Line of Sight or Mental Power

[Hugh Neilson]

Conventional barriers don't stop Mental Powers. For example' date=' a mentalist with N-Ray Vision could use his Ego Attack to attack a target through a wall, so long as he could establish LOS to the target.[/quote']

 

These are under the heading Line of Sight. The Range Advatage Line of Sight indicates

 

A power with this +1/2 Advantage works on a Line of Sight basis, like Mental Powers...

 

can easily be blocked by intervening objects...

 

See Line of Sight, page 116.

 

So my questions are:

 

- are all matters discussed under the header Line of Sight on p 116 equally applicable to powers with the Line of Sight advantage which are not Mental Powes?

 

- specifically, is an attack with the Line of Sight advantage able to ignore conventional barriers provided the user can establish LoS?

 

- does the impact of barriers depend on the nature of the power (eg. an EB would be blocked by a conventional barrier with PD/ED, but a power acting against exotic defenses would not, so an EB would have to break through a brick wall, an NND would be stopped because it does not do BOD, a Sight Flash would be stopped because the wall is opaque, a power acting against Mental Defense would pass through because the brick wall has no mental defense, a power acting against hearing flash defense or power defense could pass through because the wall lacks these exotic defenses (and is not opaque to hearing), etc.?

 

Perhaps the answer is "just wait until 6e Mwah hahahahaha", but I'll ask anyway.

[Steve Long]

Re: Line of Sight or Mental Power

 

Generally speaking, yes, the info on 5ER 116 is applicable to the LOS Advantage; that's why it's referenced.

 

No, an attack with the LOS Advantage cannot per se ignore conventional barriers. LOS is not Indirect, and physical barriers stop physical attacks regardless of what type of Range they have. Mental Powers aren't physical attacks, so it's not the same sort of consideration. Nor does it have anything to do with what defenses apply. It boils down to pure common sense and dramatic sense, and I really can't define it much more than that.