incorporeal moving through living

[vhok]

had this come up tonight. an incorporeal creature needed to move through a living creature. we couldn't find any ruling that said they could. if someone knows if it says they can do this is somewhere in the rules or a post by a dev can you please link it.

[ckdragons]

Don't see why not, though the incorporeal creature would possibly provoke multiple attacks of opportunity: moving out of a threatened square and/or moving into a enemy square. These AOOs can be avoided with Acrobatics checks.

Personally, as a GM, I would have the incorporeal creature move diagonally under the enemy and then diagonally up behind the enemy. This would only provoke an single AOO normally.

[vhok]

generally the pathfinder game tells you what you can do not what you can't and incorporeal doesn't say you can move through creatures.

[blahpers]

vhok wrote:

generally the pathfinder game tells you what you can do not what you can't

Frequently asserted, never cited. My characters will continue to poop when they need to.