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<blockquote data-quote="Infiniti2000" data-source="post: 2359350" data-attributes="member: 31734">Well, it doesn't.&nbsp; Nothing in the spell description says it does.&nbsp;&nbsp;Easily, the spell specifically protects someone against holding.&nbsp; It does not protect against the grabbing (i.e. touch attack) of the grapple attempt.&nbsp; I strongly advise you not to base your houserule on your own flavor text of the spell.&nbsp;&nbsp;This is a huge mistake IMO because now you've pretty much stated an equivalency for these special attack.&nbsp; Why would you make them all equivalent for one thing (a spell like FoM) and not for anything else (like weapon focus, improved grapple/trip/bull rush, etc.)?&nbsp;&nbsp;This might work in your games, but it probably leads to a lot of player confusion and potentially anger.&nbsp; If the players are used to have FoM protect them from bull rushes, trips, etc., and suddenly you have bad guy use a table to bull rush them, they'll be rightfully angry about you changing the rules on them on a whim.&nbsp; More importantly, it's totally inconsistent and doesn't even follow from your own flavor description.&nbsp;Unless you have a good reason and a good grasp of the way the rules work as is, I'd advise caution in creating houserules.&nbsp; In this case, FoM is quite powerful enough the way it works and giving it more capabilities is a very bad idea.&nbsp; Ruling it on a whim is even worse.&nbsp; IMNSHO. <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Infiniti2000, post: 2359350, member: 31734"] Well, it doesn't. Nothing in the spell description says it does. Easily, the spell specifically protects someone against [i]holding[/i]. It does not protect against the grabbing (i.e. touch attack) of the grapple attempt. I strongly advise you not to base your houserule on your own flavor text of the spell. This is a huge mistake IMO because now you've pretty much stated an equivalency for these special attack. Why would you make them all equivalent for one thing (a spell like FoM) and not for [b]anything else [/b](like weapon focus, improved grapple/trip/bull rush, etc.)? This might work in your games, but it probably leads to a lot of player confusion and potentially anger. If the players are used to have FoM protect them from bull rushes, trips, etc., and suddenly you have bad guy use a table to bull rush them, they'll be rightfully angry about you changing the rules on them on a whim. More importantly, it's totally inconsistent and doesn't even follow from your own flavor description. Unless you have a good reason and a good grasp of the way the rules work as is, I'd advise caution in creating houserules. In this case, FoM is quite powerful enough the way it works and giving it more capabilities is a very bad idea. Ruling it on a whim is even worse. IMNSHO. :) [/QUOTE]

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