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The Thinktank => Min/Max It! => : InnaBinder October 28, 2010, 03:47:19 PM
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Because the last one hit 50 pages.
1. Does it say anywhere that personal spells can't be used in a generic magical item?
I mean, yes, potions specifically can't accept personal spells, but potions suck.
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That was in response to kevin_video's question.
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I'll take the answer any which way I can get it.
Q 2 Is the Rapid Reload feat basically the same thing as the Quick Loading weapon ability for crossbows?
Q 3 How do you permanently make a drider large or huge size, when it only advances via class levels?
Q 4 Does anyone actually know if the rogue fighter variant where you trade out sneak attack for fighter feats actually gives you fighter feats as a fighter (1, 2, 4, 6, etc) or when you would gain sneak attack?
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?
Q 6 Is there any ToB disciplines that aid with ranged weapons (namely hand crossbows)?
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A 4 The wording can be a bit confusing, but it does say you gain fighter feats "as a fighter" does, and a fighter gains them at 1, 2, and every even level. So unless someone interprets that differently, I'd say you're gaining them at the same levels a fighter does.
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I do believe that that's irrelevant unless it states in the Rules Compendium somewhere "all spells, including Personal touch spells, can be used to make magic items."
There are items that have personal spells as spell prerequisites, for example, a monk's belt. There are items that duplicate personal spells, for example, a wand of mirror image.
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A 4 So unless someone interprets that differently, I'd say you're gaining them at the same levels a fighter does.
My DM does, as does the rest of my group. Even I did. That's why I was hoping to actually find the official ruling on it. We interpreted it as gain fighter feats, and count as a fighter to gain fighter feats (ie can get Weapon Specialization).
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A 4 So unless someone interprets that differently, I'd say you're gaining them at the same levels a fighter does.
My DM does, as does the rest of my group. Even I did. That's why I was hoping to actually find the official ruling on it. We interpreted it as gain fighter feats, and count as a fighter to gain fighter feats (ie can get Weapon Specialization).
There is no official ruling, that's just the way it was written. "As a X" generally means "exactly as a X, barring any excptions specifically called out".
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A 4 So unless someone interprets that differently, I'd say you're gaining them at the same levels a fighter does.
My DM does, as does the rest of my group. Even I did. That's why I was hoping to actually find the official ruling on it. We interpreted it as gain fighter feats, and count as a fighter to gain fighter feats (ie can get Weapon Specialization).
There is no official ruling, that's just the way it was written. "As a X" generally means "exactly as a X, barring any excptions specifically called out".
So in the case where the fighter rogue variant thug gain sneak attack as a rogue, and lose fighter feats, you get the +1d6 at 1st and every second level after that?
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The closest thing to a direct comment is this:
These variants simply swap one or more of that class's features for one or more class features of another class. A class feature gained works just as it did for its original class, including the level at which it is gained and any other effects, except as noted below.
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Q7: I can haz maid loli elves?
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Q7: I can haz maid loli elves?
A 7
Ya u can
[spoiler](http://i54.tinypic.com/258xet4.jpg)[/spoiler]
That's the only worksafe one I found with little effort, though.
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Q7B: Where is it from?
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Q7B: Where is it from?
A 7b
Danbooru, natch. :p I don't think it's from a specific series, none are listed in its tags.
Not sure this should be here, though... :P
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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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I'll take the answer any which way I can get it.
There are guidelines in the DMG for pricing magic items that emulate active spell effects. That is the rule, there is no special exception called out for personal range spells.
Q 2 Is the Rapid Reload feat basically the same thing as the Quick Loading weapon ability for crossbows?
Yes. By RAW, the effects probably wouldn't stack if you stuck them both on a heavy crossbow.
Q 6 Is there any ToB disciplines that aid with ranged weapons (namely hand crossbows)?
Probably not from official sources. AFAIK there are very few martial maneuvers in Bo9S that work with ranged weapons, and most (if not all) of them are boosts.
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?
Suggestion is enough. That spell is nasty.
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Q9 Here we go again.
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?
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Q10
Is there anyway for an archer to overcome deflect arrows (and infinite deflection), and Wind walls, and heavy winds? So they are still able to use their archery during such combats.
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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.
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Q10
Is there anyway for an archer to overcome deflect arrows (and infinite deflection), and Wind walls, and heavy winds? So they are still able to use their archery during such combats.
force arrows?
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they cut through wind walls and deflection as well? +2 enchancement in MIC = Awesome for archers
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Q9 Here we go again.
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?
A 9 --- No for normal normal clothes.
Yes for polymorphed objects into "normal" clothes, like polymorphed Plate Mail works the same but looks different.
or "normal" clothes as the base for a magic item, that provides an AC bonus of whatever sort.
Yes but Maybe No, for Leather Clothes. They might qualify as Leather Armor, or badly made Leather Armor that doesn't fit right.
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force arrows?
they cut through wind walls and deflection as well?
Maybe. It's a DM judgment call. The force arrows seem closer to spell effects than to normal arrows. You could make a good common sense argument that they shouldn't be affected by deflect arrows or wind wall.
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Q10 - is there a ACF for wizards to not have a spellbook and where is it?
Ron
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A10 B
Yes
DragMag357
Eidetic Spellcaster
Level 1st
Replaces familiar and scribe scroll
Benefit: You do not need a spell book, either to record spells you know or to prepare known spells. you can learn spells normally, either through gaining levels in wizard or learning from other spellbooks, and you must pay all the normal costs for learning new spells (used instead in special incenses rather than inks), but you do not need to put them into a spellbook.
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A10 B
Yes
DragMag357
Eidetic Spellcaster
Level 1st
Replaces familiar and scribe scroll
Benefit: You do not need a spell book, either to record spells you know or to prepare known spells. you can learn spells normally, either through gaining levels in wizard or learning from other spellbooks, and you must pay all the normal costs for learning new spells (used instead in special incenses rather than inks), but you do not need to put them into a spellbook.
thank you
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Q11: Is there a way to ready a move or swift action without sacrificing a whole standard action to do so?
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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.
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Q11: Is there a way to ready a move or swift action without sacrificing a whole standard action to do so?
eyes of the oracle?
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Q11: Is there a way to ready a move or swift action without sacrificing a whole standard action to do so?
eyes of the oracle?
Readying move actions... the best way to get out of melee.
No seriously, melee attackers become completely useless if you allow it. So where is Eyes of the Oracle then?
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Q10
Is there anyway for an archer to overcome deflect arrows (and infinite deflection), and Wind walls, and heavy winds? So they are still able to use their archery during such combats.
A10
vs Deflect Arrows and Infinite Deflection .... NO, not with the Force Special .... since it only changes the damage Type, not the attack itself(it still is a ranged weapon) ... however the way you could overcome Deflect Arrows, look at the feat itself:
DEFLECT ARROWS [GENERAL]
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Improved Unarmed Strike.
Benefit: You must have at least one hand free (holding nothing) to use this feat. Once per round when you would normally be hit with a ranged weapon, you may deflect it so that you take no damage from it. You must be aware of the attack and not flatfooted. Attempting to deflect a ranged weapon doesn’t count as an action. Unusually massive ranged weapons and ranged attacks generated by spell effects can’t be deflected.
Special:A monk may select Deflect Arrows as a bonus feat at 2nd level, even if she does not meet the prerequisites.
A fighter may select Deflect Arrows as one of his fighter bonus feats.
they cant use Deflect Arrows if Flatfooted or Unaware of the Attack
as for Windwall .... just go around the effect ....
as for Heavy Winds ... it is debateable as to the effectiveness of Force Weapon Special, it would be up to your DM
:D
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Q12: Can the Deflect Arrows feat be used to deflect a grenade-like ranged attack, like a tanglefoot bag?
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Q12: Can the Deflect Arrows feat be used to deflect a grenade-like ranged attack, like a tanglefoot bag?
I would think so. It is still a small, physical object that requires an attack roll.
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I'd say no on splash weapons, though.
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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)?
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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?
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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)?
Elemental Body. Probably more at lower levels.
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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)?
Gemstone of Fortification, Draconomicon.
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Q14
I need a guide for building a character that must necessarily use a shield (that is able to siphon damage away from others, apparently similar to Shield Other) as a core concept. I know there was a Captain America build around somewhere, but it's gone from the Wizards boards. Are there any other guides to doing this? There are no casters, so it doesn't need to be up to that level of power, thankfully. Unfortunately, I'm not building the character, all I really know right now is that it's Core + PHB2 + Completes only. If there aren't any guides around, I'll start a new thread.
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Q14
I need a guide for building a character that must necessarily use a shield (that is able to siphon damage away from others, apparently similar to Shield Other) as a core concept. I know there was a Captain America build around somewhere, but it's gone from the Wizards boards. Are there any other guides to doing this? There are no casters, so it doesn't need to be up to that level of power, thankfully. Unfortunately, I'm not building the character, all I really know right now is that it's Core + PHB2 + Completes only. If there aren't any guides around, I'll start a new thread.
It's not a guide, but you can check here: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=1532.0;wap2
JaronK
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Q14
I need a guide for building a character that must necessarily use a shield (that is able to siphon damage away from others, apparently similar to Shield Other) as a core concept. I know there was a Captain America build around somewhere, but it's gone from the Wizards boards. Are there any other guides to doing this? There are no casters, so it doesn't need to be up to that level of power, thankfully. Unfortunately, I'm not building the character, all I really know right now is that it's Core + PHB2 + Completes only. If there aren't any guides around, I'll start a new thread.
It's not a guide, but you can check here: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=1532.0;wap2
JaronK
That does nicely, thanks.
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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,
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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.
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Bump again
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
bump for more opinions
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Q15
Besides the Eberron Campaign Setting Supplement, what other sources state what I can do with Action Points?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Original question was "large or huge". I just wanted to remove half of that part.
edit: also, Expansion + permanency.
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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?
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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.
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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? ???
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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? ???
Psicrystal containment allows you to store your own psionic focus in a psicrystal as a spare, it doesn't allow you to use it's psionic focus.
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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? ???
Psicrystal containment allows you to store your own psionic focus in a psicrystal as a spare, it doesn't allow you to use it's psionic focus.
I don't know... I've read over the feat a couple of times now, and to me it looks like the psicrystal explicitly becomes focused, and the owner can opt to use that focus instead. However, the last line of the feat might complicate things regarding the crystal focusing itself via having Wild/Hidden Talent:
[spoiler]Psicrystal Containment [Psionic]
Your psicrystal has advanced enough that it can hold a psionic focus that you store within it.
Prerequisites: Psicrystal Affinity, manifester level 3rd.
Benefit: You can spend a full-round action attempting to psionically focus your psicrystal. At any time when you need to expend your psionic focus, you can expend your psicrystal’s psionic focus instead, as long as the crystal is within 5 feet of you. Psionically focusing your psicrystal works just like focusing yourself. The psicrystal cannot focus itself—only the owner can spend the time to focus the crystal.[/spoiler]
I take the 'works just like focusing yourself' clause to mean that you need to expend an action and succeed on a Concentration check. Or am I just being overly pedantic by this point? :p
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Yup, spend and action and make the check yourself.
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Yup, spend and action and make the check yourself.
Yes, you can focus your psicrystal yourself. But what's to stop you from using the focus that the psicrystal gained on its own?
At any time when you need to expend your psionic focus, you can expend your psicrystal’s psionic focus instead, as long as the crystal is within 5 feet of you.
Addendum: Maybe I should just make a thread about this. :blush
Further addendum: And I guess this is where the last clause of the feat comes in. What a blunder I've gone and made (though it's interesting that the psicrystal could focus itself before the owner took Psicrystal Containment). :V
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Q18: 2 part question all revolving around the same topic.
18a.What is the purpose of taking "Spontaneous Domain Casting: Time" as part of the Cleric dip in the Hood builds? Is being able to cast Truestrike spontaneously really that important?
18b.Is there any way to gain access to the Wrath domain instead for Rhino's Rush without changing gods and losing access to the Travel domain for the Travel Devotion feat?
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A18
a:
gets you Improved Initiative ... always important. also, almost all of the spells on that list seem like they'd be nice to have spontaneous access to. (never mind that getting a +20 to your attacks pretty-much whenever you want is pretty awesome ... especially if you're using stuff like Power Attack, etc., that lower your to-hit)
b:
do you mean like taking the "follow an ideal" (as opposed to a specific deity) option for clerics?
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A18
a:
gets you Improved Initiative ... always important. also, almost all of the spells on that list seem like they'd be nice to have spontaneous access to. (never mind that getting a +20 to your attacks pretty-much whenever you want is pretty awesome)
b:
do you mean like taking the "follow an ideal" (as opposed to a specific deity) option for clerics?
I'm not talking about taking Time as one of your domains. I understand why that's good. I'm talking specifically about the "Spontaneous Domain Casting" variant. What I don't get is why it's more important to be able to spontaneously cast Truestrike than it is to cast a cure spell, especially since it's a standard action. The build only takes 1 level of cleric, so the only spell that matters is the first one.
Is there a way to gain access to a third domain that your god doesn't normally grant?
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A18
a:
gets you Improved Initiative ... always important. also, almost all of the spells on that list seem like they'd be nice to have spontaneous access to. (never mind that getting a +20 to your attacks pretty-much whenever you want is pretty awesome)
b:
do you mean like taking the "follow an ideal" (as opposed to a specific deity) option for clerics?
I'm not talking about taking Time as one of your domains. I understand why that's good. I'm talking specifically about the "Spontaneous Domain Casting" variant. What I don't get is why it's more important to be able to spontaneously cast Truestrike than it is to cast a cure spell, especially since it's a standard action. The build only takes 1 level of cleric, so the only spell that matters is the first one.
Is there a way to gain access to a third domain that your god doesn't normally grant?
You can only cast a domain spell 1/day otherwise. Spontaneous Domain Casting allows you to do it for every spell you can cast.
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A18
a:
gets you Improved Initiative ... always important. also, almost all of the spells on that list seem like they'd be nice to have spontaneous access to. (never mind that getting a +20 to your attacks pretty-much whenever you want is pretty awesome)
b:
do you mean like taking the "follow an ideal" (as opposed to a specific deity) option for clerics?
I'm not talking about taking Time as one of your domains. I understand why that's good. I'm talking specifically about the "Spontaneous Domain Casting" variant. What I don't get is why it's more important to be able to spontaneously cast Truestrike than it is to cast a cure spell, especially since it's a standard action. The build only takes 1 level of cleric, so the only spell that matters is the first one.
Is there a way to gain access to a third domain that your god doesn't normally grant?
You can only cast a domain spell 1/day otherwise. Spontaneous Domain Casting allows you to do it for every spell you can cast.
Right, I understand that. I'm just wondering why Truestrike is so important that you'd get rid of your ability to spontaneously heal yourself.
Also, what about the accessing a third domain that's outside of your deity's list? Is that possible?
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A18
a:
gets you Improved Initiative ... always important. also, almost all of the spells on that list seem like they'd be nice to have spontaneous access to. (never mind that getting a +20 to your attacks pretty-much whenever you want is pretty awesome)
b:
do you mean like taking the "follow an ideal" (as opposed to a specific deity) option for clerics?
I'm not talking about taking Time as one of your domains. I understand why that's good. I'm talking specifically about the "Spontaneous Domain Casting" variant. What I don't get is why it's more important to be able to spontaneously cast Truestrike than it is to cast a cure spell, especially since it's a standard action. The build only takes 1 level of cleric, so the only spell that matters is the first one.
Is there a way to gain access to a third domain that your god doesn't normally grant?
You can only cast a domain spell 1/day otherwise. Spontaneous Domain Casting allows you to do it for every spell you can cast.
Right, I understand that. I'm just wondering why Truestrike is so important that you'd get rid of your ability to spontaneously heal yourself.
Also, what about the accessing a third domain that's outside of your deity's list? Is that possible?
Spontaneously healing yourself is more efficiently done via items. +20 to hit vs 1d8+1-5 hp? Yeah. Not even a question.
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Q19: What LA +0 races are there that give a bonus to Cha (aside from lesser Aasimar)?
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Q19: What LA +0 races are there that give a bonus to Cha (aside from lesser Aasimar)?
See my lesser planetouched guide.
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Q19: What LA +0 races are there that give a bonus to Cha (aside from lesser Aasimar)?
Hellbred (fiendish Codex II 78), spellscale (Races of the Dragon 21), and star elf (Unapproachable East 10).
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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? ???
Psicrystal containment allows you to store your own psionic focus in a psicrystal as a spare, it doesn't allow you to use it's psionic focus.
I don't know... I've read over the feat a couple of times now, and to me it looks like the psicrystal explicitly becomes focused, and the owner can opt to use that focus instead. However, the last line of the feat might complicate things regarding the crystal focusing itself via having Wild/Hidden Talent:
[spoiler]Psicrystal Containment [Psionic]
Your psicrystal has advanced enough that it can hold a psionic focus that you store within it.
Prerequisites: Psicrystal Affinity, manifester level 3rd.
Benefit: You can spend a full-round action attempting to psionically focus your psicrystal. At any time when you need to expend your psionic focus, you can expend your psicrystal’s psionic focus instead, as long as the crystal is within 5 feet of you. Psionically focusing your psicrystal works just like focusing yourself. The psicrystal cannot focus itself—only the owner can spend the time to focus the crystal.[/spoiler]
I take the 'works just like focusing yourself' clause to mean that you need to expend an action and succeed on a Concentration check. Or am I just being overly pedantic by this point? :p
OK so there's a detail here, that might not have come up before (idk / iirc).
The psicrystal could use the Focus, that the Psion placed into it.
The psicrystal (normally) can't Focus itself.
The psicrystal (normally) hasn't any way to use the Focus itself, after the Psion puts the Focus into the Psicrystal.
but IF ...
The psicrystal has Wild Talent for the psionic subtype and [Host] feat for a power and an ML
or Hidden Talent and something else to get the ML,
it would be able to use the Psion's Focus, that the psion put into the psicrystal,
on whatever power the Psicrystal has itself , on it's own.
The psicrystal could get Psi Focus on it's own,
if it could get a Constitution score. That takes time.
Undead get to use Charisma to get psi-focus (iirc).
Undead + Psicrystal = I have no idea.
The dreamscarred guys may have used a houserule like this.
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Q20
I'm looking for ways to improve my Spellcraft check to abuse Incantatrix and persist as many spells as possible. How do I get my Spellcraft check high enough? (For a level 10 Kobold Loredrake White Dragonspawn Sorcerer).
Very related Q21:
Is there a good way to get Guidance of the Avatar for a Sorcerer?
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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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Q 22 Where does it say Psicrystals get feats? Does this mean familiars get feats too? Animal companions get them because of their HD changes, I think, but where does it mention that Psicrystals get feats?
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Q19: What LA +0 races are there that give a bonus to Cha (aside from lesser Aasimar)?
Hellbred (fiendish Codex II 78), spellscale (Races of the Dragon 21), and star elf (Unapproachable East 10).
Hellbred (Spirit), specifically. Also, any LA+0 race of Middle age or older, and any LA+0 Race with Magic-Blooded (Dragon 306) template stacked onto it.
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any LA+0 Race with Magic-Blooded (Dragon 306) template stacked onto it.
Technically false. Anything with a racial -2 CHA (or a bigger penalty) will not have a net +2 CHA with Magic-Blooded. :P
There are a couple of Elves with Cha bonuses. Star Elves or something?
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Q20 If Monk gots Deflect Arrows, can deflect Net's entangle effect, correct? Where are some rules text to support that (Sage advice, FAQ, Rules comp., anything?)?
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Q24: Assume the following houserule is in effect-
Skill Focus and the "+2 to two skills" feats give class skills now in addition to their normal benefits.
What would be a good feat for a Wizard/Warmage/UM to take, given this houserule? Magical Aptitude might be nice for early ranks in UMD, but I think with my Int I'll have more than enough to max that after I get into UM levels.
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NOT ALL OF US CAN HAVE QUESTION 20! :D
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NOT ALL OF US CAN HAVE QUESTION 20! :D
This thread is stalked by ninjas all the time.
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Q20
I'm looking for ways to improve my Spellcraft check to abuse Incantatrix and persist as many spells as possible. How do I get my Spellcraft check high enough? (For a level 10 Kobold Loredrake White Dragonspawn Sorcerer).
A20 If you want to be cheap, you can buy custom magic items with Insight, Profane, Blessed, Dodge, Competence, Enhancement, et al. bonuses to skills. Of course, these are bullshit bonus types. They still exist in 3.5, unless you specifically houserule them away.
Otherwise, Polymorph into a Dusk Giant, eat lots of chickens for HD, put new skill points into ranks, end polymorph and lose the accrued HD. Can get some pretty awesome ranks.
Of course my answers are all crazy shit no sane DM would ever really let you get away with.
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Q20
I'm looking for ways to improve my Spellcraft check to abuse Incantatrix and persist as many spells as possible. How do I get my Spellcraft check high enough? (For a level 10 Kobold Loredrake White Dragonspawn Sorcerer).
Very related Q21:
Is there a good way to get Guidance of the Avatar for a Sorcerer?
a) Item familiar
b) I think unseen seer gets you it.
Q 22 Where does it say Psicrystals get feats? Does this mean familiars get feats too? Animal companions get them because of their HD changes, I think, but where does it mention that Psicrystals get feats?
