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Old 05-13-2020, 10:53 AM   #1
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Default Defending a fire elemental to death

Plan is to choose the defend option to greatly increase the chance the Fire elemental will roll a critical failure and thereby inflict 1d6 damage on itself.

But can you defend yourself when "Ordinary weapons do not affect this creature of living fire" (ITL 87)? (Note that the word is affect, not damage here.)

Of course there's no question that a wizard's staff could be used.
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Old 05-13-2020, 11:07 AM   #2
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Default Re: Defending a fire elemental to death

I think I would only permit a Defend action against a fire elemental if you have some object or ability that is physically capable of effecting it. E.g., I'd say a large or tower shield could be used to 'waft' flames away, but any kind of hand weapon could not. If you are somehow able to blow a jet of water or air that might work.
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