Mind Blank defeats the effect of a True Strike?

[Ristamar]

I'm not really questioning what the spell says, but rather, what it truly means because they're not always the same thing, unfortunately.

Discern Location, as Cloudgatherer mentioned, is a perfect example -- Nothing short of the direct intervention of a deity keeps the character from learning the exact location of a single individual or object.

Yet Mind Blank defeats Discern Location. However, I don't believe there's any "direct intervention of a deity" taking place (at least there's no mention of it anywhere). Where's the 'logic' in that?

 

[IceBear]

Well, Mind Blank blocks commune, and that's directly asking a deity, so we already have a precedence for Mind Blank defeating dieties.

I personally wouldn't have thought that mortal magic could defeat diety level magic, but that's the rule.

IceBear

 

[Ristamar]

Of course, Commune gets muddled with the "or agents thereof" clause, opening up yet another can of worms. Regardless, I'd hope it can be somewhat agreed upon that in D&D, literal meaning vs. actual meaning are often quite different.

I just hope the Sage offers up a response soon.

 

[IceBear]

I know what you're saying about the differences in the INTENT of a rule and the actual rule as written, and I am careful to weigh what was intended by a rule against what the rule actually says. But, I read Mind Blank as being an 8th level spell that is supposed to be the ultimate protection vs divination spells and that's the intention, in my opinion.

Also, I've lost a lot of faith in The Sage, so regardless of what he says I trust Monte's thoughts more. I actually expect the Sage to answer either YES or NO without any info on why.

IceBear

 

[Ristamar]

I actually expect the Sage to answer either YES or NO without any info on why.

Yeah, that would be kind of disappointing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

 

[Zenon]

I actually expect the Sage to answer either YES or NO without any info on why.

IceBear

That tends to be his trend these days....

 

[Starfox]

Likewise, could you do something like those "stealth detection radars" that look for the absense of the normal reflection of the air to find a "black spot" that you assume is a stealth plane?

That is: make a wish to locate all areas within 10 miles that are barred from only divination magic. Then you know if they are within 10 miles, then they are in one of those areas. You don't know which one since those areas can't be penetrated, but you've narrowed it down a bit and have a list to search the old fashioned way.

<annoying bastard>

No, you could not locate areas barred from detection magic. After all, they are barred. You would have to ask the wish to locate every point in space within ten miles, feed the data into your computer, let the computer find the points in space not shown on the wish scan, and report the result. And computers are usually not available in DnD (unless you play Dragonstar). No normal mind could do the space coordinate comarrison quick enough to be useful. Perhaps a second wish could.

</annoying bastard>

Question is, could you link two wishes; one to fill the area witin ten miles with acid, a second one to remove the acid from every point within ten miles that it could detect? Might give a mind blankee some problems.

The best solution is still to simply release the guard dogs; mind blank does not protect against sundane senses, such as scent.

I am sorry; this was digressing; it's late around here.

 

[sinmissing]

True strike gives a +20 insight bonus to your next attack.
The bonus is insight because you have divined the proper place to aim your next attack.
In order to divine this place, you must be able to divine the location of your target at the time of the attack.
If mind blank protects you from divinations that pinpoint your location in the present/future, it would block true strike.