1) Psicrystals are nonmindless creatures
2) Psicrystals gain HD
3) Nonmindless creatures get feats every 3 hd
4) There's no specific rule saying psicrystals don't get feats
5) Therefore, psicrystals gain feats every 3 hd.
Familiars don't gain hd.
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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.
Link?
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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.
Link?
There is no link.
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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.
Link?
There is no link.
And the confection composed of sugar, milk and eggs, heated in a device designed to contain and focus heat upon a central point, is a fabrication.
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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.
I wish to narrow it down to things a character can do which are not granted by feats, items, or class features.
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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.
I wish to narrow it down to things a character can do which are not granted by feats, items, or class features.
Not much, really. I don't recall seeing a single one.
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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.
I wish to narrow it down to things a character can do which are not granted by feats, items, or class features.
Look at the action point options in the UA, then. There's a ton that have no bearing on your feats, items, or class features.
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Q25: Can Sharns apply metamagic to its spells, that are casts as SLA's?
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Q25: Can Sharn apply metamagic to it's spells, that are casts as SLA's?
AFAICT, yes.
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
What is your save DC already, what items do you have that modify stats and save DCs, and what feats do you have that modify DCs. What powers, specifically, are you looking to boost that high?
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
What is your save DC already, what items do you have that modify stats and save DCs, and what feats do you have that modify DCs. What powers, specifically, are you looking to boost that high?
Quick rundown, temporarily my Int is 18 and I have no items (I'm a helmet until I get my body back), but within the next session or 2 my Int will be 32 (18 base + 3 from crystal master prc +6 enhancement + 5 inherent) with no feats or equipment that modify save DCs. Feats are kinda full, but I might be able to find room if I need to. I mostly want to raise my DCs for save or be screwed/die powers such as psionic blast and crystallize.
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
What is your save DC already, what items do you have that modify stats and save DCs, and what feats do you have that modify DCs. What powers, specifically, are you looking to boost that high?
Quick rundown, temporarily my Int is 18 and I have no items (I'm a helmet until I get my body back), but within the next session or 2 my Int will be 32 (18 base + 3 from crystal master prc +6 enhancement + 5 inherent) with no feats or equipment that modify save DCs. Feats are kinda full, but I might be able to find room if I need to. I mostly want to raise my DCs for save or be screwed/die powers such as psionic blast and crystallize.
Well, with that Int alone you are looking at a DC 27 for Crystallize. Short of taking the Psionic Endowment line of feats for bonuses to your powers, I cannot recall any psionic specific items to boost saves DCs.
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
What is your save DC already, what items do you have that modify stats and save DCs, and what feats do you have that modify DCs. What powers, specifically, are you looking to boost that high?
Quick rundown, temporarily my Int is 18 and I have no items (I'm a helmet until I get my body back), but within the next session or 2 my Int will be 32 (18 base + 3 from crystal master prc +6 enhancement + 5 inherent) with no feats or equipment that modify save DCs. Feats are kinda full, but I might be able to find room if I need to. I mostly want to raise my DCs for save or be screwed/die powers such as psionic blast and crystallize.
Well, with that Int alone you are looking at a DC 27 for Crystallize. Short of taking the Psionic Endowment line of feats for bonuses to your powers, I cannot recall any psionic specific items to boost saves DCs.
The DM has allowed re-tooling magic items to fit psionics, such as my orange ioun stone giving me +1 ML.
Edit: One more note, I'm shooting for 30, but the enemy that killed my last character made 3 DC 30 saves (spiralburst bottles) in a row, so I'd like to get it even higher if possible.
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
What is your save DC already, what items do you have that modify stats and save DCs, and what feats do you have that modify DCs. What powers, specifically, are you looking to boost that high?
Quick rundown, temporarily my Int is 18 and I have no items (I'm a helmet until I get my body back), but within the next session or 2 my Int will be 32 (18 base + 3 from crystal master prc +6 enhancement + 5 inherent) with no feats or equipment that modify save DCs. Feats are kinda full, but I might be able to find room if I need to. I mostly want to raise my DCs for save or be screwed/die powers such as psionic blast and crystallize.
Well, with that Int alone you are looking at a DC 27 for Crystallize. Short of taking the Psionic Endowment line of feats for bonuses to your powers, I cannot recall any psionic specific items to boost saves DCs.
The DM has allowed re-tooling magic items to fit psionics, such as my orange ioun stone giving me +1 ML.
The problem with that, is that you'd have to have a different item for each discipline, since there's already direct correlations between schools and disciplines for correlation. There's the veil from the MiC magic item set with the seven veils that boosts enchantment DCs by 1, but I cannot think for the life of me what the other DC boosting items are right now. Running on entirely too little sleep. If I think of any later on, I'll add them in.
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Q26: What is the best way to (A) increase the save DCs of my powers or (B) use psionics to lower the targets saves or (C) anything else a psion could do to increase the chances of the enemy failing saves?
A few notes
[spoiler]I've already explored increasing my primary manifesting ability score and bend reality. I'm 14th level, but have about 250k gp to spend. Due to various reasons I need to get my save DCs above 30 (or the equivalent in penalties to the enemies saves) if possible.[/spoiler]
What is your save DC already, what items do you have that modify stats and save DCs, and what feats do you have that modify DCs. What powers, specifically, are you looking to boost that high?
Quick rundown, temporarily my Int is 18 and I have no items (I'm a helmet until I get my body back), but within the next session or 2 my Int will be 32 (18 base + 3 from crystal master prc +6 enhancement + 5 inherent) with no feats or equipment that modify save DCs. Feats are kinda full, but I might be able to find room if I need to. I mostly want to raise my DCs for save or be screwed/die powers such as psionic blast and crystallize.
Well, with that Int alone you are looking at a DC 27 for Crystallize. Short of taking the Psionic Endowment line of feats for bonuses to your powers, I cannot recall any psionic specific items to boost saves DCs.
The DM has allowed re-tooling magic items to fit psionics, such as my orange ioun stone giving me +1 ML.
The problem with that, is that you'd have to have a different item for each discipline, since there's already direct correlations between schools and disciplines for correlation. There's the veil from the MiC magic item set with the seven veils that boosts enchantment DCs by 1, but I cannot think for the life of me what the other DC boosting items are right now. Running on entirely too little sleep. If I think of any later on, I'll add them in.
That would be awesome. Thanks a bunch :)
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Q28
Is there a list anywhere of spells that are a lower level than normal on a certain spell list compared to its normal level? Like lesser restoration on the paladin list.
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Q29: Is there a domain with Divine Insight and/or Guidance of the Avatar on their list? For Arcane Disciple purposes.
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Q29: Is there a domain with Divine Insight and/or Guidance of the Avatar on their list? For Arcane Disciple purposes.
Not unless you modified one.
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q30 Are there items/feats to advance a Monk's Flurry of Blows? I know a ton exist for Unarmed Progression. I'm trying to get to level 15 Flurry with two levels in Monk. Am I insane?
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Q29: Is there a domain with Divine Insight and/or Guidance of the Avatar on their list? For Arcane Disciple purposes.
Not unless you modified one.
Drat. No ways I can do that without a PrC either, I imagine.
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q30 Are there items/feats to advance a Monk's Flurry of Blows? I know a ton exist for Unarmed Progression. I'm trying to get to level 15 Flurry with two levels in Monk. Am I insane?
The feat Tashalatora advances it with a psionic class. These PrCs will also advance it: Shou Disciple (Unapproachable East), Disciple of the Eye (Races of the Dragon), Sun Soul Monk (Waterdeep), Disciple of the Word (Tome of Magic, Errata), Shadow Sun Ninja (Tome of Battle), Initiate of Pistis Sophia (Book of Exalted Deeds), and Haztaratain (Secrets of Sarlona).
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A29
List one (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872558/Lowest_level_versions_of_spells) and List two (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8750.0)
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Server not found. Editing to see if these work instead.
List one (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872558/Lowest_level_versions_of_spells) and List two (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8750.0)
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Server not found. Editing to see if these work instead.
List one (http://"community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872558/Lowest_level_versions_of_spells") and List two (http://"brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8750.0")
I found the problem. I copied the code straight from the GitP post I made and those forums stuck some extra characters into the links. I fixed my reply and it works this time. :)
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List one (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872558/Lowest_level_versions_of_spells) and List two (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8750.0)
Still not quite right. The quotations are keeping the link from working. These work though.
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q30 Are there items/feats to advance a Monk's Flurry of Blows? I know a ton exist for Unarmed Progression. I'm trying to get to level 15 Flurry with two levels in Monk. Am I insane?
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I thought flurry ended at level 11?
Lots of classes stack with monk for the reduced penalties at 5 and 9, but do any actually stack for the extra attack at 11?
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Okay, here's mine...
Q31: Does Foresight stop sneak attacks and abilities dependent upon sneak attack damage?
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Okay, here's mine...
Q31: Does Foresight stop sneak attacks and abilities dependent upon sneak attack damage?
I think that it stops sneaks attacks that count as such because you are flat-footed or surprised but not sneak attack that come from being flanked....
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Q32: Is there a way to bypass alignment restrictions on prstige classes?
For example a way to take Ur priest while being good,or Radiant servant of pelor while being chaotic?
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Q32: Is there a way to bypass alignment restrictions on prstige classes?
For example a way to take Ur priest while being good,or Radiant servant of pelor while being chaotic?
Reflavoring only. Shouldn't be too hard, as neither PrC has a strict reliance on alignment as a mechanic to determine its class features.
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Alignment subtypes work. Possibly also Heretic of the Faith (power of Faerun) if your DM rules it that way.
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A32: It depends on what the alignment restrictions are. Alignment subtypes will treat you as having a certain extreme (chaotic/evil/good/lawful) alignment component even if you don't actually have it (see Savage Species for a ritual to gain them), and Ordered Chaos is a feat that works similarly to make you "chaotic" (check Fiendish Codex 1). All have wording to the effect that you're treated as if you have both your original alignment and the new alignment, so:
- They'll work fine if having an extreme alignment component is necessary, like with Ur-Priest. ("Any evil")
- They'll work fine if having a specific alignment other than True Neutral is necessary, like with Radiant Servant of Pelor. ("Neutral good") Watch out, though, because subtypes and OC will only allow you to fake the extreme alignment components, not the neutral ones. (To take RSoP while being chaotic, be Neutral Good with Ordered Chaos.)
- They will not work if not having a specific alignment is necessary, like with Rainbow Servant. ("Any nonevil and nonchaotic")
- They will not work if having a True Neutral alignment is necessary, as with Divine Crusader of Zuoken. ("Must match chose deity", and Zuoken is TN.)
- They will not work if having a neutral alignment component is necessary, as with Void Disciple. ("Any neutral")
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Q 33 Can a character with SLA use those spells as the spells needed to be casted for a PrC? For instance, a rage mage requires you to be able to cast 2nd level arcane spells, and an ogre mage can cast up to 5th level SLAs.
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Q 33 Can a character with SLA use those spells as the spells needed to be casted for a PrC? For instance, a rage mage requires you to be able to cast 2nd level arcane spells, and an ogre mage can cast up to 5th level SLAs.
There's a large section of Complete Arcane that deals with all of that.
For your specific example: no. SLAs don't count for spell level, and SLAs aren't arcane.
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Q 34 Does regeneration and fast healing stack? I see a lot of abominations have them both.
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Q 34 Does regeneration and fast healing stack? I see a lot of abominations have them both.
You get both.
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Q 34 Does regeneration and fast healing stack? I see a lot of abominations have them both.
You get both.
AFAIK Regeneration only heals nonlethal damage, while Fast Healing can heal both that and the lethal damage. As such, if something has Regen 5 and Fast Healing 5, then they heal 5 lethal damage and 5 nonlethal each round. If they have taken less than 5 lethal damage, then the remaining fast healing heals any nonlethal damage taken.
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Regeneration also turns lethal damage into nonlethal, except for certain kinds (normally acid, fire or cold).
Which makes a creature with Fast Healing, Regeneration and DR a REAL beast to kill.
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Regeneration also turns lethal damage into nonlethal, except for certain kinds (normally acid, fire or cold).
Which makes a creature with Fast Healing, Regeneration and DR a REAL beast to kill.
Not really... a hood just needs to set it on fire after it deals 2k nonlethal damage it.
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So if you took 1 point of nonlethal and 6 points of lethal, and have Regen 5/Fast Healing 5, you're going to first heal the 1 point of nonlethal, then the 5 points of lethal, and then the final point of lethal gets turned into nonlethal? Am I reading that right? Now, what if you never take nonlethal? Most games I've been in, regardless of DM, rarely ever do nonlethal damage.
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So if you took 1 point of nonlethal and 6 points of lethal, and have Regen 5/Fast Healing 5, you're going to first heal the 1 point of nonlethal, then the 5 points of lethal, and then the final point of lethal gets turned into nonlethal? Am I reading that right? Now, what if you never take nonlethal? Most games I've been in, regardless of DM, rarely ever do nonlethal damage.
No, they have absolutely nothing to do with reducing damage taken.
If you have taken (past tense) 1 point of nonlethal damage and 6 points of lethal damage and you have regen 5 and FH 5, then next round you'll have recovered all but 1 point of lethal damage (which stays lethal).
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No, they have absolutely nothing to do with reducing damage taken.
If you have taken (past tense) 1 point of nonlethal damage and 6 points of lethal damage and you have regen 5 and FH 5, then next round you'll have recovered all but 1 point of lethal damage (which stays lethal).
I didn't mean for it to sound like DR. I know it doesn't reduce damage taken.
So then what was that part about Regen turns lethal into nonlethal that Kuroimaken was talking about?
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So if you took 1 point of nonlethal and 6 points of lethal, and have Regen 5/Fast Healing 5, you're going to first heal the 1 point of nonlethal, then the 5 points of lethal, and then the final point of lethal gets turned into nonlethal? Am I reading that right? Now, what if you never take nonlethal? Most games I've been in, regardless of DM, rarely ever do nonlethal damage.
Let's say you have Regen 5/ fire or acid, and Fast healing 5.
Someone hits you with an attack that deals 5 electricity damage and 1 nonlethal damage. Regeneration converts this into 6 nonlethal damage
On your turn, you heal up to 5 nonlethal damage from your regeneration, and 5 damage from your fast healing.
Now, let's say they hit you with an attack that deals 11 points of fire damage and 16 points of electricity damage.
The electricity damage is converted to nonlethal, so the attack deals 11 lethal and 16 nonlethal.
Your regeneration heals up 5 nonlethal. Your fast healing prioritizes nonlethal damage, so it heals up 5 nonlethal as well.
Next round, you have 11 lethal and 6 nonlethal. You heal up 5 nonlethal from regeneration, and then 1 point of nonlethal and 4 pounds of lethal from fast healing.
Basically: if something overcomes your regeneration, it deals lethal damage. Otherwise, the attack deals nonlethal damage. Each turn, regeneration heals some number of nonlethal damage.
Fast healing heals nonlethal and lethal damage, but prioritizes nonlethal.
Clear?
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Clear?
Not really, no. Mostly because of the Regen 5/acid or fire = turning 16 lethal damage into nonlethal. That, and FH prioritizing nonlethal over lethal first.
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No, they have absolutely nothing to do with reducing damage taken.
If you have taken (past tense) 1 point of nonlethal damage and 6 points of lethal damage and you have regen 5 and FH 5, then next round you'll have recovered all but 1 point of lethal damage (which stays lethal).
I didn't mean for it to sound like DR. I know it doesn't reduce damage taken.
So then what was that part about Regen turns lethal into nonlethal that Kuroimaken was talking about?
Regeneration does not work like the ring of regeneration. Look at the regeneration ability in the SRD.
That said, I didn't know that Fast Healing prioritized nonlethal damage. Meh... fast healing itself so rarely comes into play, nevermind fast healing + regen.
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No, they have absolutely nothing to do with reducing damage taken.
If you have taken (past tense) 1 point of nonlethal damage and 6 points of lethal damage and you have regen 5 and FH 5, then next round you'll have recovered all but 1 point of lethal damage (which stays lethal).
I didn't mean for it to sound like DR. I know it doesn't reduce damage taken.
So then what was that part about Regen turns lethal into nonlethal that Kuroimaken was talking about?
Regeneration does not work like the ring of regeneration. Look at the regeneration ability in the SRD.
That said, I didn't know that Fast Healing prioritized nonlethal damage. Meh... fast healing itself so rarely comes into play, nevermind fast healing + regen.
Unless you're a saint, have Corellon's Millenial Chainmail from MIC, or get it from other instances. It really depends on the game. I'm exposed to it fairly regularly. Unless you're facing a deity, then they tend to have both.
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Let's say I'm a troll. Trolls have regeneration 5/ acid or fire.
That means that only acid or fire will deal lethal damage to me. Any other kind of damage, be it slashing, piercing, sacred, dessication, city, et cetera, is instantly converted to nonlethal damage. You could drop the moon on me and I'd be still alive. Unconscious, but alive.
In addition to that really cool ability granted by my regeneration, I have a secondary one. On each and every one of my turns, I heal 5 points of nonlethal damage.
Now, let's say instead I'm a hydra instead. Hydras have fast healing 15. That means on my turn, every round, I heal up 15 points of damage. That's pretty cool.
If I have both lethal and nonlethal damage, my fast healing is a lazy bastard and cures nonlethal damage first. So if I have 13 points of nonlethal damage, and some amount of lethal damage, on my next turn fast healing will cure up all my nonlethal, and only 2 points of my lethal.
Oddly enough, if someone casts a healing spell like cure minor wounds on me when I have both lethal and nonlethal damage, it'll cure the full amount of both (so 1 lethal and 1 nonlethal for cure minor)
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Regeneration does not work like the ring of regeneration. Look at the regeneration ability in the SRD.
That said, I didn't know that Fast Healing prioritized nonlethal damage. Meh... fast healing itself so rarely comes into play, nevermind fast healing + regen.
Unless you're a saint, have Corellon's Millenial Chainmail from MIC, or get it from other instances. It really depends on the game. I'm exposed to it fairly regularly. Unless you're facing a deity, then they tend to have both.
This is what's called "missing the point." In a game of rocket tag, healing 2 points of damage each round does jack squat.
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Regeneration does not work like the ring of regeneration. Look at the regeneration ability in the SRD.
That said, I didn't know that Fast Healing prioritized nonlethal damage. Meh... fast healing itself so rarely comes into play, nevermind fast healing + regen.
Unless you're a saint, have Corellon's Millenial Chainmail from MIC, or get it from other instances. It really depends on the game. I'm exposed to it fairly regularly. Unless you're facing a deity, then they tend to have both.
This is what's called "missing the point." In a game of rocket tag, healing 2 points of damage each round does jack squat.
True, but you only heal that many points if you're a 4 HD saint, and that's not possible. If, however, you're 20 HD, then FH 10 isn't terrible. Makes you almost on par with the epic level bastard who's got regen 15 each round.
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Oddly enough, if someone casts a healing spell like cure minor wounds on me when I have both lethal and nonlethal damage, it'll cure the full amount of both (so 1 lethal and 1 nonlethal for cure minor)
So a cure light wounds could heal 1d8+5 lethal and nonlethal in the same round? That's good. I've only known DMs to play it as one or the other.
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Oddly enough, if someone casts a healing spell like cure minor wounds on me when I have both lethal and nonlethal damage, it'll cure the full amount of both (so 1 lethal and 1 nonlethal for cure minor)
So a cure light wounds could heal 1d8+5 lethal and nonlethal in the same round? That's good. I've only known DMs to play it as one or the other.
Yep
Healing Nonlethal Damage
You heal nonlethal damage at the rate of 1 hit point per hour per character level.
When a spell or a magical power cures hit point damage, it also removes an equal amount of nonlethal damage.
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That was an interesting discussion...
Q 35Is it possible to get Regen/- and Immunity to Nonlethal damage?
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That was an interesting discussion...
Q 35Is it possible to get Regen/- and Immunity to Nonlethal damage?
Yes.
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Q 36: How does Bloodstorm Blade's ability to initiate a maneuver on a thrown attack interact with the Master Throwers trick shots? Specifically the one that lets you trip with a thrown weapon in the context of initiating a Setting Sun throw maneuver.
Pre-Edit: Scratch that. This wouldn't work even if it works. Bloodstorm Blade only lets you initiate Iron Heart strikes, not just any ones. Oh well. Assuming that it allowed you to initiate strikes from other schools, how would it still work?
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That was an interesting discussion...
Q 35Is it possible to get Regen/- and Immunity to Nonlethal damage?
Yes.
Typically requires Master Transmogrifist, although it's possible with template shenanigans and feats from questionable sources. Yes, Master Transmog is a 5/10 class. Yes, it's worth it.
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Q 37 Swift Concentration Skill Trick. Is it limited to 1/encounter?
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Q 37 Swift Concentration Skill Trick. Is it limited to 1/encounter?
Not necessarily. Depends on how long the encounter lasts. Essentially you're allowed to use it once every 10 rounds.
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Q 37 Swift Concentration Skill Trick. Is it limited to 1/encounter?
Of course.
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I'd leave it up to the DM in the end. They decide in the end. If your DM's nice, he'll read it and allow the 1/encounter or minute ruling. This of course doesn't include whether or not the skill trick itself can be used more often.
