The sphere is NOT immobile, because I’m dumb.
edited for dumbness.
You bring into being a* mobile**, hemispherical energy field that prevents the entrance of most types of living creatures.
The effect hedges out animals, aberrations, dragons, fey, giants, humanoids, magical beasts, monstrous humanoids, oozes, plants, and vermin, but not constructs, elementals, outsiders, or undead.
This spell may be used only defensively, not aggressively. Forcing an abjuration barrier against creatures that the spell keeps at bay collapses the barrier.*
Well yeah, seems like we agree!
Yeah, your post changed while I was typing.
You want the SRD version, not the Paizo one, though it says the same thing.
Note though that Spell Resistance applies, so if Roy can somehow get SR, he might get in.
Dude’s got a horde of magical items, at least ONE of them could provide spell resistance. Plus a natural 20 of the SR check.
…Or Death’s Little Helper comes back and remembers how good halflings are at throwing stuff.
I don’t think that the “nothing alive can get through” is trying to set up a Chekov’s Gun. That’s an actual standard D&D spell, and that’s just how it works. Rich is just giving a little more exposition on it for the benefit of folks who don’t read the SRD.
A cooler question is “what’s phase 2?”
Still, the field seems clumsy compared to just turning into vapor and hanging out at the ceiling.
I, too, and curious about phase two. And about how/when the new vampires come into play.
Wait … It hedges out animals? Could he pull something from that stupid bag that helps? Because that would be awesome.
Ugh, never mind. I misunderstood that.
Although their could be something tactical there.
Say you surround the field with animals. Start throwing things at Durk. If he dodges in any direction he dispells the field.
Probably too convoluted though.
Nah, they come out small, right.
Pull one, throw it in the air above Durkula and wait. Repeat as needed until it becomes a rhino or something.
What happens to a vampire if you give it enough damage to make it two dimensional?
I’m not going archive hunting to find the right strip, but I’m pretty sure that Bog o’ animals explicitly ran out at some point. It’s not a long forgotten item waiting to find a useful niche.
Liches are not alive, right? If only we knew one that had a vested interest in everything not going away, and who just liked to disrupt other peoples plans in general…
Maybe. I just assumed it could only produce a number of animals per day or something and it had reached that limit.
Not that it matters. It was just me producing my thesis paper for the Nale School of Overly Complicated Plans.
My guess at this point is that the demi-god priests will vote in favor of saving the world (however that happens despite Hel’s confidence that they’ll vote in her favor) and so Durkon will depart for “Phase II”. Thus keeping the Durkon-as-vampire plot alive and, you know, not prematurely ending the strip with the unmaking of the universe.
You’re thinking of Roy’s fall. “Out of critters”
A bag of tricks has a weekly allowance of 10animals produced. It will have recharged by now, but you can’t keep throwing animals until you get a rhino.
And Roy’s bag shouldn’t produce a rhino at all.
Roy could conceivably obtain a rope, lasso Durkula, and drag him to the edge of the barrier within range of the greatsword, couldn’t he?
Liches are not alive, but nor are they particularly inclined to teleport into a room full of a dozen High Priests that can convert spells to Cure Serious Wounds on the fly. Plus, given that Xykon pays bupkis attention to the world, he’s not aware of the Godsmoot. Be interesting to know if Redcloak is aware of the Godsmoot, but just not invited.
I think that’d count as a grapple check, and vampires get +5 to their grapple checks as it is. Plus, as a cleric, he’s got a dozen ways to take care of the rope anyway.
A knife ironically not being one of them 