Both versions are mentioned in the spell description. I was thinking more along the lines of more modern variants of the Golden Dawn practices using the Lesser Key of Solomon where you have both a protective circle and a summoning circle. I can't tell if people troll on this forum or not with their arguments XD. It's good that you've changed the spell to match the flavor of your campaign-so long as you informed your players before they get into the situation OP suggested. Should they have done it this way? Probably not, but it's their game. The inverted version of the archetypal circle ("demons can get out") is part of the spell, but it's an alternate version pretty much unrelated to the version mentioned in the OP. The default use of the spell is not the occult-standard "draw a circle on the floor and demonscan come in omg don't break the circle" spell you see in urban legends, Lovecraft, or The Dresden Files-it's basically a temporary aura on the target, descended from the old "Protection from Evil 10' Radius" spell from 2E (possibly earlier). If the designers had wanted the mechanics to match your interpretation of the flavor, they would most certainly have changed the target to "10' radius circle (see below)" or something like that instead of "creature touched". But they'd have to deal with a demon getting smart and tossing it aside after they get 3/4 of the way through enjoying their gimmick for a memorable fight ). If they brought a wooden raft, cut a circle in it for the party to walk/push it along, and cast the spell with the silver on that perimeter they're moving, that would make sense. In my book, it's fiction (flavor/common sense) over mechanics any day. People're focusing on the mechanics/system more than the flavor of an ability.ĭoes it make sense that the thing protecting you from evil laying on the ground would have an effect that follows you around once you leave the circle? Now, if they were making ward locations using multiple circles as they moved (multiple components/spell uses as well), that would be another thing entirely. This is a problem I'm having with pathfinder.
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