Wide

FX with a Wide area affects all targets within a given Zone. Touch Range and close Range Wide Area FX always exclude the user of the FX from the affected area, but Long Range and Perception Range FX can strike the user if he or she is too close to the blast!
You make one Attack roll with the area attack against all targets in the area and compare the result to the Defense resistances of all the characters in the area of effect. All characters with a Defense lower than your roll are affected. All characters with a defense higher than your attack roll take only half the Effect.
Area attacks suffer no Penalty to Attack against targets with Concealment, but rolls to hit targets with Cover are penalized as normal. Area attacks ignore Penalties for firing into Melee.
See also:
* Area
* Attack Action
* Evasion
* Narrow
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