carborundum
Adventurer
EDIT: The second text was badly confusing since I posted it before the coffee kicked in. Here's a better description:
Last night my Duskblade managed to get himself entangled and later grappled by an Assassin Vine.
Dodging the first touch attack he considered the threat, a weird plant he'd never encounterd before. "It's just a plant," he thought, "I'll hit it with a scorching ray." Casting defensively to avoid an AoO, he blasted it with fiery death. Nothing happened!
"Electricity then," he thought, fending off the constricting tendrils a second time (still luckily avoiding a grapple). Again casting defensively, he fired off a Seeking Ray. Nothing!
"Melee it is," he said to no-one in particular.
The next round, the thing got a touch attack to land and with its Improved Grapple, I was immediately grappled. It went for extra constriction damage but the opposed check held this off. Desperately, he wiggled his dagger free. Avoiding further constriction the next round, he channelled a Blade of Blood spell and stabbed the blighter, right between the branches.
"Aha!" - crowed the DM - "you weren't casting defensively. Attack of Opportunity matey!"
"No!" I cried, "casting a spell in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity - see, Arcane Channelling, I knew it said that and that's why I never called it."
"Ah yes," he replied, "but you're in a grapple and the spell has a somatic component so that doesn't count. Wham! Ten points of thorny scrape your face off damage, I'm afraid."
He's open to arguments for the next time though - was he right or mistaken?
The previous text is confusing and should not be read, except to understand how confusing my first explanation was to the following post, to whom I am very grateful!
Last night my Duskblade managed to get himself entangled and then grappled by an Assassin Vine.
"A plant," he thought, "I'll hit it with a scorching ray." Casting defensively to avoid an AoO, he blasted it with fiery death. Nothing happened!
"Electricity then," he thought, fending off the constricting tendrils a second time. Again casting defensively, he fired off a Seeking Ray. Nothing!
"Melee it is," he said to no-one in particular.
Fending off the constriction again, he wiggled his dagger free. Channelling a Blade of Blood spell he stabbed the blighter, right between the branches.
"Aha!" - crowed the DM - "you weren't casting defensively. Attack of Opportunity matey!"
"No!" I cried, "casting a spell in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity - see, Arcane Channelling, I knew it said that and that's why I never called it."
"Ah yes," he replied, "but you're in a grapple and the spell has a somatic component so that doesn't count. Wham! Ten points of thorny scrape your face off damage, I'm afraid."
Last night my Duskblade managed to get himself entangled and later grappled by an Assassin Vine.
Dodging the first touch attack he considered the threat, a weird plant he'd never encounterd before. "It's just a plant," he thought, "I'll hit it with a scorching ray." Casting defensively to avoid an AoO, he blasted it with fiery death. Nothing happened!
"Electricity then," he thought, fending off the constricting tendrils a second time (still luckily avoiding a grapple). Again casting defensively, he fired off a Seeking Ray. Nothing!
"Melee it is," he said to no-one in particular.
The next round, the thing got a touch attack to land and with its Improved Grapple, I was immediately grappled. It went for extra constriction damage but the opposed check held this off. Desperately, he wiggled his dagger free. Avoiding further constriction the next round, he channelled a Blade of Blood spell and stabbed the blighter, right between the branches.
"Aha!" - crowed the DM - "you weren't casting defensively. Attack of Opportunity matey!"
"No!" I cried, "casting a spell in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity - see, Arcane Channelling, I knew it said that and that's why I never called it."
"Ah yes," he replied, "but you're in a grapple and the spell has a somatic component so that doesn't count. Wham! Ten points of thorny scrape your face off damage, I'm afraid."
He's open to arguments for the next time though - was he right or mistaken?
The previous text is confusing and should not be read, except to understand how confusing my first explanation was to the following post, to whom I am very grateful!
Last night my Duskblade managed to get himself entangled and then grappled by an Assassin Vine.
"A plant," he thought, "I'll hit it with a scorching ray." Casting defensively to avoid an AoO, he blasted it with fiery death. Nothing happened!
"Electricity then," he thought, fending off the constricting tendrils a second time. Again casting defensively, he fired off a Seeking Ray. Nothing!
"Melee it is," he said to no-one in particular.
Fending off the constriction again, he wiggled his dagger free. Channelling a Blade of Blood spell he stabbed the blighter, right between the branches.
"Aha!" - crowed the DM - "you weren't casting defensively. Attack of Opportunity matey!"
"No!" I cried, "casting a spell in this way does not provoke an attack of opportunity - see, Arcane Channelling, I knew it said that and that's why I never called it."
"Ah yes," he replied, "but you're in a grapple and the spell has a somatic component so that doesn't count. Wham! Ten points of thorny scrape your face off damage, I'm afraid."
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