We fought a phase spider last night and I have three questions:
1. Can the spider pull a person into the etherial plane by grabbing and shifting?
2. Does a cleric's channel energy power affect creatures in the eterial plane?
3. If a GM kills a PC because he, say, made some rules mistakes in an encounter with a phase spider, how can he fix it?
Question 3 is the most important.
1) No. Its ability functions like the Ethereal Jaunt spell, which only affects the caster and his equipment. A dead body could be considered equipment, but a living (or undead) creature is not.
2) No. It is neither a force effect, nor an abjuration. The ability does not say it can cross planar boundaries, so it does not affect anything on the Ethereal plane (unless, of course, thats where the cleric is).
3)Either just ignore that the encounter happened, or find a way for the party to get a free resurrection spell. Also, you could ignore the PC dying, and just say that the spiders poison only made it appear like the PC died, but he is just barely clinging on to life, so must get medical treatment.
1) No. Its ability functions like the Ethereal Jaunt spell, which only affects the caster and his equipment. A dead body could be considered equipment, but a living (or undead) creature is not.
2) No. It is neither a force effect, nor an abjuration. The ability does not say it can cross planar boundaries, so it does not affect anything on the Ethereal plane (unless, of course, thats where the cleric is).
3)Either just ignore that the encounter happened, or find a way for the party to get a free resurrection spell. Also, you could ignore the PC dying, and just say that the spiders poison only made it appear like the PC died, but he is just barely clinging on to life, so must get medical treatment.
Yup, time for an "I screwed up email". Thanks for the info.