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<blockquote data-quote="Scharlata" data-source="post: 1742676" data-attributes="member: 4806">Hi, fellow sanctified spellcasters!I'd like to know your opinion on a matter of a spell from the Book of Exalted Deeds, page 100, named Hammer of Righteousness.As it happend to be, Argos the Threefold Blind, a good cleric of a good deity cast Hammer of Righteousness against an [incorporeal, evil] allip to smite it to pieces.The descriptor of the spell [force] and the text, which states that the hammer is considered a force effect and has no miss chance when striking an incorporeal target, indicate that the spell is (very) effective against an incorporeal, evil undead.Alas, the spell allows a Fortitude save for 1/2 damage that does not include an object to be affected. That normally means that against an undead it has utterly no effect, because undead do not have to make saving throws against an effect that allows a Fortitude save when it does not affect objects, too.I ruled, as the DM, that the spell's intent was to include incorporeal undead, as most of the incorporeal critters are undead, neglecting the handfull of incorporeal fey from the MM 2.Was this a righteous decision?What about changing the Fortitude save into a Will save to avoid rewording the text? Better stick with adding the &quot;object clause&quot; to the Fort save?Kind regards</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scharlata, post: 1742676, member: 4806"] Hi, fellow sanctified spellcasters! I'd like to know your opinion on a matter of a spell from the Book of Exalted Deeds, page 100, named [B]Hammer of Righteousness[/B]. As it happend to be, Argos the Threefold Blind, a good cleric of a good deity cast [B]Hammer of Righteousness[/B] against an [[B]incorporeal, evil[/B]] allip to smite it to pieces. The descriptor of the spell [[B]force[/B]] and the text, which states that the hammer is considered a force effect and has no miss chance when striking an incorporeal target, indicate that the spell is (very) effective against an incorporeal, evil undead. Alas, the spell [B]allows a Fortitude save[/B] for 1/2 damage that does not include an [B]object[/B] to be affected. That normally means that against an undead it has utterly no effect, because undead do not have to make saving throws against an effect that allows a Fortitude save when it does not affect objects, too. I ruled, as the DM, that the spell's [B]intent[/B] was to include incorporeal undead, as most of the incorporeal critters are undead, neglecting the handfull of incorporeal fey from the MM 2. Was this a righteous decision? What about changing the Fortitude save into a Will save to avoid rewording the text? Better stick with adding the "object clause" to the Fort save? Kind regards [/QUOTE]

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