what can't an antimagic field protect me from?

[Infiniti2000]

Artifacts will function normally inside an AMF. Put an artifact into the hands of, say, a balor called in via gate, and you're up the creek without a paddle.

 

[Jack Simth]

Artifacts will function normally inside an AMF. Put an artifact into the hands of, say, a balor called in via gate, and you're up the creek without a paddle.

Generally speaking, pre-epic, if your opponent Gates in an artifact-wielding Balor, you're kinda up the creek regardless.

 

[glass]

Generally speaking, pre-epic, if your opponent Gates in an artifact-wielding Balor, you're kinda up the creek regardless.

And Epic spells work in AMFs 50% of the time.


glass.

 

[Jack Simth]

And Epic spells work in AMFs 50% of the time.


glass.

Sorta. They work if they aren't taken down by a 1d20+20 dispel check. So at 21st, that's 50%.... at 41st, they don't fail.

 

[the Jester]

Don't forget that disintegrate, used creatively, might bring a lot of stuff down on you from above (indoors or underground, anyway).

Sorta. They work if they aren't taken down by a 1d20+20 dispel check. So at 21st, that's 50%.... at 41st, they don't fail.

Huh?? Can you provide a reference for this? I recall a flat 50% chance that epic spells will function in an AMF, not a dispel check, but I accept that I might have the story wrong.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

When dealing with AMF, the creative spellcaster thinks like Green Lantern fighting a malevolent giant anthropomorphic lemon.

Which is to say, you'll tend to use indirect attacks, or spells that will affect the area outside of the AMF instantly and permanently, so that having magic removed from that area becomes meaningless...like turning the rocky area outside the AMF into a pit of mud.

 

[Jack Simth]

Huh?? Can you provide a reference for this? I recall a flat 50% chance that epic spells will function in an AMF, not a dispel check, but I accept that I might have the story wrong.

Sure can:

Antimagic field does not automatically suppress epic spells as it does standard spells. Instead, each time an epic spell is subject to an antimagic field, make a dispel check as a 20th-level caster (1d20 + 20). The epic spell has a DC of 11 + the epic spell’s spellcaster level. If the suppression check is successful, the epic spell is suppressed like any other spell. If the dispel check is unsuccessful, the epic spell functions normally.