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« Reply #420 on: December 07, 2009, 07:32:05 PM »
Q115 SR states that it never interferes with spells you cast on yourself and spell immunity, as SR but you it's not possible to pass it. Would this let a half golem caster self buff/heal ect without issues?

Presumably. "Immunity to Magic" just means SR NI.

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« Reply #421 on: December 07, 2009, 07:50:51 PM »
Q115 SR states that it never interferes with spells you cast on yourself and spell immunity, as SR but you it's not possible to pass it. Would this let a half golem caster self buff/heal ect without issues?

Presumably. "Immunity to Magic" just means SR NI.

Q 115b A Factotum or Truenamer could bypass spell immunity then?

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« Reply #422 on: December 07, 2009, 07:54:06 PM »
Q116: Can you combine a martial adept's strikes with the Duskblade's Channel Spell ability?
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« Reply #423 on: December 07, 2009, 07:56:54 PM »
Q 115b A Factotum or Truenamer could bypass spell immunity then?

I think so. I don't have to much text to back this on other then what makes sense. I don't see a 'clear' RAW/RAI.

Q116: Can you combine a martial adept's strikes with the Duskblade's Channel Spell ability?

Not without some type of transparency. Channel requires a spell of less then one standard action, and a melee attack option. Martial strikes aren't attack options, they're standard actions.

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« Reply #424 on: December 07, 2009, 07:57:56 PM »
Q116: Can you combine a martial adept's strikes with the Duskblade's Channel Spell ability?
A116: For the most part no. They are both standard actions. So if there were some strike that was a swift action (i think only boosts and counters are) then it could be used with it.
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« Reply #425 on: December 07, 2009, 08:03:23 PM »
Q117: I remember an example in PHB that claimed Lance only threatens 5' in front of your horse when mounted or some such idiocy. Am I crazy or is there such a passage somewhere?

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« Reply #426 on: December 07, 2009, 08:17:05 PM »
Q118: Is there a write up for DnD siege weapons besides balistas, catapults/trebuckets or siege ladders
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« Reply #427 on: December 07, 2009, 08:23:48 PM »
Q118: Is there a write up for DnD siege weapons besides balistas, catapults/trebuckets or siege ladders

I take it those are in Heros of Battle? I don't know what is/isn't in there but it's the only one I know with mass warfare.

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« Reply #428 on: December 07, 2009, 08:48:09 PM »
Q119 Can a wizard with Sanctum Spell put 4th level spells in a wand?

Yes, but so can anyone for that matter.  Wands normally have a cap of 4th level spells.
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« Reply #429 on: December 08, 2009, 02:18:49 AM »
Q117: I remember an example in PHB that claimed Lance only threatens 5' in front of your horse when mounted or some such idiocy. Am I crazy or is there such a passage somewhere?
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I think that you must be crazy.   :p

I've just scoured the PHB and the RC, and can find nothing of the sort. 
Lance has 10', and cannot threaten adjacent squares.  If you are mounted, you are considered to be occupying the same square(s) as that mount (though, the rule does specifically state that this is done for "simplicity's sake").

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« Reply #430 on: December 08, 2009, 03:20:33 AM »
Q120 I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some options for how a non-caster characters can enchant their own gear.  It's not Item Familiar or Ancestral Relic though.  Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?

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« Reply #431 on: December 08, 2009, 03:31:51 AM »
Q120 I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some options for how a non-caster characters can enchant their own gear.  It's not Item Familiar or Ancestral Relic though.  Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?

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« Reply #432 on: December 08, 2009, 04:16:59 AM »
Q120 I'm pretty sure I remember seeing some options for how a non-caster characters can enchant their own gear.  It's not Item Familiar or Ancestral Relic though.  Would anyone be able to point me in the right direction?

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Q 121 I have heard the "Catalogues of Enlightenment" referred to many times as a planar touchstone site.  But I can't find them anywhere in the WOTC materiel.  Help?
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« Reply #433 on: December 08, 2009, 07:51:33 AM »
Q118: Is there a write up for DnD siege weapons besides balistas, catapults/trebuckets or siege ladders

Yes.   There are also heavy and light bombards (basically early cannons), found in either Heroes of Battle or Stormwrack.

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« Reply #434 on: December 08, 2009, 08:11:54 AM »
Q118: Is there a write up for DnD siege weapons besides balistas, catapults/trebuckets or siege ladders

Yes.   There are also heavy and light bombards (basically early cannons), found in either Heroes of Battle or Stormwrack.

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Stormwrack has the bombards.

There is also the Thayan Bombard in the magic item section of Unapproachable East
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« Reply #435 on: December 08, 2009, 10:08:16 AM »
Q 121 I have heard the "Catalogues of Enlightenment" referred to many times as a planar touchstone site.  But I can't find them anywhere in the WOTC materiel.  Help?

A121: Planar Handbook, pg. 166

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« Reply #436 on: December 08, 2009, 10:41:47 AM »
Q122 is there a "Practiced Wildshaper" feat or item anywhere in 3.x?
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Re: *NEW* Ask A Simple Question, Get A Simple Answer
« Reply #437 on: December 08, 2009, 10:54:02 AM »
Q117: I remember an example in PHB that claimed Lance only threatens 5' in front of your horse when mounted or some such idiocy. Am I crazy or is there such a passage somewhere?
A117
I think that you must be crazy.   :p

I've just scoured the PHB and the RC, and can find nothing of the sort. 
Lance has 10', and cannot threaten adjacent squares.  If you are mounted, you are considered to be occupying the same square(s) as that mount (though, the rule does specifically state that this is done for "simplicity's sake").

Hm, I came to the same conclusion after scouring high and low for such a passage. Clearly I have gone insane. Maybe I'm thinking of some other edition or something. Bleh.

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« Reply #438 on: December 08, 2009, 11:02:48 AM »
Q122 is there a "Practiced Wildshaper" feat or item anywhere in 3.x?
No feat, but there's an item. Amulet of Wildshape (?) or somesuch, in Magic of Faerun or some other 3e book of lies. 3e, not 3.5, mind you, and I don't have the books to actually check.
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« Reply #439 on: December 08, 2009, 11:11:48 AM »
Q123 With its odd requirements, is there a compiled list of persistable spells?