hey all,
looked around and didn't find anything that really addressed this issue:
does a level 20 rogue who is under the effect of greater blink get to sneak attack every attack?
I know that normally only your first attack gets sneak attack (unless flanking) when you either cease to be invisible or cease to be ethereal. The question revolves around the dubious wording of the greater blink spell. As I read it a character under the effect of greater blink is in control of when they are ethereal; so they can blink back and forth between ethereal and material between each sneak attack, thereby leaving their opponent flat-footed for every attack.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Which book is greater blink in? It's not in the PHB, but I think I've seen it somewhere.
Which book is greater blink in? It's not in the PHB, but I think I've seen it somewhere.
Spell Compendium, the cursed spell compendium, page 32
Since blink specifically states that targets are flat-footed (unless they have true seeing or some other method of detecting the individual when ethereal), greater blink would follow the same rules. To make it worse, give the rogue a ghost touch weapon...
Since blink specifically states that targets are flat-footed (unless they have true seeing or some other method of detecting the individual when ethereal), greater blink would follow the same rules. To make it worse, give the rogue a ghost touch weapon...
thanks for that - he will habe true seeing, the one thing that i was curious about was if he can blink back to ethereal between attacks in a full round attack?
I was going to have a readied action to attack the blinker when he materialised. so i guess the idea would have been - can the blinker say the AoO fails b/c he decides to blink when he wants to blink?
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Since blink specifically states that targets are flat-footed (unless they have true seeing or some other method of detecting the individual when ethereal), greater blink would follow the same rules. To make it worse, give the rogue a ghost touch weapon...
This is a common mistake. Blinking makes you ethereal. Ghost touch weapons help you against incorporeals, not the same thing. Someone blinking with a ghost touch weapon has no special ability to hit things on the prime when they are ethereal.
Since blink specifically states that targets are flat-footed (unless they have true seeing or some other method of detecting the individual when ethereal), greater blink would follow the same rules. To make it worse, give the rogue a ghost touch weapon...This is a common mistake. Blinking makes you ethereal. Ghost touch weapons help you against incorporeals, not the same thing. Someone blinking with a ghost touch weapon has no special ability to hit things on the prime when they are ethereal.
Sorry, throw-back thinking to 2nd Ed.
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... what I was curious about was if he can blink back to ethereal between attacks in a full round attack?
I was going to have a readied action to attack the blinker when he materialised. so i guess the idea would have been - can the blinker say the AoO fails b/c he decides to blink when he wants to blink?
when using greater blink do you vanish to the material plane between attacks on a full round attack or can you only move between the material and ethereal planes a certain number of times per round?
thanks in advance