If my character has a dispell magic wall up to block entry, and someone dispells it without permission, is that consent for PvP?
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PvP Question: Dispelling are effects
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Lambert
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PvP Question: Dispelling are effects
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DM Ioulaum
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Re: PvP Question: Dispelling are effects
When playing by the normal Player vs Player (PvP) rules a confrontation does not occur unless a challenge has been signaled to a confronted party by the aggressor (assuming Kill-on-Sight (KoS) does not apply).
The answer to your question therefore depends on the circumstances. If the other party should reasonably have understood that he or she was being confronted then the act of casting a spell signals PvP consent. If the other party did not have to understand that there was a confrontation then the act of dispelling your wall of dispel magic isn't PvP consent.
An example for when there is PvP consent is if your own character cast the wall of magic before or as part of a clear warning to the other person that he or she was being confronted for possible PvP. Usually this involves a verbal cue: "Cross this line and I will have your head!".
A situation in which there is clearly no PvP consent is when the caster was entirely hidden and did not communicate with the other party. If the other party then dispels the wall of dispel magic that it stumbles across that doesn't count as a hostile action or as PvP consent. After all, to the other party it then looked as if someone left a spell effect lying around unattended. A curiosity perhaps, but not indicative of hostility, or of a PvP confrontation.
In conclusion: if you wish to be able to initiate hostilities after your wall of dispel magic is dispelled then you must make the other party aware that the dispelling wall is part of a PvP confrontation. You could achieve this by putting down a sign-post item which says: "Touch or cross this wall, you die!".
I hope that helps.
The answer to your question therefore depends on the circumstances. If the other party should reasonably have understood that he or she was being confronted then the act of casting a spell signals PvP consent. If the other party did not have to understand that there was a confrontation then the act of dispelling your wall of dispel magic isn't PvP consent.
An example for when there is PvP consent is if your own character cast the wall of magic before or as part of a clear warning to the other person that he or she was being confronted for possible PvP. Usually this involves a verbal cue: "Cross this line and I will have your head!".
A situation in which there is clearly no PvP consent is when the caster was entirely hidden and did not communicate with the other party. If the other party then dispels the wall of dispel magic that it stumbles across that doesn't count as a hostile action or as PvP consent. After all, to the other party it then looked as if someone left a spell effect lying around unattended. A curiosity perhaps, but not indicative of hostility, or of a PvP confrontation.
In conclusion: if you wish to be able to initiate hostilities after your wall of dispel magic is dispelled then you must make the other party aware that the dispelling wall is part of a PvP confrontation. You could achieve this by putting down a sign-post item which says: "Touch or cross this wall, you die!".
I hope that helps.