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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 7079569" data-attributes="member: 19675">I like splatting things as well, but I just don't see it happening here.Still, just because one is within a ORS, I can see other problems arising.  A pixie assassin emerging from one's backpack would be an issue.  So could an illusion causing your party members to believe they see one- "It's in the sphere, right behind you!" all shouting & pointing...A large, intelligent creature holding an ORS over a chasm for 15...20...25 seconds might be able to negotiate a surrender, because whichever line of reasoning your DM follows, the longer he waits, the less likely the ORS will exist at the drop's terminus.An ORS may be more buoyant than its occupant alone, but drape a weighted net over it and you can surely make it sink.Is it powerful?  Sure.  But it has a cost: the inability to affect the world in any meaningful way while so well perfected.  Invulnerable...but impotent.Years ago, I played a Dex & Wis based Githzerai monk with a polearm and the requisite feats.  Great fun.  But the thing was, even though foes struggled to tag him in melee, his allies were not so lucky.  There were times when there was a serious risk of him being the last man standing.  Had that happened, he wouldn't have survived long after.The ORS's occupant could find himself likewise standing alone amid downed allies, with the fight not yet over.</blockquote>