Unless otherwise noted, a skill trick can be performed only once per encounter (or once per minute, for scenes that don’t involve combat or other conflict).
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I'd leave it up to the DM in the end. They decide in the end. If your DM's nice, he'll read it and allow the 1/encounter or minute ruling. This of course doesn't include whether or not the skill trick itself can be used more often.
Unless otherwise noted, a skill trick can be performed only once per encounter (or once per minute, for scenes that don’t involve combat or other conflict).
If you're in an encounter, then RAW it's once during that encounter. Period. It's pretty damn clear on that point.
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I'd leave it up to the DM in the end. They decide in the end. If your DM's nice, he'll read it and allow the 1/encounter or minute ruling. This of course doesn't include whether or not the skill trick itself can be used more often.
Unless otherwise noted, a skill trick can be performed only once per encounter (or once per minute, for scenes that don’t involve combat or other conflict).
If you're in an encounter, then RAW it's once during that encounter. Period. It's pretty damn clear on that point.
Or, you could have a nice DM who looks into the "or" part. Like mine did. BTW, this is also pretty damn clean on the point. Unless otherwise noted. Be sure to watch out for that part too.
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Or, you could have a nice DM who looks into the "or" part. Like mine did. BTW, this is also pretty damn clean on the point. Unless otherwise noted. Be sure to watch out for that part too.
The fact that you whine to your DM for houserules doesn't change the RAW, and just FYI, it's not otherwise noted that Swift Concentration is usable any more often than once per encounter.
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Or, you could have a nice DM who looks into the "or" part. Like mine did. BTW, this is also pretty damn clean on the point. Unless otherwise noted. Be sure to watch out for that part too.
The fact that you whine to your DM for houserules doesn't change the RAW, and just FYI, it's not otherwise noted that Swift Concentration is usable any more often than once per encounter.
Yes, I whine to my DM for houserules. That must be it. It's like he makes them up as he goes along. Are you trying to start a spamming flame war? Because you will lose.
Regardless, this particular skill trick does not have multiple uses.
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Yes, I whine to my DM for houserules. That must be it. It's like he makes them up as he goes along.
I know, right? Truth is, the entire d20 system is DM fiat. The only reason WotC prints books is to shamelessly milk money from the people too inane to realize that there are no rules, and that D&D is basically one big, nerdy circle jerk, and the DM is a totally un-hot stripper. Luckily, they're roleplaying, so they don't give a damn, anyway. Take it off, Gordo, take it all off.
That said, not all DMs are willing to put in the effort it takes to do a proper show. Therefore, they make their players read badly written, speciously edited, and woefully overpriced fantasy novels with the hope that audience participation makes his job easier. As previously mentioned, however, these fantasy novels suck, so sometimes the players need our help interpreting what they say. That's what we do. We don't tell them to make Gordo take his panties off, we tell them what the books say.
Are you trying to start a spamming flame war? Because you will lose.
Nah, I'm done. This comment has successfully entertained me.
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Q38. How exactly does a Swarm range of attack works? Can it affect multiple Targets? In my case it's a Deathraven Swarm, Crows, so i can't imagine them being THAT small...
A Swarm has no attack range or reach. It must move into an enemy's space, and then deals its listed damage automatically every round. If the swarm covers more than one square, thenit can affect multiple targets by covering their spaces, similarly to an area effect.
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The only reason WotC prints books is to shamelessly milk money from the people
I won't deny this whatsoever. I mean, just look at D&D Essentials. It's 4.5, and all it is, is AD&D and 3.5 mixed with some of the 4th rules. I mean, a mage getting a spellbook instead of having encounter powers? That's just so crazy it might actually work.
That being said, anyone read the Essentials line yet? You've got your "I hit good" fighter, thief, a mage with spellbooks, and one other. Oh, and the core races again. No ranger or any of the other core classes yet, and it's unknown as to whether or not the other classes will get revised, not to mention the new races, but one thing is definitely certain. It's not compatible with 4th anymore. At least not that anyone's seen yet.
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That being said, anyone read the Essentials line yet?
I haven't. I'm waiting for 5th edition and will only pick up the books if 5th edition is popular.
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Q38: Is there a PrC that advances rogue and monk levels or is more beneficial to a Monk 7 rogue 3 than an other level in rogue?
Please don't discuss how this combo sucks, as this is the PC of a fellow player. He has played this PC for some years and is loath to ditch it. I already pointed him to the Unarmed Swordsage to advance in instead of Monk. But he's dead set on going rogue 4 to keep his skills and sneak attack up.
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Q38: Is there a PrC that advances rogue and monk levels or is more beneficial to a Monk 7 rogue 3 than an other level in rogue?
Please don't discuss how this combo sucks, as this is the PC of a fellow player. He has played this PC for some years and is loath to ditch it. I already pointed him to the Unarmed Swordsage to advance in instead of Monk. But he's dead set on going rogue 4 to keep his skills and sneak attack up.
Not that I'm aware of, but I'd really try to convince him to take Ascetic Rogue from CAdv if he hasn't already. At least that way his Unarmed Damage would continue progression.
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Q38: Is there a PrC that advances rogue and monk levels or is more beneficial to a Monk 7 rogue 3 than an other level in rogue?
Please don't discuss how this combo sucks, as this is the PC of a fellow player. He has played this PC for some years and is loath to ditch it. I already pointed him to the Unarmed Swordsage to advance in instead of Monk. But he's dead set on going rogue 4 to keep his skills and sneak attack up.
Not that I'm aware of, but I'd really try to convince him to take Ascetic Rogue from CAdv if he hasn't already. At least that way his Unarmed Damage would continue progression.
Not that I know. Good point. That'll have to wait till lvl 12, or a retrain opportunity. Thanx.
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Is there any way to get intelligence to attack bonus, instead of STR, DEX, WIS and/or CHA?
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Q40 With High Arcana Arcane Reach, I can make touch spells into rays. Can I enhance these spells with things like split ray?
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Q40 With High Arcana Arcane Reach, I can make touch spells into rays. Can I enhance these spells with things like split ray?
It doesn't actually change the spell into a ray; it changes a touch spell into a ranged touch spell. Most ranged touch spells are rays, but not all; see Orb of X line. It requires the Effect: Ray line to be considered a ray (such as enervation and the rays described in Spell Compendium).
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A39 see here: http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=215.0
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Q40 With High Arcana Arcane Reach, I can make touch spells into rays. Can I enhance these spells with things like split ray?
It doesn't actually change the spell into a ray; it changes a touch spell into a ranged touch spell. Most ranged touch spells are rays, but not all; see Orb of X line. It requires the Effect: Ray line to be considered a ray (such as enervation and the rays described in Spell Compendium).
Spellwarp Sniper would do the trick, though.
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Q41: Except for the select few in the Netheril: Empire of Magic from 1996, are there any published spells in 3.0 or 3.5 (yeah, I know Netheril: Empire of Magic isn't either one) that are beyond level 9 for epic levels?
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Q41: Except for the select few in the Netheril: Empire of Magic from 1996, are there any published spells in 3.0 or 3.5 (yeah, I know Netheril: Empire of Magic isn't either one) that are beyond level 9 for epic levels?
they changed that system in the transition to 3rd ed. Any spell that was formerly higher than nine is now just a straight epic spell. Lost Empires of Faerun and Magic of Faerun (3.5 and 3.0 respectively) reprinted most of those, if not all, from what I recall.
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Q42
If a creature lacks a CON score, what abilities become CHA-based instead of CON-based?
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Q42
If a creature lacks a CON score, what abilities become CHA-based instead of CON-based?
As far as I know, only those explicitly noted as changing.
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A 42
Only the Concentration skill.
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Repost and update:
Q 36: How does Bloodstorm Blade's ability to initiate a maneuver on a thrown attack interact with the Master Throwers trick shots? Specifically the one that lets you trip with a thrown weapon in the context of initiating a Setting Sun throw maneuver.
Pre-Edit: Scratch that. This wouldn't work even if it works. Bloodstorm Blade only lets you initiate Iron Heart strikes, not just any ones. Oh well. Assuming that it allowed you to initiate strikes from other schools, how would it still work?
Update: The Setting Sun throws just require you to make a melee touch attack and a trip attempt. The other BB lvl 2 ability lets you make a melee attack at range. If you're using a trip-capable weapon, like a spiked chain or a guisarme, you should be able to trip with it as a "melee" attack, right? If so, can you use a Setting Sun throw to trip an opponent and move him to within 10 feet of you?
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Q 43 What's a good way to beat (or get time to escape from) high HD vermin as an Air Walking Cleric lvl 10? (assume no DMM and no domains and no feats, just the spell list) How about from angry druids?
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Q 43 What's a good way to beat (or get time to escape from) high HD vermin as an Air Walking Cleric lvl 10? (assume no DMM and no domains and no feats, just the spell list) How about from angry druids?
The Repel Vermin spell. I think it even works against vermin-shaped druids.
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Q44: Aside from Incantatrix and Mage of the Arcane Order, is there any PrC that grants you free metamagic feats early?
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Q 43 What's a good way to beat (or get time to escape from) high HD vermin as an Air Walking Cleric lvl 10? (assume no DMM and no domains and no feats, just the spell list) How about from angry druids?
The Repel Vermin spell. I think it even works against vermin-shaped druids.
What about the 'high HD vermin'? Repel Vermin blocks CL/3, which is only vermin with 3 or less HD.
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Stolen from the Party Face thread:
Not too familiar with ToM, but can a binder/warlock get into anima mage?
Not without qualification tricks for spell casting of minimum level spells.
Q45: What qualifications tricks would work here?
I'm assuming Magical Training with Precocious Apprentice would work just fine but is there anything out there that would work for a non-human or non-elf (which is a prereq for Magical Training)?
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Q 43 What's a good way to beat (or get time to escape from) high HD vermin as an Air Walking Cleric lvl 10? (assume no DMM and no domains and no feats, just the spell list) How about from angry druids?
The Repel Vermin spell. I think it even works against vermin-shaped druids.
What about the 'high HD vermin'? Repel Vermin blocks CL/3, which is only vermin with 3 or less HD.
They only get a saving throw, and their Will saves are downright terrible.
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Isn't there also a hide from vermin spell.
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Q45: As I recall, there was at least one way, maybe a couple, of getting a shield to float about you, freeing your hands up for more important things. I think one of them was a shield enhancement, but I don't know. Thanks for whatever help you sages can provide.
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Q45: As I recall, there was at least one way, maybe a couple, of getting a shield to float about you, freeing your hands up for more important things. I think one of them was a shield enhancement, but I don't know. Thanks for whatever help you sages can provide.
Animated shield?
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Q 46 What are some ways that a PC can gain tremorsense?
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Q 47: Is there any way to increase the number of HD of undead you can control? A feat/item/class/anything?
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Q 47: Is there any way to increase the number of HD of undead you can control? A feat/item/class/anything?
When the dread necromancer gains 8th level, the Str and Dex go up by +2 for every HD they have, as well as when the animate dead spell is cast, you can control 4+CHA mod HD worth of undead per class level instead of just 4 HD worth. They gain a similar bonus for control undead, which is 2+CHA mod HD/level instead of 2 HD/level.
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Q 47: Is there any way to increase the number of HD of undead you can control? A feat/item/class/anything?
Rod of Undead Mastery doubles your control limits for Undead.
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
Libris Mortis gave vampires a feat that'll let them survive for a few additional rounds, and Expedition to Castle Ravenloft gave them an artifact that'll make them completely immune.
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Q 49 In addition to my previous question, I ask this one simply because I think WotC didn't do their math correctly.
Bar-lguras are medium-sized, CR 5, and have 6 HD. If an outsider advances, then for every 2 HD they go up, their CR goes up by 1. If that creature goes up a size category, they go up 1 CR. So, going with that, if a bar-lgura is 14 HD, which makes it large-sized, and is sorc 6/assassin 8, would their CR be 21, as WotC is saying, or would it be 24 as per the advancement rules http://www.d20srd.org/srd/improvingMonsters.htm#advancedMonsterChallengeRating (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/improvingMonsters.htm#advancedMonsterChallengeRating)?
CR 5 + 4 (8 HD outsider) + 1 (increase in size) + 14 (associated class levels).
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
also, sundark goggles, iron heart surge.
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Q 47: Is there any way to increase the number of HD of undead you can control? A feat/item/class/anything?
The Bone Knight prestige class doubles the number of undead you can control.
Undead mastery is an Epic feat, but it gives you 10x as many undead.
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
also, sundark goggles, iron heart surge.
Sundark goggles only negate the Dazzled condition from sunlight. Otherwise I think every vampire around wouldn't think twice about spending 10gp to ignore their greatest weakness (as well as look "cool").
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CR 5 + 4 (8 HD outsider) + 1 (increase in size) + 14 (associated class levels).
Sorcerer is a non-associated class for bar-lgura, and assassin is an associated class for them. It's 5 (base) + 4 (8 outsider HD) + 1 (large size) + 3 (6 non-associated class levels) + 8 (8 associated class levels) = 21.
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
also, sundark goggles, iron heart surge.
Sundark goggles only negate the Dazzled condition from sunlight. Otherwise I think every vampire around wouldn't think twice about spending 10gp to ignore their greatest weakness (as well as look "cool").
Ack, not the item I'm thinking of, then. There are some goggles from LM that give a vampire a round of sunlight protection. Night goggles?
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CR 5 + 4 (8 HD outsider) + 1 (increase in size) + 14 (associated class levels).
Sorcerer is a non-associated class for bar-lgura, and assassin is an associated class for them. It's 5 (base) + 4 (8 outsider HD) + 1 (large size) + 3 (6 non-associated class levels) + 8 (8 associated class levels) = 21.
Really? I always thought that NPC class levels, like expert or warrior, were the nonassociated levels. And a PrC can be an associated, but a base class can't? Seems rather odd.
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Q 46 What are some ways that a PC can gain tremorsense?
Q 50 How do you know whether a class is a non-associated level advancer for an NPC or not? Whether or not it's favored?
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These are the guidelines:
- Barbarian, fighter, paladin, and ranger are associated classes for a creature that relies on its fighting ability.
- Rogue and ranger are associated classes for a creature that relies on stealth to surprise its foes, or on skill use to give itself an advantage.
- A spellcasting class is an associated class for a creature that already has the ability to cast spells as a character of the class in question, since the monster’s levels in the spellcasting class stack with its innate spellcasting ability.
- Levels in NPC classes are always treated as nonassociated.
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These are the guidelines:
- Barbarian, fighter, paladin, and ranger are associated classes for a creature that relies on its fighting ability.
- Rogue and ranger are associated classes for a creature that relies on stealth to surprise its foes, or on skill use to give itself an advantage.
- A spellcasting class is an associated class for a creature that already has the ability to cast spells as a character of the class in question, since the monster’s levels in the spellcasting class stack with its innate spellcasting ability.
- Levels in NPC classes are always treated as nonassociated.
Okay. The demon in question has SLA. Does that count for spellcasting classes?
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No. It would only include things like the aranea that casts as a sorcerer of X level, or a black ethergaunt that casts as a 17th level wizard. And even then, only sorcerer would be associated for the aranea, not wizard, and vice/versa for the ethergaunt.
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
Only direct sunlight harms them, so a good set of robes and a wide-brimmed hat would do nicely. Hell, you could walk around looking like Alucard and actually survive.
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Q 46 What are some ways that a PC can gain tremorsense?
Tremorsense
Horizon Walker 6, ecl 11, DMG, 30 feet
Geomancer 9 (stage 5 drift), ecl 15, Complete Divine, 30'
Tremor Graft, elemental graft, Magic of Eberron
Darkrunner 4, ecl 8, Lords of Madness, 30'
Earth Dreamer 3, ecl 10, Races of Stone, lesser tremorsense: 10 feet only
Insectile, Template LA+2, Savage Species
Scorpion Sense, feat, Sandstorm, 10' or 20'
Scorpion Carapace, armour, Sandstorm
Landshark Boots, soulmeld, Magic of Incarnum, 10' or more
Cavelord 7, ecl 12, FR: Underdark, 30'
Favoured Soul 5, drow substitution level, Drow of the Underdark
Arachnomancer 3, ecl 8, Drow of the Underdark, 20', 60' at 6th level, limited use
Cavestalker 8, ecl 13, Drow of the Underdark, 30'
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There's also a couple of grafts from FF.
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Q 48. Is there an item or spell that allows vampires to survive sunlight?
How about darkness + Blindfold of True Darkness?
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Q 51: When creating a Wizard above first level, to gain spells beyond the 2/level, do you pay the costs for a Scroll of that spell + scribing costs, or just scribing costs?
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Q52: My google fu has failed despite a strong suspicion that this should be easy to find: What PrCs (other than ur-priest) offer ninth level spellcasting?
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Beholder Mage (Cant Remember Source ATM)
Sublime Chord (Complete Arcane)
Divine Crusader (Complete Divine)
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A 52b
Beholder Mage is from Lords of Madness.
There's also Apostle of Peace (Book of Exalted Deeds) and Blighter (Complete Divine), but... you probably don't want either of those.
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Q 53: So, I'm trying to figure out Epic spells....I wanted to create something similar to the Mummy Dust spell example. But I'm having a bit of trouble deciphering the Mummy Dust spell properly.
It starts with a base seed of Animate Dead (DC 23). The seed says that it allows you to create 20 HD of undead. Then you add +1 to the DC for each additional HD. The undead remain under your control indefinitely. You can naturally control 1 HD per caster level of undead you've personally created, regardless of the method.
Now the spell creates 2 18HD mummies. Mummies add +0 to the DC. There are 32 HD total, meaning +16 too much. That adds +16 to the DC. They lower the casting time down and make an XP cost which offsets the +20 for casting time. Then add an expensive material component to bring the DC down 4 more.
The spell itself says "The mummies follow your every command according to their abilities, until they are destroyed or your lose control of them by attempting to control more Hit Dice of undead than you have caster levels."
So, my question....While it is easily possible for an level 25 caster to cast this spell (28 ranks, +4 int, +2 MW tools = +34 Spellcraft), since he only has 25 caster levels, he would immediately lose control of one of the mummies created?? Am I reading this properly?
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A53: Probably, its widely held that any of the premade epic spells are bunk. There were several inconsistencies in the spells presented in the ELH. Its best to just ignore them all and make your own spell from the ground up, and not rely on the prefabs at all.
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Q 51: When creating a Wizard above first level, to gain spells beyond the 2/level, do you pay the costs for a Scroll of that spell + scribing costs, or just scribing costs?
A51
should just be scribing costs.
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Q 53a: So, the ELH spells are screwed up. I can accept that. I have one follow up then.....If I created a spell that say, created an undead who has 40 HD, and the spell had enough spellcraft increases to control it (so basically, 83 spellcraft, 23 base, then +20 for 20 additional HD, and +40 for control of the creature)...if I cast the spell multiple times, would I keep control of each undead I created, despite the "You can naturally control 1 HD per caster level of undead creatures you've personally created" line?
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A 42
Only the Concentration skill.
Actually, any save DCs based on Con also change to Cha. Check the Monster Manual, Page 293, middle right side halfway down.
Charisma: A creature's Charisma modifier affects the save DC for any spell-like abilities it has. Use Charisma for anything pitting the creature's will against an opponent, such as gaze attacks, charms, compulsions, and energy drain effects. Also use Charisma for any DC that normally would be based on an ability score the creature does not have. For example, undead have no Constitution score, so any poison attack an undead creature has would use Charisma to determine the save DC.
It's buried in the templating section of the MM, but it's there. Have fun now :)
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Q54: How do arrow enhancements interact with using arrows as improvised melee weapons? Do they gain them despite being enchanted as ammunition or no?
Q55: Are arrows used as melee weapons as likely to be destroyed on a hit as arrows used as ammunition? What about on a miss?
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Q 51: When creating a Wizard above first level, to gain spells beyond the 2/level, do you pay the costs for a Scroll of that spell + scribing costs, or just scribing costs?
A51
should just be scribing costs.
Well you have to gain access to the spells themselves somewhere. One way to do that is to buy scrolls. There are also rules for copying them from another wizard's spellbook (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/arcaneSpells.htm#addingSpellstoaWizardsSpellbook), which is a lot cheaper for anything above 1st level (it's 50 gp per spell level). And there are probably rules for being an apprentice somewhere, or joining a guild, but I don't remember how those work.
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Q 53: So, I'm trying to figure out Epic spells....I wanted to create something similar to the Mummy Dust spell example. But I'm having a bit of trouble deciphering the Mummy Dust spell properly.
It starts with a base seed of Animate Dead (DC 23). The seed says that it allows you to create 20 HD of undead. Then you add +1 to the DC for each additional HD. The undead remain under your control indefinitely. You can naturally control 1 HD per caster level of undead you've personally created, regardless of the method.
Now the spell creates 2 18HD mummies. Mummies add +0 to the DC. There are 32 HD total, meaning +16 too much. That adds +16 to the DC. They lower the casting time down and make an XP cost which offsets the +20 for casting time. Then add an expensive material component to bring the DC down 4 more.
The spell itself says "The mummies follow your every command according to their abilities, until they are destroyed or your lose control of them by attempting to control more Hit Dice of undead than you have caster levels."
