3.x dismissable (D) duration

Post by **fbmf** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:39 pm

What are the criteria for spells that should or shouldn't be dismissable before the duration expires?

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fbmf

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 7:45 pm

IMHO, everything with a duration should be dismissible. Everything else should be instant, with an ongoing effect.

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 8:04 pm

This sentence no verb.

Are you asking what should go into your decision of whether to put a (d) in the duration when writing a new spell?

-Username17

hogarth · Post by **hogarth** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:19 pm

What criteria did the spell writers use? None, that I can tell. They just randomly assigned the "dismissable" quality to various spells.

Post by **fbmf** » Sun Jul 24, 2011 9:28 pm

FrankTrollman wrote:This sentence no verb.

Are you asking what should go into your decision of whether to put a (d) in the duration when writing a new spell?

-Username17

Yes.

Game on,
fbmf

hogarth · Post by **hogarth** » Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:43 pm

I don't think there's any logic to it. I knew that either Web or Stinking Cloud is dismissible (but not both), for instance, but I had to look up which was which because there's not really any way to figure it out a priori.