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[Littha]

Q 220: Can anyone name any other permanent (or accessable to a level 3 wizard) ways to increase the size of my familiar other than enlarge person(shared) 

I want to ride into battle on a Colossal hummingbird...

How big is a Hummingbird, Tiny? If it's Enlarged and your Reduced and your base size was small you should be able to ride it. Otherwise? Try to get an item of Expansion? That gives it two size categories. You should share Alter Self with it but that ruins the point I think.

Diminutive unfortunately... and I'm human. Maybe there arent as many size enhancers as I thought there were.

[bearsarebrown]

Try AEG and Masters of the Wild.

[Littha]

Had a browse, masters of the wild has something on advancing your animal companions HD but that seems like it...


Wierd thing is even if i did manage to get the hummingbid to colossal it has no attack at all...

[weenog]

Had a browse, masters of the wild has something on advancing your animal companions HD but that seems like it...


Wierd thing is even if i did manage to get the hummingbid to colossal it has no attack at all...

Hippogriff + methamphetamine + lance + hot glue gun + half an hour of work.  Call it a hummingbird and let it impale anyone who argues.

[braininthejar]

Q: The rules for turning say: If you have twice as many levels (or more) as the undead have Hit Dice, you destroy any that you would normally turn.

How to interpret it? I mean do I destroy any undead that is half my level or less or do I need to be twice the level of the whole group combined?

[weenog]

Q: The rules for turning say: If you have twice as many levels (or more) as the undead have Hit Dice, you destroy any that you would normally turn.

How to interpret it? I mean do I destroy any undead that is half my level or less or do I need to be twice the level of the whole group combined?

Your effective cleric level for purposes of turning (which will usually be your actual class level in cleric, but can be much different depending on which class(es) and other resources you actually use) must be at least 2x the effective HD (that is, actual HD plus Turn Resistance) of any individual undead to destroy that individual.

[braininthejar]

Thanks. Next question.

Can archmage high arcana be substituted for matching metamagic feats for the purpose of meeting feat requirements?

[weenog]

Thanks. Next question.

Can archmage high arcana be substituted for matching metamagic feats for the purpose of meeting feat requirements?

No.  Requirements are met by having whatever is required, having something that is treated as whatever is required, or having an explicit exception.  Merely having an ability that works identically or similarly to what you actually need isn't good enough.

[braininthejar]

Next: Is there any way to get a Walker In The Waste on Toril? (besides shipping one from another world?)

[betrayor]

Next: Is there any way to get a Walker In The Waste on Toril? (besides shipping one from another world?)

Walker in the Waste is not campaign specific....
there isn't any reason why you can not make one for a Realms game......

[wotmaniac]

Q224
What happened to numbering the questions?

[betrayor]

Q221
What happened to numbering the questions?

A221:I think that an Epic spell was cast that made everyone forgot how to number the questions.....
Damn these High Elves Mages.....

[wotmaniac]

Q224
What happened to numbering the questions?

A224:I think that an Epic spell was cast that made everyone forgot how to number the questions.....
Damn these High Elves Mages.....

those sons-of-bitches.

oh, and I re-numbered to account for all the un-numbered ones.


Thanks.

[braininthejar]

there isn't any reason why you can not make one for a Realms game......

Yes. but can you match the requirements on Toril (thirst domain? The question might be silly but its 3AM ...)

[betrayor]

there isn't any reason why you can not make one for a Realms game......

Yes. but can you match the requirements on Toril (thirst domain? The question might be silly but its 3AM ...)

Just port Azul to the Realms,really even in Sandstorm it is described that It can be a pat of Faerun......

[Maat_Mons]

As I read it, you just need to be able to cast spells that are in those domains, not have access to the domains.  Any 5th level cleric can cast black sand, desiccate, and haboob, so you should be covered. 

[Bauglir]

Q226

Accounting for an unnumbered question, is an ability that grants immunity to effects with an alignment descriptor significantly more powerful than an ability that grants immunity to fear (ignoring the fact that immunity to fear is stupidly easy to get; I'm looking at utility gain, not opportunity cost)? I suspect it is, but what if a houserule were introduced that stripped all effects of alignment descriptors if they don't actually interact with different alignments differently? I think there are a lot of spells that arbitrarily got the Evil descriptor because the designers thought symbol of pain was evulll but not that ripping your foe's soul out through his face with energy drain was (to clarify, I don't think either necessarily is).

[The_Mad_Linguist]

What happened to numbering the questions?

People realized it was pointless because we quote the questions anyway?

Accounting for an unnumbered question, is an ability that grants immunity to effects with an alignment descriptor significantly more powerful than an ability that grants immunity to fear (ignoring the fact that immunity to fear is stupidly easy to get; I'm looking at utility gain, not opportunity cost)? I suspect it is, but what if a houserule were introduced that stripped all effects of alignment descriptors if they don't actually interact with different alignments differently? I think there are a lot of spells that arbitrarily got the Evil descriptor because the designers thought symbol of pain was evulll but not that ripping your foe's soul out through his face with energy drain was (to clarify, I don't think either necessarily is).

Well, you can ignore stuff like holy word.  I don't think there are any fear-based "no save, just die" spells.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

Q227: What's a good heavy armor or armor material for a deflective armor character? Mithral disqualifies the feat and DR is way not worth it

[X-Codes]

Q227: What's a good heavy armor or armor material for a deflective armor character? Mithral disqualifies the feat and DR is way not worth it

Mithral Mountain Plate from Races of Stone.  On this kind of character it would be +11 AC and -5 ACP.  I'm sure there are other mods that reduce that ACP even further such that you can eat the non-proficiency penalties without problem.