Dimension Door and Escape Artist

[nute]

If a character with the dimension leap ability (or other use of a dimension door effect as a spell-like ability) were tied up, could they conceivably use their ability to just jump to another location and leave the ropes behind?

Using it to escape a grapple would more than likely provoke an attack of opportunity, but since inanimate objects like ropes have no such ability, that's not a factor. As well, the dimension door writeup says: You can bring objects along, blah blah blah. Says nothing about things like manacles or chains coming along automatically.

So would it be considered an automatically successful Escape Artist check?

 

[Lord Pendragon]

So would it be considered an automatically successful Escape Artist check?

This is how I rule it, yes. Most Sor/Wiz's are going to want to keep a Dimension Door, or better, a Silent Dimension Door, on-hand to escape grapples, manacles, etc.

 

[Hypersmurf]

This is how I rule it, yes. Most Sor/Wiz's are going to want to keep a Dimension Door, or better, a Silent Dimension Door, on-hand to escape grapples, manacles, etc.

A Sorcerer who tries to use a Silent Dimension Door to escape a grapple is going to have a slight problem.

-Hyp.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

A Sorcerer who tries to use a Silent Dimension Door to escape a grapple is going to have a slight problem.

No full-round actions in a Grapple?

 

[Hypersmurf]

No full-round actions in a Grapple?

No spells with a casting time longer than a standard action.

-Hyp.

 

[Lord Pendragon]

No spells with a casting time longer than a standard action.

D'oh! I guess the sorcerer would have to pick up Arcane Preparation to keep a Silent Dimension Door on hand for grapples, then...

 

[dcollins]

If a character with the dimension leap ability (or other use of a dimension door effect as a spell-like ability) were tied up, could they conceivably use their ability to just jump to another location and leave the ropes behind?

Personally, I would rule "no", you bring everything on your person, period.

Frankly I don't see this "you can bring objects" language anywhere in the spell to indicate that there's any option in that regard. What I see is "Target: You and touched objects..." -- if you touch it, it comes.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Frankly I don't see this "you can bring objects" language anywhere in the spell to indicate that there's any option in that regard. What I see is "Target: You and touched objects..." -- if you touch it, it comes.

So if you want to prevent a wizard DDing out of your grapple, the first thing you do is shove him up against a three hundred pound rock...

-Hyp.

 

[Scion]

if you touch it, it comes.

So thats where potholes come from.

 

[Xael]

So would it be considered an automatically successful Escape Artist check?

I would say yes.