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[The_Mad_Linguist]

Action points, maybe?

[Saeomon]

Q134: Do templates change character aging? Specifically would adding a template that changes your type change at what age you gain your penalties/bonuses?

A134: It is commonly accepted that a Kobold who takes the Dragonwrought feat and thereby has its type changed to Dragon ages as a true dragon would age. Therefore, I believe the answer to your question is yes.

[Ithamar]

How do you apply lycanthrope to a nonhumanoid?

I don't.  I was merely indicating I was already aware of those two templates as adding HD.  I was hoping there were others.

[Lycanthromancer]

How do you apply lycanthrope to a nonhumanoid?

I don't.  I was merely indicating I was already aware of those two templates as adding HD.  I was hoping there were others.

I believe you can use it on monstrous humanoids and giants, as well.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Q134: Do templates change character aging? Specifically would adding a template that changes your type change at what age you gain your penalties/bonuses?

A134: It is commonly accepted that a Kobold who takes the Dragonwrought feat and thereby has its type changed to Dragon ages as a true dragon would age. Therefore, I believe the answer to your question is yes.

Dragonwrought has specific rulestext, though.

Depends upon the template.  Undead don't age, for example, but outsiders vary. 

[Lycanthromancer]

Q134: Do templates change character aging? Specifically would adding a template that changes your type change at what age you gain your penalties/bonuses?

A134: It is commonly accepted that a Kobold who takes the Dragonwrought feat and thereby has its type changed to Dragon ages as a true dragon would age. Therefore, I believe the answer to your question is yes.

Dragonwrought has specific rulestext, though.

Depends upon the template.  Undead don't age, for example, but outsiders vary. 

They do tend to rot, though. Gentle repose FTW.

[archangel.arcanis]

Q134: Do templates change character aging? Specifically would adding a template that changes your type change at what age you gain your penalties/bonuses?

A134: It is commonly accepted that a Kobold who takes the Dragonwrought feat and thereby has its type changed to Dragon ages as a true dragon would age. Therefore, I believe the answer to your question is yes.

Dragonwrought has specific rulestext, though.

Depends upon the template.  Undead don't age, for example, but outsiders vary. 

Well the issue is sprung from the DWK argument. I had a thought as to whether or not adding half-dragon changed or eliminated the base creature's age categories as it is no longer a member of that race, thus the table presenting their age categories and what ages there were changes in stats is rendered useless.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Gets confusion.  For example, it's perfectly possible to have a half-blue-dragon blue dragon. 

[X-Codes]

I would like to chime in and note that DWK's aging as dragons being commonly accepted means neither that it's right nor that it's what a DM would accept.  In fact, the Dragonwrought feat does very little to the aging process of a Kobold: eliminating aging penalties and extending the ultimate lifespan of the kobold by a small amount.  It does not cause you to gain age categories as a true dragon.

As for other templates, a fluff argument could be made for gaining the mental bonuses on-schedule for undead templates, and not taking the physical penalties.  In pretty much every other case, however, there are simply no rules at all regarding what happens to a creature's age categories once you stick a template on it.  Not even in Savage Species.

[Saeomon]

Well, if I'm wrong then I'm wrong. :-)

[McPoyo]

I would like to chime in and note that DWK's aging as dragons being commonly accepted means neither that it's right nor that it's what a DM would accept.  In fact, the Dragonwrought feat does very little to the aging process of a Kobold: eliminating aging penalties and extending the ultimate lifespan of the kobold by a small amount.  It does not cause you to gain age categories as a true dragon.

As for other templates, a fluff argument could be made for gaining the mental bonuses on-schedule for undead templates, and not taking the physical penalties.  In pretty much every other case, however, there are simply no rules at all regarding what happens to a creature's age categories once you stick a template on it.  Not even in Savage Species.

Check RotD again, kobold age section. DWK speciically run off another aging table that has dragon age categories.

[kevin_video]

Q 132 Is there a way to give a death knight additional uses of their Abyssal Blast instead of just 1/day?

Squire of legend.

If it's (sp), magic-blooded works as well.

Somehow I don't think so on either.

Squire of Legend lets you choose from a list of what abilities to take. At no point did I read "gain an additional use of a X/day use ability."

And magic-blooded doesn't work like that. It's a 3.0 template that gives you a list of SLA at 2nd character level.

Now, Magic in the Blood technically could, but that's a Faerun regional feat, and that's much too limiting. Now I know what you're all going to say. "Well you don't have to take the regional part with it." Yes, you do. If you're allowing homebrew in your games to say that it doesn't, that's fine. But that doesn't work here this time. Sorry. If you think it's stupid, and DMs who don't homebrew like you guys do, that's fine too. You're entitled to your opinions.

But I need something a little more universal. If what's above are the only options, then the answer is "No, there is not a way for the death knight to gain additional uses of their Abyssal Blast."

To rephrase your question, you're looking for a method of obtaining extra uses of a Supernatural ability which may only be used 1/day, that Supernatural ability having been gained through the application of a template to a base creature, in this case a humanoid.

To answer that question, I do not believe there is any official method that may be used to attain that goal.

That's what I wondered.

[archangel.arcanis]

I would like to chime in and note that DWK's aging as dragons being commonly accepted means neither that it's right nor that it's what a DM would accept.  In fact, the Dragonwrought feat does very little to the aging process of a Kobold: eliminating aging penalties and extending the ultimate lifespan of the kobold by a small amount.  It does not cause you to gain age categories as a true dragon.

