MitD XVIII: It's utterly unreasonable to expect us to have been paying any attention

[InvisibleBison]

I'll vote for MitD XIX: The Potted Plant Is Starting To Look Reasonable.

[b_jonas]

[On Greater teleport ability of Umbral blot] I'd think the intention of it being in their statblock is mainly to cast solely on themselves.

Yeah… we'll have to ask the DM about that. As I read the rules, the Umbral blot doesn't have specific resistance to its own disintegration ability. It has no constitution score, and normally you'd think that means it isn't affected. But what the rules actually say is “A creature with no Constitution […] is immune to any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless the effect works on objects or is harmless.”. The blot's disintegration ability does work on objects. Umbral blots probably don't live for very long.

Update: if you ask why anyone would stat a creature that is destroyed by its own touch, I point to the armored robot from Pixar's The Incredibles that the heroes destroy by making it touch itself with its destructive drill hand.

[Jasdoif]

As I read the rules, the Umbral blot doesn't have specific resistance to its own disintegration ability.

Oh, it's worse than that. An umbral blot's spell immunity sneaks in "it is immune to disintegration spells and variations thereof", but the disintegrating touch is (Ex) so it's not even magical; is it still supposed to be treated as a variation of a disintegration spell?

[b_jonas]

Oh, it's worse than that. An umbral blot's spell immunity sneaks in "it is immune to disintegration spells and variations thereof", but the disintegrating touch is (Ex) so it's not even magical; is it still supposed to be treated as a variation of a disintegration spell?

You're right. That's hilarious.

[Metastachydium]

Doesn't matter for Inkyrius.

How do you figure? We are talking about a world where people eventually turn, like, seventeen and realize that all [one's] dark middle-class angst isn't really meaningful in a world where literal flesh-and-blood demons eat people from time to time. Inkyrius might as well mean demons by demons (some of those are into this possessing people thing; think Loumaras).

At any rate, we are not talking apprentice bakers here. We are talking a guy who, based on very clear visual clues, should actually have Knowledge (the planes) as a class skill.

[Crusher]

Holy cow, I was busily out of town for like 3 days and this place goes nuts!

[Grey_Wolf_c]

Holy cow, I was busily out of town for like 3 days and this place goes nuts!

But now that you are back, I can open the new thread for business.

GW

[Ruck]

Holy cow, I was busily out of town for like 3 days and this place goes nuts!

Tell me about it-- I was out of town almost all of last week.

[Precure]

I was out of town for most of my lifetime.

[Doug Lampert]

I was out of town for most of my lifetime.

I feel like this is a sign I should reference the 80 year old farmer who was told that most accidents happen within 25 miles of home, so he moved to the city.