We're playing an all monster party (we each got to pick a CR4 monster) and I chose the Shae from Bestiary 3. The GM not so subtly reminded me of my vulnerability to Banishment and Dismissal. I was almost dismissed back to the Plane of Shadows. The party promptly clasped a pair of Dimensional Shackles on me and we went about our adventure... then they got hit by Shatter. Now we're trying to figure out if there is a more permanent means of keeping my feet in the Material Plane. One of the older editions of D&D had an effect that could break your connection to your home plane and by extension rules for establishing a new home plane. These both appear to had come and gone. So any advice on how to keep this from happening?
Ring of Counterspelling with Dismissal keyed to it might work for awhile. The odds of someone having Dismissal prepared multiple times is unlikely.
Ring of Counterspelling with Dismissal keyed to it might work for awhile. The odds of someone having Dismissal prepared multiple times is unlikely.
Unless your GM is trying to get you... like by targetting the Shackles with a shatter and then trying to follow through with a dismissal or banishment... :-)
Er, Shatter doesn't work on magic items.....
It does if you're a cheesy character-targeting GM.
I wouldn't call our GM cheesy. Though I would not be surprised if he upped the spells potency for this particular party (both who we are and what we're playing.) To be honest I'm just glad he didn't hit the crystalline member of our group. I'm not very familiar with the near infinite list of spells in pathfinder as this is as close as I've ever come to playing a true magic class. I've always avoided them on principle.
Dispel Magic and then shatter. :)
Hat of Disguise, look like a human. If they see through that then oh well.
Hey, that's a nice workaround. Way to think outside the box. But look like a gnome! After all, they'll reason that nobody would deliberately choose to look like vermin. ;)
I made some adjustments that may or may not have been improvements.
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Looked at the Shae entry on d20pfsrd and found this:
In their own language, their name means "unbound" or "unfettered."
Irony!
Seriously, though, both Dismissal and Banishment require you to fail a Will save, so taking the Iron Will and Greater Iron Will feats is one way to bolster yourself if it really becomes a problem. Other than that, I would try to get a new set of Shackles, and also have a Scroll of Dimensional Anchor handy for a caster to use on you if the issue comes up.
Ultimately, though, if the DM wants to banish you, the DM gonna banish you.
Update...
GM is not trying to kill me specifically. We now know that we're dealing with a plane hopping maniac who knows who we are and has been trying to get rid of us for a while. Only had one additional run in with an attempted banish and that didn't work. We have lost the pixie but that was to a Golem in normal combat. So far the GMs been tough but fair.
How do you rejoin the party after you get banished or dismissed? That might be an easier problem to solve than preventing the banishment or dismissal in the first place.
If future banishment's are still a concern, I might suggest a spell tattoo of Dimensional Anchor. It is a CL 4 slotless wondrous item subject to erase/dispel with will save. This can be hidden under clothing (preventing erase), and still be quickly accessed in an emergency, it can be single use, charges, or continuous (very expensive but, easier to hide as well). Tattoos can be stacked with regular items in the same slots (and both work if there is not a competing bonus E.G: +DEX tattoo on belt, and +DEX Belt would cancel out one).
Magic Aura cast over it all to prevent detection by magical or mundane means.
Either way it will cost you a lot to prevent banishment or dismissal.