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<blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 261931" data-attributes="member: 2011"><p>It shouldn't.</p><p></p><p>Nondetection should be the lower level gotta make a roll and if you succeed, you bust through with your divination spell. If you fail, you do not bust through.</p><p></p><p>Mind Blank should be the higher level impossible to bust through spell.</p><p></p><p>And in fact, if you read the spells literally, that is what they do.</p><p></p><p>But, the waters got muddy due to two things:</p><p></p><p>1) Earlier versions of Mind Blank only stopping certain types of Scrys and Detections, not all divinations.</p><p></p><p>2) The Sage agreeing with earlier versions of the spell as opposed to what is written in 3E.</p><p></p><p>Either is playable, but if something is written in the core rules and is basically an ok rule (especially as an 8th level spell, shesh), why muck around with Emails and FAQs saying, opps, we really did not mean that? Just suck it up and fix it in 4E if you really do not like it. Mind Blank as written is not game breaking.</p><p></p><p>A much worse rule than that is the targeting rules for spells. A simple 2nd level Invisibility spell prevents ALL targeting spells (about 50% of the spells in the book) compared to 8th level Mind Blank stopping all Divination spells (about 10% of the spells in the book).</p><p></p><p>Think about it. Which spell/rule is more broken?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KarinsDad, post: 261931, member: 2011"] It shouldn't. Nondetection should be the lower level gotta make a roll and if you succeed, you bust through with your divination spell. If you fail, you do not bust through. Mind Blank should be the higher level impossible to bust through spell. And in fact, if you read the spells literally, that is what they do. But, the waters got muddy due to two things: 1) Earlier versions of Mind Blank only stopping certain types of Scrys and Detections, not all divinations. 2) The Sage agreeing with earlier versions of the spell as opposed to what is written in 3E. Either is playable, but if something is written in the core rules and is basically an ok rule (especially as an 8th level spell, shesh), why muck around with Emails and FAQs saying, opps, we really did not mean that? Just suck it up and fix it in 4E if you really do not like it. Mind Blank as written is not game breaking. A much worse rule than that is the targeting rules for spells. A simple 2nd level Invisibility spell prevents ALL targeting spells (about 50% of the spells in the book) compared to 8th level Mind Blank stopping all Divination spells (about 10% of the spells in the book). Think about it. Which spell/rule is more broken? [/QUOTE]
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