So, my question....While it is easily possible for an level 25 caster to cast this spell (28 ranks, +4 int, +2 MW tools = +34 Spellcraft), since he only has 25 caster levels, he would immediately lose control of one of the mummies created?? Am I reading this properly?
A53a The spell specifically says they're created under your control. Using the logic of animate dead, this means that, despite your normal limit, you get to control any undead you create with the casting of this spell. So, specific trumps general, I guess. Prefab epic spells really are borked.
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Q56 Is there an index somewhere listing all base classes from WotC sources including those from dragon and Dungeon magazines?
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Q55 Is there an index somewhere listing all base classes from WotC sources including those from dragon and Dungeon magazines?
A55 Crystalkeep d20 (http://crystalkeep.com/d20/index.php)
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Q55 Is there an index somewhere listing all base classes from WotC sources including those from dragon and Dungeon magazines?
A55 Crystalkeep d20 (http://crystalkeep.com/d20/index.php)
IIRC he took those down from there, but rehosted them here (http://chet.kindredcircle.org/).
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Q57
Q: Which feature wins in a battle between the Master of Many Forms' Improved Wild Shape Large/Huge/Gargantuan from p 59 of Complete Adventurer and the Halfing racial substitution leve 5 ability from Races of the Wild p 158 Undersized Wild Shape?
Undersized Wild Shape (Su): A halfing druid’s Small
size limits his wild shape ability (including his elemental
wild shape and any other wild shape options he gains from
feats or other special abilities), reducing them by one size
category...
Improved Wild Shape (Su): A master of many forms
knows how to use her wild shape ability to assume a
wider range of forms...
The size limit of the shapes she can assume also
increases as she gains levels. At 2nd level, she can
assume the form of a Large creature; at 4th level, a
Tiny creature; at 6th level, a Huge creature; at 8th
level, a Diminutive creature; and at 10th level, a
Gargantuan creature.
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Q58: When a tiny creature wields a reach weapon what area do they threaten? What about a fine or smaller creature?
Q59: What would be the adjusted weight of tiny gear? The SRD only lists for small creatures, would it be 1/4 (continue same scale) or 1/6 (decrease in proportion to reduced carrying capacity)?
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Q57
Q: Which feature wins in a battle between the Master of Many Forms' Improved Wild Shape Large/Huge/Gargantuan from p 59 of Complete Adventurer and the Halfing racial substitution leve 5 ability from Races of the Wild p 158 Undersized Wild Shape?
Undersized Wild Shape (Su): A halfing druid’s Small
size limits his wild shape ability (including his elemental
wild shape and any other wild shape options he gains from
feats or other special abilities), reducing them by one size
category...
Improved Wild Shape (Su): A master of many forms
knows how to use her wild shape ability to assume a
wider range of forms...
The size limit of the shapes she can assume also
increases as she gains levels. At 2nd level, she can
assume the form of a Large creature; at 4th level, a
Tiny creature; at 6th level, a Huge creature; at 8th
level, a Diminutive creature; and at 10th level, a
Gargantuan creature.
A57: The Halfling ability (since it specifically says it will apply to all Wild Shape options he gains in the future). As a result, Improved Wild Shape gives you medium creatures at level 2, Diminutive Creatures at level 4, etc.
Q58: When a tiny creature wields a reach weapon what area do they threaten? What about a fine or smaller creature?
Q59: What would be the adjusted weight of tiny gear? The SRD only lists for small creatures, would it be 1/4 (continue same scale) or 1/6 (decrease in proportion to reduced carrying capacity)?
A58: A tiny creature with a reach weapon has the same reach as a small creature with a regular weapon (5'). I don't know about fine or smaller though.
A59: 1/4. The smaller you get, the harder it is to carry your gear (especially with racial strength penalties).
JaronK
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A59: 1/4. The smaller you get, the harder it is to carry your gear (especially with racial strength penalties).
Thanks, someone failed physics forever. :pout
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Q60: Can multiple abilities that require a touch attack be combined? I feel like I've seen somewhere that they can, but I may be confusing it with the ability to use a touch attack ability to deliver a touch spell (which works, right?)
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Q60: Can multiple abilities that require a touch attack be combined? I feel like I've seen somewhere that they can, but I may be confusing it with the ability to use a touch attack ability to deliver a touch spell (which works, right?)
Most touch attacks (except for melee touch delivered spells) are Su abilities, so they require a standard action, so by RAW you can't combine them. Most DMs I know allow you to combine them with a single melee attack, however, similar to the rules for delivering a melee touch attack spell with a natural weapon or unarmed strike.
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Q60: Can multiple abilities that require a touch attack be combined? I feel like I've seen somewhere that they can, but I may be confusing it with the ability to use a touch attack ability to deliver a touch spell (which works, right?)
Most touch attacks (except for melee touch delivered spells) are Su abilities, so they require a standard action, so by RAW you can't combine them. Most DMs I know allow you to combine them with a single melee attack, however, similar to the rules for delivering a melee touch attack spell with a natural weapon or unarmed strike.
Could you combine a touch spell with a touch attack that is specifically treated as an attack with something that modifies unarmed attacks?
Example: For the sake of coming up with examples on the fly, say a 20th level Dread Necromancer takes the Stunning Fist feat. Could he, say, cast a stunning, scabrous vampiric touch? If so, could he apply his paralyzing touch with it? If not, would he still be able to use it as a secondary attack?
My "simple" questions are never all that simple :lol
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Q61
I keep forgetting this, but where is the Master Of Shrouds class that only needs 5 ranks in concentration, spellcraft and knowledge (religion)? The only one I can find is the Complete Divine web enhancement that has 10 ranks in all those skills as a requirement.
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Q61
I keep forgetting this, but where is the Master Of Shrouds class that only needs 5 ranks in concentration, spellcraft and knowledge (religion)? The only one I can find is the Complete Divine web enhancement that has 10 ranks in all those skills as a requirement.
A 61
Libris Mortis.
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Q61
I keep forgetting this, but where is the Master Of Shrouds class that only needs 5 ranks in concentration, spellcraft and knowledge (religion)? The only one I can find is the Complete Divine web enhancement that has 10 ranks in all those skills as a requirement.
A61bAkalsaris even made a handbook (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=3310.0) :)
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I'll bump this again (was Q45):
Q62: What qualifications tricks would work for Warlock/Binder in to Anima Mage?
I'm assuming Magical Training with Precocious Apprentice would work?
Is there anything out there that would work for a non-human or non-elf (which is a prereq for Magical Training)?
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Q 63: Does a psionic power exist that aligns your weapon? Specifically good aligned?
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A 63: yes, but I am away from books so I can't list page number. If nothing else there is the spell to power variant.
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A 63: yes, but I am away from books so I can't list page number. If nothing else there is the spell to power variant.
Even having the power name or what book it's in would be enough, I can do the legwork myself, no problem. Hell, I have the XPH and Complete Psi right next to me, and the SRD bookmarked :P
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A 63: yes, but I am away from books so I can't list page number. If nothing else there is the spell to power variant.
Even having the power name or what book it's in would be enough, I can do the legwork myself, no problem. Hell, I have the XPH and Complete Psi right next to me, and the SRD bookmarked :P
The only thing I could think of is to look in Secrets of Sarlona. They listed a bunch of common spells that also have psionic equivalents. It was in a Sidebar or something, and I don't remember the page number. Sorry. I also am not sure if something like this is in there, but there were quite a few things...
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A 63: yes, but I am away from books so I can't list page number. If nothing else there is the spell to power variant.
Even having the power name or what book it's in would be enough, I can do the legwork myself, no problem. Hell, I have the XPH and Complete Psi right next to me, and the SRD bookmarked :P
The only thing I could think of is to look in Secrets of Sarlona. They listed a bunch of common spells that also have psionic equivalents. It was in a Sidebar or something, and I don't remember the page number. Sorry. I also am not sure if something like this is in there, but there were quite a few things...
Page 133. No Align Weapon equivalent there, sadly.
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Q64: How does lesser Globe of Invulnerability interact with low level touch spells? I'm assuming that they cannot be cast within the Globe. What I wonder is, can a touch spell be cast outside the Globe, have the charge held, and then walk within the globe to attack the caster?
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Q64: How does lesser Globe of Invulnerability interact with low level touch spells? I'm assuming that they cannot be cast within the Globe. What I wonder is, can a touch spell be cast outside the Globe, have the charge held, and then walk within the globe to attack the caster?
I don't think so. The globe also prevents spell effects from entering it. So it will block Magic Missiles and the like. That would include touch effects. They'd be suppressed while inside the globe.
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Q 65: Going off of 63 above, is there a weapon augment crystal that can do the same thing? And further, does psionics have an equivalent to Greater Magic Weapon? Thus far I am down to all of two required pieces of gear, plus the demiplane and node, for the improved C-L (oh yeah, and he's also an agent of entropy...Neraph ftw!)
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A 63: yes, but I am away from books so I can't list page number. If nothing else there is the spell to power variant.
A63 part b; stygian bane (Complete Psi, pg 99) will make your weapon good alinged. i know there are others but it would take me a while to find them.
also remember with spell to power and a high level telepath you can get any spell as a power ;)
A65 Metaphysical Weapon? (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/metaphysicalWeapon.htm)
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Q60: Can multiple abilities that require a touch attack be combined? I feel like I've seen somewhere that they can, but I may be confusing it with the ability to use a touch attack ability to deliver a touch spell (which works, right?)
Most touch attacks (except for melee touch delivered spells) are Su abilities, so they require a standard action, so by RAW you can't combine them. Most DMs I know allow you to combine them with a single melee attack, however, similar to the rules for delivering a melee touch attack spell with a natural weapon or unarmed strike.
Could you combine a touch spell with a touch attack that is specifically treated as an attack with something that modifies unarmed attacks?
Example: For the sake of coming up with examples on the fly, say a 20th level Dread Necromancer takes the Stunning Fist feat. Could he, say, cast a stunning, scabrous vampiric touch? If so, could he apply his paralyzing touch with it? If not, would he still be able to use it as a secondary attack?
My "simple" questions are never all that simple :lol
Yes, you could combine a touch spell with a special touch attack with a natural attack. Like a shocking grasp + dessicating touch + slam attack.
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A 63: yes, but I am away from books so I can't list page number. If nothing else there is the spell to power variant.
A63 part b; stygian bane (Complete Psi, pg 99) will make your weapon good alinged. i know there are others but it would take me a while to find them.
also remember with spell to power and a high level telepath you can get any spell as a power ;)
A65 Metaphysical Weapon? (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/metaphysicalWeapon.htm)
Paydirt. Thanks, Catty! +1 Valorous Cold Iron Lance of Vaulting here I come...with the ML on this mofo, it'll easily be epic, good, and cold iron.
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Q66: The test of the Flaming Sphere spells states that it "can be extinguished by any means that would put out a normal fire of its size." How much water would need to be poured on it, or created by Create Water, would be enough to extinguish it?
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Q67
My dm insists that Druid's Wildshape ability is unable to transform into anyform over 15 hd....
He says that because in wildshape's description reads that it works like polymorph....
Now I showed him the Errata that changed the like polymorph line to like alternate form but he still says that alternate form too works like poymorph and thus I wouldn't be able to transform into anything over 15 hd....
I am sure that I am missing something that would win the arguement but what?
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Q67
My dm insists that Druid's Wildshape ability is unable to transform into anyform over 15 hd....
He says that because in wildshape's description reads that it works like polymorph....
Now I showed him the Errata that changed the like polymorph line to like alternate form but he still says that alternate form too works like poymorph and thus I wouldn't be able to transform into anything over 15 hd....
I am sure that I am missing something that would win the arguement but what?
While not definitive here is your case:
...This ability functions like the alternate form special ability, except as noted here...
The new form’s Hit Dice can’t exceed the character’s druid level.
The issue is that your DM is reading the alternate form spell.
Alternate Form
A creature with this special quality has the ability to assume one or more specific alternate forms. A true seeing spell or ability reveals the creature’s natural form. A creature using alternate form reverts to its natural form when killed, but separated body parts retain their shape. A creature cannot use alternate form to take the form of a creature with a template. Assuming an alternate form results in the following changes to the creature:
The creature retains the type and subtype of its original form. It gains the size of its new form. If the new form has the aquatic subtype, the creature gains that subtype as well.
The creature loses the natural weapons, natural armor, and movement modes of its original form, as well as any extraordinary special attacks of its original form not derived from class levels (such as the barbarian’s rage class feature).
The creature gains the natural weapons, natural armor, movement modes, and extraordinary special attacks of its new form.
The creature retains the special qualities of its original form. It does not gain any special qualities of its new form.
The creature retains the spell-like abilities and supernatural attacks of its old form (except for breath weapons and gaze attacks). It does not gain the spell-like abilities or attacks of its new form.
The creature gains the physical ability scores (Str, Dex, Con) of its new form. It retains the mental ability scores (Int, Wis, Cha) of its original form. Apply any changed physical ability score modifiers in all appropriate areas with one exception: the creature retains the hit points of its original form despite any change to its Constitution.
The creature retains its hit points and save bonuses, although its save modifiers may change due to a change in ability scores.
Except as described elsewhere, the creature retains all other game statistics of its original form, including (but not necessarily limited to) HD, hit points, skill ranks, feats, base attack bonus, and base save bonuses.
The creature retains any spellcasting ability it had in its original form, although it must be able to speak intelligibly to cast spells with verbal components and it must have humanlike hands to cast spells with somatic components.
The creature is effectively camouflaged as a creature of its new form, and it gains a +10 bonus on Disguise checks if it uses this ability to create a disguise.
Any gear worn or carried by the creature that can’t be worn or carried in its new form instead falls to the ground in its space. If the creature changes size, any gear it wears or carries that can be worn or carried in its new form changes size to match the new size. (Nonhumanoid-shaped creatures can’t wear armor designed for humanoid-shaped creatures, and vice versa.) Gear returns to normal size if dropped.
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Q67
My dm insists that Druid's Wildshape ability is unable to transform into anyform over 15 hd....
He says that because in wildshape's description reads that it works like polymorph....
Now I showed him the Errata that changed the like polymorph line to like alternate form but he still says that alternate form too works like poymorph and thus I wouldn't be able to transform into anything over 15 hd....
I am sure that I am missing something that would win the arguement but what?
A67: The Druid Wildshape class feature says it works like alternate form special ability except as noted here. Which means that any specific text in the Druid Wildshape ability Trumps the text in the Alternate Form ability. The Druid ability mentions the restriction on hit dice as "The new form’s Hit Dice can’t exceed the character’s druid level."
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The text of Alternate Form does not mention Polymorph anywhere. It does not function like Polymorph at all.
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Q66: The test of the Flaming Sphere spells states that it "can be extinguished by any means that would put out a normal fire of its size." How much water would need to be poured on it, or created by Create Water, would be enough to extinguish it?
This isn't defined. I'd say a good rule of thumb would be a Create water of equal or greater caster level, or an equivalent amount of water.
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The text of Alternate Form does not mention Polymorph anywhere. It does not function like Polymorph at all.
well, to be fair, in the MM glossary it does say "[...] functions much like polymorph, except [...]"
key word(s) = "much like" ..... which is different from "exactly like".
but yeah, that DM clearly doesn't understand wild shape (either that, or doesn't understand the phrase "except as noted here").
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Q54: How do arrow enhancements interact with using arrows as improvised melee weapons? Do they gain them despite being enchanted as ammunition or no?
Q55: Are arrows used as melee weapons as likely to be destroyed on a hit as arrows used as ammunition? What about on a miss?
Don't think I got word on this.
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Q54: How do arrow enhancements interact with using arrows as improvised melee weapons? Do they gain them despite being enchanted as ammunition or no?
Q55: Are arrows used as melee weapons as likely to be destroyed on a hit as arrows used as ammunition? What about on a miss?
Don't think I got word on this.
A54: Yes.
A55: The rules are kind of stupid here. They don't say anything about arrows breaking when used as melee weapons, so I guess technically they don't. At all. Don't expect a DM to rule that way, though. :P
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Q54: How do arrow enhancements interact with using arrows as improvised melee weapons? Do they gain them despite being enchanted as ammunition or no?
Q55: Are arrows used as melee weapons as likely to be destroyed on a hit as arrows used as ammunition? What about on a miss?
Don't think I got word on this.
A54: Yes.
A55: The rules are kind of stupid here. They don't say anything about arrows breaking when used as melee weapons, so I guess technically they don't. At all. Don't expect a DM to rule that way, though. :P
Well the rule stating on a hit the arrow breaks doesn't limit itself to when it is fired, though that is the obvious intent, so it should apply to melee as well. Ironically that also makes it so if you miss and hit nothing there is a 50% chance it breaks anyway or is lost despite being in your hand.
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The text of Alternate Form does not mention Polymorph anywhere. It does not function like Polymorph at all.
well, to be fair, in the MM glossary it does say "[...] functions much like polymorph, except [...]"
key word(s) = "much like" ..... which is different from "exactly like".
but yeah, that DM clearly doesn't understand wild shape (either that, or doesn't understand the phrase "except as noted here").
Beleve it or not I finally convinced him not by using the arguements that you all listed but by showing him that an huge elemental has at least 16 hd......
It is his first time as Dm so it logical that he is still learning....
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Q68
What are the racial ability score modifiers for an awakened cat? (My girlfriend is suddenly interested in D&D now that she realizes she can be an "Evil Kitten Overlord")
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Q68
What are the racial ability score modifiers for an awakened cat? (My girlfriend is suddenly interested in D&D now that she realizes she can be an "Evil Kitten Overlord")
When did BHU become a girl? :smirk
Tiny size -8 Str, +4 Dex +/-0 Con. mental stats are defined by the awaken spell.
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Q68
What are the racial ability score modifiers for an awakened cat? (My girlfriend is suddenly interested in D&D now that she realizes she can be an "Evil Kitten Overlord")
When did BHU become a girl? :smirk
Tiny size -8 Str, +4 Dex +/-0 Con. mental stats are defined by the awaken spell.
Har har. Also, I thought so, but wasn't sure. Thanks.
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Q68
What are the racial ability score modifiers for an awakened cat? (My girlfriend is suddenly interested in D&D now that she realizes she can be an "Evil Kitten Overlord")
I would say -8 Str, +4 Dex, +2 Wis. Depending on how you roll on the Awaken spell, you'll either wind up with 8, 9, or 10 for Charisma, so that's a *maybe* -2, *maybe* +0, so I'd just as soon default to the actual points invested (point buy) or the actual dice rolled.
Also, it will have 2 racial HD, but on the plus side they're Magical Beast HD so full BAB and good Reflex/Will saves. LA would likely be +0: despite the presence of natural attacks (a good routine, at that), you lack the ability to wield manufactured weapons and you have a net penalty to ability scores. You're also tiny, which can be a pain in the ass all on it's own.
If you want to be an evil kitten overlord, I'd say go with Psionics. Apply the Phrenic template (and buy it off), be an Ardent, and pick up the Communication mantle (instill in everyone an attraction to cats).
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My girlfriend is suddenly interested in D&D now that she realizes she can be an "Evil Kitten Overlord"
You might want to point out the tibbit race (Dragon Compendium), which gives the ability to change between a small humanoid form and a tiny cat form at-will. You also might want to point out cat hengeyokai (Oriental Adventures), which gives the ability to transform between a medium humanoid form, a medium cat-person form, and a tiny cat form. Both of these are +0 LA and have no racial HD. (Hengeyokai LA was reduced in the Oriental Adventures update in Dragon 318.)
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well, to be fair, in the MM glossary it does say "[...] functions much like polymorph, except [...]"
However, the errata says “Delete the second sentence of the entry.”
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well, to be fair, in the MM glossary it does say "[...] functions much like polymorph, except [...]"
However, the errata says “Delete the second sentence of the entry.”
oh, well, never mind then.
thanks.
(grumble, grumble, grumble ... goddamn errata .... can't just open my book and think it's going to be right .... grumble, grumble)
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Q69:Are there any other prestige classes that ban schools except for Incantrix and Red Wizard?
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Q69:Are there any other prestige classes that ban schools except for Incantrix and Red Wizard?
Yes several. Off the top of my head Wizard of high sorcery from Dragonlance and a few more I can't recall.
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Q70One of my players wants to use a tainted scholar -- we're trying to limit the cheese from it, but I have no idea how as I've never played/played with them...is there a generally accepted method?
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Q70One of my players wants to use a tainted scholar -- we're trying to limit the cheese from it, but I have no idea how as I've never played/played with them...is there a generally accepted method?
A70 Don't let them be Undead, which would make them immune to the negative effects of Taint.
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Q71 Say I wanted to play something with racial hit dice, but didn't want those RHD, because RHD are worse than fighter levels. Could I get rid of all but one by failing Fort saves vs. negative levels, then take class levels and be on my merry, RHD-less way?
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Q28
OK so I have to ask about someones sig, I hate to do it but...
Archangel.Arcanis I have to know what does
"Clerics and Druids are like the 4 and 2 in 42. Together they are the answer to the ultimate question in D&D." reference?
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Q28
OK so I have to ask about someones sig, I hate to do it but...
Archangel.Arcanis I have to know what does
"Clerics and Druids are like the 4 and 2 in 42. Together they are the answer to the ultimate question in D&D." reference?
