MEGATHREAD: Post your small questions and concerns here for all editions!

[u/Cr0iz]

Hey everyone, please post your smaller, technical questions here. We may have directed you here from a removed post or from the last megathread.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/warhammerfantasyrpg/comments/101935w/megathread_post_your_small_questions_and_concerns/

If you still have unanswered questions/topics there, you may want to migrate those here :)

[u/forcharli]

Are Magic Missiles treated as ranged attacks?

New to the game and there's a few rules regarding ranged attacks, and I'm wondering if they apply to ranged magic attacks like Dart? Some examples from my notes:

Ranged Attacks:

• Cannot make whilst Engaged unless the weapon has the Pistol trait
• Opposed with large Shields
• Opposed with Dodge if at Point Blank range
• Opposed with a Melee Skill if Engaged

There are also modifiers in the combat difficulty table for ranged attacks, such as +20 for shooting a large target and -10 for moving and shooting in the same round. Do these apply to magic missiles? 

Thanks a lot in advance! 

[u/Nurgle_Pan_Plagi → u/forcharli]

Magic Missiles

Magic missiles are damage-causing spells. When a magic missile is successfully cast, reverse the dice rolled on the Casting Test and refer to the Hit Locations Table (WFRP, page 159) to see where the target is struck. To calculate Damage, add the caster’s Willpower Bonus to the spell’s listed Damage. This Damage is reduced by the target’s Toughness and Armour Points as usual.

It's ranged in a sense that it travels to the target, but it doesn't follow the normal ranged attack rules (the same way using Intimidate to attack doesn't count as a ranged attack).

After all, the part that's being tested is a Langueage (Magick) test, so how precisely you pronounce the incantation so it would be hard for any of those negatives (and bonuses) to apply to that.

So you don't get negatives for casting a spell on a small target, but you also don't get bonuses for casting a spell on a group and so on.

The caster does need to have line of sight to the target tho, so you can't shoot around a wall or behind full cover etc.

[u/forcharli → u/Nurgle_Pan_Plagi]

Thanks a lot for your answer and explaining it so well

[u/Nurgle_Pan_Plagi → u/forcharli]

Happy to help!