Antimagic shell (I know, I know ...)

[LGodamus]

Magus,by the way this is not a shot a you ...but, are you one of those people that just cannot stand to be wrong;so that once you have taken a stand on something you will argue about even the most innane details, grasping at straws? Just wondering?

 

[Gromm]

Re: my $0.02

Does this make sense to anyone?

You made sense to me.

In fact you laid it out in nice and simple to understand format.

Spells with a range of self or touch aren't effected by line of effect. Theres no "line" you just touch the target or (in the case of self) it takes effect on the caster. To try to explain it in another way, the spell isn't traveling through space, so it doesn't need to draw a line of effect.

 

[AGGEMAM]

Note also it's only possible to have one touch spell active when you leave the AMF, ie if you cast multiple touch spells in the AMF, only last the one cast is active, and useful, when you leave the AMF.

 

[Gromm]

True - but it must be solid.

At first; AMF allows "effects" to pass through the barrier, they just get supressed.

The probelm is not with object - it is with solid. THAT is the absolute contradiction.

Ok lets put it this way. Its solid to magic, but not to yor hand. Your hand passes through this quasi-solid area and delivers the spell. The spell can't leave your body because it would be suppressed by the solid all around it.

Does this way of looking at it make more sense?


Or from dcollins response from the Sage on this subject:

"I've got word back from the Sage confirming the AMF functionality that I suggested in my first post of this thread. (I've snipped the introductory part of my email -- it's basically identical to the first post of this thread).

According to Skip, both "personal" and "touch" spells are allowed (assuming he read my question closely).



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I'm really not sure what to make of these seemingly contradictory FAQ entries.

The two statements are not contradictory.

Perhaps the implication is that in an antimagic field, the only useful magic is personal- or touch-ranged spells, which lie dormant until the antimagic field ends?

Correct. Antimagic filed only suppresses spells, it doesn't dispel them. (It does block line of effect, which isn't an issue for anything you cast on yourself.

Skip Williams

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Exactly what I said in Skip talk.