On Oct 11, 2008, at 2:02 AM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
There has to be a penalty for not touching for the rule to make any sense, and otherwise no casters will bother to risk touching subjects.
Well, in the case of the Dehydrate Spell, if you touch the person, then you dehydrate that body part; otherwise, you affect the entire body. Being able to to touch the person would increase the likelihood of crippling a body part or result in significant better damage modifiers (e.g. head attack).
I do see your point; however, I do think the rules as written indicate that both touching or being within a yard are non-penalized uses of a Regular Spell.
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