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Area effect cone?

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Why isn't there any area effect cone attacks in the Palladium Megaverse? No Flamethrowers, no supernatural creature breath weapons, shotguns don't even have a cone blast pattern.

Every area of effect attack goes out to a single point then covers a circular radius from there. As far as I can tell under the rules a firehouse shoot the water out to a single point where it blasts our in a radius.
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SpiritInterface wrote:Why isn't there any area effect cone attacks in the Palladium Megaverse? No Flamethrowers, no supernatural creature breath weapons, shotguns don't even have a cone blast pattern.

Every area of effect attack goes out to a single point then covers a circular radius from there. As far as I can tell under the rules a firehouse shoot the water out to a single point where it blasts our in a radius.


There's the Fire Gout spell.
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SpiritInterface wrote:Why isn't there any area effect cone attacks in the Palladium Megaverse? No Flamethrowers, no supernatural creature breath weapons, shotguns don't even have a cone blast pattern.

Every area of effect attack goes out to a single point then covers a circular radius from there. As far as I can tell under the rules a firehouse shoot the water out to a single point where it blasts our in a radius.

There are at least two flamethrowers. But flamethrowers do not lay out a cone, regardless. They lay out a line, which you can wiggle around into any pattern you like basically.
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SpiritInterface wrote:Why isn't there any area effect cone attacks in the Palladium Megaverse? No Flamethrowers, no supernatural creature breath weapons, shotguns don't even have a cone blast pattern.

Every area of effect attack goes out to a single point then covers a circular radius from there. As far as I can tell under the rules a firehouse shoot the water out to a single point where it blasts our in a radius.

If I am understanding you correctly there are at least two things for what you are looking for.

The Plasmore mine (Merc Ops pg. 96) and the Dragon breath weapon can do it as well (dragon HtoH, RUE pg 349).
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Not that much then and we are really clutching to find those that are cones.

Could be a new addition. Write it up!
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The Dark Elf wrote:Not that much then and we are really clutching to find those that are cones.

Could be a new addition. Write it up!


That sounds like something to work on.
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Agree. Its not in most standard rules.
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