Faerie Fire and Obscuring Mist

[zean]

Which one wins? Seriously.

If a Druid spends one turn casting Faerie Fire such that it only effects a single enemy, and then next turn casts Obscuring Mist, does the enemy benefit from Obscuring Mist, or does Faerie Fire override the Mist? Is it different if the enemy is adjacent next to someone, or if a person is more than 5 feet away?

[james maissen]

zean wrote:

Which one wins? Seriously.

If a Druid spends one turn casting Faerie Fire such that it only effects a single enemy, and then next turn casts Obscuring Mist, does the enemy benefit from Obscuring Mist, or does Faerie Fire override the Mist? Is it different if the enemy is adjacent next to someone, or if a person is more than 5 feet away?

I've always ruled that it negates 5' of the mist's effectiveness.

Thus on the edge of the mist the faerie fire clearly delineates the victim, while 10' in they have concealment, and farther in they are unseen.

-James

[Jiggy]

Hrm... faerie fire even defeats invisibility (total concealment, 2nd level spell) and displacement (50% miss chance, 3rd level spell). So power-wise, it seems like it should be okay to have it "beat" obscuring mist (1st level spell) as well.

On the other hand, all the things it lists working against are things that affect your vision or perception, rather than there actually being something in the way between the victim and the viewer. Would faerie fire "beat" concealment from foliage, curtains, etc? That's hard to picture working, and it does seem noteworthy that faerie fire failed to list any sort of visual obstructions as being bypassed.

James Maissen's idea above seems to kind of meet in the middle, and is probably very reasonable for such an unclear interaction. I'd say hammer it out with your GM to make sure.