Antimagic Field and other assorted questions

[chilibean]

Since Mind Blank supposedly protects someone from true strike, does that mean Antimagic Field does also?

Is the sight from a scrying device's magical sensor "magic sight", or just magically relocated regular sight? So can you see someone with scry who is in a antimagic field?

If you are a human under the effects of a darkvision spell in a cave underground, is an antimagic field transparent or dark to you (assuming the edge of the field is within your 60' vision range)?

Do golums freeze in an antimagic field, or operate normally? What about undead? I know the incorporeal ones supposedly "wink out of existence" temporarily, but what happens to a skeleton?

I assume that everything that applies to an antimagic field also applies to a dead magic area in FRCS?

Is the lingering wounding effect from a sword of wounding magical or normal? If it's magical, would an extraordinary ability of fast healing kick in while in an antimagic field?

Would a lightning bolt (from 3rd lvl wiz spell) wink out of existence for the width of a antimagic field, then reappear and keep going? Or would it stop at the edge?

Is lightning from a call lightning spell "natural" and thus able to hit something in an antimagic field?

Is the telepathic link due to domination 2 way communication? Or does the dominated person have to respond verbally to a question? If it's 2 way telepathy, what's the range limit? If that link is broken due to being in an antimagic field, does it automatically reestablish upon exit with no save? Are you automatically aware of what is happening to your dominated person? If you can't see or hear the person you dominated because you walked off while they were guarding something at your command, do you know if they are suddenly attacked? Or only if you ask them to report on what is happening? Can you even give commands that require intrepretation like guard? Or can you only treat them like a marionette and say stand, attack, move, cast fireball, etc...?

Well, I guess that's enough for now. Sorry if these have already been asked a hundred times and I just missed the discussion.

 

[kreynolds]

Since Mind Blank supposedly protects someone from true strike, does that mean Antimagic Field does also?

Mind Blank does not protect you from True Strike.

 

[Zenon]

Do golums freeze in an antimagic field, or operate normally? What about undead? I know the incorporeal ones supposedly "wink out of existence" temporarily, but what happens to a skeleton?

From the SRD:

Golems and other magical constructs, elementals, outsiders, and corporeal undead, still function in an antimagic area (though the antimagic area suppresses their supernatural, spell-like, and spell abilities normally).

 

[AuraSeer]

Since Mind Blank supposedly protects someone from true strike, does that mean Antimagic Field does also?

Mind Blank doesn't protect against True Strike. I would say that Antimagic Field does not either.

Is the sight from a scrying device's magical sensor "magic sight", or just magically relocated regular sight? So can you see someone with scry who is in a antimagic field?

The question of whether it's "magical sight" is moot. If the scrying sensor is inside the AMF, it is suppressed and nonfunctional, just like any other spell effect. If the sensor is outside the field, it can see into the field normally.

Note that if you try to scry on a subject inside an AMF, I think the spell would fail. Since the target is immune to all magic, the spell shouldn't be able to find him.

If you are a human under the effects of a darkvision spell in a cave underground, is an antimagic field transparent or dark to you (assuming the edge of the field is within your 60' vision range)?

The Darkvision spell targets you, modifying your eyes to let you see in the dark. You can see into and through an AMF normally. However, if you step bodily into the AMF, the spell is suppressed and you're probably blind.

Do golums freeze in an antimagic field, or operate normally? What about undead? I know the incorporeal ones supposedly "wink out of existence" temporarily, but what happens to a skeleton?

Read the description of antimagic on this page.

Golems and undead operate normally in an AMF. Magic is required to construct them, but not to maintain their existence. Only summoned or conjured creatures, or incorporeal undead, are suppressed by the field.

I assume that everything that applies to an antimagic field also applies to a dead magic area in FRCS?

Yup.

Is the lingering wounding effect from a sword of wounding magical or normal? If it's magical, would an extraordinary ability of fast healing kick in while in an antimagic field?

Since the bleeding can be stopped by a Heal check, I'd consider it nonmagical. Therefore it would continue inside an AMF.

Extraordinary abilities, including fast healing, are inherently nonmagical and function normally in an antimagic area.

Would a lightning bolt (from 3rd lvl wiz spell) wink out of existence for the width of a antimagic field, then reappear and keep going? Or would it stop at the edge?

Any area of antimagic blocks line of effect. The bolt would stop at the edge, as if it had hit an impenetrable barrier.

Is the telepathic link due to domination 2 way communication? Or does the dominated person have to respond verbally to a question?

Read the spell description. "The character knows what the subject is experiencing, but does not receive direct sensory input from him." Sounds self-explanatory to me.

If it's 2 way telepathy, what's the range limit?

Read the spell description. "[T]he range at which it can be exercised is unlimited, as long as the character and the subject are on the same plane. The character need not see the subject to control it."

If that link is broken due to being in an antimagic field, does it automatically reestablish upon exit with no save?

Yes. Antimagic suppresses the effect, but does not end it. When the antimagic no longer applies, the spell goes back into place, and no new save is allowed.

Are you automatically aware of what is happening to your dominated person? If you can't see or hear the person you dominated because you walked off while they were guarding something at your command, do you know if they are suddenly attacked? Or only if you ask them to report on what is happening?

Did you read the spell description? "The character knows what the subject is experiencing, but does not receive direct sensory input from him."

If the subject is surprised, or angry, or gets stabbed in the kidney, you know about it. You do not get to see through his eyes-- meaning that you can't identify people that only he has seen, or teleport based on his view of a location-- but you do know what he's doing and what is happening to him.

 

[kreynolds]

Re: Re: Antimagic Field and other assorted questions

The Darkvision spell targets you...

Chilibean, this is also why Antimagic Field doesn't protect against True Strike. True Strike affects the caster, not anyone else.

 

[chilibean]

I was under the impression that there was a big argument here about true strike and that most people through it did not get past mind blanks protection. Oh well, I guess I remembered it backwards.

As for the domination stuff, yes, I read it, and I thought it was rather vague. The finer details of how to run a dominated person are pretty fuzzy (to me anyway).

Knowing what someone is experiencing doesn't sound exactly like 2 way telepathic communication to me. If you force your minion to tell you what it did 3 days ago, can someone overhear what you asked and what the answer was? Or did it all happen via mental communication?

 

[kreynolds]

I was under the impression that there was a big argument here about true strike and that most people through it did not get past mind blanks protection.

There was, but it was quite a while back.

Oh well, I guess I remembered it backwards.

Nope. It's just that they were all wrong.

 

[AuraSeer]

Knowing what someone is experiencing doesn't sound exactly like 2 way telepathic communication to me. If you force your minion to tell you what it did 3 days ago, can someone overhear what you asked and what the answer was? Or did it all happen via mental communication?

The former. You "know what the subject is experiencing" in realtime, and you can give mental commands, but you can't actually carry on a two-sided telepathic conversation.