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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1340 on: December 21, 2008, 04:04:43 PM »
A493: You can't prepare more than one of the same maneuver, but if you take the Adaptive Style feat, you can recover all over your maneuvers in a full round action rather than just one of them.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1341 on: December 21, 2008, 04:12:46 PM »
Q494: I keep seeing references to linked powers(hustle, psionic charm). Where can this be found?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1342 on: December 21, 2008, 04:14:06 PM »
A493: You can't prepare more than one of the same maneuver, but if you take the Adaptive Style feat, you can recover all over your maneuvers in a full round action rather than just one of them.
Incorrect. The Adaptive Style feat only allows you to change your readied maneuvers.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1343 on: December 21, 2008, 05:03:16 PM »
Really? I've seen it used all over the place to refresh maneuvers for Swordsages.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1344 on: December 21, 2008, 05:12:20 PM »
Really? I've seen it used all over the place to refresh maneuvers for Swordsages.
Yes, to replace the current list of readied maneuvers with a new list of readied maneuvers (since they know more maneuvers than they can ready at a time).

Hope that helps clarify it :)
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1345 on: December 21, 2008, 05:15:01 PM »
Swordsage 2...It says it only applies in light armor...what if I'm wearing no armor?
I believe there was a reply somewhere by one of the authors that the bonus should apply while not wearing any armor as well...
Not sure where it's located though, and it might not be 'official' (like the Sage isn't 'official'), but any reasonable DM should allow it.

Hope someone else has a link for you :)


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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1346 on: December 21, 2008, 07:45:19 PM »
Q486: Where is the online source that lists the variant of the half-fiend template based on a succubus? It's not http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/we/20060630x . If I recall correctly, it was applied to an Annis Hag.

A486: Right here in fact, you just have to look a bit harder. It's split up over the examples in the design process and on page 3 it gives the example, applied to a Sea Hag, not an Annis. ;-)

This is a very useful variant on the template, especially if you pick a Huge fiend for that size increase (since it carries a +1 CR, but not an LA boost).

Though the article does contain a bit of RaI info that is incorrect by RaW ("Remember that HD for determining spell resistance means racial HD, not those gained with class levels" when the text in question simply says "creature's HD.")

Suggested stat mods for the succubus version were Str +2, Dex +2, Int +4, Cha +8, +2 NA, detect thoughts 3/day at 1-2HD, suggestion 1/day at 3-4 HD, DR/good, fly speed, and other stuff basic to the template.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1347 on: December 21, 2008, 11:09:21 PM »
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Really? I've seen it used all over the place to refresh maneuvers for Swordsages.

And that's perfectly legal. Basically, when you ready maneuvers, you "recover" them too, since you can't ready a maneuver that shouldn't be available to you in the first place.

And frankly, I think Warblades and Crusaders have it too easy. I mean, one of them actually refreshes his maneuvers as a swift action, while the other doesn't even have to SPEND an action... what gives?!
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1348 on: December 22, 2008, 12:39:18 AM »
Swordsage 2...It says it only applies in light armor...what if I'm wearing no armor?

The rule is in light armor.  But most DMs allow it in no-armor but will rule-0 that it does not stack with Monk (this is a very common house rule).

A literal reading however is that they apply in different situations.

The Sage ruled on it at one point in time, but it was a the same time he was tackling lots of the debated topics and a good half of them left my mind reeling as to what the rationalization was behind the rule.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1349 on: December 22, 2008, 09:30:55 AM »
Really? I've seen it used all over the place to refresh maneuvers for Swordsages.

Technically, what it does is let you switch your current allotment of maneuvers readied, which is then granted to you instantly. Which is for most part, the same as refreshing all your maneuvers (in that they both produce the same result). The only difference is that it would not count as refreshing your maneuvers for purposes of interacting with certain effects such as vital recovery. But overall, the distinction is an overly fine one. :)

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And frankly, I think Warblades and Crusaders have it too easy. I mean, one of them actually refreshes his maneuvers as a swift action, while the other doesn't even have to SPEND an action... what gives?!

I personally find that the warblade recovery system is more cumbersome in practice than on paper. Prior to lv16, I cannot count the number of times I had wanted to refresh maneuvers for my warblade PC, but was unable to do so because I had initiated a counter the turn before (which uses up my swift action for the following round), and had to either wait another turn, or use adaptive style. And my DM did not allow the trading down of a move action to a swift action as well. ToB made swift actions a very rare and precious commodity. A culture shock, considering that fighters did not even use them at all! :p
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« Reply #1350 on: December 22, 2008, 11:01:54 AM »
Except you can also make a normal attack to recover. So just hit your auto attack button for a round.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1351 on: December 22, 2008, 11:04:08 AM »
Q495: Does anyone remember which issue of Dragon Magazine had the Rope Dart and Meteor Hammer weapons?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1352 on: December 22, 2008, 12:36:27 PM »
Except you can also make a normal attack to recover. So just hit your auto attack button for a round.
Actually, it requires the swift action and the normal attack, thus the situation Runestar was describing with the lack of a swift action that round.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1353 on: December 22, 2008, 03:20:03 PM »
Q496: Is there a way to add more HD to your summoned critters that doesn't involve going into a freaky PrC?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1354 on: December 22, 2008, 04:22:52 PM »
A 495: According to my "where can I find" thread (or the mango index), Rope Dart is in #319. I don't have a listing for meteor hammer, though it might be in the same issue.



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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1355 on: December 22, 2008, 05:17:33 PM »
A496: Theoretically, no. The Geomancer's Spell Versatility class feature allows you to use parameters from the spells, but does not actually change their classification (so an arcane spell with no ASF is still an arcane spell, and thus not elligible for DMM). If the parameters included classification, though, he would be able to do so. The only "reasonable" way to use DMM on an arcane spell is to gain it through domains.
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« Reply #1356 on: December 23, 2008, 07:36:55 PM »
Q497: Knockback from Races of Stone 142 states that knockback does not provoke AoOs, unlike normal Bull Rush. So does that mean you do not provoke, the soon to be projectile does not provoke, or both?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Get a simple answer
« Reply #1357 on: December 23, 2008, 11:19:24 PM »
Q497: Knockback from Races of Stone 142 states that knockback does not provoke AoOs, unlike normal Bull Rush. So does that mean you do not provoke, the soon to be projectile does not provoke, or both?
You don't provoke. So yeah, this feature is worthless if you already have improved bull rush. I am fairly sure the target would probably still provoke if he left the threatened squares of other PCs.
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« Reply #1358 on: December 24, 2008, 04:04:40 AM »
Q498 Can creatures with wings normally only fly in light armor? Where is this stated?
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« Reply #1359 on: December 24, 2008, 04:26:40 AM »
A498: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#movementModes I assume it's the same place in the monster manual.
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