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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack Simth" data-source="post: 2944362" data-attributes="member: 29252"><p>He can't manifest it in round 3.  It explicitly doesn't expire until the END of his turn ... after he's taken his standard and move actions.  While it's up, it prevents such things as itself from affecting him (he's invulnerable to them) so he can't layer another one on.  If he finds a way to manifest it after his turn ends (such as with a readied action) then he can put another one up ... but there must, of necessity, be that window where he isn't covered.  Sure, it takes a readied action to take it down.... but anyone can do that, and they at least have a chance.  He might be doing other things in the meanwhile, true, but so can his opponents; he's putting up walls?  Okay, so you can't deal damage to him at the moment... but you can buff, wall things up, get into position, climb onto the mobile statue's back to keep him from going anywhere, Dimensional Lock the area, ready to counterspell with a Greater Dispel Magic or something so he can't put it back up, take out his allies, Summon helpers, Resilient Sphere yourself (really fun to Resilient Sphere yourself, cast Mislead, cast a Silent Quickened Dimension Door, and start zapping away with Silenced stuff that doesn't give away your location.....) or whatever.  Or you can stick your tongue out at him, and play mirror.  See who runs out of power points first.  And who remembered to pack the most dorjories and Powerstones..... and... gee... pity you've been worn down by all those other encounters where you've pulled this trick, and I've been sitting here waiting at basically full power points....</p></blockquote><p></p>

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