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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jontherev" data-source="post: 61018" data-attributes="member: 1451">How many times did you read it?  Make sure it's the PHB, as the SRD doesn't have everything in it.  But, yes, it most certainly does say you can move through solid objects.  I promise.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Here are the advantages of blinking...half damage vs. area effect spells, 50% miss chance from attacks and targeted spells, attack as if invisible w/+2 to hit, half damage from falling.  You also get a 20% miss chance to hit someone and move at 75% of your normal speed.  Oh, plus the moving through solid objects ability.I changed my mind a bit from the last post though.  You get to try to walk through the tanglefoot bag.  If you make your 50% chance, you walk right through it.  If you don't, then you take 1d6 damage AND have a 50% chance of either landing on the other side of the bag (i.e. free) or staying put inside the tanglefoot bag.  That's the rules as per the spell description.Otherwise you run into rediculous problems with the spell.  For example, someone with a ring of blinking tying a rope (or vine if the rope's not organic enough for your DM<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />) between himself and all other pary members so that everyone can blink.  Or making the entire cavern blink just because he's touching it.  It would state this in the rules if objects hitting/touching you BECOME part of you.Do you really think a 50gp tanglefoot bag should work as well as say an Ethereal Touch (the ethereal equivalent to Ghost Touch) Net +1 that would be specifically designed for such tactics (and cost around 8000 gp!)?  No way.And as for items you are picking up, well, I'd just say if you make your 20% miss chance to actually grab it, it's yours.  It might seem to be opposite of what I ruled on items hitting you, but I think there's a difference between the two.  Something hitting/touching you is still not a part of you.  Something you successfully pick up IS now a possession of yours.  However, I can certainly see not allowing this, kind of like how if you are invisible and pick something up, it is still visible.  YMMV.</blockquote>

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