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Old 03-26-2020, 06:41 AM   #31
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Default Re: Resolving problem with pentagrams and wish contest of wills

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Originally Posted by Skarg View Post
Yes. That's why the standard approach mentioned is to summon a demon inside a pentagram. Of course, one might also assume a pentagram blocks a wizard from summoning across it, unless the wizard himself is inside the pentagram too. If it also blocked the contest of wills, and especially if the contest of will involved having to be adjacent to the demon, that would help a bit, but still a 4d attack is vastly more survivable (especially with the Legacy dying rules) than the original result of being immediately killed.
Good idea to rule that pentagrams interfere with the contest of wills -- that's a simpler way to say it.

Precluding summoning into a pentagram, though, would make it not really function like pentagrams are supposed to, so it should be renamed if that's the case.
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