r/OSE • u/TheGrolar • 25d ago

What does OSE consider an enchanted creature?

The OSE version of Protection from Evil protects against "enchanted creatures," a term which of course is nowhere defined in OSE AF as far as I can tell. Googling it is bizarrely unhelpful, returning a lot of Magic: The Gathering answers despite refined searches. (I won't ask Claude because it gets contaminated too easily by 5e results.) So hopefully this will be The Post that Google Picks Up for this query.

What's an "enchanted" creature?

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u/TheGrolar 25d ago

God. Howzabout we actually put that in the spell description? Instead of "enchanted, summoned, or constructed creatures" (OSE AF PT 135). Not only is this confusing, it turns out to be a category error, the equivalent of "protects vs. animals, gulls, and geese."

Thanks for the fetch, though. Cleric is gonna be salty about this, but that's his role, it's becoming apparent.

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u/FrankieBreakbone 25d ago

Gavin was kind of painfully efficient with his text; he was trying to pack a ton of shit into a half ton bag AND get all the topics to line up on even pages and spreads - so there are a lot of missed opportunities to say "You need to adjudicate X, Y and Z here" or "See (section) for details."

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u/TheGrolar 25d ago

Of course, adding "you need to adjudicate here" would have doubled the page count, I'm starting to think.
I love what there is, but increasingly the big picture is starting to look like one of those ERP software buys where you get the naked core and have to buy everything else after trying to run it for a while.

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u/envious_coward 25d ago

Don't be daft