Read and be enlightened! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answer_to_the_Ultimate_Question_of_Life,_the_Universe,_and_Everything)
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Q71 Say I wanted to play something with racial hit dice, but didn't want those RHD, because RHD are worse than fighter levels. Could I get rid of all but one by failing Fort saves vs. negative levels, then take class levels and be on my merry, RHD-less way?
yes, though there is also a ritual to swap RHD for class levels in the Savage Species book, iirc.
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Q71 Say I wanted to play something with racial hit dice, but didn't want those RHD, because RHD are worse than fighter levels. Could I get rid of all but one by failing Fort saves vs. negative levels, then take class levels and be on my merry, RHD-less way?
yes, though there is also a ritual to swap RHD for class levels in the Savage Species book, iirc.
Page 13 of Savage Species says that creatures with 1HD may trade it for their first class level. Browsing shortly through the same chapter in the book shows no such option for creatures with more Hit Dice. I'd like to know the page number if you have it.
As for Q71, I know of nothing in any book to give a definite yes or no, but I would assume that you could do such a thing, but would be behind the rest of the party by that much XP.
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Q72
Do Ki Straps add +2DC to spells cast through the Enlightened Fist's Arcane Fist class feature?
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Q71 Say I wanted to play something with racial hit dice, but didn't want those RHD, because RHD are worse than fighter levels. Could I get rid of all but one by failing Fort saves vs. negative levels, then take class levels and be on my merry, RHD-less way?
yes, though there is also a ritual to swap RHD for class levels in the Savage Species book, iirc.
Page 13 of Savage Species says that creatures with 1HD may trade it for their first class level. Browsing shortly through the same chapter in the book shows no such option for creatures with more Hit Dice. I'd like to know the page number if you have it.
As for Q71, I know of nothing in any book to give a definite yes or no, but I would assume that you could do such a thing, but would be behind the rest of the party by that much XP.
Pages 147-151 of Savage Species describe Rituals, and the Ritual of Unlearning seems as if it could get rid of RHD.
Q73 How do auto-resetting traps of stuff like create food work?
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Q71 Say I wanted to play something with racial hit dice, but didn't want those RHD, because RHD are worse than fighter levels. Could I get rid of all but one by failing Fort saves vs. negative levels, then take class levels and be on my merry, RHD-less way?
yes, though there is also a ritual to swap RHD for class levels in the Savage Species book, iirc.
Page 13 of Savage Species says that creatures with 1HD may trade it for their first class level. Browsing shortly through the same chapter in the book shows no such option for creatures with more Hit Dice. I'd like to know the page number if you have it.
As for Q71, I know of nothing in any book to give a definite yes or no, but I would assume that you could do such a thing, but would be behind the rest of the party by that much XP.
Pages 147-151 of Savage Species describe Rituals, and the Ritual of Unlearning seems as if it could get rid of RHD.
Another alternative would be embarking on a rebuilding quest (PHB2)to exchange RHD for Class levels. Possibly doing multiple quests if need be, depending on your level and how many RHD you want to lose.
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Q75 When is the soonest levelwise that an artificer can scribe a scroll of a 9th level spell (like shapechange)?
Q76 When using the polymorph spell to become a shaedling (MM5), do you gain the shadow gossamer ability?
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A76: Only extraordinary special attacks are gained from the Shaedling form. Shadow gossamer does not seem to be that kind of ability so it is not gained.
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Q 77: Were any of the [Saridor] powers updated?
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Q 78
if I apply a MM feat such as Lingering Spell or Entangling Spell (both from Champions of Ruin) to a spell with an "instantaneous" duration, is that spell now considered to be of longer duration for the purpose of Extend Spell?
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Q73 How do auto-resetting traps of stuff like create food work?
You touch it, or get into the alarmed area, and it creates food.
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Q79
What 10 spells of 5th level or lower would you keep tattooed on yourself in situations in which you lose your spellbook and are in a dire situation (captured/lost/etc)?
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A79
Are we talking specifically Wizard spells? Because I can think of a bunch of different classes' spell that I would want.
Teleport
Xorn Movement
Invisibility
Overland Flight
Persistent Image (or a lower level one)
Dominate Person
Celerity
Solid Fog
Summon Monster V
Heart of Water
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Yeah Wizard Spells.
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Q80 Whats the point of the RotW Elf Paladin Unicorn mount substitution level when DMG allows you to get a proper unicorn at lv6 thats strictly superior to this one?
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Q80 Whats the point of the RotW Elf Paladin Unicorn mount substitution level when DMG allows you to get a proper unicorn at lv6 thats strictly superior to this one?
To make Elves look better than they really are.
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Q81: what effect, if any would a bloodline have on someone that took 3 levels of hellfire warlock? i really dont get bloodlines at all, and it seems that there are many different explanations on what they actually do in the CO community.
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Q81: what effect, if any would a bloodline have on someone that took 3 levels of hellfire warlock? i really dont get bloodlines at all, and it seems that there are many different explanations on what they actually do in the CO community.
Any class features that use the Hellfire Warlock level in the caculation (such as the Hellfire Blast damage) would also count all the Bloodline levels. So, a Minor Bloodline would add a total of 8d6 damage to the Hellfire Blast, since you count as a 4th level Hellfire Warlock for the ability.
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Q.82
Special Ability (Ex): A worldmeet glade grants a qualified spellcaster the ability to summon an enhanced version of any creature he could normally call with a given summon monster spell. The creature gains +2 hit points per Hit Die and a +2 bonus on all saving throws, checks, attack rolls, and damage rolls.
So, does damage rolls include things like Amnizu Stupefying Touch? Where does it says this benefit is 1/day (saw it in some handbook, maybe Malconvoker...)?
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Q.82
Special Ability (Ex): A worldmeet glade grants a qualified spellcaster the ability to summon an enhanced version of any creature he could normally call with a given summon monster spell. The creature gains +2 hit points per Hit Die and a +2 bonus on all saving throws, checks, attack rolls, and damage rolls.
So, does damage rolls include things like Amnizu Stupefying Touch? Where does it says this benefit is 1/day (saw it in some handbook, maybe Malconvoker...)?
A82 Unless specifically mentioned, damage refers to hitpoint damage. Ability damage is called out every time.
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Q79 What 10 spells of 5th level or lower would you keep tattooed on yourself in situations in which you lose your spellbook and are in a dire situation (captured/lost/etc)?
- A tattoo artist can tattoo spells onto your body based on a carefully prepared diagram. There is no reason you have to prepare this diagram.
- You can prepare a spell written by another wizard with a successful spellcraft check. You can master another wizard's notation system with a spellcraft check (DC 25 + spell level) and never need to make spellcraft checks to prepare those spells again.
- Geometers can write a spell of any level on a single page. Non-geometers can prepare these spells, but the spellcraft DC is 5 higher.
- You can pay a geometer to prepare a diagram for a tattoo artist to use to tattoo a spell onto you, and it will only take up space equivalent to a page. Alternately, you could find a geometer who is a tattoo artist.
- You can master the geometer's notation system using whatever skill-boosting items and spells you like, if you need them, and gain the ability to freely prepare the tattooed spells.
So, why not 50 spells?
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Q83: Core-only cleric. Level 1. Human (not set in stone). Weak stats. What are some decent feats for level 1? Only other party member I know of so far is a ranger. Might be able to swing something non-core by the DM if it seems balanced.
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Q83: Core-only cleric. Level 1. Human (not set in stone). Weak stats. What are some decent feats for level 1? Only other party member I know of so far is a ranger. Might be able to swing something non-core by the DM if it seems balanced.
What domains do you have?
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Q83: Core-only cleric. Level 1. Human (not set in stone). Weak stats. What are some decent feats for level 1? Only other party member I know of so far is a ranger. Might be able to swing something non-core by the DM if it seems balanced.
What domains do you have?
That's not set in stone yet either, but at the moment I'm thinking Plant and Sun (worshipper of Ehlonna -- again, subject to change).
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Q83: Core-only cleric. Level 1. Human (not set in stone). Weak stats. What are some decent feats for level 1? Only other party member I know of so far is a ranger. Might be able to swing something non-core by the DM if it seems balanced.
What domains do you have?
That's not set in stone yet either, but at the moment I'm thinking Plant and Sun (worshipper of Ehlonna -- again, subject to change).
Since you don't have the War Domain, having a weapon focus isn't terrible, but it's not always necessary. My suggestion was this simply because you said the stats aren't that great. Believe me, I ran into the same problem with my level 1 cleric, and crappy physical stats. A problem we'll have is suggestion feats without knowing what stats you have as those determine the requirements being met or not.
For feats, I'd suggest...
- Improved Turning, if you know this is going to be an undead heavy campaign. More so than that, I'd ask the DM to allow the variant turning for destroying, from Expedition to Castle Ravenloft.
- Extra Turning because the above applies. Seriously, unless you have an insane Cha, you can't take on that many undead if it's an undead heavy campaign.
- Point Blank Shot if you've got a decent Dex (want to be able to shoot that bow, whether two-handed or a crossbow).
- Precise Shot, if you take PBS and are human.
- Weapon Focus. Seriously, consider it. If you've got the STR behind it, it's worth it for now. You can always retrain it later if it becomes absolutely worthless to you in the end.
- Negotiator if it's a more role play emphasized type of RP. Clerics make good diplomacers.
- Lightning Reflexes because if your Dex sucks, your Reflex is going to suck too.
- Alertness isn't great, but Spot and Listen aren't class skills for a cleric, even if they have a decent Wis to help boost those checks.
- Combat Reflexes if your physical stats are decent, especially Dex.
- Blind-Fight. You never know when that invisible rogue will sneak up behind you and stab you in the kidneys. Or pixies. God I hate that little bastards.
Overall, at level 1, cleric feats aren't that easy to come by when all you're expected to use are core. Don't get me wrong, these are fine feats to be taking, but unless you know what you're in for, a majority of them aren't going to be that much help to you.
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Q84. Is the Ghost Pipes spell from Lost Empires of Faerun a legal Persistent spell target?
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Q79 What 10 spells of 5th level or lower would you keep tattooed on yourself in situations in which you lose your spellbook and are in a dire situation (captured/lost/etc)?
- A tattoo artist can tattoo spells onto your body based on a carefully prepared diagram. There is no reason you have to prepare this diagram.
- You can prepare a spell written by another wizard with a successful spellcraft check. You can master another wizard's notation system with a spellcraft check (DC 25 + spell level) and never need to make spellcraft checks to prepare those spells again.
- Geometers can write a spell of any level on a single page. Non-geometers can prepare these spells, but the spellcraft DC is 5 higher.
- You can pay a geometer to prepare a diagram for a tattoo artist to use to tattoo a spell onto you, and it will only take up space equivalent to a page. Alternately, you could find a geometer who is a tattoo artist.
- You can master the geometer's notation system using whatever skill-boosting items and spells you like, if you need them, and gain the ability to freely prepare the tattooed spells.
So, why not 50 spells?
To be simplistic.
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Q 85a Do you get bonus spells if you're a charisma based caster with Eagle's Splendor cast on you?
(Answer should be 'no' because the spell in the PH says so explicitly. Checks if you're paying attention. :P)
Q 85b Therefore, if you have a buff that does NOT explicitly say that no bonus slots are gained, do you get the extra slots?
Q 85c Assume 85b was yes. Say you normally had 4 slots and had used 4 that day. Then with a +4 to cha boost, you get a 5th slot. Is it legal to use this new slot to cast a spell spontaneously before the bonus expires?
Q 85d Assume 85b was yes. What if you used 3 of the 4 spells, got an extra slot from a cha boost, and only used 1 more slot before the duration expired. Would you have 0 more slots [keep track of 4 total slots being used] or 1 more slot [used the bonus slot, while the real slots are unaffected]?
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Q86 If a character scores a critical hit (ranged) while he is in 30ft and applies point blank shot does this +1 applies to critical damage - does he get +3 to damage with a longbow to be precise?
Does a swasbuckler's int to damage applies to crits also? (assuming eligible target of course aka living etc)
I am asking because a DM in a campaing we played said no when the situation occured. (both situations)
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Q86 If a character scores a critical hit (ranged) while he is in 30ft and applies point blank shot does this +1 applies to critical damage - does he get +3 to damage with a longbow to be precise?
Does a swasbuckler's int to damage applies to crits also? (assuming eligible target of course aka living etc)
I am asking because a DM in a campaing we played said no when the situation occured. (both situations)
yes, and yes.
they are static modifiers, and therefor get multiplied.
(assuming, of course, he allows strength and wpn enhancement to multiply -- which they do)
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Quick note on the Core Only Cleric. A Cleric can't take Weapon Focus at level 1, since it has a prerequisite of BAB+1. That said, Improved Initiative is never a bad feat.
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Quick note on the Core Only Cleric. A Cleric can't take Weapon Focus at level 1, since it has a prerequisite of BAB+1. That said, Improved Initiative is never a bad feat.
Yes, it does too. I forgot about that. Only remembered the proficiency part.
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Q84. Is the Ghost Pipes spell from Lost Empires of Faerun a legal Persistent spell target?
It is touch range so it is debatable, the general belief here is that touch is not a fixed range.
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another odd metamagic question here:
Q 87
If I have a spell to which I apply both Lingering Spell and Fell Drain (let's say fireball, for example), does the victim take another negative level for taking damage do to the Lingering Spell effect?
also, bumpity-bump:
Q 78
if I apply a MM feat such as Lingering Spell or Entangling Spell (both from Champions of Ruin) to a spell with an "instantaneous" duration, is that spell now considered to be of longer duration for the purpose of Extend Spell?
thanks :)
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Q 88 Is there a way for illusion specialists (illusionist, beguilers, bards, etc) to use their spells and affect the blind, or sensory deprived? Like to penetrate the illusions into one's brain?
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Q 88 Is there a way for illusion specialists (illusionist, beguilers, bards, etc) to use their spells and affect the blind, or sensory deprived? Like to penetrate the illusions into one's brain?
The telepathy power False Sensory Input will work as long as they have anything whatsoever remaining of that sense. Mindrape or Programmed Amnesia should work in hindsight to implant the memory of seeing an image. Shadow illusions can get over 100% real and may therefore be able to affect even someone who doesn't see them. Kill them + Create Undead + Psychic Reformation should let you give them lifesight as a feat, and then probably not reap any benefit, but it'll let them see in a fashion. Telepathic communication will allow you to convey the gist of something. Modify Memory should allow you to plant an illusion into someone's memories.
Just off the top of my head.
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Quick note on the Core Only Cleric. A Cleric can't take Weapon Focus at level 1, since it has a prerequisite of BAB+1. That said, Improved Initiative is never a bad feat.
War domain.
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Q89
Is there anywhere at all in the rules where temperature ranges associated with given weather conditions may be found? Specifically, I need heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions, or (ideally) "frigid cold". I'm trying to figure out where, exactly, Fimbulwinter puts the temperature band in its area.
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Q89
Is there anywhere at all in the rules where temperature ranges associated with given weather conditions may be found? Specifically, I need heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions, or (ideally) "frigid cold". I'm trying to figure out where, exactly, Fimbulwinter puts the temperature band in its area.
Should be DMG p94.
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another odd metamagic question here:
Q 87
If I have a spell to which I apply both Lingering Spell and Fell Drain (let's say fireball, for example), does the victim take another negative level for taking damage do to the Lingering Spell effect?
also, bumpity-bump:
Q 78
if I apply a MM feat such as Lingering Spell or Entangling Spell (both from Champions of Ruin) to a spell with an "instantaneous" duration, is that spell now considered to be of longer duration for the purpose of Extend Spell?
thanks :)
A78 I'd say yes to both.
A87 For Lingering, no. I don't think so. Twin Spell or Repeat Spell, I think it would. (so Twin, Repeat, Fell Draining Spell will drain 4 levels total IMO)
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Q89
Is there anywhere at all in the rules where temperature ranges associated with given weather conditions may be found? Specifically, I need heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions, or (ideally) "frigid cold". I'm trying to figure out where, exactly, Fimbulwinter puts the temperature band in its area.
Should be DMG p94.
Unfortunately it doesn't give any more information than Frostburn; it only describes what the "cold" temperature band is in terms of actual temperature, and what a frost snap does. That's about it. Fimbulwinter's effects, unfortunately, only give snow depth and wind speed, plus "frigid cold, blizzard, heavy snowfall" if cast in winter, none of which tell me the all-important temperature band I need to know to find out if it deals actual cold damage.
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Q89
Is there anywhere at all in the rules where temperature ranges associated with given weather conditions may be found? Specifically, I need heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions, or (ideally) "frigid cold". I'm trying to figure out where, exactly, Fimbulwinter puts the temperature band in its area.
Should be DMG p94.
Unfortunately it doesn't give any more information than Frostburn; it only describes what the "cold" temperature band is in terms of actual temperature, and what a frost snap does. That's about it. Fimbulwinter's effects, unfortunately, only give snow depth and wind speed, plus "frigid cold, blizzard, heavy snowfall" if cast in winter, none of which tell me the all-important temperature band I need to know to find out if it deals actual cold damage.
I wonder if they removed that. In the original DMG for 3.0, you had this written down...
An unprotected character in cold weather (below 40 F) must make a Fort saving throw each hour (DC 15+1 per previous check). or sustain 1d6 points of subdual damage. A character who has the Wilderness Lore skill.....
In conditions of extreme cold or exposure (below 0 F), an unprotected character must make a Fort save once every 10 mins (DC 15 +1 per previous check) taking 1d6 points of subdual damage on each failed save. A character who has the Wilderness Lore skill...... Characters wearing winter clothing only need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage.
Something like that should be in 3.5 somewhere. I'd think it would be anyways.
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Q89
Is there anywhere at all in the rules where temperature ranges associated with given weather conditions may be found? Specifically, I need heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions, or (ideally) "frigid cold". I'm trying to figure out where, exactly, Fimbulwinter puts the temperature band in its area.
Should be DMG p94.
Unfortunately it doesn't give any more information than Frostburn; it only describes what the "cold" temperature band is in terms of actual temperature, and what a frost snap does. That's about it. Fimbulwinter's effects, unfortunately, only give snow depth and wind speed, plus "frigid cold, blizzard, heavy snowfall" if cast in winter, none of which tell me the all-important temperature band I need to know to find out if it deals actual cold damage.
I wonder if they removed that. In the original DMG for 3.0, you had this written down...
An unprotected character in cold weather (below 40 F) must make a Fort saving throw each hour (DC 15+1 per previous check). or sustain 1d6 points of subdual damage. A character who has the Wilderness Lore skill.....
In conditions of extreme cold or exposure (below 0 F), an unprotected character must make a Fort save once every 10 mins (DC 15 +1 per previous check) taking 1d6 points of subdual damage on each failed save. A character who has the Wilderness Lore skill...... Characters wearing winter clothing only need check once per hour for cold and exposure damage.
Something like that should be in 3.5 somewhere. I'd think it would be anyways.
It is, but that doesn't tell me what I need to know. The information I'm looking for OUGHT to be in the Fimbulwinter description, but it isn't because that spell is irritatingly vague; I need to know which temperature corresponds to "frigid cold, blizzard, heavy snow", and then use THAT to determine which of the temperature bands (which is what you're describing) applies to an area under the effects of the spell.
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Q90: What effect if any does wild magic have on psionics?
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It is, but that doesn't tell me what I need to know. The information I'm looking for OUGHT to be in the Fimbulwinter description, but it isn't because that spell is irritatingly vague; I need to know which temperature corresponds to "frigid cold, blizzard, heavy snow", and then use THAT to determine which of the temperature bands (which is what you're describing) applies to an area under the effects of the spell.
There won't be any predetermined temperatures for blizzard and heavy snow. At least, there shouldn't be. As a Canadian, I can tell you that we've had blizzards and heavy snow when it's -40 C and when it's only -5 C. In fact, the more snow you get, the warmer it ends up being because it's the wind that's cold, and a snow fall minimizes that. It just makes it harder to see. If the wind's still strong, that means if the snow wasn't there to minimize it, it'd be that much colder.
Frigid cold, however, I couldn't give you a definite answer for.
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It is, but that doesn't tell me what I need to know. The information I'm looking for OUGHT to be in the Fimbulwinter description, but it isn't because that spell is irritatingly vague; I need to know which temperature corresponds to "frigid cold, blizzard, heavy snow", and then use THAT to determine which of the temperature bands (which is what you're describing) applies to an area under the effects of the spell.
There won't be any predetermined temperatures for blizzard and heavy snow. At least, there shouldn't be. As a Canadian, I can tell you that we've had blizzards and heavy snow when it's -40 C and when it's only -5 C. In fact, the more snow you get, the warmer it ends up being because it's the wind that's cold, and a snow fall minimizes that. It just makes it harder to see. If the wind's still strong, that means if the snow wasn't there to minimize it, it'd be that much colder.
Frigid cold, however, I couldn't give you a definite answer for.
That's what I thought, I was mostly hoping for "frigid cold", since the other two are less temperature and more precipitation and windspeed. Still, I wouldn't have put it past WotC to have assigned average temperatures to such conditions or something.
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Not that it would apply to the metamagic any more than a mortalbane summon monster.
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That's what I thought, I was mostly hoping for "frigid cold", since the other two are less temperature and more precipitation and windspeed. Still, I wouldn't have put it past WotC to have assigned average temperatures to such conditions or something.
