Arcanist's Dimensional Slide

[World's Okayest DM]

If an Arcanist burns a pool point, they can Dimensional Slide up to 20' and spend only 5' of movement. There is no clarification on the description as to whether they can "carry" anyone through (anyTHING, sure, since gear counts as "things"). This weekend, I had an Arcanist grab a Paralyzed PC and Dimensional Slide 20' away (+ movement) to get away from the Ghouls who paralyzed the other PC.

Another DM is saying that is like Dimension Door and overpowered. I went with the idea that the paralyzed PC became Encumbrance and so long as the Arcanist could move at least 5', they could move the PC with them.

Rule of Cool? Or Broken?

[Sapient]

I'd rule that anything you can carry, and are carrying, is fair game.

[Melkiador]

Quote:

The arcanist can expend 1 point from her arcane reservoir to create a dimensional crack that she can step through to reach another location. This ability is used as part of a move action or withdraw action, allowing her to move up to 10 feet per arcanist level to any location she can see. This counts as 5 feet of movement. She can only use this ability once per round. She does not provoke attacks of opportunity when moving in this way, but any other movement she attempts as part of her move action provokes as normal.

It's funny, because the ability doesn't even mention carrying gear, so one extreme ruling would have the arcanist always arrive naked. But my reading relies on, "This counts as 5 feet of movement", which I can interpret to mean that if you can do it with 5 feet of movement, you can also do it with this ability. So, if you can move 5 feet while carrying a body, then you can also move that way with this ability.