Invisibility and Spectral Hand

CCamfield · Apr 19, 2003

I'm in the middle of creating a 5th level necromancer villain who (I hope) will be plaguing my players for a while. If she casts Invisibility on herself and then Spectral Hand, do attacks from the hand (e.g. Chill Touch) cause the invisibility to end?

Dr. Zoom · Apr 19, 2003

Yes.

CCamfield · Apr 19, 2003

Damn!

Dr. Zoom · Apr 19, 2003

Have him purchase a wand of improved invisibility.

andargor · Apr 20, 2003

CCamfield said:
I'm in the middle of creating a 5th level necromancer villain who (I hope) will be plaguing my players for a while. If she casts Invisibility on herself and then Spectral Hand, do attacks from the hand (e.g. Chill Touch) cause the invisibility to end?

Have him summon undead. Summonings do not cause the Invisibility to end.

Andargor

Norfleet · Apr 21, 2003

Summoning isn't really any better, as these spells have pesky verbal components. People hear those noises, and that pretty much gives it away.

CCamfield · Apr 21, 2003

Well, that's true, but there's still the 50% miss chance from concealment, right? I've also given her two ranks in Move Silently, which could mess up the players' heads a bit if she sneaks away.

Plus hopefully her undead, and (having realized how few undead Animate Dead really provides) some cultist underlings will be giving the players things to worry about as well. My thought is that if things get tough, she'd withdraw to fight another day.

(The background of this character is that one of the heroes killed her master when he was much younger, so she's out for blood... and I'd like to make her reoccurring rather than just the enemy of the week.)