Depending on where you live, a frigid temperature would normally be anything below 0. But yeah, I wouldn't have put it passed them either.
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Q91
I assumed bonus feats could bypass prereqs. Is this true? Regardless, I need a source reference on this. May I please get one?
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Q91
I assumed bonus feats could bypass prereqs. Is this true? Regardless, I need a source reference on this. May I please get one?
Some can, some can't, it's a huge can of worms where the dividing line lies. There are some classes where it's obvious they don't, but not specified (soulkinife), some where it's specified they don't (monk), some where it's specified they do (fighter), and some where it's nonobvious and nonspecified (rogue).
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Q91
I assumed bonus feats could bypass prereqs. Is this true? Regardless, I need a source reference on this. May I please get one?
What kind of bonus feats are we talking about? The ones given you ever odd level? The ones given to you by a fighter? The ones you get from a ranger's combat style? The bonus feats a scout gets? There's lots of different ones out there, and that being said, each one is different for each class. A ranger doesn't need to meet the prereqs for the combat style, but a fighter and scout need to with their feats. It says with each class.
Take the Psychic Warrior, for instance. It can take fighter bonus feats, but it still needs levels of fighter for Weapon Specialization.
There's no source reference for this except for what class you're taking. Each one is different. You'd have to research it.
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Also Racial bonus feats, they bypass prereqs.
Q92
Let's say you've gone insane and decided blasting is a legitimate path to Real Ultimate Power, possibly because you're a necromancer with hundreds of Undead minions who are your real Real Ultimate Power, but who have a tendency to die when your foes hit them with blunt sticks and suchlike, and you've decided that Lord of the Uttercold would be a hilarious way of controlling the battlefield. Is this possibly the only case in which a 1 level dip in Elemental Savant is NOT a trap?
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Q 93
hows come Candle Caster from Tome and Blood doesn't get any love around here?
I mean - you get 5 free mm-feats (granted, you can only use them on the candles .... that just means that you spend all your time crafting candles (and since we know that "experience is a river (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872242/Experience_is_a_River&post_num=9)", that should work out just fine). standard actions are standard actions -- right?
the whole getting it lit is easy -- is it just because of how abuseable it is? (e.g., strapping 50 of them together all roman-candle style and attaching them to a single central "fuse", or even just tossing the bundle out in front of you and hitting it with burning hands or some-such)
just curious.
thanks.
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Q91 Part 2
I assumed bonus feats could bypass prereqs. Is this true? Regardless, I need a source reference on this. May I please get one?
The feats in question are those that replace a Bard's types of musics (Eberron Campaign Setting 34).
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Q91 Part 2
I assumed bonus feats could bypass prereqs. Is this true? Regardless, I need a source reference on this. May I please get one?
The feats in question are those that replace a Bard's types of musics (Eberron Campaign Setting 34).
Since it does not state that you can select them without the Prerequisites, then you have to meet the prereqs to select these bonus feats....
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Q 94: What means are there for giving an animal companion both the [Construct] type and speech? The goal is building Cyclonus, as I'll be running around as Galvatron :D
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Q 95 is there a way for a cleric to obtain a familiar without getting arcane levels?
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Q 94: What means are there for giving an animal companion both the [Construct] type and speech? The goal is building Cyclonus, as I'll be running around as Galvatron :D
There was a feat that allowed you to have an animated object as a familiar, but I'm not sure about the animal companion. Speech would likely be the same as with a regular familiar or companion.
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Q 94: What means are there for giving an animal companion both the [Construct] type and speech? The goal is building Cyclonus, as I'll be running around as Galvatron :D
There was a feat that allowed you to have an animated object as a familiar, but I'm not sure about the animal companion. Speech would likely be the same as with a regular familiar or companion.
Would that seem to be the easier method of doing this?
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Q 94: What means are there for giving an animal companion both the [Construct] type and speech? The goal is building Cyclonus, as I'll be running around as Galvatron :D
There was a feat that allowed you to have an animated object as a familiar, but I'm not sure about the animal companion. Speech would likely be the same as with a regular familiar or companion.
Would that seem to be the easier method of doing this?
Likely. Unless another way is possible.
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Q 94: What means are there for giving an animal companion both the [Construct] type and speech? The goal is building Cyclonus, as I'll be running around as Galvatron :D
There was a feat that allowed you to have an animated object as a familiar, but I'm not sure about the animal companion. Speech would likely be the same as with a regular familiar or companion.
Would that seem to be the easier method of doing this?
Likely. Unless another way is possible.
Well, if nothing else, I can get Chaotic Spell Recall (read : Six-Shot's infinite power supply) and any blasts I decide to do can emulate Galvatron's (read : blow up planets).
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Q 95 is there a way for a cleric to obtain a familiar without getting arcane levels?
By giving him an arcane caster level. Magical Training (http://www.realmshelps.net/cgi-bin/feats.pl?Magical_Training) comes to mind. Gives you an arcane caster level of 1. Boost that by two and you can take Obtain Familiar. FR-only feat, though.
Or choose a race that gives you a spell-like ability.
Q96
I've been looking and haven't found much... Is there a surefire way to destroy an AMF from outside its area? I mean except Disjunction with a high enough CL, or Wish/Miracle. A spell/item if at all possible.
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A94: A warforged druid that somehow manages to cast Construct Essence (from Races of Eberron) (e.g. via Ring of Spell Storing) can share it with its animal companion. However, that's 1 minute/level.
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Q 95 is there a way for a cleric to obtain a familiar without getting arcane levels?
Mystic Wanderer PrC. From a 3.0 book, IIRC Magic of Faerun.
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A 96 only a few ways come to mind. i belive one of the uses of mystra's silverfire or something like that destroys AMF's. I also think there is a mystra prestige class that grants the ability to destroy AMFs.
Iron Heart surge of course works from the inside which isn't quite what you wanted.
Q 97 Are there any dimunitive or smaller races that are legal cohorts (eg have a printed LA, or something of that sort). Fey are preferred, high mental stats a plus.
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Q 98: what happens when a PC gains bonus HD trough mount or animal companion shehanigans?
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Q 98: what happens when a PC gains bonus HD trough mount or animal companion shehanigans?
The universe implodes under the weight of shenanigans.
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Q 97 Are there any dimunitive or smaller races that are legal cohorts (eg have a printed LA, or something of that sort). Fey are preferred, high mental stats a plus.
Petal I think.
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Q 98: what happens when a PC gains bonus HD trough mount or animal companion shehanigans?
The universe implodes under the weight of shenanigans.
You mean these shenanigans (http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0e65e16c1c/super-troopersshenanigans-from-dirttron)?
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Q 98: what happens when a PC gains bonus HD trough mount or animal companion shehanigans?
A.99: They would give feats and skill levels, increase BAB and Saves, and possibly ability bonuses though, I'm not sure on that.
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Q 100
Does a warlock get his strength bonus to attack or damage with a eldritch glaive? I think it's str to attack but none to damage but I'm not sure
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Q101: Can anybody think of a way to make an Ooze intelligent?
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A101: The Sentry Ooze template in Dungeonscape does it, nevermind.
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Also Awaken Ooze.
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Q 102: A friend of mine is playing a Warblade/Eternal Blade 2-Handed Wielding semi-optimized Snow Elf. Our DM allows us to submit a short list of magic item requests. 2-3 minor, 2-3 moderate, 2-3 major. He will distribute the items over the course of the campaign. I'm looking for recommendations for best magic item choices for the 3 categories, other than +X to Str items.
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Q 102: A friend of mine is playing a Warblade/Eternal Blade 2-Handed Wielding semi-optimized Snow Elf. Our DM allows us to submit a short list of magic item requests. 2-3 minor, 2-3 moderate, 2-3 major. He will distribute the items over the course of the campaign. I'm looking for recommendations for best magic item choices for the 3 categories, other than +X to Str items.
Did you check the Bunko's Bargain Basement thread? Also, this seems like it could benefit from its own thread, rather than just a post in here. I think Steadfast Boots, an Anklet of Translocation, and a Healing Belt and Belt of Battle are good items for that kind of character, though. Of course, he'll want a way to fly, as well.
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Q 102: A friend of mine is playing a Warblade/Eternal Blade 2-Handed Wielding semi-optimized Snow Elf. Our DM allows us to submit a short list of magic item requests. 2-3 minor, 2-3 moderate, 2-3 major. He will distribute the items over the course of the campaign. I'm looking for recommendations for best magic item choices for the 3 categories, other than +X to Str items.
Did you check the Bunko's Bargain Basement thread? Also, this seems like it could benefit from its own thread, rather than just a post in here. I think Steadfast Boots, an Anklet of Translocation, and a Healing Belt and Belt of Battle are good items for that kind of character, though. Of course, he'll want a way to fly, as well.
I did look through their, yeah. Thanks for the advice. I'll toss up a thread.
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Q103: When UMD'ing a runestaff, what CL is the spell cast at? The CL of the runestaff? Your own arcane CL? Your divine CL (if you have one)?
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Q103: When UMD'ing a runestaff, what CL is the spell cast at? The CL of the runestaff? Your own arcane CL? Your divine CL (if you have one)?
Are you talking like a rogue UMDing it or what?
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Q104: Does using these feats together constitute a valid PP recharge setup?
Body Fuel [Psionic]
You can expand your power point total at the expense of your health.
Benefit: You can recover 2 power points by taking 1 point of ability burn damage (see page 67) to each of your three ability scores: Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. You can recover additional power points for a proportional cost; for example, you could choose to recover 6 power points by taking 3 points of ability burn damage to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. These recovered points are added to your power point reserve as if you had gained them by resting overnight.
Special: Only living creatures can use this feat. You can take advantage of this feat only while in your own body (if you are under the effect of mind switch or metamorph, for example, you gain no benefit).
Psychic Bastion [Psionic] (Hyperconscious p.44-45)
You fortify yourself against ability depletion.
Benefit: While you maintain your psionic focus, you gain ability depletion resistance 3 against any attack that depletes an ability score, including poison, ability drain, ability damage, or enhancement penalties to ability scores. For instance, if some power, spell, effect, or poison deals you 4 points of temporary ability damage, you actually take just 1 point of temporary ability damage. The ability depletion resistance works on a per-attack basis.
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Ability burn is different from ability depletion. So no.
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Ability burn is different from ability depletion. So no.
Q104b:
Do things that protect against ability damage protect against ability burn? Like, say, the Oak Body power, which makes you immune to ability damage.
[spoiler]Ability Burn
This is a special form of ability damage that cannot be magically or psionically healed. It is caused by the use of certain psionic feats and powers. It returns only through natural healing.[/spoiler]
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Or that feat... :P
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Eh, I'd say no. Same as how things which protect you from damage don't protect you from ability damage.
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Ability burn is different from ability depletion. So no.
Q104b:
Do things that protect against ability damage protect against ability burn? Like, say, the Oak Body power, which makes you immune to ability damage.
[spoiler]Ability Burn
This is a special form of ability damage that cannot be magically or psionically healed. It is caused by the use of certain psionic feats and powers. It returns only through natural healing.[/spoiler]
I'd say yes, but then you can't benefit from Body Fuel (and likely anything else that causes ability burn). Read it again. It says you gain the benefits when you take the damage. If you don't take the damage, you don't get the benefits.
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Boo. Ah well, thanks for the answer :)
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Oh, but why not just take lots of ability burn and then polymorph (psions get something like that maybe?) into something with far better stats? I always thought that shape changing also gave you some sort of healing as if you'd rested overnight, which might take care of some of the ability burn?
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Still magical healing.
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How about the other way around? When you polymorph, you get the physical stats of the new form. Would burning THOSE stats and then returning to your normal form work?
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I don't think there would be an issue in reducing the ability damage (for example, using Strongheart Vest to reduce the damage to 1 point to three scores when you regain 4pp is definitely legal.). Just reducing it to 0 is questionable.
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Oh, but why not just take lots of ability burn and then polymorph (psions get something like that maybe?) into something with far better stats? I always thought that shape changing also gave you some sort of healing as if you'd rested overnight, which might take care of some of the ability burn?
That's generally Wild Shape. There is a SpC spell, and a CWar feat for improving natural healing. Though how useful...
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105: Ok, so I'm playing a totally broken item crafter (wizard) with near limitless wealth (my DM likes broken things). But, like all item crafters, I'm screwed if I'm in an antimagic field. Is there any kind of creative way to set up a defense for such a situation? I don't really know where to start, but I was thinking along the lines of having magic keeping some powerful entity at bay, and when the magic is nullified in the field, the said entity is released to devour my enemies. Of course, there is the problem of why the entity would kill my enemies and not me, but maybe if it were a construct? Anyways, all help is appreciated!
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105: Ok, so I'm playing a totally broken item crafter (wizard) with near limitless wealth (my DM likes broken things). But, like all item crafters, I'm screwed if I'm in an antimagic field. Is there any kind of creative way to set up a defense for such a situation? I don't really know where to start, but I was thinking along the lines of having magic keeping some powerful entity at bay, and when the magic is nullified in the field, the said entity is released to devour my enemies. Of course, there is the problem of why the entity would kill my enemies and not me, but maybe if it were a construct? Anyways, all help is appreciated!
Step 1: Make a large adamatine cone that you can stand inside
Step 2: Cast Shrink Item on it, turning into a clothlike substance
Step 3: Enjoy your new pointy wizard hat.
If you enter an AMF, your hat will enlarge, turn into adamantine, and protect you from the line of effect.
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Q 106 Is there a spell or other ability that lets you convert damage taken to increases to Attributes (Str, Con, Int, etc.), and if so, what is it called/what book is it in?
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Q 106 Is there a spell or other ability that lets you convert damage taken to increases to Attributes (Str, Con, Int, etc.), and if so, what is it called/what book is it in?
A106: The shambling mound has this Immunity to Electricity (Ex): Shamblers take no damage from electricity. Instead, any electricity attack used against a shambler temporarily grants it 1d4 points of Constitution. The shambler loses these points at the rate of 1 per hour.
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105: Ok, so I'm playing a totally broken item crafter (wizard) with near limitless wealth (my DM likes broken things). But, like all item crafters, I'm screwed if I'm in an antimagic field. Is there any kind of creative way to set up a defense for such a situation? I don't really know where to start, but I was thinking along the lines of having magic keeping some powerful entity at bay, and when the magic is nullified in the field, the said entity is released to devour my enemies. Of course, there is the problem of why the entity would kill my enemies and not me, but maybe if it were a construct? Anyways, all help is appreciated!
Step 1: Make a large adamatine cone that you can stand inside
Step 2: Cast Shrink Item on it, turning into a clothlike substance
Step 3: Enjoy your new pointy wizard hat.
If you enter an AMF, your hat will enlarge, turn into adamantine, and protect you from the line of effect.
Mad Linguist, you are a genius. I take off my cone shaped hat to you.
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Q 107 Can scrolls be scribed with metamagic on them? For instance, can a wizard create a twinned fireball scroll at spell level 7? I ask because i am thinking of playing a red wizard and have it in my head if its possible to scribe metamagiced spells into your spellbook, they can be cast by heightening a spell to what ever spell level is needed and using Rary's Arcane Conversion to swap the heightened spell out for the metamagiced spell.
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Q103: When UMD'ing a runestaff, what CL is the spell cast at? The CL of the runestaff? Your own arcane CL? Your divine CL (if you have one)?
Are you talking like a rogue UMDing it or what?
A rogue, sure. Or a cleric UMD'ing a runestaff with only Bard spells, or a Bard UMD'ing a runestaff with only wizard spells. Since you can't UMD a CL (per the FAQ), which CL do you actually use?
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Q103: When UMD'ing a runestaff, what CL is the spell cast at? The CL of the runestaff? Your own arcane CL? Your divine CL (if you have one)?
Are you talking like a rogue UMDing it or what?
A rogue, sure. Or a cleric UMD'ing a runestaff with only Bard spells, or a Bard UMD'ing a runestaff with only wizard spells. Since you can't UMD a CL (per the FAQ), which CL do you actually use?
I'd say the CL of the staff just for a consistent, difficult-to-break ruling.
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Q103: When UMD'ing a runestaff, what CL is the spell cast at? The CL of the runestaff? Your own arcane CL? Your divine CL (if you have one)?
Are you talking like a rogue UMDing it or what?
A rogue, sure. Or a cleric UMD'ing a runestaff with only Bard spells, or a Bard UMD'ing a runestaff with only wizard spells. Since you can't UMD a CL (per the FAQ), which CL do you actually use?
I'd say the CL of the staff just for a consistent, difficult-to-break ruling.
Yeah, that's what I was leaning towards. Now the tricky part. In pricing / creating runestaffs, there is no price component for CL! In looking through MIC, the CL range from 12 to 18. So would you think 18 should be the cap? Can someone craft a runestaff with an arbitrarily high CL?
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Q103: When UMD'ing a runestaff, what CL is the spell cast at? The CL of the runestaff? Your own arcane CL? Your divine CL (if you have one)?
Are you talking like a rogue UMDing it or what?
A rogue, sure. Or a cleric UMD'ing a runestaff with only Bard spells, or a Bard UMD'ing a runestaff with only wizard spells. Since you can't UMD a CL (per the FAQ), which CL do you actually use?
I'd say the CL of the staff just for a consistent, difficult-to-break ruling.
Yeah, that's what I was leaning towards. Now the tricky part. In pricing / creating runestaffs, there is no price component for CL! In looking through MIC, the CL range from 12 to 18. So would you think 18 should be the cap? Can someone craft a runestaff with an arbitrarily high CL?
I'd assume it's the minimum required to cast a spell of that level from your class.
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
Smash the focus, if there is one. If not, use Lesser Planar Binding/Ally to summon a Lantern Archon and have him hover within 20' of the victim until the possessor gets bored.
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
Hire a ghost.
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Q 98: what happens when a PC gains bonus HD trough mount or animal companion shehanigans?
A.99: They would give feats and skill levels, increase BAB and Saves, and possibly ability bonuses though, I'm not sure on that.
my concern was more if the player would be counted as having leveled up... or if bonus hd are some kind of strange virtual HD that don't count towards exp needed for next level. Though the ability bonus thing is a good catch, it's not spelled out..
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
It's a Stranger with the Burning Eyes. Find and take his token!
Or hire a Sacred Exorcist.
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
It's a Stranger with the Burning Eyes. Find and take his token!
Or hire a Sacred Exorcist.
Or become one yourself. That's one I was considering for a while. No lost CL, so it's somewhat worthwhile.
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Q109
Does the Stalwart Sorcerer extra hp benefit carry over to prestige classes and other classes? Or does it apply only to actual levels of sorcerer?
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Q109
Does the Stalwart Sorcerer extra hp benefit carry over to prestige classes and other classes? Or does it apply only to actual levels of sorcerer?
A109 As written, only to Sorcerer levels.
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Q109
Does the Stalwart Sorcerer extra hp benefit carry over to prestige classes and other classes? Or does it apply only to actual levels of sorcerer?
A109 As written, only to Sorcerer levels.
Q109b
that being the case, since you're not getting the extra HP from those levels, do you also not take the reduction of spells at those levels? ;)
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
kill the possesed one, then resurect them.ussualy possesion does not last through death. :D
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Q110: The Dark Scholar prestige class in the Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde gets to pick this ability:
The Ascendancy Manuscript: Knowledge (the planes) 18 ranks; use divine scrolls as if you were a cleric of your arcane caster level.
Does this let me "use" Divine Scrolls for the purposes of scribing them into my spellbook. It never explicitly says what I can "use" them for, just that I can "use" them.
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Q110: The Dark Scholar prestige class in the Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde gets to pick this ability:
The Ascendancy Manuscript: Knowledge (the planes) 18 ranks; use divine scrolls as if you were a cleric of your arcane caster level.
Does this let me "use" Divine Scrolls for the purposes of scribing them into my spellbook. It never explicitly says what I can "use" them for, just that I can "use" them.
Since Clerics don't scribe scrolls into spellbooks, I'd say that you can't, due to the wording "As a Cleric". However, as you can research arcane versions of divine spells anyways, I'd allow it, especially for something you're sinking levels into getting. This is probably a very flaky argument, though.
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Q111
I noted that I cannot find a Blackguard Handbook. What are some Key Spells to Prepare and Spells that you get at lower levels then standard classes? Naturally this is in regards to the Archivist.
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Can someone craft a runestaff with an arbitrarily high CL?
Well here are the rules:
For potions, scrolls, and wands, the creator can set the caster level of an item at any number high enough to cast the stored spell and not higher than her own caster level. For other magic items, the caster level is determined by the creator. The minimum caster level is that which is needed to meet the prerequisites given.
That's badly worded. As it's written, your caster level doesn't limit the caster level of items you craft if they're not potions, scrolls, or wands. I'm sure the caster level of an item you craft is meant to be constrained by your caster level.
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Q112 What is the earliest level one can reliably make CL20 caster level checks?
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At 9th level, you could have a ring of arcane might (Complete Arcane) for +1 caster level and the arcane mastery feat (Complete Arcane) for the ability to take 10 on caster level checks (even in combat). Of course, that ring is pretty expensive for 9th level.
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Q109
Does the Stalwart Sorcerer extra hp benefit carry over to prestige classes and other classes? Or does it apply only to actual levels of sorcerer?
