123, The Battle for Gobwin Knob, Page 111

[fendrin]

Within a certain area. A fireball that explodes and fries anythign within a certain radius for example. One that just can hit any X targets you chose, where X is a number greater than 1, is not an AoE bacause it has a predetermined number of targets.

By the specific meaning of the terms, yes.

I have seen it used both ways, though.