Anti-Magic Field and Familiars


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Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A wizard may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast).

Antimagic Field
Area 10-ft.-radius emanation, centered on you.

There is no target "you" for the spell so by RAW it does not work. My question to Paizo is, was Share Spells intended to work on any spell that could only affect the caster or did they intend for it to only work if it had Target: You in the description.


wraithstrike wrote:

Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A wizard may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast).

Antimagic Field
Area 10-ft.-radius emanation, centered on you.

There is no target "you" for the spell so by RAW it does not work. My question to Paizo is, was Share Spells intended to work on any spell that could only affect the caster or did they intend for it to only work if it had Target: You in the description.

Since I brought it up in the other thread, figured I"d comment on my own RAI on this side..

I think that if you allowed AMF to emanate from a familiar, it becomes ungodly powerful, as opposed to ungodly powerful with equally difficult to deal with consequences for yourself.

(on a completely non pathfinder note....if you want to see one of the most broken 3.5 feats to deal with AMF....look up "Initiate of Mystra". Enough said.


Farabor wrote:
wraithstrike wrote:

Share Spells: The wizard may cast a spell with a target of “You” on his familiar (as a touch spell) instead of on himself. A wizard may cast spells on his familiar even if the spells do not normally affect creatures of the familiar's type (magical beast).

Antimagic Field
Area 10-ft.-radius emanation, centered on you.

There is no target "you" for the spell so by RAW it does not work. My question to Paizo is, was Share Spells intended to work on any spell that could only affect the caster or did they intend for it to only work if it had Target: You in the description.

Since I brought it up in the other thread, figured I"d comment on my own RAI on this side..

I think that if you allowed AMF to emanate from a familiar, it becomes ungodly powerful, as opposed to ungodly powerful with equally difficult to deal with consequences for yourself.

(on a completely non pathfinder note....if you want to see one of the most broken 3.5 feats to deal with AMF....look up "Initiate of Mystra". Enough said.

I heard about the Initiate of Mystra, but I never seen a build with it. What book is it in?


wraithstrike wrote:


I heard about the Initiate of Mystra, but I never seen a build with it. What book is it in?

Players Guide to Faerun (The 3.5 update of the FRCG)


No feat should let you do that. I think I just added the 3rd banned item to my short list of bannings.

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wraithstrike wrote:
No feat should let you do that. I think I just added the 3rd banned item to my short list of bannings.

Just make it not work on your own antimagic fields and you're okay. Otherwise you've got one half of the Cheater of Mystra.


wraithstrike wrote:
No feat should let you do that. I think I just added the 3rd banned item to my short list of bannings.

The context of the feat is of course the dead magic ares of the Toril.

I would sugges that you rule it only aplies to "natural" dead magic ares but not to AMF.


The Grandfather wrote:
wraithstrike wrote:
No feat should let you do that. I think I just added the 3rd banned item to my short list of bannings.

The context of the feat is of course the dead magic ares of the Toril.

I would sugges that you rule it only aplies to "natural" dead magic ares but not to AMF.

I dont run a campaign in FR currently, but that is a good idea if it does happen.

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