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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 885360" data-attributes="member: 707">Two lines from the spell description (PH pg 256) do it for me:andThe Spiritual Hammer always attacks from your direction, and requires you to continuously direct it or it returns to your side and remains dormant.&nbsp; If you need to direct it, that means that it relies upon your senses to determine what to strike.&nbsp; To me, that means if you can't see the target, then neither can the spell.&nbsp; If the wizard had True Seeing up, then there wouldn't be a problem.On another note, even if one allowed the Spiritual Weapon to track foes that the wizard cannot see, an Ethereal foe is actually on another plane.&nbsp; I certainly don't think that a 2nd-level spell effect can track its target across planar boundaries.&nbsp; The fact that Spiritual Weapon is a [Force] effect means it can effect a creature on the Ethereal plane in spite of that boundary, but it doesn't mean [Force] spells ignore the boundary altogether.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 885360, member: 707"] Two lines from the spell description (PH pg 256) do it for me:andThe [i]Spiritual Hammer[/i] always attacks from your direction, and requires you to continuously direct it or it returns to your side and remains dormant. If you need to direct it, that means that it relies upon your senses to determine what to strike. To me, that means if [i]you[/i] can't see the target, then neither can the spell. If the wizard had [i]True Seeing[/i] up, then there wouldn't be a problem. On another note, even if one allowed the [i]Spiritual Weapon[/i] to track foes that the wizard cannot see, an Ethereal foe is actually on [i]another plane[/i]. I certainly don't think that a 2nd-level spell effect can track its target across planar boundaries. The fact that [i]Spiritual Weapon[/i] is a [Force] effect means it can effect a creature on the Ethereal plane in spite of that boundary, but it doesn't mean [Force] spells ignore the boundary altogether. [/QUOTE]

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