Ask a Simple Question part 19: Titan-Bloodline Pixie Ubercharger edition

[PhaedrusXY]

Q9 Is it possible to give bonuses that are typical for armor to normal clothes? For example to create Fearsome Robes, or a Spider Boon Dress? If so, where can I find some info to confirm this fact? 

As far as I know, no.  Some people house-rule bracers of armor to allow special abilities to be purchased.  Given the existence of bracers of striking (Magic of Faerun 155) and necklace of natural weapons (Savage Species 58), its surprising an armor equivalent doesn't exist. 

What do you need this for exactly?  If it's for an arcane caster, there are armors without arcane spells failure.  If it's for a druid, there are armors that change with you when you wild shape. 

The bracers of rmor thing came from the Arms and Equipment Guide, originally.

I think there was something about that in Tome and Blood, also. I don't know which of those was published first,

[bananaphone]

Q13
Is there a spell or item (non armor) that can Bestow the effect of Heavy Fortification Armor Enhancement or equivalent (Immunity to Sneak Attack/Crits)?

Having all 4 of the "Heart of X" line of spells from the Complete Mage active at the same time.

[kevin_video]

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Q 3 How do you permanently make a drider large or huge size, when it only advances via class levels?

Q 5 If Oriental Adventures (Shiba Protector) and Unnaproachable East (Shou Disciple) are not allowed in the campaign (as well as any other FR books), what would be the best classes to trade them with?

[X-Codes]

A3: You don't.

A5: What do you mean trade?  What are you trying to do?  There are about a million ways to make an unarmed fighter, and, with luck, some of them are even effective.

[kevin_video]

A3: You don't.

A5: What do you mean trade?  What are you trying to do?  There are about a million ways to make an unarmed fighter, and, with luck, some of them are even effective.

I want to because I've got a huge sized mini that's actually a 4th ed creature that doesn't existin 3.5, and it's a huge 4-armed drider. The extra two arms is now problem to deal with (DMG II has a template), but the huge size is where I'm lost.

The build is this. http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9810.0 We can't use the two classes that they use in OA and FR.

[X-Codes]

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A3) Then add a few HD and size it up.  Seriously.  If you needed a RAW method for every monster in the game to exist, then 90% of the Undead in the game would never be encountered (because it's impossible for them to be created in the first place).

A5) You don't, because that's a ridiculously complicated build made to do one thing kinda good (but not really), and Shiba Protector is pretty important.  Without Shiba Protector, the damage done by the build drops by about 30%.

For 90% of the characters that see play, crossbows are strictly utilitarian.  They make great carriers for nasty effects like poison or a miscellaneous benefit like the Warning enhancement.  You need a build like the one you posted in order to get any kind of serious damage at all out of them.

[Epimetheus]

Q 8 If one got the MIC item for Countersong that lets you use it as an immediate action (400 gp), is it now worthwhile to keep? Also, what useful language-dependent/sonic things (that allow saves) can it 'counter'? Suggestion and Geass are some... but it doesn't seem to work against Blasphemy or Power Word: X as the latter two don't give saves?

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[TC X0 Lt 0X]

Q15
Besides the Eberron Campaign Setting Supplement, what other sources state what I can do with Action Points?

[telehax]

Q15
Besides the Eberron Campaign Setting Supplement, what other sources state what I can do with Action Points?

About every single Eberron Sourcebook has at least one more thing you can do, class features and feats and etc. Magic of Eberron and Dragonmarked IIRC having the most.

[McPoyo]

Q15
Besides the Eberron Campaign Setting Supplement, what other sources state what I can do with Action Points?

About every single Eberron Sourcebook has at least one more thing you can do, class features and feats and etc. Magic of Eberron and Dragonmarked IIRC having the most.

Unearthed Arcana has a slightly different take on them, as does the D20 Modern sourcebook.

[strider24seven]

Q16:  If a psicrystal takes the Wild or Hidden Talent feat, it can hold a focus.  Can you use your psicrystal's focus for metapsionics without Psicrystal Containment?

[kevin_video]

A3) Then add a few HD and size it up.  Seriously.  If you needed a RAW method for every monster in the game to exist, then 90% of the Undead in the game would never be encountered (because it's impossible for them to be created in the first place).

A5) You don't, because that's a ridiculously complicated build made to do one thing kinda good (but not really), and Shiba Protector is pretty important.  Without Shiba Protector, the damage done by the build drops by about 30%.

For 90% of the characters that see play, crossbows are strictly utilitarian.  They make great carriers for nasty effects like poison or a miscellaneous benefit like the Warning enhancement.  You need a build like the one you posted in order to get any kind of serious damage at all out of them.

Explanation wise just go with the "a wizard" or "a deity did it"?

Well that sucks. Maybe somehow I can get the classes by getting the DM to revise things. Maybe not. And it's still a decent build. Fun to look at, anyways.

[snakeman830]

Q16:  If a psicrystal takes the Wild or Hidden Talent feat, it can hold a focus.  Can you use your psicrystal's focus for metapsionics without Psicrystal Containment?

No.  Psycrystal Containment is a specific exception to using another creatures focus.

[PhaedrusXY]

A3) Then add a few HD and size it up.  Seriously.  If you needed a RAW method for every monster in the game to exist, then 90% of the Undead in the game would never be encountered (because it's impossible for them to be created in the first place).

