scatters in a random direction a number of squares equal to the range increment. If a target is in or adjacent to the square it hits, they take splash damage. That is minimum damage with a reflex save for half.
A grid intersection with an AC5 may be targeted instead of an opponent. If you hit, anyone in the 4 squares adjacent to the intersection take splash damage. If you miss, calculate scatter and splash damage as normal. You cannot target a grid intersection occupied by a large or bigger creature. If you want to target that intersection, you must target the creature. You may target an intersection next to a big creature.
Bombs cannot deal percision damage.
So you can target a large creatures corners but not it's center intersection. Makes sence.
ReplyDeleteThat is my understanding. For full damage you target one of the big creature’s squares. For targeting an intersection, you must pick one of the intersections on the creatures' perimeter, not its center/interior.
DeleteIt seems to me that if you hit an image it should go away, and you should determine the actual result as if he missed. Isnt that what we did?
ReplyDeleteI believe that is how we handled it. Initial indications on the forums were that the bomb should go off in the target square and deal splash damage.
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