Ring of Force Shield vs. Disintegrate

[Azoriel]

Hypothetical situation for you all:

A 10th level fighter with a Ring of Force Shield up and with the Ray Shield feat gets targeted by a wizard casting Disintegrate; the fighter uses his Ray Shield feat to eat said Disintegrate on his shield. Per the rules for Wall of Force, that eliminates the shield effect.

Is the ring still operable at this point? (Did it get disintegrated by the spell along with the shield effect?) On the fighter's turn, can he reactivate the ring?

[seebs]

Huh, fascinating question. I don't see any obvious reason to think you couldn't, any more than anything else short of a disjunction would permanently disable a permanent item.

[Mojorat]

He can reactivate the ring. The force shield is an effect created by the ring. It is nit the ring. The force sheild poofs in and out of existwnce regularly why would disintograte be any different?

[LazarX]

Azoriel wrote:

Hypothetical situation for you all:

A 10th level fighter with a Ring of Force Shield up and with the Ray Shield feat gets targeted by a wizard casting Disintegrate; the fighter uses his Ray Shield feat to eat said Disintegrate on his shield. Per the rules for Wall of Force, that eliminates the shield effect.

Is the ring still operable at this point? (Did it get disintegrated by the spell along with the shield effect?) On the fighter's turn, can he reactivate the ring?

The fighter can reactivate the ring on his next turn, taking the usual standard action to do so. All that the fighter did by invoking the feat, was essentially ensure that the wizard's disintegrate would connnect with his force shield instead of his body (generally a GOOD thing). In the meantime he's out his shield bonus but not disintegrated, a more than equitable tradeoff.

[Kazaan]

It's a free action to activate a Ring of Force Shield, not a standard. Ray Shield states explicitly that the shield takes the full effect of a spell so deflected so it would work against the Disintegrate ray, be deactivated, and then you must wait until your next turn to turn it back on again.

[Azoriel]

I also feel that a Ring of Force Shield should still be functional if the force effect was destroyed, but I wanted to be sure my reading of the rules here was sound. (Nobody disagreeing with the general consensus?) My thanks to all of you who responded.

[Secane]

Make sense that only the force effect of the ring gets destroyed.

Nice way to avoid a nasty spell. And since it works only once a round, nothing is stopping a 2nd spell caster from hitting you with a 2nd Disintegrate.

[Oliver Veyrac]

That combination works well and is valid :)