Blessing of Fervor Targets


Rules Questions


So when the cleric casts Blessing of Fervor it states;
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Targets one creature/level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart

He's level 11, so the range is 50 ft

But now for the targets, he selects the target A.
If Target B is 20 ft for target A, and Target C is 15 ft for target A, but 45 ft for Target B, then he can only target A & B or A & C correct?

B - 20' - A - 15' - C

Thanks
Joe


Correct.


Yes.

The "1 target/level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart" structure is a really awkward way of saying:

"1 target/level within a 15' radius"

Basically, drop a 30' diameter circle on the battlefield and pick one target per level within that circle. I don't know why they chose to go with the awkward wording instead.


Once it's cast, the player is free to move beyond this range correct?

Grand Lodge

Correct. That's just the initial cast distance.


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mplindustries wrote:

Yes.

The "1 target/level, no two of which can be more than 30 ft. apart" structure is a really awkward way of saying:

"1 target/level within a 15' radius"

Basically, drop a 30' diameter circle on the battlefield and pick one target per level within that circle. I don't know why they chose to go with the awkward wording instead.

I'm not sure how this works out in Pathfinder's 5-15-20-30 distance metric, but these aren't 100% equivalent in the real world. For a simple example, imagine three people arranged in an equilateral triangle with sides of length 30'. They're clearly each within 30' of all other targets, but any circle of radius 15' (diameter 30') will contain at most two of them (if we drop the diameter along the line connecting two of them, the circle will end about 10 feet shy of the last guy).

Edit: I just worked it out in the Pathfinder metric (unsurprisingly to those who think about it, it wasn't as hard as I feared). It still ends up that the last person is outside the circle as they're able to be 25' up and still be within 30 ft. The nature of squares makes it a little goofy if the "top" creature isn't large, but we can pretend it is. :-)


mplindustries wrote:

I don't know why they chose to go with the awkward wording instead.

It's traditional.

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