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<blockquote data-quote="Panask" data-source="post: 3354218" data-attributes="member: 35448">WotC's recent article on animal companions said this about sharing spells:***To share a spell, your animal companion must be within 5 feet of you and there must be an unbroken line of effect between you and the companion. If the shared spell has a duration other than instantaneous, your animal companion must remain with 5 feet of you and maintain an unbroken line of effect to you or lose the spell's benefits. Once your animal companion loses the benefits from a particular casting of a spell, it cannot regain them again.***which basically matches the PHB. Does this mean that if a character and his animal companion are sharing a spell such as invisibility (seems like a good choice), they really can't move very far and still both keep the spell, even if they start and end their turns within 5 ft. of each other?For example, if the character movied 30 ft. on his turn, then he'd be more than 5 ft. away from his animal companion. Even if the animal companion moved to keep up on its turn, and ended adjacent to the character, the spell on the animal companion would already be lost.This seems like a very strong restriction on sharing spells for spells with a non-instantaneous duration. Is this what is intended? And is it the way people actually play?PanaskServitar to Baldur</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Panask, post: 3354218, member: 35448"] WotC's recent article on animal companions said this about sharing spells: *** To share a spell, your animal companion must be within 5 feet of you and there must be an unbroken line of effect between you and the companion. If the shared spell has a duration other than instantaneous, your animal companion must remain with 5 feet of you and maintain an unbroken line of effect to you or lose the spell's benefits. Once your animal companion loses the benefits from a particular casting of a spell, it cannot regain them again. *** which basically matches the PHB. Does this mean that if a character and his animal companion are sharing a spell such as invisibility (seems like a good choice), they really can't move very far and still both keep the spell, even if they start and end their turns within 5 ft. of each other? For example, if the character movied 30 ft. on his turn, then he'd be more than 5 ft. away from his animal companion. Even if the animal companion moved to keep up on its turn, and ended adjacent to the character, the spell on the animal companion would already be lost. This seems like a very strong restriction on sharing spells for spells with a non-instantaneous duration. Is this what is intended? And is it the way people actually play? Panask Servitar to Baldur [/QUOTE]

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