Inscrive Rune question

[Doc-Holiday]

I've been playing around with Inscribe Rune and the Runecaster class

One of the things I noticed that these runes only self target, even though they will scribe spells that target others.

I can even go so far as to create a rune of Cure Wounds which... even though I am allowed to target a friend... only heals me.

Or a rune of Hammer of the Gods, or Hammer of Righteousness.. but these only hit me when I target my enemy...

Is this by design?

I saw nothing in the description of the Inscribe Rune feat that said they were self target only.

Thanks for your time.

[xwarren]

Yes, that is intentional - runes can only affect their activator (there are some exceptions, but only because the way the scripts for some spells are written). I didn't read the source book, but I saw the code that was supposed to do that - when rune is activated - target activator.

[half_evil_333]

Hm, out of curiosity I just looked at the scourcebooks "Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting" and "Player's Guide to Faerûn", and as I understand that's definitely not the the way it's supposed to be (I guess that IS the scource for the feat / PC in the PRC ?) :/. Due to those books "Inscribe Runes" pretty much works the same as "Set Traps", though there also is the possibility for the caster to activate the rune by himself if it contains a beneficial spell. I don't have links to the rules since I own the books and have no need of searching them online (would probably an illegal scource anyway I guess) but if needed I could post them here.
My guess is that "Inscribe Rune" has been confused with the ability of the PC "Runescarred Berserk" to activate his runescars, though I admit I don't know if that PC is part of the PRC ATM :/.

Edit: I just testet runecasting using the PGC3v4.4 and it worked fine for me. Using the feat createt a runestone in my inventory which then I could use like a wand, targeting wherever or whatever I wanted. So the runes don't work like traps (which they would according to the p&p rules) but I guess that wouldn't be possible to implement. Don't know if this helps though :/

Forgot to mention that I use PRC v.3.3g, not 3.3hrc1 though -.-