Better Incorporeal/Ethereal ?? (Naruto inspired question)

[Erevanden]

Hello,

I've been wondering recently, if there is any way to emulate the ability of one of the BBEG's from the Naruto manga - Uchiha Obito/Tobi ?

The ability is basically transporting parts of your body, or your entire body, to another dimension, in order to avoid being affected by things on the "material plane".

I was trying to find a class ability, psionic power or spell that did similiar, but, alas, found nothing.

The best I came up so far is Ethereal Jaunt, but one would still be affected by force effects...

If someone has any thoughts on the matter, plaese do help me

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Sounds like what Blink is supposed to do, I think.

Greater Blink gives you more control.

 

[howandwhy99]

So "Force" effects are basically magical energy early on. And in that they can influence overlapping planes to still allow effects upon other beings.
Incorporeal ethereal creatures is your best bet, but then they cannot affect the Prime Material Plane.
Manifested incorporeals can be affected, but to a lesser degree.

My suggestion is to create a custom spell and magical effect for your campaign world. The big catch, however, is to allow for a person using it to still be affected by others on the primary plane of play. Otherwise you're looking at an "I Win" button, especially if the creature in question who is "phased out" can still sense and affect creatures not phased out. Do you get my meaning? It's basically an Invincibility state and not something you'd want to give to non-PC creatures either.

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

Maybe the spell could let you dodge a single attack by jumping into the ethereal plane momentarily. It would act as a reaction, much like Feather Fall, but of much higher level.

 

[I'm A Banana]

I'd mostly wonder what part of that you want to emulate. What's the end you hope to achieve? If you just want to dodge a lot of attacks, pump up your touch AC and saving throws to redonk levels and call it being extra-dimensional. Ultimately, it'll play similarly: you can't be touched by any attack very easily. Monk abilities work really well with that idea (WIS bonus to AC, evasion, etc.).

 

[Erevanden]

I want to emulate the "phasing" ability as it is in the manga, without resorting to any similiar effect.

I am of course aware, that it might be impossible

But than again, perhaps not

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Would Greater Blink cover what you want?

 

[Sage Genesis]

Etherealness or Blinking is about as close as you can get. And no, they're not perfect. Game balance can't allow for characters that can never be successfully attacked by anything, that's the difference between a manga and a game.

 

[Erevanden]

I'd like to thank everyone for all your input and inspiration. There are so many options now, it will take me some time to choose which one/s I really want to use!!