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Message: <blockquote data-quote="eamon" data-source="post: 3831685" data-attributes="member: 51942">I suppose that he's making that deduction since gaze attacks are same same but different: they require an amount of action on the victim's side (perception), and you could consider it thus that a gaze attack isn't so much a magical force being pushed from attacker to victim, but rather being pulled by the victim from the source - so a passive gaze attack would affect a material victim if the gazer is ethereal......or something......since really, it clearly seems as if, in a normal D&D setting, you shouldn't make this kind of wild inferences.  A gaze attack is a supernatural affect which can't pass from ethereal to material plane since it's supernatural and no such affects can - bar explicit exception, which isn't specified in the gaze entry.  As a matter of fact, the gaze entry explicitly says that it can affect ethereal opponents, being silent on the converse, suggesting that the converse is business as usual:  an ethereal effect does not affect a material critter.affect vs. effect.... linguistic pleasure every time ;-)</blockquote>