Dismiss Spell supposed to work in combat?

[Kornstalx]

The description specifically states "You must be out of combat".
I've used this spell repeatedly in the middle of a fight. This a bug or intentional?

It really doesn't help the grease cheesing problem.

[fox5s]

Dunno why it says that. It should be intentional especially if using PnP as a basis. Though, in PnP, not all AoE effects can be dismissed. Just specific ones. It's part of their Duration description.

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic

Ctrl+F and search for Duration or Dismissible.

And here's an example spell with it in the Duration:

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/e/entangle

And here's one with an effect that can't be Dismissed but WotR lets you do so anyway:

https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/s/stone-call

Owlcat added the Dismiss Spell to eveyone's Cantrips list as a quality-of-life feature at some point.

[Kornstalx]

Yeah I know it's PnP faithful, I just couldn't figure out why the description says what it says. I wondered if the devs were trying to avoid stuff like this:

Grease or Winter's Grasp a group and have some of them fall down, then use delay turn to stack all your guys at the end of the next round after the fallen enemies. Have your caster first in the stack to dismiss the spell, then everyone else gets a free prone hit on the guys lying down (without risk of falling themselves).

It just seems so cheesy.