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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5893090" data-attributes="member: 1210">Reading the description in Arcane Power:1. Restrictions? It says right in the description- i tcannot attack and can perform basic functions and repetitive tasks.2. What makes you think it can fly? It &quot;moves at your speed&quot;. No flight mentioned in the description anywhere.3. It can lift objects up to 100 lbs. I think you are vastly overestimating how big a rock has to be to be 100 lbs- that ain't a boulder at all, it's more like a rock the size of your head. Any effect that will destroy a conjuration (such as dispel magic) will do the trick, but generally, an unseen servant should have no combat application at all, so enemies shouldn't care about it.4. Again, the description gives no indication whatsoever that the unseen servant can pass through solid objects. Why would you think it can?I am guessing that the answer to &quot;why would you think that?&quot; is probably &quot;because my players are trying to get away with it&quot;. Presumably, they are trying to be creative and milk a bunch of combat bonuses from it. Remember that it can't communicate with the pcs, so if they try to scout with it, it won't do much good. It isn't a creature, so it won't trigger traps or arouse monsters. Read the description and don't let them add a bunch of extra utility to it; it's only a first level ritual, after all!Finally, I would assume that it requires a standard action to issue a command to it, and note that it's a conjuration, so it ends if the creator doesn't have line of effect to it at the end of his turn. (So, for instance, if you could send it through that aforementioned door... it ends.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5893090, member: 1210"] Reading the description in Arcane Power: 1. Restrictions? It says right in the description- i tcannot attack and can perform basic functions and repetitive tasks. 2. What makes you think it can fly? It "moves at your speed". No flight mentioned in the description anywhere. 3. It can lift objects up to 100 lbs. I think you are vastly overestimating how big a rock has to be to be 100 lbs- that ain't a boulder at all, it's more like a rock the size of your head. Any effect that will destroy a conjuration (such as dispel magic) will do the trick, but generally, an unseen servant should have [i]no combat application at all,[/i] so enemies shouldn't care about it. 4. Again, the description gives no indication whatsoever that the unseen servant can pass through solid objects. Why would you think it can? I am guessing that the answer to "why would you think that?" is probably "because my players are trying to get away with it". Presumably, they are trying to be creative and milk a bunch of combat bonuses from it. Remember that it can't communicate with the pcs, so if they try to scout with it, it won't do much good. It isn't a creature, so it won't trigger traps or arouse monsters. Read the description and don't let them add a bunch of extra utility to it; it's only a first level ritual, after all! Finally, I would assume that it requires a standard action to issue a command to it, and note that it's a conjuration, so it ends if the creator doesn't have line of effect to it at the end of his turn. (So, for instance, if you could send it through that aforementioned door... it ends.) [/QUOTE]

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