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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 3164127" data-attributes="member: 7737">Does a ring of mind shielding protect you from alignment based spells?For example, would the ring render you immune to the effects of unholy blight, etc.Would the ring allow you to bypass a forbiddance or glyph of warding set against a particular alignment?ring of mind shielding[sblock]Mind Shielding: This ring is usually of fine workmanship and wrought from heavy gold. The wearer is continually immune to detect thoughts, discern lies, and any attempt to magically discern her alignment.Faint aburation; CL 3rd; Forge Ring, nondetection; Price 8,000 gp.[/sblock]unholy blight (emphasis added)[sblock]Unholy BlightEvocation [Evil]Level: Evil 4Components: V, SCasting Time: 1 standard actionRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Area: 20-ft.-radius spreadDuration: Instantaneous (1d4 rounds); see textSaving Throw: Will partialSpell Resistance: YesYou call up unholy power to smite your enemies. The power takes the form of a cold, cloying miasma of greasy darkness.Only good and neutral (not evil) creatures are harmed by the spell.The spell deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels (maximum 5d8) to a good creature (or 1d6 per caster level, maximum 10d6, to a good outsider) and causes it to be sickened for 1d4 rounds. A successful Will save reduces damage to half and negates the sickened effect. The effects cannot be negated by remove disease or heal, but remove curse is effective.The spell deals only half damage to creatures who are neither evil nor good, and they are not sickened. Such a creature can reduce the damage in half again (down to one-quarter) with a successful Will save.[/sblock]forbiddance (emphasis added)[sblock]ForbiddanceAbjurationLevel: Clr 6Components: V, S, M, DFCasting Time: 6 roundsRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Area: 60-ft. cube/level (S)Duration: PermanentSaving Throw: See textSpell Resistance: YesForbiddance seals an area against all planar travel into or within it. This includes all teleportation spells (such as dimension door and teleport), plane shifting, astral travel, ethereal travel, and all summoning spells. Such effects simply fail automatically.In addition, it damages entering creatures whose alignments are different from yours. The effect on those attempting to enter the warded area is based on their alignment relative to yours (see below). A creature inside the area when the spell is cast takes no damage unless it exits the area and attempts to reenter, at which time it is affected as normal.Alignments identical: No effect. The creature may enter the area freely (although not by planar travel).Alignments different with respect to either law/chaos or good/evil: The creature takes 6d6 points of damage. A successful Will save halves the damage, and spell resistance applies.Alignments different with respect to both law/chaos and good/evil: The creature takes 12d6 points of damage. A successful Will save halves the damage, and spell resistance applies.At your option, the abjuration can include a password, in which case creatures of alignments different from yours can avoid the damage by speaking the password as they enter the area. You must select this option (and the password) at the time of casting.Dispel magic does not dispel a forbiddance effect unless the dispeller’s level is at least as high as your caster level.You can’t have multiple overlapping forbiddance effects. In such a case, the more recent effect stops at the boundary of the older effect.Material Component: A sprinkling of holy water and rare incenses worth at least 1,500 gp, plus 1,500 gp per 60-foot cube. If a password is desired, this requires the burning of additional rare incenses worth at least 1,000 gp, plus 1,000 gp per 60-foot cube.[/sblock]glyph of warding (emphasis added)[sblock]Glyph of WardingAbjurationLevel: Clr 3Components: V, S, MCasting Time: 10 minutesRange: TouchTarget or Area: Object touched or up to 5 sq. ft./levelDuration: Permanent until discharged (D)Saving Throw: See textSpell Resistance: No (object) and Yes; see textThis powerful inscription harms those who enter, pass, or open the warded area or object. A glyph of warding can guard a bridge or passage, ward a portal, trap a chest or box, and so on.You set the conditions of the ward. Typically, any creature entering the warded area or opening the warded object without speaking a password (which you set when casting the spell) is subject to the magic it stores. Alternatively or in addition to a password trigger, glyphs can be set according to physical characteristics (such as height or weight) or creature type, subtype, or kind. Glyphs can also be set with respect to good, evil, law, or chaos, or to pass those of your religion. They cannot be set according to class, Hit Dice, or level. Glyphs respond to invisible creatures normally but are not triggered by those who travel past them ethereally. Multiple glyphs cannot be cast on the same area. However, if a cabinet has three drawers, each can be separately warded.When casting the spell, you weave a tracery of faintly glowing lines around the warding sigil. A glyph can be placed to conform to any shape up to the limitations of your total square footage. When the spell is completed, the glyph and tracery become nearly invisible.Glyphs cannot be affected or bypassed by such means as physical or magical probing, though they can be dispelled. Mislead, polymorph, and nondetection (and similar magical effects) can fool a glyph, though nonmagical disguises and the like can’t. Read magic allows you to identify a glyph of warding with a DC 13 Spellcraft check. Identifying the glyph does not discharge it and allows you to know the basic nature of the glyph (version, type of damage caused, what spell is stored).Note: Magic traps such as glyph of warding are hard to detect and disable. A rogue (only) can use the Search skill to find the glyph and Disable Device to thwart it. The DC in each case is 25 + spell level, or 28 for glyph of warding.Depending on the version selected, a glyph either blasts the intruder or activates a spell.Blast Glyph: A blast glyph deals 1d8 points of damage per two caster levels (maximum 5d8) to the intruder and to all within 5 feet of him or her. This damage is acid, cold, fire, electricity, or sonic (caster’s choice, made at time of casting). Each creature affected can attempt a Reflex save to take half damage. Spell resistance applies against this effect.Spell Glyph: You can store any harmful spell of 3rd level or lower that you know. All level-dependent features of the spell are based on your caster level at the time of casting the glyph. If the spell has a target, it targets the intruder. If the spell has an area or an amorphous effect the area or effect is centered on the intruder. If the spell summons creatures, they appear as close as possible to the intruder and attack. Saving throws and spell resistance operate as normal, except that the DC is based on the level of the spell stored in the glyph.Material Component: You trace the glyph with incense, which must first be sprinkled with powdered diamond worth at least 200 gp.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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