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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sepulchrave II" data-source="post: 5208433" data-attributes="member: 4303">Nor is an oversight difficult to imagine. I think the ambiguity is evident - in which case I would tend to err on the side of a more balanced and reasonable interpretation. Shades is already powerful and versatile - even for a 9th-level spell. You can duplicate half of the spells of arguably the most robust school. You can already trap the soul - presumably without an expensive component - because someone unfortunately decided that this was a (summoning) spell. Do you really think that maze, plane shift, greater teleport, and greater planar binding were intended to fall within its purview? How would you even begin to adjudicate greater planar binding using shades? Can you use a magic circle? A dimensional anchor? Do you need to make Charisma checks? Do you need to bargain with the not-creature whose existence you know is unreal? Can you do it all in 1 standard action?Personally, I find an oversight rather more likely. But YMMV.</blockquote>