Technique for immunity to area dispel magic

[Hypersmurf]

Umm..... I don't think that works out too well all the time... a buffer, sure, but not immunity:

Right. Kerbarian's scheme, however, involves having lots and lots and lots of buffer spells - hence his search for permanent duration.

Let's say the dispeller has a 50/50 chance of dispelling a buffer spell... and you have ten of them active at a higher caster level than your actual spell suite.

The chance of him failing to dispel all ten buffer spells, to give him a shot at anything in your true suite, is below .01%.

-Hyp.

 

[Jack Simth]

True.... so it's a very good buffer.... not quite immunity, though, and it's the DM that rolls the dispel checks.....

Ah, here we go; good for a month:

Arcane Mark your buddy a lot - you want him to qualify as a piece of text (can work with mundane and magical tattoos, too); you need at least 25 words worth (not the poet).

Use Shadow Conjouration to duplicate Sepia Snake Sigils on the piece of text that is your buddy's body. They overlap, they don't stack, so only one takes effect, but that doesn't matter - they still exist, and that's all you need.

 

[Stalker0]

True.... so it's a very good buffer.... not quite immunity, though, and it's the DM that rolls the dispel checks.....

Ah, here we go; good for a month:

Arcane Mark your buddy a lot - you want him to qualify as a piece of text (can work with mundane and magical tattoos, too); you need at least 25 words worth (not the poet).

Use Shadow Conjouration to duplicate Sepia Snake Sigils on the piece of text that is your buddy's body. They overlap, they don't stack, so only one takes effect, but that doesn't matter - they still exist, and that's all you need.

Unfortunately arcane mark won't work, as the mark CANNOT be dispelled.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Unfortunately arcane mark won't work, as the mark CANNOT be dispelled.

You missed his point.

The Arcane Mark is not the buffer spell; the arcane marks are simply being used to make him an eligible target for Sepia Snake Sigil. Sepia Snake Sigil is the buffer spell.

-Hyp.

 

[Jack Simth]

Pretty much; and the reason for duplicating it with Shadow Conjouration is to avoid the expensive material component from Sepia Snake Sigil. If you can cast Shadow Conjouration and Arcane Mark yourself, you're all set to implement this proceedure.

 

[Nail]

Oooooh. Good one.

Your buddy, however, will have to have 25 "words" of Arcane Mark on him/herself. That might become an issue. And what if he "reads himself"?

 

[Pyrex]

May not be terribly helpful, but within the area of an Antimagic Field you're completely immune to Dispel Magic.

Other than that you might take a look at the Dispelling Buffer psionic power and create an equivalent spell.

 

[kerbarian]

Oooooh. Good one.

Your buddy, however, will have to have 25 "words" of Arcane Mark on him/herself. That might become an issue. And what if he "reads himself"?

That is a good one. Arcane Marks fade after a month when placed on creatures, though, so nonmagical tattoos would require less maintenance. To avoid accidental reading, you could always go the route of shaving one's head, tattooing there, and letting hair grow back in over it. That technique was actually used by the ancient Greeks (and maybe other cultures) to send secret messages. That would leave the question, though, of whether you can target the "written work" through the hair or not, in order to stock back up on buffer spells when necessary.

This solution is nice because it's core, but it does use 4th-level spells, and it's still a little open to interpretation -- a DM could decide that a character with tattoos doesn't count as a written work. There has to be some low-level, benign, permanent spell out there that can target creatures. Maybe I'll flip through the Spell Compendium tonight and see if I can find anything.

 

[Jack Simth]

Oooooh. Good one.

Your buddy, however, will have to have 25 "words" of Arcane Mark on him/herself. That might become an issue. And what if he "reads himself"?

That's why you use the invisible version of arcane mark, and use See Invisible to have it be all nice and legible when you cast your Shadow Conjouration Sepia Snake Sigil on him over and over again.....

 

[nameless]

It is a little bit off-topic for this thread, but my current character has a solution to prevent both area- and targeted dispel magics.

I've been abusing Planar Binding a little but (but not TOO much), and there are lots of celestials with the "protective aura" ability. This includes a lesser globe of invulnerability continuously. If you summon yourself a celestial bodyguard, as long as he is within 20' of you, you're good to go. The Movanic Deva from Fiend Folio is 6HD and callable with Lesser Planar Binding for an arbitrarily long period of time. Now you just have to worry about greater dispel magics...