MIC - Boots of Big Stepping

[Bad Paper]

The Boots allow you three extremely short-range teleports per day, as greater teleport. so...this means you can take along a (large) group of people? Is this balanced or not? I think it's interesting that this is not a dimension door effect. If you can take along others, do you use the CL of the boots or the CL of the wearer? Either way, do you use the +2 CL boost from the boots?

 

[Mistwell]

Wait I thought the text of the boots talk about whether you can take people along or not.

 

[Artoomis]

It states you can teleport 60 feet with no error (as in Greater Teleport) - not you can cast a Greater Teleport spell. Also, note the flavor text talks about it being infused with the spirit (or something) of a Blink Dog, which is certainly not absolutely conclusive, but supports the teleport from activating the boots being personal only.

I'd rule it is a personal effect, not a slightly reduced variation of an actual spell.

 

[Darklone]

The item description does not mention it.... duh, that's strong for a 3000gp item.

Edit: Agreeing with the previous poster, I'd rule similarly.

 

[Bad Paper]

hrm, these things don't make sense. Dimension Door is the required spell, but the effect references Greater Teleport. I guess the implication is that you can act in a round after GT but not after DD. The caster level of the boots is 7, so you could only take two people along anyway.

I'm going to rule that you can't take anyone along. I allowed the wearer to take someone along yesterday, but it didn't change the outcome (such a revisionist am I).

I'm torn on whether to allow acting in the round after teleporting, since the required spell is DD.

 

[Artoomis]

...I'm torn on whether to allow acting in the round after teleporting, since the required spell is DD.

Since it does not say you cannot act after the teleportation effect I would not add in this unmentioned restriction.