Can you teleport away from a blocking creature?

[Wraithminion]

If you have the teleport spell can you cast it to escape from a creature that has blocking?

[garbetsp]

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Casting a spell is not affected by hindering (See page 17–18). --Heroes Book.

 

So, yes. You can

Edited November 11, 2018 by garbetsp
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[Not Quite Dead]

Well, I'm not sure I agree with you on that point, @garbetsp.

 

You're right when you say that casting a spell isn't affected by hindering, but blocking  has nothing to do with hindering.

On the Movement Skills card, the description of the blocking states that:

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Enemy characters without Evasive cannot move out of this character's area.

So I'd say that only characters with the evasive skill (which is useful against hindering and blocking) may leave the area where an enemy with the blocking skill. In any other case, the enemy creature with blocking must be killed (or leave the area) in order to move your character, and teleportation cannot help you to flee an enemy with blocking.

 

Well, my players and I have always understood that rule that way. Maybe we're wrong, though.

[garbetsp]

I found this: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1896030/answer-monolith-about-teleportation-spell

 

It refers to the clarification on the back of the 2.0 rule book in the bottom right corner.

 

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Teleportation: A character who casts this spell is not affected by hindering or by Blocking to move.

 

So while Not Quite Dead is correct those are different things (and I can see his interpretation from the 1.0 rules), the 2.0 rulebook clarified it to be affected by neither.

Edited April 21, 2019 by garbetsp
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[Not Quite Dead]

 

Well, @garbetsp, seems like you're right after all. We somehow missed that last sentence of the last page of every rulebook of the game.

 

My Zelata/Hadrathus player is going to kill me.