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[braininthejar]

Q 65: A sadistic necromancer casts blackfire into a crowded room. If you start a round in contact with more than one burning person, do you need to make multiple reflex saves or just one?

[zook1shoe]

Q 64: there is a 9 level abjuration spell that automatically stops a number of incoming enemy spells. Does that include dispel magic or will the defense be dispelled as normal ( I probably lack some basic knowledge here)

Is this that Effulgent Something or other spell that absorbs targeted spells?  If so, it will definitely stop a targeted dispel magic.  An area dispel might still get through though.

Effulgent Epuration (Spell Compendium)

A 65: most likely, until they catch it, then they have it and need no more Reflex saves, but have to make Fort saves

[braininthejar]

Q 66. EDIT: I see there have been some disagreements on this one. How does shivering touch actually work? (depending on the interpretation it could be anything between useful and ridiculously overpowered)

The "weakest" interpretation claims that the effect only lasts as long as the spell, which makes it penalty and not damage. It thus caps at 1 and can't make the target helpless.

The "strongest" interpretation claims that damage is actual ability damage and the spell duration allows the caster to touch multiple people.

[Sobolev]

Q What spells or cheap magic items are there that enable you to move over rough terrain at full movement?

I'm catching up with this thread, but I saw no answer to this question in the first few pages.  As far as I'm concerned the answer is Air Walk from the PHB.

[Bard]

Q 66. EDIT: I see there have been some disagreements on this one. How does shivering touch actually work? (depending on the interpretation it could be anything between useful and ridiculously overpowered)

The "weakest" interpretation claims that the effect only lasts as long as the spell, which makes it penalty and not damage. It thus caps at 1 and can't make the target helpless.

The "strongest" interpretation claims that damage is actual ability damage and the spell duration allows the caster to touch multiple people.

It's quite a badly worded spell.. either duration or range+target or the word "damage" are wrong, but as it stands the word damage is there, so it DOES ability damage. I think that if there is no errors in there, the duration might suggest that the ability damage rules are overriden in this specific case and the damage only lasts 1/round levels, maybe as a (useless) drawback.  I'm also sure that due to the really bad wording a lot of people might have different interpretation of it (especially if they try to "fix" the text), at the end of the day it all depends by the DM, but making it a 3d6 Dex penality (capping at 1) might make it a decent spell for the level.

[AleksanderTheGreat]

Q67: Where is it written that the classes are balanced? We know that they should be, but is it even straight out said that they are?

[Kuroimaken]

Q67: Where is it written that the classes are balanced? We know that they should be, but is it even straight out said that they are?

Only in Pathfinder.

And they are lying.

[AleksanderTheGreat]

Q67: Where is it written that the classes are balanced? We know that they should be, but is it even straight out said that they are?

Only in Pathfinder.

Can I find it in PFSRD?

And they are lying.

Who isn't.

[Kuroimaken]

Q67: Where is it written that the classes are balanced? We know that they should be, but is it even straight out said that they are?

Only in Pathfinder.

Can I find it in PFSRD?

And they are lying.

Who isn't.

'Fraid not. There are multiple sidebars on their core rulebook stating they have made the classes balanced and how, though.

[Bard]

Q68: Can I use two +1 Aptitude weapons (or a +1 Aptitude weapon and a +1 Aptitude Spiked Shield) to activate feats like Three Mountains, High Sword Low Axe, Lightening Mace, etc?

Edit: Q69: One handed weapon that threatens more than 5ft?

[Agita]

Edit: Q69: One handed weapon that threatens more than 5ft?

A 69

The spinning sword, from Secrets of Sarlona, is one-handed and has 10 ft. of reach, plus can still attack adjacent targets like a spiked chain. Alternatively, the kusari-gama, from the DMG in the section about different campaign worlds, is light and has reach.

[Shiki]

Q70: Could someone please point me out various things that could be useful for a Gish w/ great mobility? I'm having some issues thinkering up something w/o having some Kobold Swiftblade in the mix for some reasons...

[Sobolev]

Q71: You're a lesser Duergar.  Wat do?

[Bauglir]

Q72

Anybody got a link to a copy of the Metamagic Compilation and Review or similar guide? The Wayback Machine has proven unhelpful, but people around here have managed to conjure results from it that I could not before. Original link is http://community.wizards.com/forumhandler?t=738345

[Rejakor]

Q What spells or cheap magic items are there that enable you to move over rough terrain at full movement?

I'm catching up with this thread, but I saw no answer to this question in the first few pages.  As far as I'm concerned the answer is Air Walk from the PHB.

Vanguard Treads from magic item compendium cost ~4k and give full movement over rough terrain.

Step Of The Wind, is a 1st level Shadow Hand stance that allows full movement over rough terrain.

Q73:  What ways are there to iterate power armour or flying mechs with human pilots in DnD other than that web article with the steampunk powered armour?  Specifically, i'm thinking golems with interior spaces or something?  I'm well able to personally scale up the power armour into mecha, but I was just wondering if there was any stuff that already did this.

[Garryl]

Step of the Wind is Setting Sun, not Shadow Hand.

[Rejakor]

Mah bad.

[bkdubs123]

Q74: How often can a Mindflayer use its mindblast? At-will?

[Sinfire Titan]

Q74: How often can a Mindflayer use its mindblast? At-will?

Once every 1d4 rounds.

[JaronK]

Q73:  What ways are there to iterate power armour or flying mechs with human pilots in DnD other than that web article with the steampunk powered armour?  Specifically, i'm thinking golems with interior spaces or something?  I'm well able to personally scale up the power armour into mecha, but I was just wondering if there was any stuff that already did this.

Haunt Shift from Libris Mortis can let undead creatures haunt and animate objects up to huge size.  Building a heavy duty object in the shape of a mech with interior spaces could work quite well.

JaronK