A109 As written, only to Sorcerer levels.
Q109b
that being the case, since you're not getting the extra HP from those levels, do you also not take the reduction of spells at those levels? ;)
As far as I am aware, yes, that would be the case. At least, that's how we do it, and that would make sense.
Q 113 What creature gives Balors even nightmares, and what book are they in?
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A113: the Klurichir in Fiend Folio supposedly give Balors nightmares.
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A113: the Klurichir in Fiend Folio supposedly give Balors nightmares.
Thanks.
Q 114 When using the Gate spell, does it work the same as a Summon Monster or Nature's Ally when determining XP afterwards (ie no extra because it's what the caster's capable of)?
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Q 115:
I have seen people make the claim that training a Warbeast allows you to add the template.
After reading that section in the MM2, all those rules seem to elaborate on are just the Handle Animal checks for training a creature that is already a Warbeast. It never mentions adding the template.
Is this correct?
TRAINING A WARBEAST
[spoiler]A warbeast can be reared and trained just as the base creature can.
If the base creature is a domestic animal, the creature need not be specially reared, but it must be trained for two months (Handle Animal DC 20) to develop its abilities.
A warbeast based on a wild animal must be reared for one year (Handle Animal DC 15 + HD of the warbeast), then trained for 2 months (Handle Animal DC 20 + HD of the warbeast).
A warbeast based on a beast must be reared for one year (Handle Animal DC 20 + HD of the warbeast), then trained for 2 months (Handle Animal DC 25 + HD of the warbeast).
A warbeast based on a vermin, being mindless, is untrainable.
A trained warbeast is capable of carrying a rider into battle, and it gains the combative mount special quality (see above).[/spoiler]
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After reading that section in the MM2, all those rules seem to elaborate on are just the Handle Animal checks for training a creature that is already a Warbeast.
I completely agree with you and have argued this more than once. Additionally, the template explicitly can be added to creatures that cannot be trained, and the template is described as the result of selective breeding.
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Q 108 How do you exorcise a soul possessing someone. The person is performing this possession using a sort of permanent Magic Jar. It may not be simply dispellable.
It's a Stranger with the Burning Eyes. Find and take his token!
Or hire a Sacred Exorcist.
Or become one yourself. That's one I was considering for a while. No lost CL, so it's somewhat worthwhile.
Q 116 How about locating the Magic Jar? Is there a spell for that? Locate Object won't quite cut it, as nobody would have seen it firsthand, and it has limited range too. Interrogating the possessing soul might not yield any information, if they actually don't know where the jar is anymore. (I suppose Inquisition or Mind Probe will end up working out, if they do know though.)
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Detect magic?
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Q117: If you drain a creature with enough negative levels, it will become a wight. How powerful will it be as a wight? Will it keep it's previous HD or will it just be a wight as weak as in the Monster Manual? Will it be under your control or is it possible it will just continue to bash on you?
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Q117: If you drain a creature with enough negative levels, it will become a wight. How powerful will it be as a wight? Will it keep it's previous HD or will it just be a wight as weak as in the Monster Manual? Will it be under your control or is it possible it will just continue to bash on you?
It will become what you see in the MM. As for it bashing on you, it'd have to find you first. It doesn't happen right away.
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Can you splice a rope in half to double its length?
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Yes, but it won't be very strong, and it is very hard and timeconsuming to do. probably not wort it in most situations.
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Rules Wise? I dont see why not. Common Sense Wise? You'd be compromising the integrity of the weave of the rope and it would soon fall apart. Applying weight to it would hasten the degradation. I dont think it would work out for you very well if you tried to use such a rope.
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Q118: Is there any reliable means of extraplanar communication? I'm interested in spells or items. Sending has a 5% fail rate. Basically I have a homunculus in a modified bag of holding and I want to be able to tell him what item to hand me but technically he's in another dimension.
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Q 114 When using the Gate spell, does it work the same as a Summon Monster or Nature's Ally when determining XP afterwards (ie no extra because it's what the caster's capable of)?
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Q118: Is there any reliable means of extraplanar communication? I'm interested in spells or items. Sending has a 5% fail rate. Basically I have a homunculus in a modified bag of holding and I want to be able to tell him what item to hand me but technically he's in another dimension.
I was going to suggest the power mindlink, but that's specifically broken by planar differences. The Psion/Wilder 4 power, however, Correspond (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/correspond.htm) does exactly what you're looking for.
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Q118: Is there any reliable means of extraplanar communication? I'm interested in spells or items. Sending has a 5% fail rate. Basically I have a homunculus in a modified bag of holding and I want to be able to tell him what item to hand me but technically he's in another dimension.
I was going to suggest the power mindlink, but that's specifically broken by planar differences. The Psion/Wilder 4 power, however, Correspond (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/correspond.htm) does exactly what you're looking for.
Sorry, but I'm sadly in a no-psionics campaign. My DM doesn't understand them so we're limited to magic.
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Q 114 When using the Gate spell, does it work the same as a Summon Monster or Nature's Ally when determining XP afterwards (ie no extra because it's what the caster's capable of)?
I would say yes....
Since the calling is a spell effect then the encounter should only account for the caster that used Gate....
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Q118: Is there any reliable means of extraplanar communication? I'm interested in spells or items. Sending has a 5% fail rate. Basically I have a homunculus in a modified bag of holding and I want to be able to tell him what item to hand me but technically he's in another dimension.
I was going to suggest the power mindlink, but that's specifically broken by planar differences. The Psion/Wilder 4 power, however, Correspond (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/correspond.htm) does exactly what you're looking for.
Sorry, but I'm sadly in a no-psionics campaign. My DM doesn't understand them so we're limited to magic.
Unfortunate. Sending is the only spell I can think of that lets you pull something like this off. Possibly stick it in a wand and just keep popping standard actions, because the 5% chance of failure is quite low. It's the best idea I can give you at the moment.
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Q118: Is there any reliable means of extraplanar communication? I'm interested in spells or items. Sending has a 5% fail rate. Basically I have a homunculus in a modified bag of holding and I want to be able to tell him what item to hand me but technically he's in another dimension.
There is a spell that does exactly what you want......
Rary's interplanar telepathetic Bond from Planar Handbook....
It works like the regular bond only it can work interplanar too.....
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Q119: Are there any threads out there about specializing in slingshots? Bows are relatively simple, but nothing beats "I just killed you with a Vorpal Rock".
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Q120: Whats the easiest way for a wizard to become immune the stuff Soulfire Armor protects from without Soulfire (Im strapped for cash and need an alternative). I'd prefer some way a wizard could do it without help from another character.
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Q120: Whats the easiest way for a wizard to become immune the stuff Soulfire Armor protects from without Soulfire (Im strapped for cash and need an alternative). I'd prefer some way a wizard could do it without help from another character.
-Arcane Disciple feat for the Undeath Domain. Grants Death Ward as a 4th level spell.
-Play an undead character.
-Acquire Turn Undead somehow(Sacred Exorcist), and get the Sacred Vitality feat(LM) to gain immunity to ability damage, ability drain, and energy drain for 1 minute. (but not death effects)
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-Arcane Disciple feat for the Undeath Domain. Grants Death Ward as a 4th level spell.
Too bad you can only do that once a day.
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Q120: Whats the easiest way for a wizard to become immune the stuff Soulfire Armor protects from without Soulfire (Im strapped for cash and need an alternative).
A talisman of undying fortitude (Magic Item Compendium 188) costs 8,000 gp and lets you spend a swift action twice per day to gain undead immunities for three rounds.
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Excellent option! Thanks Very Much!
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Q119: Are there any threads out there about specializing in slingshots? Bows are relatively simple, but nothing beats "I just killed you with a Vorpal Rock".
I don't know if there are any threads, but you may want to check out the Stonestorm Striker adaptation of the Bloodstorm Blade in ToB. It gives free action loading of slings (instead of the usual move) plus all the BB thrown weapon goodies applied to slings. Magical ammunition will be a bit more worthwhile, too, as the 4th level ability should immediately return it to you if it doesn't break (50% chance of breaking on a miss, 100% on a hit). The only additional caveat is that you have to be a halfling.
The War Sling and the Skiprock from RotW are also worth looking at. With EWP in both, you do 1d8/x4 damage and get a free attack at -2 to an opponent adjacent to any creature that you hit. It's a bit expensive feat-wise, though.
Edit: Found something (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-132330.html)
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Q120: Is there anything stopping me from using a Sculpted Lightning Leap to hit somebody with the effect of lightning leap more than once?
Basically the spell turns you into a bolt of lightning that shoots forward up to 60 feet in a line effect, and you end up at the endpoint of the bolt.
Sculpt lets you turn any spell into 4 10 foot cube effects. So can you go 10 feet forward, 10 feet back, 10 feet forward and then 10 feet back, hitting your enemy four times with the spells effect?
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I don't think you can stack the cubes on top of each other when using sculpt spell (or, if you could, the damage wouldn't stack).
That said, sculpting lightning leap is an excellent way to either deal surgical AoE damage while teleporting, or double your teleport range. It's still blasting, but at least it's blasting with a decent secondary effect.
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Q121
Would Extend Spell function normally on a spell with the Elemalefic spell template (described below)? For example, if used on a 9th-level spell, would this damage happen for 18 rounds?
Elemalefic
You have learned how to capture minor elemental spirits and trap them in your spells. A spell amplified by the elemalefic template seems to form frowning skulls, grasping claws, or screaming faces of the appropriate energy type within its area.
This template can be added to any spell that deals energy damage (acid, cold, electricity, fire, or sonic). After the spell's normal duration expires, or after its damage is dealt, elemental spirits plague all creatures damaged by the spell for a number of additional rounds equal to the spell's level. This residual energy deals 1d4 points of damage per round of the same energy type as the spell itself dealt. For instance, a creature damaged by an elemalefic ice storm takes 1d4 points of residual cold damage per round for 4 rounds after the spell's duration expires. The spell is still considered to be in effect for the purpose of dispel magic.
A spell with this template gains the appropriate energy descriptor (the acid descriptor for an elemalefic acid spell for example).
Cost: Material component (worth at least 50 gp) that is specific to the energy type, as follows: a few drops of black dragon drool (acid), diamond dust (cold), a star made of woven copper wire (electricity), ruby dust (fire), or a gold tuning fork (sonic).
Prerequisite: Elemalefic Spellcaster.
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Q 122:
Would a monk with a magic item of continuous Mighty Wallop, Greater (RotD 115) be considered overpowered?
I would be using the Ancestral Relic Feat and upgrading the item as I leveled (higher caster level = higher size category damage)
Sample base unarmed damage per level with Ancestral Relic equipped
12th: 4d6(huge)
14th: 6d6(gargantuan)
16th: 8d8(colossal)
20th: 12d8(colossal)
Edit: Thank you GawainBS and Saxony for your answers.
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Q 122:
Would a monk with a magic item of continuous Mighty Wallop, Greater (RotD 115) be considered overpowered?
I would be using the Ancestral Relic Feat and upgrading the item as I leveled (higher caster level = higher size category damage)
Sample base unarmed damage per level with Ancestral Relic equipped
12th: 4d6(huge)
14th: 6d6(gargantuan)
16th: 8d8(colossal)
20th: 12d8(colossal)
A 122: No, it's still a Monk. You still have to deal with low to hit, mediocre (at best) defenses, and MAD. DR is still an issue too. Less so due to the base damage, but still.
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Q 122:
Would a monk with a magic item of continuous Mighty Wallop, Greater (RotD 115) be considered overpowered?
I would be using the Ancestral Relic Feat and upgrading the item as I leveled (higher caster level = higher size category damage)
Sample base unarmed damage per level with Ancestral Relic equipped
12th: 4d6(huge)
14th: 6d6(gargantuan)
16th: 8d8(colossal)
20th: 12d8(colossal)
A 122: Overpowered is a relative term, not an absolute term. I would say this is middle to low level optimization. If your group is full of Wizards, Clerics, and Druids, this isn't enough. If you're in a team of Warblades, you'll be about even with them in terms of damage but lack style options and some power options. If you're in a team of well optimized Fighters, Barbarians, and Rogues, you'll be fine. If you're in a team of very poorly optimized characters, you might be the best character at the table.
You have to estimate how powerful your friends' characters are and then compare to your character. You should be okay since you're playing melee beast.
PS: This sounds quite cool.
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Q123:
I'm currently playing a build going into Telfammar Shadowlord. I would like to know of an item or feat (I would vastly, vastly, vastly prefer an item though, as feat slots are valuable) that either boosts my reflex save extremely high once a day, or allows some sort of auto-save once per day. Specifically, this is for their shadow discorporation ability that allows them to live through a fatal attack if they roll a reflex save for DC 5+damage dealt.
Thanks
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Q123:
I'm currently playing a build going into Telfammar Shadowlord. I would like to know of an item or feat (I would vastly, vastly, vastly prefer an item though, as feat slots are valuable) that either boosts my reflex save extremely high once a day, or allows some sort of auto-save once per day. Specifically, this is for their shadow discorporation ability that allows them to live through a fatal attack if they roll a reflex save for DC 5+damage dealt.
Thanks
The Diamond Mind maneuver Action Before Thought and a decent Concentration score could work. You could pick up ABT with a dip in a martial adept class, via Martial Study (feat), or using UMD and a wand of Heroics.
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Q124: How if any can I get the 4th level bard spell (5th level druid) Sirine's Grace onto a sorcerers spell list.
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Thanks for the answers to my RHD question a while back! :)
Q125: Is spellcasting really an extraordinary ability? I always figured abilities that didn't end in anything -- lacking (Ex), (Su), etc. -- were considered natural abilities (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm) and thus were unavailable to polymorphers and the like. By the logic "not ending in anything = extraordinary," the same could be said of, for example, the Feats line in the ravid (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/ravid.htm)'s stat block, or any monster that had something like "Hit Dice: this creature uses d4s for racial hit dice, rather than d8s as would be normal for their type".
@Q125: Natural abilities are gained through Polymorph and the like.
Not seeing "natural abilit(y/ies)" in Alter Self, Polymorph, nor Shapechange.... but you know what, these spells are bad enough even without suddenly gaining the casting ability of a 17th-level cleric when you're already a 17th-level wizard. Welcome to what everyone else figured out in 2003, huh? :lol
Q126: Say someone is a monk saint, AKA this character has two abilities that add Wis to AC (another example: an undead with Unholy Grace [Ex] and levels in Paladin of Tyranny/Slaughter). Are they considered the same bonus, and thus don't stack? Or, because they're untyped bonuses, they do stack? The latter seems very cheesy, but I guess the monk (and Mr. Dead Guy) needs all the help he can get. :p
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@Q125: Natural abilities are gained through Polymorph and the like.
A126:Saint Wis to AC is explicitly an Insight Bonus while Monk is untyped. There shouldn't be any question whatsoever if they stack. Unholy Grace is a different ability from Divine Grace, so again, they clearly stack. I don't know why this was worth asking.
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Q124: How if any can I get the 4th level bard spell (5th level druid) Sirine's Grace onto a sorcerers spell list.
A124 Recaster (Races of Eberron), and there's a few other PrCs that let you cherrypick spells from any list.
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@Q125: Natural abilities are gained through Polymorph and the like.
A126:Saint Wis to AC is explicitly an Insight Bonus while Monk is untyped. There shouldn't be any question whatsoever if they stack. Unholy Grace is a different ability from Divine Grace, so again, they clearly stack. I don't know why this was worth asking.
Q127: Better question is, do Swordsage and Monk bonuses stack? Assuming you've ruled swordsages to be light armor or less?
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@Q125: Natural abilities are gained through Polymorph and the like.
A126:Saint Wis to AC is explicitly an Insight Bonus while Monk is untyped. There shouldn't be any question whatsoever if they stack. Unholy Grace is a different ability from Divine Grace, so again, they clearly stack. I don't know why this was worth asking.
Q127: Better question is, do Swordsage and Monk bonuses stack? Assuming you've ruled swordsages to be light armor or less?
That's where things get iffy. That's a DM question. They both use their WIS to get bonus AC, but there are lots of people who'll argue until they're blue in the face and will probably stab you just to win the argument, that they do stack.
EDIT: However, for a feat you can have your INT or CHA added to your AC, and that'll stack without any arguments at all.
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Q128
Does the Warshaper's Morphic Weapons allow for only one natural weapon to be created and/or increased in size?
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Q123:
I'm currently playing a build going into Telfammar Shadowlord. I would like to know of an item or feat (I would vastly, vastly, vastly prefer an item though, as feat slots are valuable) that either boosts my reflex save extremely high once a day, or allows some sort of auto-save once per day. Specifically, this is for their shadow discorporation ability that allows them to live through a fatal attack if they roll a reflex save for DC 5+damage dealt.
Thanks
The Diamond Mind maneuver Action Before Thought and a decent Concentration score could work. You could pick up ABT with a dip in a martial adept class, via Martial Study (feat), or using UMD and a wand of Heroics.
You can also just use a Ring of Diamond Mind (3000g, grants a single Diamond Mind maneuver up to 3rd level, listed under the Crown of the White Raven variants in ToB) to get that maneuver.
Change Fate (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20040827e) is a 5th level power that guarantees a natural 20 on a saving throw. If you can UPD a Psicrown, or just get it as a psionic tattoo with a capacitor and maybe an inducer (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20031225a), you can guarantee your successful save.
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Q128
Does the Warshaper's Morphic Weapons allow for only one natural weapon to be created and/or increased in size?
It does not have a limit. Nor does CW errata. A well known dirty trick.
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@Q125: Natural abilities are gained through Polymorph and the like.
A126:Saint Wis to AC is explicitly an Insight Bonus while Monk is untyped. There shouldn't be any question whatsoever if they stack. Unholy Grace is a different ability from Divine Grace, so again, they clearly stack. I don't know why this was worth asking.
Q127: Better question is, do Swordsage and Monk bonuses stack? Assuming you've ruled swordsages to be light armor or less?
That's where things get iffy. That's a DM question. They both use their WIS to get bonus AC, but there are lots of people who'll argue until they're blue in the face and will probably stab you just to win the argument, that they do stack.
EDIT: However, for a feat you can have your INT or CHA added to your AC, and that'll stack without any arguments at all.
The fact that they're both wisdom based has absolutely nothing at all to do with it. If two abilities have the same name (Divine Grace), or grant the same kind of bonus (Insight, etc), then they don't stack. Otherwise, they stack.
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Q129: Are
- ability modifier
- ability bonus
- ability bonus [if any]
the same thing?
I.e. Character has ability modifier -2.
An action is performed where he must add to the roll the
- ability modifier. So he adds -2.
- ability bonus. What does he add?
- ability bonus [if any]. What does he add?
The question arose when intimidating (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/intimidate.htm) an orc (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/orc.htm) which has Wisdom 7 (modifier -2).
Your Intimidate check is opposed by the target’s modified level check (1d20 + character level or Hit Dice + target’s Wisdom bonus [if any] + target’s modifiers on saves against fear).
1d20 + 1 + ?? + 0.
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A 130: Yes, they're all the same. It's 1d20 + 1 -2.
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A 130: Yes, they're all the same. It's 1d20 + 1 -2.
i disagree, ability modifier is the modifier regardless of circumstance, but 'ability bonus,if any' is only if the modifer is positive.
so in this particular case it is 1d20+1-2, but if the character had a penalty it would not get added to the roll.
when it just says bonus it's a little unclear, but i ussualy read it as only using the modifier if it it positive.
q131: Is there a deity of cats (or felines in general) and martial skill? It's just for flavor reasons though usefull domains would be a plus.
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The only deity I know of with cats specifically (rather than animals generally) in her portfolio is bast (Deities and Demigods). The rest of her portfolio is vengeance, protection, and punishment. Her domains are chaos, destruction, protection, strength, and war. She is chaotic good and her favored weapon is tiger claws (variant nekode from Arms and Equipment Guide).
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@Q125: Natural abilities are gained through Polymorph and the like.
A126:Saint Wis to AC is explicitly an Insight Bonus while Monk is untyped. There shouldn't be any question whatsoever if they stack. Unholy Grace is a different ability from Divine Grace, so again, they clearly stack. I don't know why this was worth asking.
Q127: Better question is, do Swordsage and Monk bonuses stack? Assuming you've ruled swordsages to be light armor or less?
That's where things get iffy. That's a DM question. They both use their WIS to get bonus AC, but there are lots of people who'll argue until they're blue in the face and will probably stab you just to win the argument, that they do stack.
EDIT: However, for a feat you can have your INT or CHA added to your AC, and that'll stack without any arguments at all.
The fact that they're both wisdom based has absolutely nothing at all to do with it. If two abilities have the same name (Divine Grace), or grant the same kind of bonus (Insight, etc), then they don't stack. Otherwise, they stack.
And that's what I'm getting at. You're not really stating either way, but as I said, it's a DM question. If the DM reads it as Wis and Wis, and that they don't stack, then that's how it is.
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Q132
What is the source of the Hero Domain (if it exists)?
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Q132
What is the source of the Hero Domain (if it exists)?
Oriental Adventures I believe. I don't know if it has been updated.
