Came up in our game tonight, since we have both a lich and a grave knight in the party, one of which has an aura that causes fear without a clearly stated way to stop causing fear, and the other has an aura that negates fear immunity, without a clearly stated way to stop negating everyone's fear immunity.
This could cause problems for our party. Like, for example, the inability to function as a party.
Comments are welcome. I was always under the impression that auras in general were optional things that PCs could take down if they wanted to. Is this not true? I can't seem to find a rule or ruling that states it.
Fear Aura (Su) The use of this ability is a free action. The aura can freeze an opponent (as in the case of a mummy’s despair) or function like the fear spell. Other effects are possible. A fear aura is an area effect. The descriptive text gives the size and kind of the area.
Since it is a free action it is not constantly going. I will check on the other aura in a moment.
- Gauss
Edit: I do not see an aura that negates fear immunity on either the Lich or the Graveknight. Which one has it and what is the aura that does it?
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As discussed elsewhere, the graveknight's sacrilegious aura is part of its creation and nature. The aura is constantly active and doesn't mention a way for the creature to suppress it. I haven't seen a general rule for a creature to suppress its supernatural abilities.
The sacrilegious aura impedes positive channelling and lay on hands, but doesn't affect fear immunity as far as I can see.
I don't mean this as criticism. If the DM has house-ruled that playing monsters is valid for PCs, they can just go ahead and house-rule that doing so is workable.
Unless stated otherwise, abilities are always on. Darkvision just works. Auras just work. Abilities that require actions to activate them are a different story of course.