I am positive this has been asked before, but my searching on here and on youtube for tutorials have failed me. So, question is:


xxOxOxxxxx
xxxOxxxxxxY
xxxOxxxxxx

Y is the character with Energy Explosion, O are the opposing characters, x is clear terrain. Can someone explain the procedure for rolling? The wording on EX leaves me confused and trying to figure out if multiple attack rolls are made, or if one is made, etc.

Once again, I know this question has probably been asked to oblivion, but for the sake of my girlfriend not giving me a sad look as I spend five minutes trying to decipher the wording on EE, I hope someone can lend a hand.

Cheers

Only one attack roll is made. You compare the single attack roll to the defense of all the targets and all characters adjacent to the targets. You do damage to the targets equal to the number of ranged targets there were. So, if you have two lightning bolts and you targeted two characters, each character targeted would take 2 damage and then everybody adjacent to them would take 1 damage per person they were next to. If they were adjacent to both of the initial targets they would take 2 damage as well (Assuming the attack roll were high enough to hit the two initial targets and all adjacent targets)

Not quite.

You don't deal damage equal to the number of targets... instead, damage dealt is equal to the number of times each character was hit.

So if you do have two , you could target two different characters. But then depending on who is adjacent to who, a character might be hit once, twice, or not at all.

For example:

ABC

Your character with two targets A and C with EE. We will assume the attack roll was high enough to hit everyone involved. A and C are then both successfully hit, so it is possible that B is also hit. And since we assumed the attack roll was high enough to hit everyone, yeah, B was hit, too. So now A was hit once, C was hit once, and B was hit twice (splash from A and splash from C). That means A and C are both dealt 1 damage and B is dealt 2 damage.

Now let's say the attack roll was not high enough to hit everyone. Maybe A has a DV of 14, B a 15, and C a 18. Your attack total (AV + dice roll) is a 16. You hit A but not C. So forget about C, but since A was successfully hit, we can then check and see if B was also hit (since B is adjacent to A). Yup, a 16 is high enough to also hit B. A and B are both hit once and C was hit not at all: damage dealt is 1 to A and B and nothing to C.

I knew I could rely on you to clean it up for me. I have never been good at explaining Energy Explosion. I wouldn't have even tried if ANYBODY else had made the attempt, but I saw a post going unanswered and just wanted to help.

That's cool. Helping is good. And your explanation was fine except for the target bit, so he probably got the point anyway. I was just making sure...

This is much more fleshed-out than my initial answer of "You make things asplode!"

Stealing the OPs chart and modifying it a bit, and assuming that the Y rolls high enough to hit A, B, C and D, how many clix of damage are dealt to A?

xxBxCxxxxx
xxxAxxxxxxY
xxxDxxxxxx

I rescind my original answer and now subscribe to your logic, sir!

Who did Y target? Just A? Then only 1 damage to each since there was only one possible hit.

If you mean something more complicated then that, you'll have to elaborate.

It all depends on the amount of initial targets.

If A was the only Target then 1 damage to all.
If A and C were Targets then A and see would be dealt 2 and, B and D would be dealt 1
If A, C and D were Targets then A would be dealt 3, C and D would be dealt 2, and B would be dealt 1.

It also can change if you can ignore characters for line of fire cause then you could Target B. Just remember you can only Target as many people as you have 's. And once the targets are hit you then compare to characters that are adjacent.

Yes, I meant that Y was targetting A. But, now lets change it up just a bit:

Again, say Y is targetting A and rolls high enough to hit everyone. Now how much damage is dealt to A and the surrounding mob:

xxBxxxxxxx
xxCAxxxxxxY
xxDxxxxxxx

Already answered.


In other words, damage dealt by EE is literally equal to the number of times the character is hit by the effect. Got overlapping areas of EE "splash"? Then there could be a lot of damage to dole out. But if there is only one EE target, only one area splashed, then the only possible way to deal more than 1 damage is with a critical hit.

If you had targeted A and B would the damage dealt be 2 to each?

Nope.

Assuming a roll high enough to hit all: A is hit twice (once via main effect, once via B's splash), B is hit twice (once via main effect, once via A's splash), and C is hit once (via B's splash).

So the damage is 2, 2, and 1 (respectively), not 2 to each.

It would be 2 damage to A and B, while C would receive 1 damage.