Talk:Time Stop/@comment-86.253.189.235-20200208220655/@comment-81.53.48.249-20200216190055

I'm the "A FANDOM user" who posted originally. Your example was more than unconvincing as far as I'm concerned, other unnamed user. "Let's say you and your enemy try to cast spells at the same time, you don't know what he is casting."

This only ever happens at the start of combat. So I'll assume that's where we are in your example, although that doesn't change anything. The opponent's Imprisonment casting time is 9, Improved Alacrity is 9-4-1 = 4. By the time you can cast it (level 18) your casting time is reduced by 5 thanks to the Robe of Vecna and Amulet of Power. That's the scenario as you quoted it from my post.

So by the time I am done casting IA, I have 5 units of casting time left before being on the receiving end of an Imprisonment spell. Spell Immunity: Abjuration requires exactly 5. With my equipment though, it is instantaneous. So I can cast SI:Abjuration and still have 5 units of casting time left. By which point my opponent's spell is already irrelevant, making him powerless for 5+1 = 6 units of casting time, plus his next spell's, time which I will be spending under Alacrity flailing spells left and right. By experience, he was already dead when he chose to cast Imprisonment against such a fast caster as the protagonist. He should have used Magic Missile.

You also didn't account for the fact that Imprisonment needs to be cast at point blank range, so there's no way in hell that your scenario could apply. As far as I know, only demiliches have the special Imprisonment spell called Trap the Soul that can be cast from afar. Not too far though, only 10 feet. (The radius of a fireball is 15 feet.) But you can't be unaware that demiliches will cast nothing but Trap the Soul and eventually Wail of the Banshee, right ? So you will want to cast SI:Abjuration before Improved Alacrity when fighting a demilich with a solo mage that somehow doesn't wear the Robe of Vecna or the Amulet of Power.

So all of your scenario is beyond unlikely. But even if we did make it happen forcefully by stripping naked the protagonist, they would still not be threatened because they are either too far to be Imprisoned, or fighting a demilich and they know to shield from Abjuration.

"If you choose to cast Time Stop [...] Although Imprisonent will be landed on you killing you in the next instant, at least this time you die a hero death, knowing you have killed your pathetic enemy."

If you cast Time Stop instead of Improved Alacrity, you won't die either. You'll be able to cast SI:Abjuration before time resumes.