Celebrim
Legend
Relique du Madde said:So if anything the rules were not broken (depending on if you allow the ball to be considerd a trap which allows it to be used in the manor that it was) BUT if anything hey were sure in hell were abused.
That's the problem I have with the current Symbol write up. It's easily abused, and to avoid that abuse it includes some very broad, very vague, rules lawyerish restrictions. Only these anti-loopholes are designed for a rules lawyerish DM to be able to squash any usage of the spell that the DM feels is inappropriate. The problem of course is that while any decent DM ought to be able to exploit those loopholes, no decent DM wants to be rules lawyering his players.
In the Xykon case, since Xykon is an NPC, Rich as the DM can simply rule the restrictions that limit Symbol power are as narrow as he likes. I don't really have a problem with Rich breaking the rules, because he's the DM and the usage Xykon employs is within the letter if not the spirit of the wording of the spell. My problems with the scene are completely unrelated to the rules issues.