How come protective shield can stop you from getting slammed into by a giant, getting decked in the face and dispelled, but can't stop you from getting hit in the head with a sack?
Protective shield and blackjack.
Mainly because it would make c/cs essentially immune to rogues unless they walked into a specific trap.
How can a condom prevent you from getting aids, the Hep-C, Gonorrhea, but not Herpes?
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Oh, the answer is, "it depends on what it covers."
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Mainly because it would make c/cs essentially immune to rogues unless they walked into a specific trap.
Lol? They would hardly be immune, would just have to change tactics a bit god forbid.
Remember that old movies "Dune".
Remember when Paul and Gurney are training before going to Arakkis ?
"You are an apt pupil, none better, but I've warned you that not even in play do you let a man inside your guard with death in his hand."
"I guess I'm not in the modd for it today," Paul said.
"Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting."
"I'm sorry, Gurney."
"You're not sorry enough!"
And they precede to duel with Shields and Knives.
Think of protective shield like that.
A somewhat slow attack can pass, but once you are inside the shield you can just hit them by surprise on the back of the head.
You always redeem yourself. And I hate you a little for that. Mya, I can't quit you.
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We all know you like getting hit in the face with sacks, don't try to deny it.
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I haven't laughed as hard as I did when I read this in awhile.
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I'm sticking it to the MAN!
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Thieves are supposed to essentially be mage bane. Just poison yourself and harden up. 
You seem to be fond of that saying.
I'm just trying to look at it from like... as realistically as you can look at a text-based fantasy rpg.
I'm a mage. I have worked hard on my protective shield spell to protect me from bashers and haymakers and chakeras. And its like... If I got knocked out by some idiot with a sack full of bricks or whatever, I'd be pissed.
Hey, im still waiting for my Power Word stun.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/powerWordStun.htm
Power Word Stun
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Mind-Affecting]
Level: Sor/Wiz 8, War 8
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature with 150 hp or less
Duration: See text
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes
You utter a single word of power that instantly causes one creature of your choice to become stunned, whether the creature can hear the word or not. The duration of the spell depends on the target’s current hit point total. Any creature that currently has 151 or more hit points is unaffected by power word stun.
Hit Points Duration
50 or less 4d4 rounds
51-100 2d4 rounds
101-150 1d4 rounds
Or better Finger of Death.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/fingerOfDeath.htm
Finger of Death
Necromancy [Death]
Level: Drd 8, Sor/Wiz 7
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One living creature
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: Fortitude partial
Spell Resistance: Yes
You can slay any one living creature within range. The target is entitled to a Fortitude saving throw to survive the attack. If the save is successful, the creature instead takes 3d6 points of damage +1 point per caster level (maximum +25).
The subject might die from damage even if it succeeds on its saving throw.
Saveless spells, or Save or Die spells 
. Now that is what being a Wizard is all about.
Finger of death seems a bit like powerword kill.
Nah!!! Power Word Kill, is saveless. If you have 100 hps or less you are dead.
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/powerWordKill.htm
Power Word Kill
Enchantment (Compulsion) [Death, Mind-Affecting]
Level: Sor/Wiz 9, War 9
Components: V
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One living creature with 100 hp or less
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes
You utter a single word of power that instantly kills one creature of your choice, whether the creature can hear the word or not. Any creature that currently has 101 or more hit points is unaffected by power word kill.
What is this site you keep refering to Mya?
http://www.d20srd.org/index.htm
It's a site i found when i was playing Never Winter Nights.
It's about the d20 "pen and paper" game system, that was made "Open Source" "FreeWare" by the Wizards of the Coast owners of the Dungeons and Dragons trademark.
Basically, is a reduced rule set for D&D based on 3.5 that any company can use to make games and release products. But they cannot make the character creation tutorials, which can only be made by Wizards of the Coast.
It's quite fun.