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Thanks for the suggestions guys. One year later now and I'm able to cast greater planar binding. My DM is making demon lords to randomly break my geas on their servants so I'm having trouble keeping greater fiends in their place.

I'm thinking of making a suggestion to my DM of an arc where I kill the demon lord. or attempt to at least. It's Zura. Any ideas on how to go about this?

For 24 hours per caster level of yours, yes. There is a remote chance that an ally of the creature might do something, but this is only really an issue if you've justified it to the world by mass binding efreeti for wishes, that sort of thing.

My party are neutrals (closet paladins really), so I'm not allowed any genie farms. Which of the creatures on this list would you prefer as servant if you were in my situation?

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I need to reopen this thread.

Planning on using planar binding and geas. Problem is: if I don't want to be attacked by the powerful creature, I likely have to seal them into a resilient sphere while casting for 10 minutes.

But am I allowed to start casting if I don't have line of effect?

Yes. You choose the target at the end of your casting time, not the start. You do need to have line of effect then though, and even if you have someone else remove it expect that the powerful creature has been readying an action to do something! If it can't simply dispel the resilient sphere itself of course, or teleport out of it, or it might make the initial save vs. the sphere. You can't call the demon out of the Abyss straight into your sphere, you don't have line of effect to the inside of the sphere unless you're there too, which would defeat the purpose.

The magic circle trap is expected for a reason.

Yeah, did some reading on magic circle as you were writing this:

"A successful diagram allows you to cast a dimensional anchor spell on the magic circle during the round before casting any summoning spell. The anchor holds any called creatures in the magic circle for 24 hours per caster level. A creature cannot use its Spell Resistance against a magic circle prepared with a diagram, and none of its abilities or attacks can cross the diagram."

So basically: It can't attack me for 24 hours as long as it fails its initial will save and charisma save?

I need to reopen this thread.

Planning on using planar binding and geas. Problem is: if I don't want to be attacked by the powerful creature, I likely have to seal them into a resilient sphere while casting for 10 minutes.

But am I allowed to start casting if I don't have line of effect?