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<blockquote data-quote="Hackenslash" data-source="post: 925947" data-attributes="member: 11770">Good Points Azul and LokiDR !!!I was actually in the same discussion last night, and agreed with the DM ruling primarily from past experience of playing 1st and 2nd edition DnD. The animate objects spell can work on fixed items but would not have the strengh enough to break away from it's parent if attached at a natural source. However, if said material was held weakly or if it was easily broken off then I would allow it to come free and act according to the spell. But generally I would say that this spell is meant for Statues, Furniture, Chests, Doors, and various other moveable objects, but not to rule out completely the &quot;Rocky Outcropping&quot; in that it would move as directed but would be limited by its attachment. I think that would be fair, what do all the ENWorlders think ? The situation described in last nights adventure, was using a Rocky Outcropping to fish someone out of a sewage dump and saveing them from drowning, unfortunately I think the aforementioned &quot;Rocky Outcroppings&quot; where not big or long enough to effect such a proceedure. However I could be wrong as I was not the DM at the time, merely an amused player as it was not I stuck in the sewage with advanced, corrupted Ottyughs beeting the crap out of me....hahahahahaha !!!!! Opions on how we could have gotten the said characters outta there would be welcome for future reference. The Monsters were defeated in the end with some very barve chareacters jumping in and holding breath and using Dark vision to attack the Ottyughs.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hackenslash, post: 925947, member: 11770"] [b]Good Points Azul and LokiDR !!![/b] I was actually in the same discussion last night, and agreed with the DM ruling primarily from past experience of playing 1st and 2nd edition DnD. The animate objects spell can work on fixed items but would not have the strengh enough to break away from it's parent if attached at a natural source. However, if said material was held weakly or if it was easily broken off then I would allow it to come free and act according to the spell. But generally I would say that this spell is meant for Statues, Furniture, Chests, Doors, and various other moveable objects, but not to rule out completely the "Rocky Outcropping" in that it would move as directed but would be limited by its attachment. I think that would be fair, what do all the ENWorlders think ? The situation described in last nights adventure, was using a Rocky Outcropping to fish someone out of a sewage dump and saveing them from drowning, unfortunately I think the aforementioned "Rocky Outcroppings" where not big or long enough to effect such a proceedure. However I could be wrong as I was not the DM at the time, merely an amused player as it was not I stuck in the sewage with advanced, corrupted Ottyughs beeting the crap out of me....hahahahahaha !!!!! Opions on how we could have gotten the said characters outta there would be welcome for future reference. The Monsters were defeated in the end with some very barve chareacters jumping in and holding breath and using Dark vision to attack the Ottyughs. ;) [/QUOTE]

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