Way to prevent Banishment

[PotatoNinja]

Long story short i have a player who might be playing a pit fiend with the level 20 party. They will be fighting a **** load of clerics. Is there a way to protect the pit fiend from simply being banished on round one? magical items and spells are welcome.

[dascarletm]

Long story short i have a player who might be playing a pit fiend with the level 20 party. They will be fighting a **** load of clerics. Is there a way to protect the pit fiend from simply being banished on round one? magical items and spells are welcome.

Dimensional Anchor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/dimensionalAnchor.htm) should stop banishment. Though it also has its drawbacks.

[Erik Vale]

Naturalized Denizen (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/buildingCharacters/spelltouchedFeats.htm). For the low low price of a feat, you treat any plane you're currently on as your home plane, forever loosing the extraplanar subtype.

[Jack_Simth]

There's also Dimensional Shackles (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#dimensionalShackles). Just don't use a lock, and you're set.

The downside to Naturalized Denizen, of course, is that you then can't use Dismissal yourself as a low-level emergency 'go home' button.

[holywhippet]

Greater spell immunity can be set up to block one spell, probably banishment. It can't cover dismissal as well but you should be able to make the save.

[Crake]

Greater spell immunity can be set up to block one spell, probably banishment. It can't cover dismissal as well but you should be able to make the save.

All four of the "Holy Word" spells also banish, so really, spell immunity doesn't really cut the grade I think. Naturalised denizen is fine, because if you need to go home, an emergency planeshift works better than an emergency dismissal anyway.

[Jack_Simth]

All four of the "Holy Word" spells also banish, so really, spell immunity doesn't really cut the grade I think. Naturalised denizen is fine, because if you need to go home, an emergency planeshift works better than an emergency dismissal anyway.

It does! But Dismissal is Cleric-4, Sor/wiz-5, while Plane Shift is Cleric-5, Sor/Wiz-7. There is a non-negligible resource difference between the two spells.

[sleepyphoenixx]

Rod of the Embassy (A&E, 20000gp) makes you count as being on your home plane. So you're immune to Banishment, Dismissal, Holy Word, etc.

[Erik Vale]

Ahh, ok, you can buy Naturalized Denizen for 40000gp [slotless to remove holding, assuming that's it's only ability]. Go to town.