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I remember in 3.5 there were a matched pair of rings, one for the caster and one for his buddy. The buddy wearing it was impervious to the caster's spells.
Mostly, as you might imagine, I saw these used to avoid blasting the party fighter into smithereens while clearing the area around him. However, I'm designing a rather tough encounter in which the party faces off against a pair of Druid brothers, one a caster with the Animal domain and one is a heavily melee-focused wild-shaper, both Saurian Shaman archetype. The caster opens up the fight by covering basically the entire relevant area in a highly buffed (spell focus, greater S.F., Heightened) Entangle. Even with Woodland Stride, the melee druid has about a 40% chance to not get Entangled every bloody round.
The melee dude has Slippers of Feather Step, so he doesn't need to worry about the difficult terrain bit. However, I want to be able to avoid having him entangled every round. I couldn't find any feats allowing the caster to selectively not entangle his buddy, and I can't for the life of me find these rings. This is pretty much the final tweak to this encounter before I roll it out. Any suggestions? (These druids are both level 9)
You could look into Freedom of Movement. 4th level Druid spell. Lasts 10 min/Level so you could cast that and be fine
Re: Avoiding AoE damage, a Rod of Selective Metamagic is an amazing option.
CrystalSpellBlade's suggestion of Freedom of Movement is a good one. If you're looking for any treasure, there's a Ring of Freedom of Movement that would work as well.
I'd go for a spell or scroll (700gp) of Freedom of Movement before the Ring of Entangle. The Ring is 40,000gp. Would let him have other equipment without breaking the budget.
- Gauss