As for other templates, a fluff argument could be made for gaining the mental bonuses on-schedule for undead templates, and not taking the physical penalties.  In pretty much every other case, however, there are simply no rules at all regarding what happens to a creature's age categories once you stick a template on it.  Not even in Savage Species.

Check RotD again, kobold age section. DWK speciically run off another aging table that has dragon age categories.

Actually all kobolds use that table. They also have the normal Aging effects table that dictates when they gain stat bonuses & penalties.

Interestingly I found a partial answer to my question. RotD p61 under death states that Half-Dragons live longer than thier base race but don't live as long as dragons. It even calls out pairing between an elf and a dragon can create a half-dragon that can live as long as a great wyrm.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

MEGABUMP

Q116: What are some things I can do with smite (evil) besides, well, smiting? Waging peace and all that.

Um no... You can level drain that 2nd RHD, replace the first with a class level and then buyoff the 2 LA.

Source please?

Were you not the one arguing with crumudgeon that any 1RHD race, not just humanoids can replace it with a class level? The Level drain can be permanent when you fail the save and we know LA doesn't matter races like drow.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Were you not the one arguing with crumudgeon that any 1RHD race, not just humanoids can replace it with a class level? The Level drain can be permanent when you fail the save and we know LA doesn't matter races like drow.

You don't replace it.  You just don't ever pick it up at character creation if your base race has 1 RHD.

There's also no rulestext that says you're allowed to choose something other than your racial hit dice.  In addition, as previously mentioned, the section in savage species refers to the base race's hit dice - not your hit dice as a character, so you're not getting ahead in ECL.

[wotmaniac]

MEGABUMP

Q116: What are some things I can do with smite (evil) besides, well, smiting? Waging peace and all that.

well, let's see can:
- bypass DR/good
- bull rush/overrun
- Inspire Courage
- generally fuck shit up
there are also a metric fuck-ton of feats that let you smite other types of creatures (hint: you'll want to use ctrl-f)

[Littha]

Were you not the one arguing with crumudgeon that any 1RHD race, not just humanoids can replace it with a class level? The Level drain can be permanent when you fail the save and we know LA doesn't matter races like drow.

You don't replace it.  You just don't ever pick it up at character creation if your base race has 1 RHD.

There's also no rulestext that says you're allowed to choose something other than your racial hit dice.  In addition, as previously mentioned, the section in savage species refers to the base race's hit dice - not your hit dice as a character, so you're not getting ahead in ECL.

For humanoids there is, though I'm at a loss at what is supposed to happen to tieflings or the like.

Humanoids with 1 Hit Die exchange the features of their humanoid Hit Die for the class features of a PC or NPC class.

What happens if a bugbear loses two of its racial hitdie? it is then a humanoid with 1 hitdie and because of the text above will be forced to take a class level.

[X-Codes]

I would like to chime in and note that DWK's aging as dragons being commonly accepted means neither that it's right nor that it's what a DM would accept.  In fact, the Dragonwrought feat does very little to the aging process of a Kobold: eliminating aging penalties and extending the ultimate lifespan of the kobold by a small amount.  It does not cause you to gain age categories as a true dragon.

As for other templates, a fluff argument could be made for gaining the mental bonuses on-schedule for undead templates, and not taking the physical penalties.  In pretty much every other case, however, there are simply no rules at all regarding what happens to a creature's age categories once you stick a template on it.  Not even in Savage Species.

Check RotD again, kobold age section. DWK speciically run off another aging table that has dragon age categories.

Actually all kobolds use that table. They also have the normal Aging effects table that dictates when they gain stat bonuses & penalties.

Interestingly I found a partial answer to my question. RotD p61 under death states that Half-Dragons live longer than thier base race but don't live as long as dragons. It even calls out pairing between an elf and a dragon can create a half-dragon that can live as long as a great wyrm.

In other words, the first table is fluff, the second is mechanics.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

The SRD website is kind of dumb about replacing the first RHD; the actual books don't mention humanoids at all - much like the whole "dex0=paralysis", they just screwed up when they transferred the info.

[snakeman830]

I would like to chime in and note that DWK's aging as dragons being commonly accepted means neither that it's right nor that it's what a DM would accept.  In fact, the Dragonwrought feat does very little to the aging process of a Kobold: eliminating aging penalties and extending the ultimate lifespan of the kobold by a small amount.  It does not cause you to gain age categories as a true dragon.

As for other templates, a fluff argument could be made for gaining the mental bonuses on-schedule for undead templates, and not taking the physical penalties.  In pretty much every other case, however, there are simply no rules at all regarding what happens to a creature's age categories once you stick a template on it.  Not even in Savage Species.

Check RotD again, kobold age section. DWK speciically run off another aging table that has dragon age categories.

Actually all kobolds use that table. They also have the normal Aging effects table that dictates when they gain stat bonuses & penalties.

Interestingly I found a partial answer to my question. RotD p61 under death states that Half-Dragons live longer than thier base race but don't live as long as dragons. It even calls out pairing between an elf and a dragon can create a half-dragon that can live as long as a great wyrm.

In other words, the first table is fluff, the second is mechanics.

If it's a table, it's not fluff.  All Kobolds have 12 age categories (the same 12 as Dragons, I might add).  That said, this is irrelevant to the question.

While I'm pretty sure that many templates change the creature's lifespan, I can't think of any at all that have an actual listing of by how much (except undead templates which are indefinitely).