Ah, I see. Yes, I was confused because in that picture you showed us, he clearly has the unholy symbol of Deskari on his helmet, not Baphomet's, and also the glaive is designed like a grasshopper/locust. Joran's picture also had a Deskari symbol, on his shield. I guess there was some mix-up between designing/art-directing Staunton (and maybe Joran) and writing up the rest of the backstory for him.
If we want to say he's always been a Baphomet/Templar of the Ivory Labyrinth cultist, maybe he and the glaive (and Joran's shield) should officially, in our game, just not have those symbols, and then Verene would not have thought it was weird or asked the question.
Yeah, Joran definitely shouldn't have Deskari, as he's Droskar's cleric. I'm less certain of Staunton's thing, but I'll treat him as a Baphomet worshipper for the purposes of our game.
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Okay, cool. Then I'll change my mental image to the symbol being Baphomet's, and please strike Verene's question from the record. :)
I hope everyone had/is having a happy holiday! I should be back to fairly regular posting now. I do want to warn you all though that I will be out of country from the 14th-21st (of January) and will try to post when I can during that period, but there's a real possibility you might not hear from me at all during that window.
I'll say that so long as you take reasonable precautions, you won't have any fear of being forcibly transformed into an undead version of Staunton Vhane. Verene's suggestion with rest eternal would certainly help stop him from spontaneously arising.
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Sorry about the absense all! My vacation started yesterday and I am currently in a vacation resort. I should be back to posting starting monday evening.
I'm not sure how to advance things - I don't want to skip over anything someone else has to say, but I don't think there's much else I can offer. That being said, I will attempt to get a short post up today.
Really pertinent question that I'm not honestly sure where to investigate: does the death of the dominator release dominate person from the victims? I don't recall if we actually settled on that.
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Really pertinent question that I'm not honestly sure where to investigate: does the death of the dominator release dominate person from the victims? I don't recall if we actually settled on that.
We discussed it back in September, starting here, and the RAW answer is that no, the death of the dominator does not release them, and the duration (and saves to break the effect) plays out as usual. I think you said you would rule this way too. This is because there just isn't any specific rule for spells and other magical effects addressing the circumstance of death of the caster. So the general rules regarding duration are all there is, barring a houserule. E.g. if a spell requires continued concentration, it ends, but if it has a defined duration, that is still its duration regardless of whether the caster has since died.
With dominate person the subject would receive a new saving throw every day for whatever remains of the original duration of the spell (1 day/caster level), because the caster is not around to spend a full round each day concentrating on it; casting protection from evil on the dominated person would also allow them a new save; dispel magic would grant a caster level check to attempt to dispel the effect; etc.