If you miss an AOE w/ No Range that targets your own hex, where does it go?

[KA.]

In another thread, Super Squirrel asked the following question:

"Lets say you have an Area of Effect attack with No Range. To hit the hex you are attacking a 0 DCV. What exactly happens if you miss this attack roll?"

 

Maybe a better question is, would you even make an Attack Roll?

 

If you can't miss the hex you are in, there wouldn't be any point, and if you can, where is the attack centered when you miss?

 

I always assumed that it would be centered in a random adjacent hex, but it appears that 5e/5eR do not say this.

 

So what is the official answer?

 

KA.

[Steve Long]

Re: If you miss an AOE w/ No Range that targets your own hex, where does it go?

 

Assuming the GM sees the need to even make an Attack Roll (which he usually should, if the power has the potential to injure other people), then a miss has no effect on anyone whatsoever — since the attack has No Range, the normal rules for determining the “location” of a missed Area-affecting attack don’t apply. The GM can interpret this in whatever way he sees fit. For example, it could be that the power failed to work somehow, that something protected the potential targets, or the like.

 

By and large, though, I think it's a moot point. I can't imagine many characters missing in this sort of situation.