Spell immunities, a quick question.

[Magic Rub]

We were fighting a Nightwalker Shade lastnight, & getting our bum bums kicked. Why our DM thought it was a good idea to put a CR16 creature up against our Lvl 10 party I have know idea. Any how we had to make a quick, & safe evacuation, so we tried to stop it with a Wall of Force. Now I know Nightwalker Shades are immune to 6th lvl & under spells (unfortunately our party didn't), but would the Wall of Force have worked on the Shade? We ruled that it, & spells like it did because such spells would not be cast directly on it, the spell was essentially a physical obstacle, and the spell resistance descriptor said that spell resistance did not apply. (the Shades spell immunity says that it works like a successful spell resistance check).

 

[kreynolds]

Wall of Force is not cast upon the Nightwalker, and neither does the spell "go to work on" the Nightwalker. IMO, spell resistance wouldn't apply, thus neither would his magic immunity.

 

[Magic Rub]

Cool. Thanks K.

 

[Dr. Zoom]

I agree with kreynolds.

 

[Staffan]

I agree with Dr. Zoom.

 

[kreynolds]

I agree with Dr. Zoom.

Talk about a trickle-down effect. Or would that be trickle-up?

 

[Caliban]

We were fighting a Nightwalker Shade lastnight, & getting our bum bums kicked. Why our DM thought it was a good idea to put a CR16 creature up against our Lvl 10 party I have know idea. Any how we had to make a quick, & safe evacuation, so we tried to stop it with a Wall of Force. Now I know Nightwalker Shades are immune to 6th lvl & under spells (unfortunately our party didn't), but would the Wall of Force have worked on the Shade? We ruled that it, & spells like it did because such spells would not be cast directly on it, the spell was essentially a physical obstacle, and the spell resistance descriptor said that spell resistance did not apply. (the Shades spell immunity says that it works like a successful spell resistance check).

According to the Wall of Force description on page 269 of the PHB, Spell Resistance does not apply, and thus spell immunity does not apply.

 

[0-hr]

I agree with Caliban!

 

[Dr. Zoom]

Caliban agrees with me!

 

[kreynolds]

We're all one big happy fam-i-ly!!!