Does Blink and Displacement stack?

[Thanee]

With Blink and Displacement running, do you get two 50% chances to avoid any attack aimed at you (assuming no See Invisible, True Seeing, etc)?

What about Blink, Displacement and Invisibility?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Staffan]

I'd allow Blink and Displacement to work together, because they work in different ways - Displacement makes it look like you're somewhere you're not, and Blink works by hopping in and out of the Ethereal plane. I'd allow Blink to work with any visual-based miss chance.

However, I would not allow Displacement and Invisibility, or other concealment-based miss chances, to work together. Only use the best miss chance.

 

[tburdett]

Grrr.. (nothing to see, move along, nothing to see)

 

[tburdett]

Read the section titled "One Effect Makes Another Irrelevant" on page 154 in the PHB.

The Blinking and the Invisibility would stack, but the Displacement effect would be rendered irrelevant. I'd rule this way because if something is Invisible, it would not "appear" (flavor word used in description for Displacement) to be 2 feet away from where it actually is.

However, if something came along that was able to see an invisible creature, the Displacement effect would then become the relevant spell effect and thusly render the Invisibility effect irrelevant.

Ponder that!

 

[hong]

With Blink and Displacement running, do you get two 50% chances to avoid any attack aimed at you (assuming no See Invisible, True Seeing, etc)?

Blink and displacement stack (ie, roll two miss chances). The benefit of blink doesn't derive from concealment, but from being partway in the ethereal plane.

What about Blink, Displacement and Invisibility?

Displacement wouldn't stack with invis. It's not much use having a false image that nobody can see.

 

[tburdett]

What if something came along that was able to see an invisible creature?

The displacement effect would still be in effect (stacked) just not relevant up to that point.

 

[hong]

What if something came along that was able to see an invisible creature?

The displacement effect would still be in effect (stacked) just not relevant up to that point.

Well, if something came along that could see invisible, the miss chance from invisibility still wouldn't stack with the miss chance from displacement, would it?

 

[tburdett]

No, only one of those spell effects would ever be in action at any one time.

I just wanted to clarify that while the spell effects would not stack, the spells themself could be stacked.

 

[Antikinesis]

Re: Re: Does Blink and Displacement stack?

Displacement wouldn't stack with invis. It's not much use having a false image that nobody can see.

Are you sure the false image shares the spellcaster's invisibility? Perhaps the images from illusion spells can still be seen when the spellcaster can't.

Might be a neat way to hide a mage. Turn invisible and cast displacement and/or mirror image and watch the fun.



-AK