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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 904878" data-attributes="member: 707">You've raised two interesting points here.Q.&nbsp; What's the difference between incorporeal and ethereal?A: Everything.&nbsp; Something that is incorporeal is on the Material Plane, but has certainly qualities that make it difficult to hit, as described by the Incorporeal descriptor.&nbsp; Something that is Ethereal is on another plane, the Ethereal Plane.&nbsp; Because the Ethereal Plane is &quot;close&quot; to the Material Plane, certain effects (with the [Force] descriptor) are effective on either plane, regardless of the plane they were cast upon.&nbsp; However, other spells and spell-effects cannot pass the planar boundary.Q.&nbsp; What could the authors have meant by &quot;such as&quot; if ethereal isn't one of them?A:&nbsp; For one, they could have been referring to a Minor Globe of Invulnerability.&nbsp; Since the Spiritual Hammer strikes as a spell instead of an actual weapon, it's blocked by the Minor Globe.Bottom line for me, I don't think the designers intended Spiritual Weapon to be able to attack ethereal creatures unless you can see them.&nbsp; It'd be like casting two 2nd-level spells for the price of one.&nbsp; *shrug*&nbsp; Of course, YMMV.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 904878, member: 707"] You've raised two interesting points here. Q. What's the difference between incorporeal and ethereal? [color=lime]A: Everything. Something that is incorporeal is on the Material Plane, but has certainly qualities that make it difficult to hit, as described by the Incorporeal descriptor. Something that is Ethereal is [i]on another plane[/i], the Ethereal Plane. Because the Ethereal Plane is "close" to the Material Plane, certain effects (with the [Force] descriptor) are effective on either plane, regardless of the plane they were cast upon. However, other spells and spell-effects cannot pass the planar boundary.[/color] Q. What could the authors have meant by "such as" if ethereal isn't one of them? [color=lime]A: For one, they could have been referring to a [i]Minor Globe of Invulnerability.[/i] Since the [i]Spiritual Hammer[/i] strikes as a spell instead of an actual weapon, it's blocked by the [i]Minor Globe[/i].[/color] Bottom line for [i]me[/i], I don't think the designers intended [i]Spiritual Weapon[/i] to be able to attack ethereal creatures unless you can see them. It'd be like casting two 2nd-level spells for the price of one. *shrug* Of course, YMMV. [/QUOTE]

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