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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #460 on: February 19, 2010, 01:00:46 AM »
Q 110: Is there any rules reason to keep me from storing hunderds of cantrips in a single ring of spell storing?

I assume they count as 1/2 a spell level like they do for everything else.

Can you point at any errata that fixes the lack of mention of the half value of a cantrip for rings of spell storing, because I can't see a RAW reason it wouldn't work.
Just off the top of my head, (for example) the rules for item creation tell you to count 0-level spells as 1/2 for pricing.  I know that there are other references to 0-level spells being counted as 1/2 (but those references escape me for the moment).  
I think that the intent is pretty clear -- but it you're just looking for a loophole to exploit, then I don't know what to tell you.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #461 on: February 19, 2010, 01:03:41 AM »
Q 109 Is there a psionic ability, or a high level illusionary ability where the character can actually will a person into not bleeding anymore? Not a healing ability, just a "you're not bleeding anymore from the Rend you took." Jedi mind trick thing.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #462 on: February 19, 2010, 01:06:09 AM »
Q 109 Is there a psionic ability, or a high level illusionary ability where the character can actually will a person into not bleeding anymore? Not a healing ability, just a "you're not bleeding anymore from the Rend you took." Jedi mind trick thing.
Well, there's autohypnosis, but it only works on yourself.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #463 on: February 19, 2010, 01:07:14 AM »
Q 109 Is there a psionic ability, or a high level illusionary ability where the character can actually will a person into not bleeding anymore? Not a healing ability, just a "you're not bleeding anymore from the Rend you took." Jedi mind trick thing.
Well, there's autohypnosis, but it only works on yourself.
Hmm. Anything remotely close that you could flavour up as being a Jedi mind trick, but still stop someone from bleeding to death?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #464 on: February 19, 2010, 01:11:43 AM »
Cure Minor Wounds?  Body Adjustment?  Empathic Transfer?  I would think any of those might work, although they do provide real healing.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #465 on: February 19, 2010, 01:15:47 AM »
Cure Minor Wounds?  Body Adjustment?  Empathic Transfer?  I would think any of those might work, although they do provide real healing.
Cure minor wounds doesn't work as that's a divine ability, not illusionist or psionic. Body Adjustment is personal only. Empathic Transfer's not bad, but you take the damage yourself.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #466 on: February 19, 2010, 01:18:31 AM »
Cure Minor Wounds?  Body Adjustment?  Empathic Transfer?  I would think any of those might work, although they do provide real healing.
Cure minor wounds doesn't work as that's a divine ability, not illusionist or psionic. Body Adjustment is personal only. Empathic Transfer's not bad, but you take the damage yourself.
saga edition has vital transfer for jedi's.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #467 on: February 19, 2010, 01:20:02 AM »
Cure Minor Wounds?  Body Adjustment?  Empathic Transfer?  I would think any of those might work, although they do provide real healing.
Cure minor wounds doesn't work as that's a divine ability, not illusionist or psionic. Body Adjustment is personal only. Empathic Transfer's not bad, but you take the damage yourself.
saga edition has vital transfer for jedi's.
Anything D&D 3.5?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #468 on: February 19, 2010, 01:44:27 AM »
Q110

Lots of multiquoting going on not sure if i'm the right number:D

in anycase, to the question!

Using more than 2 arms with a two handed weapon gives you a .5 increase in str bonus dmg.

IE 4 arms would yield 2.5 times you strngth modifier to dmg.

The question:
does this same rule(or a similar one) apply to power attack? Ie using a two-handed sword with 4 arms giving you a 3x power attack bonus instead of 2?

something like that.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #469 on: February 19, 2010, 01:47:50 AM »
Cure Minor Wounds?  Body Adjustment?  Empathic Transfer?  I would think any of those might work, although they do provide real healing.
Cure minor wounds doesn't work as that's a divine ability, not illusionist or psionic. Body Adjustment is personal only. Empathic Transfer's not bad, but you take the damage yourself.
saga edition has vital transfer for jedi's.
Anything D&D 3.5?
no, just drawing a link between empathetic transfer and the jedi.

