Shapechange and Antimagic Field

[Ikonoklast]

What happens when you shapechange to something with 20x20 facing and a 20ft reach and attack some one inside a antimagic field.

Does your arm disapear then come back when it leaves the Antimagic Field

Do you completely revert back to your normal form while your arm is inside the Antimagic Field. If so what square are you in.

Something else.

 

[gfunk]

My understanding that if any part of you is an Anti-Magic Field then you are subject to its effects. This would lead to some weird situations, like if a colossal being took a 5' step into an AMF he would still be subject to magical attacks from beings on the other side of his body, though he wouldn't be able to use magic himself.

 

[Gromm]

What happens when you shapechange to something with 20x20 facing and a 20ft reach and attack some one inside a antimagic field.

Does your arm disapear then come back when it leaves the Antimagic Field

Do you completely revert back to your normal form while your arm is inside the Antimagic Field. If so what square are you in.

Something else.

According to the spell description your arm would reappear if you tried to say claw someone in an AMF while shapechanged into a dragon since the AMF "supresses magic brought into it". Basically you would swing, but your attack would fall very short (since your arm isn't long enough to reach them) or in the "best" case you slap them with your hand.

And yes it would look wierd, but not any stranger than anything else in D&D (like say a Gutsnake spell).

 

[hong]

Re: Re: Shapechange and Antimagic Field

According to the spell description your arm would reappear if you tried to say claw someone in an AMF while shapechanged into a dragon since the AMF "supresses magic brought into it". Basically you would swing, but your attack would fall very short (since your arm isn't long enough to reach them) or in the "best" case you slap them with your hand.

And yes it would look wierd, but not any stranger than anything else in D&D (like say a Gutsnake spell).

Weird is fine. I can live with weird. However, suppose you use your shapechanged 20-foot reach to attack into an AMF. The AMF suppresses your shapechange, which means you no longer have 20-foot reach. This means your arm is now back outside the AMF, which means your shapechange is not suppressed. This means you can attack into the AMF, which suppressed your shapechange....

Augh, paradox. The world is dissolving before my eyes. It's flowing down the plughole! Someone stop it!!1!

 

[Lazarus Smith]

I think that if you shapechage into, say, a troll, then walk into an an anti-magic field, you would be stuck as a troll until you left the field. You would not be able to change into any other forms, because the spell itself is suppressed, but the current form would not be.

 

[noretoc]

Here is how I would do it. It you haD A 20' TENTECLE FOR EXAMPLE, i WOULD SAY THAT IT WOULD LOOK CUT OFF FROM THE POINT OF THE ANTIMAGIC FIELD. aLMOST LIKE YOU TURNED THAT PART OF IT INVIS, BUT IT WOULD BE GONE. iF YOU WERE CLOSE ENOUGH (srry caps) that your real arm was sticking through, then you wuold have tenticle up to the point where it hit the field, the regular arm past the field.