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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thikket" data-source="post: 3808172" data-attributes="member: 13333">Hi guys. Don't you hate silence?<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/silence.htm" target="_blank">Silence</a> is an emanation. That means, amongst other things, that "It can’t affect creatures with total cover from its point of origin (in other words, its effects don’t extend around corners)" (from the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#area" target="_blank">SRD here</a>).Say I cast silence on a pebble and put the pebble into a shuttered lantern. Now I can use the lantern to send a "beam" of silence in a cone, right?Say I use that same silence pebble and construct myself a silly hat: it looks like a fake metal halo with a closed top, attached to my helmet, kind of like an upside-down deep-lip pie tin. Now I look ridiculous. But if I mount that pebble onto the inside of that inverted pie tin, the silence effect ought to extend directly downward, right? And if I have a few Craft(Funky Metal Halo Pie Tin Hats) ranks (with synergy from Profession(Baker)!), I should be able to style the thing so that the silence emanates directly downwards and only affects my square -- after all, everyone else has total cover from the origin point of the emanation.Now I throw on an invisibility (I'm so scared someone will see my ridiculous hat), and I'm sitting pretty with perfect stealth skills.Any problems with this, other than the hat is so stupid looking that only gnomes should ever use this trick? Do you hate silence as much as I do?[Edit: I posted this in General instead of Rules because the hat gives not only -2 Cha, but also -2 Int.; in other words, I am stupid.]</blockquote>

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