hoverfrog
2013-07-25, 11:03 AM
A bard uses bardic music to fascinate a person. They fail their save and stand there like an idiot drooling and swaying along.
Meanwhile the bard's pals are surrounding the poor fool. He gets another save but fails it too. Things aren't looking good for our music lover.
Under Fascinated (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/conditionSummary.htm#fascinated) any obvious hostile action like drawing a weapon automatically breaks the effect but what happens if they just grapple him? Does he get an attack of opportunity against the first attacker to shrug off the grapple? At what point is the fascination broken? When the bard's pals are 5 feet away? When they're 10 feet away?
Now instead of the person being fascinated change it to a wild animal, a giant rat. The situation is the same but the grapple is an effort to grab the animal and shove it in a cage. I ruled that the attempt to pick it up broke the fascinate effect and allowed it to make an attack of opportunity against its attacker.
Is this favouring the rat too much? How would you have ruled this situation and why?
Meanwhile the bard's pals are surrounding the poor fool. He gets another save but fails it too. Things aren't looking good for our music lover.
Under Fascinated (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/conditionSummary.htm#fascinated) any obvious hostile action like drawing a weapon automatically breaks the effect but what happens if they just grapple him? Does he get an attack of opportunity against the first attacker to shrug off the grapple? At what point is the fascination broken? When the bard's pals are 5 feet away? When they're 10 feet away?
Now instead of the person being fascinated change it to a wild animal, a giant rat. The situation is the same but the grapple is an effort to grab the animal and shove it in a cage. I ruled that the attempt to pick it up broke the fascinate effect and allowed it to make an attack of opportunity against its attacker.
Is this favouring the rat too much? How would you have ruled this situation and why?