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poison-cloud [2022/12/03 19:10]
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poison-cloud [2022/12/05 12:09] (current)
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 ======Poison Cloud====== ======Poison Cloud======
  
-<WRAP column 32px>{{:abilities:poison_cloud.png?nolink}}</WRAP> Units with this ability generate a green smoke effect either on the tile they occupyor one of the eight tiles immediately surrounding them. Any unit caught in the effect accrues 2 points of [[AN]] nonmagical poison damage in its poison damage pool. The effect lasts for two rounds and stacks, meaning a unit exposed to the effect of three different poison clouds on the same tile will take damage from each.+//Not to be confused with ??Poison Cloud??an [[Evocation]] spell.//
  
-FIXME Does the number in brackets indicate the amount of poison damage accrued per instance of ability effect, or the number of ability effects checked for in a single instace? (e.g. ??Hydra Hatchling?? has Poison Cloud (4) while ??Hydra?? has Poison Cloud (8). Does that mean each instance accrues 4/8 poison damage instead of 2, or does it mean it applies 4/8 instances of the regular Poison Cloud effect?+<WRAP column 32px>{{:abilities:poison_cloud.png?nolink}}</WRAP> Units with this ability generate a green smoke effect either on the tile they occupy, or one of the eight tiles immediately surrounding them. Any unit caught in the effect accrues 1 point of [[AN]] nonmagical poison damage in its poison damage pool. The effect lasts for two rounds and stacksmeaning a unit exposed to the effect of three different poison clouds on the same tile will take damage from each. Note that while the manual mentions accruing points of damage, it does not take into account the fact that cloud damage is divided by 3.
  
-FIXME Determine chance/frequency of effect spawning on/around unit possessing this ability.+Poison Cloud is an **[[Auras|Aura]]**, like [[Heat Aura]] and [[Chill Aura]], so its value (listed in parentheses) is how many squares the effect will hit roughly each round. It is //not// the aura's actual AOE, though; each square the Aura effects is technically affected one at a time, and the Aura value has to have values well beyond the scope of actual gameplay to graze past the 3x3 square centered on the unit. A Poison Cloud will thus have a chance to affect the same square multiple times in a round. 
 +<WRAP center round box 45%> 
 +{{:misc:aura_reach.png?nolink}} 
 +//Here's a visual aid!//  
 +</WRAP> 
 + 
 +As shown above, an aura is just as likely to affect the Aura-propagator's square as it is to affect a specific square next to it; fortunately, units with Poison Clouds often have substantial [[Poison Resistance]].
  
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