Bad GM rulings? How would you rule?

[irdeggman]

My emphasis is on the three sections that have been clarified by the house rule.

First clarification: the two sentences in the middle are to be taken independently. So... The spell can be cast on a creature and the effect is thereby mobile. As a separate situation, any unwilling creature coming under the effect of silence can attempt a Will save to negate the spell.

If they spend time analyzing and studying the effect - not by merely walking into the area. It is not an automatic save attempt.

Second clarification: since silence is an illusion (glamer), I've decided that the first emphasized portion of the spell ("or passes through the area") doesn't fit with the way I view illusions. So in a very long tunnel, if there's a segment in the middle that is covered by silence, it does not block sound traveling from one end of the tunnel to the other. (However, if the people making the noise are inside the silence, that sound will not exit the AoE, and that's the typical use of the spell anyway.)

But an illusion of a wall will block sight to the other side correct? So technically what is the difference?

How about invisibility? Also a glamor. But the target of invisibility is still invisible even if someone who didn't see the spell being cast walks into the area (and they do not get a save to disbelieve).

 

[azhrei_fje]

Discussion of silence continued in this thread.