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How much can #dnd’s Glibness protect you from other spells revealing a lie?
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Jun 11, 2025
How much can #dnd’s Glibness protect you from other spells revealing a lie? #dnd5e #2024dnd #ttrpg #characteroptimization #dungeonsanddragons
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this comment asks kind of an interesting
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philosophical question about the spell
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glibness and how it interacts with other
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spells glibnis states that any magic
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that determines whether or not you're
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telling the truth always indicates that
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you are telling the truth when under the
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effects of the spell the text of the
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spell Gibnus states that any magic which
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determines if you're telling the truth
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always indicates that you are truthful
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while you are under the spell's effects
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so it it essentially allows you to
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bypass magical lie detectors such as
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zone of truth the question asks how far
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exactly does that go and how would you
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rule that interacting with other spells
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and the commenter includes an example
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about using scrying to verify a factual
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assertion that you've made so if I've
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said like the king is on a boat and
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someone casts scrying to determine the
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king's location and finds the king not
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to be on a boat does glidness interact
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there somehow in my opinion no because
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in that case scrying the spell isn't
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making a factual determination it is
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simply showing you a state of the world
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and the people observing that
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information are the ones making the
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factual determination zone of truth is
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like the specific example that we want
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to look at here because zone of truth
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tells the caster if what a creature is
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saying is true so zone of truth itself
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is making the factual assertion in cases
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where you're using spells like scrying
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or any other divination or whatever else
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to gather facts the spell is providing
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the facts the creatures themselves are
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making the factual determination not the
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spell glitness is intended to work on
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zone of truth and similar magical
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effects but nothing beyond that for
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example like there are some celestials
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that have a magical ability to always
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determine if a creature is being
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truthful and I think glibess would work
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on those effects because it is a magical
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effect i hope that helped uh if you have
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any questions or think I'm just dead
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wrong let me know in the comments and
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I'm always happy to help with any other
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rules questions
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