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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 1404760" data-attributes="member: 99">I agree wholeheartedly.  It seems silly that a creature would continue to run, possibly taking fatal damage, even after it is apparent that doing so is dangerous.I've been dealing with this spell for some time in my own campaign and it has certainly proved tricky for the bad guys sometimes.  But it isn't a magic bullet by any means.I don't know about yours but my group is, in general, far stronger at melee combat than at ranged combat.  If they trap the bad guys in a Spike Stones spell, they'll have to content themselves with attacking from range and this means the enemy can do the same thing.  Make sure that some of their opponents have good ranged capabilities.  Another issue here is healing magic.  Have some of the enemy have some potions or a wand they can use to heal themselves.  Then it becomes an issue of "If that damn Spike Stones wasn't there, we could go kill them before they use up all our potential treasure!"Also, once in a while, have a bad guy who can turn the spell against them.  I recently ran an encounter where the party ran into some teleporting demons, one of whose favorite tactics was to grapple an enemy, teleport them somewhere unpleasant and then leave them there.  The Druid cast Spike Stones and I considered having the demons teleporting out to grab a party member and then popping back into the Spiked area.  As it turned out, there were more pressing matters for the demons and they didn't employ that tactic, but I did file it away in my "RBDM Tricks" file for later.</blockquote>

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