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Dismissal vs. Dimensional Anchor: which wins?
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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 3251885" data-attributes="member: 12966"><p>This aspect hadn't occurred to me: that depriving the demon of its teleportation ability should be balanced by <em>dismissal</em> being ineffective.</p><p></p><p>The confusion, on my part, was that one spell said one thing and another spell said something else. Normally, I can make determinations based on the wording of the spell, or at a minimum, by looking at the spell level (the way that <em>daylight</em> trumps <em>darkness</em> and <em>deeper darkness</em>).</p><p></p><p>The <em>dimensional anchor</em> says it prevents planar travel, but I considered that the travel it was referring to did not include involuntary travel. For example, if a deity's avatar enters the Prime Material plane and is destroyed while under the effect of a permanent <em>dimensional anchor</em> (no argument about how this is accomplished, please!), when the avatar is destroyed, does it reform on its home plane? (Note that this is rhetorical. I don't really care! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)</p><p></p><p>Anyway, the answers here -- as well as a couple of answers on the RttToEE forum -- have convinced me to rule that the <em>dismissal</em> is a wasted spell in this situation. (But a <em>dispel magic</em> first might drop the <em>dimensional anchor</em>, allowing the <em>dismissal</em> to work. I didn't describe the bebilith as being covered in a green aura, so I will probably make that description change and then let the PC decide whether to cast <em>dismissal</em>. Maybe they'll take the hint and use <em>dispel magic</em> first. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 3251885, member: 12966"] This aspect hadn't occurred to me: that depriving the demon of its teleportation ability should be balanced by [i]dismissal[/i] being ineffective. The confusion, on my part, was that one spell said one thing and another spell said something else. Normally, I can make determinations based on the wording of the spell, or at a minimum, by looking at the spell level (the way that [i]daylight[/i] trumps [i]darkness[/i] and [i]deeper darkness[/i]). The [i]dimensional anchor[/i] says it prevents planar travel, but I considered that the travel it was referring to did not include involuntary travel. For example, if a deity's avatar enters the Prime Material plane and is destroyed while under the effect of a permanent [i]dimensional anchor[/i] (no argument about how this is accomplished, please!), when the avatar is destroyed, does it reform on its home plane? (Note that this is rhetorical. I don't really care! ;)) Anyway, the answers here -- as well as a couple of answers on the RttToEE forum -- have convinced me to rule that the [i]dismissal[/i] is a wasted spell in this situation. (But a [i]dispel magic[/i] first might drop the [i]dimensional anchor[/i], allowing the [i]dismissal[/i] to work. I didn't describe the bebilith as being covered in a green aura, so I will probably make that description change and then let the PC decide whether to cast [i]dismissal[/i]. Maybe they'll take the hint and use [i]dispel magic[/i] first. :)) [/QUOTE]
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