deuxhero |
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Target touched creature or object
You temporarily age the target, immediately advancing it to the next age category. The target immediately takes the age penalties to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution for its new age category, but does not gain the bonuses for that category. A creature whose age is unknown is treated as if the spell advances it to middle age. Ageless or immortal creatures are immune to this spell.
What happens if this spell is used on a true dragons (who could very well cast it themselves, it is on the sorcerer list) or character with the "youth" age category (added in Ultimate Campaign, +2 dex, -2 strength, con and wis)?
Daethor |
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Well, RAI I'm *sure* it wasn't meant to allow dragons to rapidly access the benefits they gain from aging and am pretty sure it was written with humanoids in mind.
RAW, it says you gain the penalties from aging (referring to STR, DEX, and CON) but don't gain the bonuses from that category. Now presumably the bonuses is referring to the bonuses humanoids gain to INT, WIS, and CHA, but you could interpret it as *any* bonuses including no bonuses to size, caster level, breath weapon, etc. Therefore, if it was cast on a dragon, one could make the case that it would apply the DEX penalty (if any) associated with their age category and nothing else.
Does that help?
137ben |
I know 1001 spells has a bunch of spells that alter the targets age category which explicitly say they don't work on true dragons. Whoever wrote sands of time probably didn't think of it. The RAI would therefore be "not determined."
RAW, it says you gain the penalties from aging (referring to STR, DEX, and CON) but don't gain the bonuses from that category. Now presumably the bonuses is referring to the bonuses humanoids gain to INT, WIS, and CHA, but you could interpret it as *any* bonuses including no bonuses to size, caster level, breath weapon, etc. Therefore, if it was cast on a dragon, one could make the case that it would apply the DEX penalty (if any) associated with their age category and nothing else.
I suppose you could make the argument that the dex penalty dragons get isn't actually from aging, its from increasing size, (which they don't get from sands of time), and so sands of time would have no effect since dragons get no ability score penalties from aging.
It does seem ambiguous though, and your interpretation could be right.So, either it gives true dragons dex penalty and nothing else, or it does nothing at all when used on a dragon, depending on interpretation.