Rules for throwing flour?

[CRGreathouse]

I have actually tried "throwing" flour in real life. There were four bags (5 pounds?) that needed to be disposed of, so I took them out in the woods behind the house and proceeded to test how it would work.

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It ain't easy being a geek.

Thanks for the experiece-based rules! As I've never tried it, I wasn't sure how hard it was... and I'm glad to have some kind of basis for rulings.

 

[Quasqueton]

Oh, also -- provokes AoO. No doubt.

And I would keep the 50% miss chance, too. The flour coating is not a perfect "paint job" -- it merely puts enough on to show you where the enemy is.

You're welcome.

Quasqueton

 

[mikebr99]

After reading the Sneak Attack post on the WotC site, it got me thinking about throwing flour (or some other substance) on an invisible creature.

Are there any rules for this?

This ruling is a load of crap...

If you read the spell... anything attached/attended by the invisible guy, that doesn't stick out 10ft. becomes invisible.

Why did the Sage go and make Glitterdust worthless???

Mike

 

[CRGreathouse]

This ruling is a load of crap...

If you read the spell... anything attached/attended by the invisible guy, that doesn't stick out 10ft. becomes invisible.

Why did the Sage go and make Glitterdust worthless???

It isn't worthless. Light continues to shine, so you'll see the outline of a glitterdust'd character easily. This is explicit in the rules... it's just like carrying a lit torch. You won't see the torch, but you'll see the light shining from it.

 

[RigaMortus]

To deal with invisible foes, we used to have our Cleric cast create water on top of the invisible enemy (once we pin pointed them, usually invis stalkers). Once the water hit, we could sort of see where it was. But then I used my Gnomish Prestidigitation powers to make the water glow florescent, to make it that much easier to see the invisible foe.

 

[mikebr99]

It isn't worthless. Light continues to shine, so you'll see the outline of a glitterdust'd character easily. This is explicit in the rules... it's just like carrying a lit torch. You won't see the torch, but you'll see the light shining from it.

What I meant was... that once the flour was on the character, it becomes attended by him, and becomes invisible (the flour). Just like something he picks up, that doesn't stick out 10ft. would be come invisible.

Mike

 

[CRGreathouse]

What I meant was... that once the flour was on the character, it becomes attended by him, and becomes invisible (the flour). Just like something he picks up, that doesn't stick out 10ft. would be come invisible.

Mike

I was refering to your comment that the ruling would "make Glitterdust worthless".

 

[mikebr99]

I was refering to your comment that the ruling would "make Glitterdust worthless".

Well, it is... the Sage is saying you can use ordinary flour to do the same thing as a 2nd level spell.

Mike

 

[Mallus]

Well, it is... the Sage is saying you can use ordinary flour to do the same thing as a 2nd level spell.
Mike

In some situations, yes. Is this a bad thing?

 

[mikebr99]

In some situations, yes. Is this a bad thing?

Well, if I'm a 3rd level Wizard, and one of my two 2nd level spells just became useless by the Swedish Chef running around power attacking with bags of flour... yes!

bork.. bork... bork!

Mike