I have a question about Blink. Blink T: Verbal S: Sorcery R: Self I: “I vanish from sight” E: Player becomes Insubstantial and can move to any location within 50ft from their starting point. L: Caster may not end State within 10ft of a living enemy. Insubstantial: This State has both offensive and defensive purposes and greatly limits a players ability to interact with play. Insubstantial players: 1. May not move from their starting location unless otherwise noted. 2. Are incapable of interacting with game items, objectives, or other players in any way unless otherwise noted. 3. Can only be affected by mechanics that work on States in general (such as Release) or Insubstantial in specific (such as Dimensional Rift). Player and their equipment are otherwise unaffected by combat, magic, etc. 4. Are not affected or stopped by game terrain such as walls, lava pits, traps, etc unless otherwise indicated by the reeve or game designer. 5. May be seen and heard. 6. May see and hear. 7. May Charge abilities. 8. May use Magic and Abilities on themselves if the Magic and Abilities are able to affect Insubstantial players. 9. May remove this State from themselves at any time by Incanting “I return to the physical world” x2 provided they are the cause of the State and entered it voluntarily. Otherwise they must end the State as per the description of the responsible Magic or Ability. 10. Insubstantial triggered from enchantments worn is not considered voluntary. 11. The ending Incantation for Insubstantial is not interrupted by the player moving their feet. 12. Must indicate their Insubstantial State by saying “Insubstantial” if asked, attacked, or targeted by a Magic or Ability. 13. May not delay the game excessively. For instance, you may not use the Insubstantial State to avoid being killed if you are the last player alive in a Mutual Annihiliation battlegame. The reeves decision in these situations is final. My question is based on something I saw happen at the park last week. A player became insubstantial using blink during a capture the flag game. We kept someone near the base so they couldnt come out of blink to get the flag. Instead, they went to where the fighting was, and began lining up in fighting stance against combatant, while announcing that they are insubstantial. They may have even thrown shots, along the lines of an Im not touching you game. Our wizard did not have anything to pull them out of insubstantial (though that would be the general solution). Is this a legal use of the ability? The only possible contradiction to it that I see is point 2, unable to interact with other players. They were not strictly interacting, simply looking like they were about it
Posted on: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:00:40 +0000