A110
the extra strength damage is correct, but there is no extrapolation for power attack. that would be awesome, but there are no rules for it.  see if you can dupe your DM into allowing it, if you actually think power attack needs to do more damage(generally, it doesn't).
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #470 on: February 19, 2010, 01:55:38 AM »
Q115: Some time ago someone on these boards told me that the word "unique" in the Shapechange description refers only to creatures that have divine ranks. Is there a source for that?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #471 on: February 19, 2010, 04:30:13 AM »
Q116:  A human fighter wields a small longspear:  He wields it with one hand, the damage decreases to 1d6, he takes a -2 penalty to attack, and it maintains the reach property.  Is any of that incorrect/am I missing anything?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #472 on: February 19, 2010, 06:47:27 AM »
Q116:  A human fighter wields a small longspear:  He wields it with one hand, the damage decreases to 1d6, he takes a -2 penalty to attack, and it maintains the reach property.  Is any of that incorrect/am I missing anything?
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Rules are here and here.  Specifically, "two hands are required to use a two-handed melee weapon effectively."  Otherwise, you are correct.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #473 on: February 19, 2010, 08:55:59 AM »
Could a bard produce a scroll of cure light wounds as an arcane spell and then let a wizard copy it?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #474 on: February 19, 2010, 09:03:46 AM »
Could a bard produce a scroll of cure light wounds as an arcane spell and then let a wizard copy it?

No, since it doesn't appear on the Wizard list.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #475 on: February 19, 2010, 11:38:41 AM »
Q112: Shadow Jump (Su): At 4th level, a shadowdancer gains the ability to travel between shadows as if by means of a dimension door spell. Would the spell 'Anticipate teleportation' delay the shadowdancer's shadow jump ability because its teleportaion based?(dimension door)

A112:
yes, because D-door has the [teleport] descriptor. for the same reason, a telflammar shadowlord can use shadow jump to trigger shadow pounce.

Then No Littha, I don't have to worry about either Shawdancer, because his Shadow Hop get delayed 3 rounds :fo, rofl....and same for the Hellbreaker if she hops on a spell :fo, although she can also use plane hop, but getting next to me using that is impossible due to its 5 to 500 mile margin of error :fo  So I'm fairly safe :D :D :D
Greater Planeshift has no such margin of error. It's an 8th level cleric spell, IIRC.

Also, would the Vecna Blooded template block Mindsight? And I think the 6th level ability of (Illithid) Slayer also would work.


Q116:  A human fighter wields a small longspear:  He wields it with one hand, the damage decreases to 1d6, he takes a -2 penalty to attack, and it maintains the reach property.  Is any of that incorrect/am I missing anything?
I don't think inappropriately sized reach weapons actually grant reach anymore, but it isn't 100% clear.
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Reach Weaponsof the appropriate size can attack a creature 15 or 20 feet away, but not adjacent creatures or creatures up to 10 feet away.

Rules are here and here.  Specifically, "two hands are required to use a two-handed melee weapon effectively."  Otherwise, you are correct.
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So the fighter could certainly wield the small longspear in one hand (and it would count as a one-handed weapon). He'd take a -2 to his attacks, but I'm not sure he'd still have reach with it.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #476 on: February 19, 2010, 12:19:01 PM »
Q115: Some time ago someone on these boards told me that the word "unique" in the Shapechange description refers only to creatures that have divine ranks. Is there a source for that?
There is no source for that, but generally, it means you can't Shapechange into the Tarrasque (since it's noted to be one of a kind) or into gods.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #477 on: February 19, 2010, 12:19:44 PM »
Q115: Some time ago someone on these boards told me that the word "unique" in the Shapechange description refers only to creatures that have divine ranks. Is there a source for that?
There is no source for that, but generally, it means you can't Shapechange into the Tarrasque (since it's noted to be one of a kind) or into gods.
Technically, in the Forgotten Realms, there were originally 5, 2 of which are dead, so you could argue...
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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #478 on: February 19, 2010, 12:32:43 PM »
Q116 Changing the Ninja from Sudden Strike to Sneak Attack, giving a free [Ki] feat every 4 levels and making Ki uses per encounter(instead of per/day).

How significantly would this bump it up in tiers? Would this bring it to 4?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question: Attack the Darkness!
« Reply #479 on: February 19, 2010, 12:34:04 PM »
Q115: Some time ago someone on these boards told me that the word "unique" in the Shapechange description refers only to creatures that have divine ranks. Is there a source for that?
There is no source for that, but generally, it means you can't Shapechange into the Tarrasque (since it's noted to be one of a kind) or into gods.
Technically, in the Forgotten Realms, there were originally 5, 2 of which are dead, so you could argue...
So if I'm playing in a Forgotten Realms game as a high-level Egoist, I can be even more impossible to kill for only 200 xp?  Sweet!  :evillaugh
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