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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phindar" data-source="post: 3578089" data-attributes="member: 37198">This is a section of the rules that has confused me for going on three and a half editions (and I have high hopes it will be equally confusing in the fourth.)Freedom of Movement is a 4th level spell, Freedom is a 9th level spell.  Freedom is obviously much more powerful, and the intent seems to be it works on everything.  In contrast, Freedom of Movement only works on some things, but I've never really been satisfied with the way the book lays out what those are.  FOM lists paralysis, solid fog, slow and web; solid fog and web are physical barriers, slow is Will save (but not mind-affecting) and paralysis can come from just about anything (from Hold Person to poison to a ghoul's attack).  Its possible this was covered in a supplement that I missed.  I searched through the FAQ and errata (for the keyword "freedom") and got bupkis.  If anyone has any insight into this matter, I'd be happy to hear it.  I don't necessarily agree that FOM shouldn't work against paralysis, because of the four things the spell specifically mentions, that's one of them.  The mummy description is a little odd since paralyzation is not a fear effect, although I guess you could rule that if you were "paralyzed" by a mummy's fear aura and FoM allowed you to move, you'd downgrade to Frightened and take off like a bat outta H-E-double hockey sticks.  If it were called <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/conditionSummary.htm#cowering" target="_blank">cowering</a>, we wouldn't be having this discussion.</blockquote>

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