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From: kjp@ecn.purdue.edu (Kevin J Podsiadlik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Might & Magic II - lvl 12 wizard can't cast fireball
Message-ID: <1990Aug26.183628.10474@ecn.purdue.edu>
Date: 26 Aug 90 18:36:28 GMT
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Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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In article <58218215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes:
>I have a level 12 wizard with 25 points of intlligence, and fairly
>high points in all other traits.. Any idea why I can't cast the fireball?
>None of my other characters can successfully use any  enchanted iems
>capable of casting the fireball either???
>
>What gives?

My guess is that you are aiming at a monster currently in hand-to-hand combat
with the party.  The spells Cold Ray and Acid Spray for Clerics, and Web,
Fireball, Disrupt and Fantastic Freeze for Sorcerers are restricted to monsters
not in hand-to-hand combat.

In M&MI, casting Fireball on a monster in hand-to-hand will affect the monster,
but it will also affect the character the monster is in hand-to-hand with.  A
more severe penalty for carelessness, but perhaps more realistic.  Chacun a
son goute, as the French say.  (Roughly: To each his own.)

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