Warpriest Travel Blessing, mishap chance and characters having to touch each other?


Rules Questions


Sooo, my DM made some interesting rulings today...and I wanted to get what your thoughts were.

He read the Warpriest Travel Blessing off d20pfsrd and followed the highlighted "teleport" to the teleport spell. Soooo, he treating the ability as the spell.

#1) Hes applying a mishap chance to my ability...so I might end up who knows where sometimes.
#2) Hes interpreting the words "All creatures to be transported must be in contact with one another" that every person teleported must touch each other person teleported. So if I teleported 10 people, each person much touch each other person being teleported.

I already said I'll go by however he wants to interpret them...but I just want to hear how others would rule this ability if they were DMing.


The link on d20pfsrd was added automatically. Not all teleportation effects use the rules of the teleport spell and I would not use those rules here, they're not specified in the actual travel blessing text.


Your GM is completely and utterly wrong.


d20pfsrd has an auto keyword thing that sometimes does silly things like that. A lot of Bleed effects used to link to the spell Bleed despite their being no connection, for instance.

The text of the ability has no mention of mishaps nor even anything implied to suggest such. So I'm with avr and mauve here.

Scarab Sages

Someone should really have the actual book (and errata/FAQ) when using an ability. Especially if the ability is one, like a class ability, which will likely be used every session. The free sites just aren't very reliable.

I often use Archives of Nethys, though I've found many errors on that site too. Nothing huge, but minor technicalities that cause big issues if no one actually has the rules.


If the travle blessing did use the teleport spell as a base rule, it would refer to it specifically, not leave it to a link to decide such a matter. I mean, be logical: books, which is the primary source of these rules, can not use hot-links.

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