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#1 kingkalak Aug 17, 2008 0:42:18	Can anyone help me out, by clairfying a few rules about Spellfire for me? 1) What happens if a Spellfire Weilder gets hit with a mordenkainen's disjunction. 2) What happens if a Spellfire weilder gets hit with a anti magic ray spell. 3) If a creature such as a drow had Spellfire, does he have to supress his own magic resistance to use it? If someone directs a anti magic ray at him, would he still get a magic resistance roll?
#2 naex Aug 17, 2008 1:08:17	For the record, this should be in the Running the Realms forum. 1 and 2. A Spellfire wielder (as defined in Magic of Faerun) can not have stored levels of magic affected by a Dispel type effect, but if he/she uses that spellfire, the effect can be countered by dispel magic, or any device that affects spell-like abilities (i.e. wand of negation). As for whether a spellfire wielder could absorb the stated spells, I believe they can, as long as they were targeting the wielder, and not any carried items. As for the Drow, I don't recall if anything with spell resistance can voluntarily reduce it's SR. And might I just say... A drow with spellfire, by the gods, the Simbul was concerned with a young blonde girl with that much power, imagine how freaked she and the other chosen would be to find one of the Drow running loose with it.
#3 kingkalak Aug 17, 2008 1:14:05	Thanks. Sorry for posting in the wron place. I just wandered what would happen in those situations, because I was not sure if a Disjunction would negate a spellfire weilder, of if they would simply absourb it. It would seem that a spellfire weilder is pretty much invincable.
#4 naex Aug 17, 2008 1:18:16	Thanks. Sorry for posting in the wron place. I just wandered what would happen in those situations, because I was not sure if a Disjunction would negate a spellfire weilder, of if they would simply absourb it. It would seem that a spellfire weilder is pretty much invincable. Nope, you have three options with a spellfire wielder, sneak attacks, attacks with non-magical weapons, or overwhelming force, since they can only absorb so much, and then they are affected by any incoming spells.
#5 kingkalak Aug 17, 2008 1:20:06	But if you attack them with magic, they can just absourb it, and if you hit them, they will just keep healing.
#6 naex Aug 17, 2008 1:30:58	But if you attack them with magic, they can just absourb it, and if you hit them, they will just keep healing. They have a limit on how much they can absorb/store (base is a number of levels equal to their constitution), and they have to use an action to heal, as well as using spellfire up, and only 2 hp for every spellfire level used, so unless they have a very high constitution, and have been absorbing spells for a while, they can't heal all that much damage at a time. Since they can only absorb so much, a group of mid-level spellcasters hitting them with a barrage every turn will eventually harm them. Even with a con of 18, it means that if hit by 4 6th level spells in a row, without the spellfire wielder getting a chance to discharge any stored energy, 1 spell gets through. Add in a few fighter types swinging at them as well, and down they go.
#7 lord_karsus Aug 18, 2008 1:05:19	-I'll have this thread moved when the VCL gets back from Gencon.