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Free Action prot. against ???

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Emnelion
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Free Action prot. against ???

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I'm just qurious, what does the fourth level divine spell Free Action protect you from? Is it just the "effects of web, hold person, grease and entangle." as it says in the spell description, or does it make you immune to "anything that limits your movement." as it also say in the very same spell description.

I've allways thought the last, but now I don't know.
Cause I've been slowed, stunned, hold and what-not while thought me safe with the Free Action spell.

One time i became slowed (while under the Free Action spell) was when beeing hit by an outygh. And I've allso been stunned by the Symbol Stun spell when having BOTH Free Action and the berserkers rage on.

Can it be that Free Action doesn't protect you against area effects or such side effects that monsters attacks give you?
But I'm quite sure that that Symbol Stun was sentered on me. (Becouse enemy spellcasters can't cast an area effect spell without targeting a caracter, right? I was soloing.)

How does your Free Action works, and how do you protect yourselves against stun, hold etc?
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From the [url="http://members.chello.nl/~j.vanthull/BG2SR/Immunities.htm#ImmunityToEffect"]Spells Reference[/url]:

The spell Free Action protects against following effects:
Charm creature (5)
Web effect overlay (157)
Entangle overlay (154)
Grease effect overlay (158)
Hold creature (109)
Slow (40)
Movementrate bonus (126)
Haste (16)
Hold creature 2 (185)

The Ring of Free Action protects against following effects:
Slow (40)
Stun (45)
Hold creature (109)
Grease effect overlay (158)
Web effect overlay (157)
Entangle overlay (154)
Movementrate bonus (126)
Hold creature type (175)
and following spells:
SPWI305.SPL (Haste)
SPWI613.SPL (Improved Haste)
SPIN828.SPL (Haste)

The Potion of Freedom protects against the following effects:
Slow (40)
Stun (45)
Hold creature (109)
Grease effect overlay (158)
Web effect overlay (157)
Entangle overlay (154)
Movementrate bonus (126)


As one can see, the spell Free Action does not protect against Stun, which seems to be a bug (it protects against charm instead). That the Berserker's Enrage ability (and Minsc's Berserk ability, too) does not protect against stun is a known bug, which the [url="http://www.baldurdash.org/"]Baldurdash[/url] patch fixes.

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Lark.
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Post by Emnelion »

oh, thank you Lark.
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