Spellthief vs. living spell in Eberron

[elmuthalleth]

Hi folks .

In my Eberron campaign , I allowed some classes form the Complete books . One of my players made a spellthief .

Yesterday , the group encountered the Living Flaming Sphere from "Shadows of the last war " , and a talk arose .

The LFS is a ooze , thus immune from critical and sneak attacks . But also is a template applied to a spell effect , who the Spellthief absorbs . So , we thought three solutions :

a) it's a ooze , no sneak attack , no absorption
b) it's a spell effect and the sneak attack works and absorbs the spell effect
c) it's a spell effect and on a sneak attack , it kills the creature ( suppress it )

can you help me with this rule problem ? What's your advice ? It has been considered before ?

Thank you

 

[frankthedm]

a) it's a ooze , no sneak attack , no absorption

The creature simply has too much vital force to be absorbed.

I might let the character absorb it with the finishing blow, but i would need to see the text on the character abilities..

 

[elmuthalleth]

Thank you very much . My player dreamt already to be a living-spell-slayer .

He should be disappointed

 

[Nail]

The PC would need to be able to sneak attack the ooze in order to activate his class power. Oozes are immune to sneak-attack, so.......sorry!

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Spellthieves are useless against living spells. You need a spellkidnapper.

 

[Sejs]

Spellthieves are useless against living spells. You need a spellkidnapper.

A spellbandito. Or maybe a spellextortionist.


A spellfioso. Making people give you some of their spells willingly.. you know, for protection.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

A spellfioso. Making people give you some of their spells willingly.. you know, for protection.

Ah. You mean abjurations.

 

[Sejs]

Ah. You mean abjurations.

Yeah, yeah, abjurations. Because it'd be a damn shame if someone were to come along and light all of them spellbooks and scrolls on fire, now wouldn't it?

Gotta keep 'em safe now, ya know. Resist Energy's nice and all, but fft, one little dispel in the wrong place and it all goes up in smoke. Wouldn't want that ta happen.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Aren't you supposed to comment on my adept casting of eagle's splendour on my wife and or daughter? That a dispel there, followed by bestow curse (-6 cha) would be really nasty?

Yes?

Well, let me ask you this: Ever heard of scrying magic? Because the watch certainly has.

*waves at watchseer*

 

[elmuthalleth]

Funny .

And , at this point , you can tell me it it exists a feat who can overcome this ( like : you can make sneak attacks also on oozes ? )