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Q67:Anyone mind giving me a suggestion on a lycanthrope(ignoring racial HD)?
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As Vinom said, it depends on what you want to do. There's an animal for everything. If you're ignoring racial HD, T-Rex gets style points, but you'd need a way to be Large in order to be one.

Would using a Dungeonbred T-Rex as the base animal solve the size problem?

Any template that would increase your size would solve that problem. If Dungeonbred does that, go to town.
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I believe Dungeonbred makes the creature smaller. Like, it'd be a smaller T-Rex, instead of making you yourself bigger.

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Wouldn't Jotunbrud solve the issue if it's acquired lycanthropy?
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I believe Dungeonbred makes the creature smaller. Like, it'd be a smaller T-Rex, instead of making you yourself bigger.

Dungeonbred reduces the size category of any Large size or bigger aberration, animal, magical beast, or vermin by 1 step, so it would work on said T-rex.
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Q67:Anyone mind giving me a suggestion on a lycanthrope(ignoring racial HD)?

TRex / Rhino are solid core only choices. Splatbooks offer more.

If you can be huge, consider
-Dire Polar Bear from Frostburn offers massive 39 Str
-Dragonhawk from Five Nations flies at 120 ft. (26 Str)
If you can be gargantuan, there's
-Dire Elephant (MM2), 40 Str, trample
-Spinosaurus (MM2), 36 Str, frightful presence, improved grab, swallow whole, trample
-Roc, fly speed 80 ft; 34 Str

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Q67:Anyone mind giving me a suggestion on a lycanthrope(ignoring racial HD)?

TRex / Rhino are solid core only choices. Splatbooks offer more.

If you can be huge, consider
-Dire Polar Bear from Frostburn offers massive 39 Str
-Dragonhawk from Five Nations flies at 120 ft. (26 Str)
If you can be gargantuan, there's
-Dire Elephant (MM2), 40 Str, trample
-Spinosaurus (MM2), 36 Str, frightful presence, improved grab, swallow whole, trample
-Roc, fly speed 80 ft; 34 Str
Feral Dragon if your DM is crazy
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Q68 Where do you find the feral template?

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Q68 Where do you find the feral template?

A68: Savage Species p115.

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Question about stacking: How do synergy properties (from MIC) interact with the weapon augmentation infusions? Can you
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b) infuse it with such a property, but only if the weapon was infused with the prerequisite property before?
c)infuse it with the synergy property while ignoring the prerequisite?

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How would the Sudden Metamagic Feats interact with the Metamagic Spell Trigger ability? Following logic, I would assume applying it to a wand instead of a spell cast from a spell slot would count as a use of the feat for the once per day limit, but when I looked at the specific wording, I wasn't so sure anymore.
The text of the sudden metamagic feats is
The text of the Metamagic spell trigger ability is ..., an artificer gains the ability to apply a metamagic feat he knows to a spell trigger item. So the feat isn't applied to the spell contained in the wand, but to the item itself, thus you could do it as often as you want without adding to the number of charges needed.
Is this interpretation correct, or am I putting to much thought into the exact wording of these abilities?
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Q71

Some flying creatures (like Avorals) have their winds sprounding from their arms but still have palms and fingers. Can these creatures use a bow (personally, I guess not just like raptorans) or cast a spell (seems more logical)?

Q72

What's the exact brokeness of PAO? I mean, can it transform a stone to a +X sure striking morphing jada jada greatsword or something?
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What's the exact brokeness of PAO? I mean, can it transform a stone to a +X sure striking morphing jada jada greatsword or something?
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Hmm, so it basically works better than a polymorph. Even without that version though, it still can be used in order to polymorph cheap raw material (like a stone) into real weapons (like great crossbow, for example), right? Potentially, the combination of PAO and Greater Magic Weapon would transform anything into a expensive weapon among other things, right?
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Hmm, so it basically works better than a polymorph. Even without that version though, it still can be used in order to polymorph cheap raw material (like a stone) into real weapons (like great crossbow, for example), right? Potentially, the combination of PAO and Greater Magic Weapon would transform anything into a expensive weapon among other things, right?
You can't polymorph magic items into different magic items, or non-magic items into magic items with it (you could with the 3.0 version...). And since non-magic items are cheap, this is a relatively useless use of the spell. Why waste an 8th level spellslot to create a non-magic item that you could buy for a trivial amount of money?
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You can't polymorph magic items into different magic items, or non-magic items into magic items with it (you could with the 3.0 version...). And since non-magic items are cheap, this is a relatively useless use of the spell. Why waste an 8th level spellslot to create a non-magic item that you could buy for a trivial amount of money?

If you've run out of weapons, for example, but that would mean that you've already seriously screwed it up :P

Still, there's the Greater Magic Weapon in order to enhance a weapon.

Oh and another question.

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How do you calculate the gp value of a magically enhanced weapon? Do you just add the cost of the special abilities? Also, how the +X cost of said special abilities affects a weapon with a standard enhancement (let's say +1)?

PS: Yeah, I know that I'm asking a lot of begginer's stuff but I really do not know anything about magic weapons.
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How do you calculate the gp value of a magically enhanced weapon? Do you just add the cost of the special abilities? Also, how the +X cost of said special abilities affects a weapon with a standard enhancement (let's say +1)?

PS: Yeah, I know that I'm asking a lot of begginer's stuff but I really do not know anything about magic weapons.
Basically, you add up the number of pluses, then look up the price for that number of pluses on the table.  Then add on the cost of any fixed GP abilities like spellblade or doomwarding.
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Q67:Anyone mind giving me a suggestion on a lycanthrope(ignoring racial HD)?

TRex / Rhino are solid core only choices. Splatbooks offer more.

If you can be huge, consider
-Dire Polar Bear from Frostburn offers massive 39 Str
-Dragonhawk from Five Nations flies at 120 ft. (26 Str)
If you can be gargantuan, there's
-Dire Elephant (MM2), 40 Str, trample
-Spinosaurus (MM2), 36 Str, frightful presence, improved grab, swallow whole, trample
-Roc, fly speed 80 ft; 34 Str
Feral Dragon if your DM is crazy
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Q75 What would the CO boards estimate the LA of a greater doppelganger as?
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Q75 What would the CO boards estimate the LA of a greater doppelganger as?

A75: Too high for a player to have it.
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