Ethereal Blinking?

Serious Paul · Jun 4, 2007

Can a character who is ethereal use a ring of blinking? If so when he blinks is he material or ethereal?

3278 · Jun 4, 2007

More to the point, if a PC wearing activated Armor of Etherealness uses a Ring of Blink, when the ring is deactivated, will the PC still be ethereal, or material? i.e. does performing an action which makes you material - as Blink does, intermittently - deactivate the Armor of Etherealness's effect?

Serious Paul · Jun 5, 2007

Bueller?

kigmatzomat · Jun 5, 2007

I'd say that an ethereal creature who blinks does blink to the material plane. They should blink back to the ethereal plane, just as they would return to the material under any other situation.

rgard · Jun 5, 2007

Serious Paul said:
Can a character who is ethereal use a ring of blinking? If so when he blinks is he material or ethereal?

Sounds like putting a bag of holding into a portable hole.

Serious Paul · Jun 8, 2007

So anyone else? I was really hoping for a more enthusiastic reply, as I am going to have to make a ruling on this for our game.

Hypersmurf · Jun 8, 2007

Serious Paul said:
Can a character who is ethereal use a ring of blinking? If so when he blinks is he material or ethereal?

It's based on the spell, which states "You “blink” back and forth between the Material Plane and the Ethereal Plane."

So while the spell is in effect, you are alternately on either the Material Plane or the Ethereal Plane.

Once the spell expires, you're back where you started - in this case, the Ethereal Plane.

-Hyp.