Grappling a Blinking Creature

[Bront]

Ok, the hitting part is easy, that's a 50% miss chance.

What about if he blinks while grappled? Does he instantly escape? Could he materialize inside another creature causing him and it both damage? Can a real graple attempt even be made?

 

[kerbarian]

Ok, the hitting part is easy, that's a 50% miss chance.

What about if he blinks while grappled? Does he instantly escape? Could he materialize inside another creature causing him and it both damage? Can a real graple attempt even be made?

Our group plays that a blinking creature can walk out of a grapple just like he could walk through a wall (on his own action). Or rather, we've talked about it, and we would play that way if it ever came up. Monsters tend to see the futility of grappling our ring-of-blinking rogue and don't try in the first place.

Blinking has been handy for all kinds of stuff aside from the miss chance. For example, our rogue was recently caught in a cave-in while scouting ahead alone. Instead of being crushed, he just ran into the nearest wall, made it as far as he could towards the surface, and then was ejected upwards with some damage.

 

[Thanee]

Same here, Blink simply makes holding someone impossible (you can simply walk away), unless you can also hold the creature when it is ethereal.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Bront]

Great, that's how I ran it. Thanks.

 

[Rkhet]

Ah, but what happens in a grapple between two blinking creatures?

 

[Thanee]

The same. They don't blink in synch.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Henry]

This came up with an incorporeal creature and a Dragon Turtle that the sorcerer summoned in the last D&D game we ran. We even had to redo a round when we figured it out.