gaseous form

[Bad Paper]

I just noticed that gaseous form does not actually make you incorporeal. It's weird how assumptions work like that.

1) What if you drop someone who is gaseous? Does that dispel gf?
2) What if you kill someone who is gaseous? Does that displel gf?

Mostly this is for my wizard who is starting to get more use out of his gf spell, but...

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3) What if you "kill" a gaseous ogre mage (or anyone else with regeneration)? I mean: you can't. Do you have to wait eighteen minutes for the spell to disappear, all the while hacking on him to keep him from regaining consciousness? Is he just as vulnerable to fire while gaseous, and therefore able to be killed while gaseous? I imagine there's really no way to do acid damage to him, except maybe for acid fog.

When I was DM for a party that was hacking on an ogre mage, he turned gaseous and started to float away. The wizard let loose with some magic missiles and "dropped" him, but I didn't really know how to handle the situation. It was the end of the adventure and he was BBEG's lieutenant. BBEG was dead. I figured, "whatever, full XP" and declared everything over. But I still wonder how I should have handled that.

 

[shilsen]

I just noticed that gaseous form does not actually make you incorporeal. It's weird how assumptions work like that.

1) What if you drop someone who is gaseous? Does that dispel gf?

No. Being knocked unconscious does not end a spell. If the spell has a duration based on concentration, yes, but not in other cases.

2) What if you kill someone who is gaseous? Does that displel gf?

I'd say "no", but I've seen disagreements about whether being killed ends spells affecting you or not.

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3) What if you "kill" a gaseous ogre mage (or anyone else with regeneration)? I mean: you can't. Do you have to wait eighteen minutes for the spell to disappear, all the while hacking on him to keep him from regaining consciousness? Is he just as vulnerable to fire while gaseous, and therefore able to be killed while gaseous? I imagine there's really no way to do acid damage to him, except maybe for acid fog.

Gaseous form doesn't make you immune to damage, whether physical or magical. So you can whack someone in gaseous form just fine.

 

[Bad Paper]

So you can whack someone in gaseous form just fine.

yeah, but can you kill him in gaseous form? In order to coup de grace, you have to use a weapon that deals lethal damage. Flask of acid is out, because the target is gaseous. Burning Hands and Fireball are out because they are not weapons (though all that lethal damage may do the trick}. You have to use, what, Flame Blade?

Can you use a magic weapon to separate his head from his neck when he's gaseous? Carry the head away?

 

[Staffan]

yeah, but can you kill him in gaseous form? In order to coup de grace, you have to use a weapon that deals lethal damage.

You can't coup de grace someone who's in gaseous form. From the SRD:
[bq]The subject gains damage reduction 10/magic and becomes immune to poison and critical hits.[/bq]
[bq]You can’t deliver a coup de grace against a creature that is immune to critical hits.[/bq]