A5) You don't, because that's a ridiculously complicated build made to do one thing kinda good (but not really), and Shiba Protector is pretty important.  Without Shiba Protector, the damage done by the build drops by about 30%.

For 90% of the characters that see play, crossbows are strictly utilitarian.  They make great carriers for nasty effects like poison or a miscellaneous benefit like the Warning enhancement.  You need a build like the one you posted in order to get any kind of serious damage at all out of them.

Explanation wise just go with the "a wizard" or "a deity did it"?

Well that sucks. Maybe somehow I can get the classes by getting the DM to revise things. Maybe not. And it's still a decent build. Fun to look at, anyways.

Is a drider a legit target for half-minotaur, or any other template that would increase its size by 1, but not modify how it looks too much?

You could also just make up a template called "Goro-chan" that increases the creatures size by 1 (with all the appropriate modifiers, including ability scores) and gives it two more arms and the multiweapon and multiattack fighting feats for free. It would probably be worth like a +2 CR.

[McPoyo]

A3) Then add a few HD and size it up.  Seriously.  If you needed a RAW method for every monster in the game to exist, then 90% of the Undead in the game would never be encountered (because it's impossible for them to be created in the first place).

A5) You don't, because that's a ridiculously complicated build made to do one thing kinda good (but not really), and Shiba Protector is pretty important.  Without Shiba Protector, the damage done by the build drops by about 30%.

For 90% of the characters that see play, crossbows are strictly utilitarian.  They make great carriers for nasty effects like poison or a miscellaneous benefit like the Warning enhancement.  You need a build like the one you posted in order to get any kind of serious damage at all out of them.

Explanation wise just go with the "a wizard" or "a deity did it"?

Well that sucks. Maybe somehow I can get the classes by getting the DM to revise things. Maybe not. And it's still a decent build. Fun to look at, anyways.

Is a drider a legit target for half-minotaur, or any other template that would increase its size by 1, but not modify how it looks too much?

You could also just make up a template called "Goro-chan" that increases the creatures size by 1 (with all the appropriate modifiers, including ability scores) and gives it two more arms and the multiweapon and multiattack fighting feats for free. It would probably be worth like a +2 CR.

Drider's are natively Large sized.

[Nanshork]

A3) Then add a few HD and size it up.  Seriously.  If you needed a RAW method for every monster in the game to exist, then 90% of the Undead in the game would never be encountered (because it's impossible for them to be created in the first place).

A5) You don't, because that's a ridiculously complicated build made to do one thing kinda good (but not really), and Shiba Protector is pretty important.  Without Shiba Protector, the damage done by the build drops by about 30%.

For 90% of the characters that see play, crossbows are strictly utilitarian.  They make great carriers for nasty effects like poison or a miscellaneous benefit like the Warning enhancement.  You need a build like the one you posted in order to get any kind of serious damage at all out of them.

Explanation wise just go with the "a wizard" or "a deity did it"?

Well that sucks. Maybe somehow I can get the classes by getting the DM to revise things. Maybe not. And it's still a decent build. Fun to look at, anyways.

Is a drider a legit target for half-minotaur, or any other template that would increase its size by 1, but not modify how it looks too much?

You could also just make up a template called "Goro-chan" that increases the creatures size by 1 (with all the appropriate modifiers, including ability scores) and gives it two more arms and the multiweapon and multiattack fighting feats for free. It would probably be worth like a +2 CR.

Drider's are natively Large sized.

And he wants it to be huge.

[McPoyo]

Original question was "large or huge". I just wanted to remove half of that part.

edit: also, Expansion + permanency.

[Emo_Duck]

Q16:  If a psicrystal takes the Wild or Hidden Talent feat, it can hold a focus.  Can you use your psicrystal's focus for metapsionics without Psicrystal Containment?

No.  Psycrystal Containment is a specific exception to using another creatures focus.

Q16b:If the psicrystal takes the Wild/Hidden Talent feat anyway, can the owner use the psionic focus even if the psicrystal focused itself, rather than having the owner spend a full-round action focusing it? I assume the focus it gains via Psicrystal Containment is functionally the same, preventing it from being double-focused or something.

Q17: Does Psionic Meditation allow you to focus your psicrystal as a move action as well, or does it only apply to yourself?

[McPoyo]

Q16:  If a psicrystal takes the Wild or Hidden Talent feat, it can hold a focus.  Can you use your psicrystal's focus for metapsionics without Psicrystal Containment?

No.  Psycrystal Containment is a specific exception to using another creatures focus.

Q16b:If the psicrystal takes the Wild/Hidden Talent feat anyway, can the owner use the psionic focus even if the psicrystal focused itself, rather than having the owner spend a full-round action focusing it? I assume the focus it gains via Psicrystal Containment is functionally the same, preventing it from being double-focused or something.

Only if you house rule you can use a cohort or other person's psionic focus.

[Emo_Duck]

Q16:  If a psicrystal takes the Wild or Hidden Talent feat, it can hold a focus.  Can you use your psicrystal's focus for metapsionics without Psicrystal Containment?

No.  Psycrystal Containment is a specific exception to using another creatures focus.

Q16b:If the psicrystal takes the Wild/Hidden Talent feat anyway, can the owner use the psionic focus even if the psicrystal focused itself, rather than having the owner spend a full-round action focusing it? I assume the focus it gains via Psicrystal Containment is functionally the same, preventing it from being double-focused or something.

Only if you house rule you can use a cohort or other person's psionic focus.

Isn't that what Psicrystal Containment does?