![]() It only gives you the ability to meld into it. Meld into Stone does not give you the burrow ability, nor does it give you the ability to move through rock. It's not harsh terrain, it's impassable terrain. The other parts of the stone are still just rock, and FoM acts the way it normally does with rock. In addition, you can move! The spell specifies quite clearly your movement is unimpeded where the spell affects the stone, the spot you came in. It melds you specifically into the stone so that you can hide. Meld Into Stone doesn't hinder your movement, nor does it let you burrow through stone to your heart's content. ![]() You can't naturally move through stone, so FoM isn't going to help you here even if the DM ruled MiS couldn't do anything to it.įoM protects you from harsh terrain and spells that would hinder your movement. It’s just that in the cited example it’s not the spell that’s restraining you, it’s the stone that the spell let you move into as an exception to the general expectation that moving through stone is not something you can do ( Freedom of Movement or not). Conditions aren’t a one way street - you can’t say someone is incapacitated but not Incapacitated, you can’t say you are physically restricted from moving without also implying Restrained. If we had a hypothetical spell called Restriction of Movement that simply said “the target cannot move”, then Freedom Of Movement would absolutely let you ignore that - it’s a poorly written spell perhaps, but the only ways this spell could be interpreted in game mechanical terms is that it reduces your speed to 0 and possibly applies Restrained or maybe even Paralyzed, all of which of course Freedom of Movement guards against. So since neither Meld Into Stone nor Freedom Of Movement give you the ability to move through stone other in the very limited capacity the former spell specifies, no combination of the spells results in it either. Not being able to move isn’t an effect of Meld Into Stone, it’s merely a reminder that nothing about the spell gives you the ability to move around in stone. The reason why you can’t move in the stone isn’t because Meld Into Stone says you cannot move It’s because it doesn’t say you can. I agree with the conclusion of Purple Monkey's answer, but I disagree with the reasoning, hence the separate answer.
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