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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pawsplay" data-source="post: 3111077" data-attributes="member: 15538">Do the rules need to differentiate grappling a boa constrictor versus a human? I don't think I'm grasping the arena of your argument. I don't claim to know what Freedom of Movement is supposed to do, I can only try to guess from what's written there. And whatever's written there, that's the ability the Scout was given, for intentions that again, I cannot know, I can only guess at. Perhaps the Scout author didn't inspect FoM carefully and never noticed some of the curious questions it raises; I don't know. I do know that nothing in the rules tells me petrification nullifies FoM in any respect, that helpless characters automatically fail grapple checks, or that FoM is not intended to work exactly as it seems to by my reading. If Freedom of Movement allows you to jog in water and use a rapier, it presumably has some amazing effect, and why shouldn't it continue to operate even when the subject is stopped cold through some other method? For all I know, it gives you some weird friction field.</blockquote>