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can an item TW etc that can cast mystic portal be used to redirect projectiles(bullets, energy etc.) example narrow hallway mage walks into ambush uses mystic portal to send the bullets coming at him back at the enemies by opening the other end of the mystic portal in the ceiling above them.

In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you and only ones that miss and go into the portal would go the ceiling, and then only in the exact corresponding area that the bullets entered. so unless the guy shooting you misses and happens to hit the mystic portal behind you at the precice X-Y co-ordinates that correspond to his location below the portal above him, he wouldn't hit himself, or anyone else.

Now if you have a tightly packed group of enemies all spraying bursts, then yea, i'm sure someone will manage to hit someone else/himself, but in a one on 1 fight, it's unlikely. as GM, i'd probablly just roll a % die based on how many people are in the radius of the portal above them.

Of course, the real problem is them just moving away from the portal above them.

All in all, it's a nice trick, but very situational.

IF your in a narrow hallway
IF your enemies are tightly packed
IF your enemies are all laying down a lot of bursts

then maybe you can lure them into doing some damage to themselves. Once. that is, if they arn't already familiar with the mystic portal spell and can see the problem before they fire. Or maybe you do it in another situation and just get lucky. then again, if the enemy are that tightly packed in that narrow an area, your probablly better off lobbing grenades or any other AoE attack.

Bottom line, I'd be giving XP for a clever idea, but in all honesty, in the kinds of situations your discribing you have better options for 60 PPE.

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air

I don't have my books with me, but I don't remember this being a constraint for the teleport kind of mystic portals, only the "walk through walls" kind.

--flatline

flatline wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air

I don't have my books with me, but I don't remember this being a constraint for the teleport kind of mystic portals, only the "walk through walls" kind.

--flatline

I checked the book of magic before I answered. the teleport kind specifically must be placed on a flat, verticle surface only. same with the walk through walls.

i used to play a game in which psionics had this ability to create dimension doors and since that could be opened in midair it was used as i described.does a similiar psychic ability exist in the palladium universe?

say652 wrote:i used to play a game in which psionics had this ability to create dimension doors and since that could be opened in midair it was used as i described.does a similiar psychic ability exist in the palladium universe?

Nope

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you

What if I take out my trusty carpet and cast mystic portal on it and hold it up in front of me to catch the bullets?

Tor wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you

What if I take out my trusty carpet and cast mystic portal on it and hold it up in front of me to catch the bullets?

Or cast Energy Shield or TK Forcefield and then cast Mystic Portal on it?

--flatline

Tor wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you

What if I take out my trusty carpet and cast mystic portal on it and hold it up in front of me to catch the bullets?

That would be a GM's call.

flatline wrote:

Tor wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you

What if I take out my trusty carpet and cast mystic portal on it and hold it up in front of me to catch the bullets?

Or cast Energy Shield or TK Forcefield and then cast Mystic Portal on it?

--flatline

Both of them are explicitly domes, and thus fail the flat surface requirement.

i allow mystic portal to be cast in open air. thats the gm's call right.

Nekira Sudacne wrote:

flatline wrote:

Tor wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you

What if I take out my trusty carpet and cast mystic portal on it and hold it up in front of me to catch the bullets?

Or cast Energy Shield or TK Forcefield and then cast Mystic Portal on it?

--flatline

Both of them are explicitly domes, and thus fail the flat surface requirement.

Energy Field can be a wall or bubble. Book of Magic, pg 101.

I am developing a TW Kite Shield with Mystic Portal enchanted onto it. Still in the research phase, fingers crossed.

Talavar wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:

flatline wrote:

Tor wrote:

Nekira Sudacne wrote:In theory, but sinse mystic portal can only be cast on surfaces and not in the air, the best you could do is cast it on the wall behind you

What if I take out my trusty carpet and cast mystic portal on it and hold it up in front of me to catch the bullets?

Or cast Energy Shield or TK Forcefield and then cast Mystic Portal on it?

--flatline

Both of them are explicitly domes, and thus fail the flat surface requirement.

Energy Field can be a wall or bubble. Book of Magic, pg 101.

So it seems. would be a GM's call then.