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Q 133. With scrying spells, (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#scrying), you create an invisible sensor that can be spotted with a DC 20 intelligence check. My question-- if a player fails the intelligence check but is under the effects of True Seeing, what (if anything) do they see? Do they need to roll a Spot check or something to notice the sensor? I mean, how big/easy to notice is it?
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Q132
What is the source of the Hero Domain (if it exists)?
If it's the one I'm thinking of, you really needed to be a Shaman to gain any real benefit.
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Q133 is there a planar shepherd handbook somewhere?
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A133
There is one out in the remnants of the WotC forums (link:http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19871574/The_Planar_Shepherd_Handbook (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19871574/The_Planar_Shepherd_Handbook)).
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Grrr... someone stole my number... So I'm taking a new one! Hah! There are infinite numbers!
Q 134. With scrying spells, (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicOverview/spellDescriptions.htm#scrying), you create an invisible sensor that can be spotted with a DC 20 intelligence check. My question-- if a player fails the intelligence check but is under the effects of True Seeing, what (if anything) do they see? Do they need to roll a Spot check or something to notice the sensor? I mean, how big/easy to notice is it?
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Q 135: With Gestalt rules in Unearthed Arcana on the SRD, are you able to take the same prestige class on both sides at the same time? (Ex: A druid going planar shepard 5 on one side and 5 on the other simultaneously) I know there are rules against other prestige classes at the same time but the same one?
Q 136: With the Enhance Wild Shape spell from Spell Compendium, is it even worth it to do a 3 level dip into Master of Many Forms or just stick to straight Druid? The spell doesn't seem to completely over-shadow the class as it gives all the extraordinary abilities but not the stats..
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A135
I don't believe so, no. Though I do see it House Ruled like that in quite a few PbP.
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A135: You have to select two classes. That would be selecting one class.
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Q137If a duskblade using his Arcane Channling gets a critical, does he get both the crit on the weapon and the spell being channeled?
Q138 Are there any templates that enhance constructs? Incarnate Golem > Dustform template trick is out...
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Q 139: Where can I find the rules for charging while flying/diving? I can't seem to find them anywhere.
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A139 http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20040706a
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q140
Does Empowering a Summoning spell affect the creature's ability scores?
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A138: Dragon mag 327 has some templates for golems, and dungeonscape has the hivenest template that can be added to constructs. there are probably more out there, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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q140
Does Empowering a Summoning spell affect the creature's ability scores?
i would think no, empower only affects variable numerical effects. but it would allow you to take one-half more of 1d3 summoned creatures if you chose the prior level's list.
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Q141 How much can a rope hold up before it breaks?
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Q141 How much can a rope hold up before it breaks?
I think we're supposed to use real world mechanics for that, so it'll depend on the thickness. The standard is 200 lbs for 1 inch diameter, and 800 lbs for 2 inch diameter.
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Q141 How much can a rope hold up before it breaks?
A141: i dont know of any rules that definitively has that answer.... but a rope can be broken with a DC 23 strength check. and a strength of 23 has a max carrying capacity of 600 lbs. maybe you can use that as an estimate?
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No, no, you're thinking too much in terms of mechanics.
A 141
However much the DM lets you get away with, obviously. :p
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Unless you're trying to lift your centaur companion up a cliff, I don't think it matters too much.
Which is why I want to play a centaur warlock :p
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A 130: Yes, they're all the same. It's 1d20 + 1 -2.
i disagree, ability modifier is the modifier regardless of circumstance, but 'ability bonus,if any' is only if the modifer is positive.
so in this particular case it is 1d20+1-2, but if the character had a penalty it would not get added to the roll.
when it just says bonus it's a little unclear, but i ussualy read it as only using the modifier if it it positive.
q131: Is there a deity of cats (or felines in general) and martial skill? It's just for flavor reasons though usefull domains would be a plus.
Hence the usage of *bonus, if any*. The exception is included in the nomenclature.
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I agree with Catty. They're not the same thing. The "(if any)" clause basically just clarifies that an ability modifier is only considered a bonus if it is positive. I'm pretty sure this is actually defined in a glossary in the back of the PHB or something.
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I agree with Catty. They're not the same thing. The "(if any)" clause basically just clarifies that an ability modifier is only considered a bonus if it is positive. I'm pretty sure this is actually defined in a glossary in the back of the PHB or something.
I don't see the problem anyway. "If any" is all that is needed to clarify.
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Q 142 Where can I find the stats, or template add-on, for the apocalypse zombies you see in movies (ie the ones that bite and turn you into zombies too even if they don't kill you outright)?
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I agree with Catty. They're not the same thing. The "(if any)" clause basically just clarifies that an ability modifier is only considered a bonus if it is positive. I'm pretty sure this is actually defined in a glossary in the back of the PHB or something.
I could not find a good definition for the ability bonus. I'd be glad to see one.
Here is another example of "bonus, if any"
Flat-Footed: At the start of a battle, before you have had a chance to act (specifically, before your first regular turn in the initiative order), you are flat-footed. You can’t use your Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) while flat-footed. PHB p.137
If a character would have horrendous dex e.g. 1 (modifier -5) then being flat-footed would be a good thing for his AC. If one reads that bonus equals modifier. [edit]AC definition on PHB p.134 states that dex modifier is used.[/edit]
To make things unclear the Strength bonus is defined so:
Strength Bonus: When you hit with a melee or thrown weapon, including a sling, add your Strength modifier to the damage result. A Strength penalty, but not a bonus, applies on attacks made with a bow that is not a composite bow. PHB p.134
I'm also leaning towards that the bonus is positive only. The negative one is penalty. Thus orcs are less likely to be intimidated. 1d20 + 1 + 0 + 0.
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Q 142 Where can I find the stats, or template add-on, for the apocalypse zombies you see in movies (ie the ones that bite and turn you into zombies too even if they don't kill you outright)?
Spawn of Kyuss (Monster Manual II) have similar properties.
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Q 142 Where can I find the stats, or template add-on, for the apocalypse zombies you see in movies (ie the ones that bite and turn you into zombies too even if they don't kill you outright)?
Spawn of Kyuss (Monster Manual II) have similar properties.
Found a few on LM too.
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I could not find a good definition for the ability bonus. I'd be glad to see one.
The one on page 7 of the Player's Handbook is the only one I know of.
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I could not find a good definition for the ability bonus. I'd be glad to see one.
The one on page 7 of the Player's Handbook is the only one I know of.
Dang, how did I miss that one. :) It's all clear thanks, Maat_Mons!
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Q 143 Where can I find information and stats on the 3.5 thonot? All I know is that they're a psionic quaggoth from Forgotten Realms, instead of their magic counterpart, and have psi-powers not unlike the psy warrior and psion/wilder.
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Q 144 I came across this http://www.holdfast.org/2nd_DungeonIndex.pdf which is a complete list of 2nd Ed adventure modules for FR in Dungeon Magazine. Does anyone know of such a thing for 3.0/3.5?
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Q145 Level 5 Artificer cohort used for buffs and magic item crafting. I plan on taking Chain Spell metamagic to make buffing easier. What's a good metamagic to take as a pre-requisite besides Extend Spell?
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Q146: Assuming Core+Complete+Races of X only, how can I get Summon spells to last more than 1 round at level 1? All I can think of is Sudden Extend, but I'd prefer something that works more than once per day.
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A146 Lesser Metamagic Rod of Extend comes to mind. You'll prolly be about level 2-3 before you can afford it though.
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Q 147: I don't entirely understand Metamorphic Transfer. If I want to use it to gain a continuous supernatural ability, how long will that ability last?
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nvm found it.
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Q149: I'm having problems finding a few things regarding rules which I know are true.
149a: where is the rule that allows me to apply bonuses in any order I choose (as the one who benefits from the bonuses)? example: Color Spray made someone Unconcsious, Blind, and Stunned. Its greatly benefitical for me
to make them Stunned, then Blind, then Unconcsious. I need to point out a rule that says that is the case.
149b: where is the rule that says that magical effects last even if the target is no longer legal?
A148: Absolutely, as long as the spell is on their list.
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Q146: Assuming Core+Complete+Races of X only, how can I get Summon spells to last more than 1 round at level 1? All I can think of is Sudden Extend, but I'd prefer something that works more than once per day.
The Spellgifted (conjuration) trait?
I think there are holy symbols in CC that offer a +1 to CL on conjuration as well.
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A146 Lesser Metamagic Rod of Extend comes to mind. You'll prolly be about level 2-3 before you can afford it though.
More like level 4 according to WBL.
Just take Sudden Extend, even if you follow TML's suggestions. It's not a bad feat if retraining is allowed. If you're a Wizard or Cleric summoner, then you shouldn't have more than one Summon spell prepared at level 1 anyway. If you're a Druid summoner, then I'm not sure sacrificing something awesome like an Entangle is worth a cheap, 2-round summon.
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Q149: I'm having problems finding a few things regarding rules which I know are true.
149a: where is the rule that allows me to apply bonuses in any order I choose (as the one who benefits from the bonuses)? example: Color Spray made someone Unconcsious, Blind, and Stunned. Its greatly benefitical for me
to make them Stunned, then Blind, then Unconcsious. I need to point out a rule that says that is the case.
149b: where is the rule that says that magical effects last even if the target is no longer legal?
A148: Absolutely, as long as the spell is on their list.
A149a: Check the FAQ (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/er/20030221a) (June '08 is the latest now that 4E has been published), page 113. The rule isn't quite what you think, as effects and such are applied "in the order that’s most beneficial to the creature". I'm not certain why it matters for Color Spray (you can be stunned, blind, and unconscious simultaneously), however.
A149b: FAQ, page 87. ("A spell only checks to see if you are a legal target when it is cast.")
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Q 143 Where can I find information and stats on the 3.5 thonot? All I know is that they're a psionic quaggoth from Forgotten Realms, instead of their magic counterpart, and have psi-powers not unlike the psy warrior and psion/wilder.
Q 144 I came across this http://www.holdfast.org/2nd_DungeonIndex.pdf which is a complete list of 2nd Ed adventure modules for FR in Dungeon Magazine. Does anyone know of such a thing for 3.0/3.5?
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Q 147: I don't entirely understand Metamorphic Transfer. If I want to use it to gain a continuous supernatural ability, how long will that ability last?
As long as the shapechanging ability you used to assume the form lasts.
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Q150:Is spellcasting an extraordinary ability a supernatural or a spelllike one?
MM5 would seem to suggest that it is Extraordinary but I always thought that if it has to be one of the three it should be a spelllike ability.....
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Q150:Is spellcasting an extraordinary ability a supernatural or a spelllike one?
MM5 would seem to suggest that it is Extraordinary but I always thought that if it has to be one of the three it should be a spelllike ability.....
It can't be spell-like, since spell-likes are defined as not being spells.
There's a whole topic on this can of worms. It's not a "simple" question.
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Q151 Where is that totally sweet Assimar Swashbuckler picture?
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Q151 Where is that totally sweet Assimar Swashbuckler picture?
Races of Destiny.
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Q151 Where is that totally sweet Assimar Swashbuckler picture?
what Aasimar Swashbuckler? ... there is a nice Tiefling in Races of Destiny
:D
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
Well in races of the dragon it says that they do have sexual organs but they are essentially asexual as they lose all interest in sex....
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
A152:
No ...... you have what you had before the transformation .... the only additions are what is listed in the Entry for the Aspect you choose .... if you didnt have it before, you dont have it now
:D
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Q151 Where is that totally sweet Assimar Swashbuckler picture?
what Aasimar Swashbuckler? ... there is a nice Tiefling in Races of Destiny
:D
It's on page 92. She's using the disguise skill to hide what she really is.
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
:lolQ 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
Well in races of the dragon it says that they do have sexual organs but they are essentially asexual as they lose all interest in sex....
I am absolutely amazed that there is actually a RAW answer to this question...
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Q150:Is spellcasting an extraordinary ability a supernatural or a spelllike one?
MM5 would seem to suggest that it is Extraordinary but I always thought that if it has to be one of the three it should be a spelllike ability.....
A150: By default it is not given any such type, so it would not be any of them. (The various hobgoblins in MM5 are a bizarre exception.) In fact, the Supernatural and Spell-Like categories exist because they're catch-alls for the numerous magical effects that do not directly employ spellcasting or similar magical systems. (For instance, pit fiends have numerous spell-like abilities but carry no spell slots.)
Q153: (@152) Why does it matter? :twitch
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
:lolQ 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
Well in races of the dragon it says that they do have sexual organs but they are essentially asexual as they lose all interest in sex....
I am absolutely amazed that there is actually a RAW answer to this question...
As am I.
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
:lolQ 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
Well in races of the dragon it says that they do have sexual organs but they are essentially asexual as they lose all interest in sex....
I am absolutely amazed that there is actually a RAW answer to this question...
As am I.
After the publishing of the Book of Really Bad Photoshopped Art, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to 3.5 sourcebooks.
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You mean the awful spellscale art?
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Hell, take a look at the Tiefling picture in Races of Destiny, specifically the arm on the left side of the picture.
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Races of the Dragon. Page 22. Worse.
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Q 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
:lolQ 152: Does a Dragonborn Warforged grow a ding-a-ling? Warforged are sexless, but are Dragonborn?
Well in races of the dragon it says that they do have sexual organs but they are essentially asexual as they lose all interest in sex....
I am absolutely amazed that there is actually a RAW answer to this question...
As am I.
After the publishing of the Book of Really Bad Photoshopped Art, nothing surprises me anymore when it comes to 3.5 sourcebooks.
A lot of the chapters on individual races in the "Races of..." books are pretty comprehensive regarding fluff.
Fun Fact: Dragonborn are also sterile, because Bahamut doesn't want other Dragonborn he didn't create running around.
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(pretend the quote tunnel is here)
So, since Warforged are neuters, and Dragonborn are sterile, I don't see much of a reason for Bahamut to gear his creations in such a manner.
I think the fluff regarding that Dragonborn still have their gear assumes that they had gear to begin with.
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Q137 If a duskblade using his Arcane Channling gets a critical, does he get both the crit on the weapon and the spell being channeled?
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Q137 If a duskblade using his Arcane Channling gets a critical, does he get both the crit on the weapon and the spell being channeled?
Only the weapon would get multiplied damage, the bonus damage from the spell is never multiplied.
Here's the relevant quote from the FAQ (for whatever it is worth).
If a duskblade scores a critical hit when channeling a spell through a melee attack, is the spell’s damage
multiplied just like the weapon’s?
The rules aren’t as clear as they could be, but the Sage is inclined to say no. Here’s the key sentence, from the PHB II, page 20: “If the attack is successful, the attack deals damage normally; then the effect of the spell is resolved.”
If you score a critical hit, the attack deals the normal (critical) damage. Then the spell resolves normally, but it’s just a rider effect applied due to the successful attack roll—you’re not actually using the spell in the normal manner, so it can’t score a critical hit.
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Q 143 Where can I find information and stats on the 3.5 thonot? All I know is that they're a psionic quaggoth from Forgotten Realms, instead of their magic counterpart, and have psi-powers not unlike the psy warrior and psion/wilder.
Q 144 I came across this http://www.holdfast.org/2nd_DungeonIndex.pdf which is a complete list of 2nd Ed adventure modules for FR in Dungeon Magazine. Does anyone know of such a thing for 3.0/3.5?
Q 153 If you roll a natural 20 while rolling for a spell, do you automatically succeed past SR? Do you ever do critical damage on a ranged or touch attack?
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Q 153 If you roll a natural 20 while rolling for a spell, do you automatically succeed past SR? Do you ever do critical damage on a ranged or touch attack?
A 153 You do crit damage as touch is considered a 20/x2 weapon, there is nothing about automatically bypassing SR.
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A 153 You do crit damage as touch is considered a 20/x2 weapon, there is nothing about automatically bypassing SR.
Sounds like it'd be treated the same as a skill check then. There's no nat 20's on those either.
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A 153 You do crit damage as touch is considered a 20/x2 weapon, there is nothing about automatically bypassing SR.
Sounds like it'd be treated the same as a skill check then. There's no nat 20's on those either.
A good rule of thumb is that "Checks" don't auto-succeed or fail on nat 20's/1's.
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Q154 How can I get lots of pp without little to no levels in a manifesting class?
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A154: Be a binder. (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/psm/20070119a)
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A154: There is also the Incarnum loop for infinite PP doled out in small portions: Azure Talent, Psycarnum Infusion, an appropriately sized Cognizance Crystal (actually, preferably multiple appropriately sized Cognizance Crystals), and Bestow Power.
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Q154
Can you cast spells that can only target objects on women by staring at their breasts for long enough?
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Q154
Can you cast spells that can only target objects on women by staring at their breasts for long enough?
A154 Shrink Item does not work that way. Nor does Enlarge Person.
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Q154
Can you cast spells that can only target objects on women by staring at their breasts for long enough?
A154 Shrink Item does not work that way. Nor does Enlarge Person.
Well, sure, but I was thinking Augment Object or Matter Manipulation. Who DOESN'T want a Hardness score?
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Q154
Can you cast spells that can only target objects on women by staring at their breasts for long enough?
A154 Shrink Item does not work that way. Nor does Enlarge Person.
Well, sure, but I was thinking Augment Object or Matter Manipulation. Who DOESN'T want a Hardness score?
The woman who does not want to become futanari?
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Q90: What effect if any does wild magic have on psionics?
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Q154
Can you cast spells that can only target objects on women by staring at their breasts for long enough?
A154 Shrink Item does not work that way. Nor does Enlarge Person.
Well, sure, but I was thinking Augment Object or Matter Manipulation. Who DOESN'T want a Hardness score?
The woman who does not want to become futanari?
Hey, now, this is strictly for optimization purposes. After all, we're objectifying ALL of her. Haunt Shift sounds like an entertaining combination. If we're going to cast on specific body parts, though, Animate Object (http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20061025) could be simultaneously hilarious and horrifying.
Q90: What effect if any does wild magic have on psionics?
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A90
If Psionics Is Different for some reason, there is no effect; also, in the Forgotten Realms, psionics act independently of the Weave (Player's Guide to Faerun pg 172), so I don't think a wild magic zone would affect them even though they're otherwise transparent. Operating under standard Magic/Psionics Transparency rules, though, I imagine that a psionic power is subject to the same effects as a spell (although there may be some weirdness, such as decreasing the manifester level of the power below the minimum required to spend the power points to use it; I would recommend treating the power exactly as normal for the power points spent, except for those places in the effect where ML is relevant. Complete houserule, that, though).
EDIT: Reverse ninja'd?
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Q90: What effect if any does wild magic have on psionics?
bump
With transparency in effect, I don't see that it'd have any different effect than it has on magic. Crazy shit happens. Rod of Wonder crazy.
Without transparency? Nothing.
Q154
Can you cast spells that can only target objects on women by staring at their breasts for long enough?
A154 Shrink Item does not work that way. Nor does Enlarge Person.
Well, sure, but I was thinking Augment Object or Matter Manipulation. Who DOESN'T want a Hardness score?
The woman who does not want to become futanari?
Hey, now, this is strictly for optimization purposes. After all, we're objectifying ALL of her. Haunt Shift sounds like an entertaining combination. If we're going to cast on specific body parts, though, Animate Object (http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20061025) could be simultaneously hilarious and horrifying.
Or the plot of a hentai.
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
I'd love to hear it if it exists, but it strikes me as a bit silly to argue strongly for the ridiculously imbalanced implementation when there's a plausible argument for the balanced one.
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
I'd love to hear it if it exists, but it strikes me as a bit silly to argue strongly for the ridiculously imbalanced implementation when there's a plausible argument for the balanced one.
AHEM. I'm EXPLOITING IT HERE!!
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
your missing a key word here .... "class" -- that changes the whole thing.
were the word "class" not there, then you would have something. but as it is ....
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
I'd love to hear it if it exists, but it strikes me as a bit silly to argue strongly for the ridiculously imbalanced implementation when there's a plausible argument for the balanced one.
AHEM. I'm EXPLOITING IT HERE!!
Eh, well, it still seems pretty ironclad since it doesn't say "arcane spellcasting levels", but actually spells out that they must be "her levels in another arcane spellcasting class". Which means either Orange Ioun Stones make you level up in Wizard, or they're not the same. Also, strictly speaking, it debuffs you if you've taken any levels in a class that grants "+1 level of spellcasting" or somesuch prior to Sublime Chord, because you can't count them (you only count the actual levels, and you only get a single class because it uses the singular). Although if you have more than 1 base class, Master Spellthief converts it into a buff (Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1/Sublime Chord 1 adds Sublime Chord and Wizard to get 9, Bard, Wizard, Spellthief and Sublime Chord are set to 9 each, and then you add them to get 36 through master Spellthief).
EDIT: I think that may actually have been what you were going for.
EDIT^2: What you can't do, however, is the following; You can't be a Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1 and take Sublime Chord 1, and say your CL is 10 thanks to Master Spellthief, so your Sublime Chord is 11, so all your classes are set to 11, so Master Spellthief sets them all to 44. There are more brutal abuses than this that have been argued over elsewhere, but which rely on basically the same misinterpretation.
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Q156:
What ways are there to become immune to spells with the Sonic Descriptor?
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Q156:
What ways are there to become immune to spells with the Sonic Descriptor?
A156
The obvious answer is Silence. Otherwise, I got nothing, assuming you want to be immune to more than just sonic damage.
Q157
Somebody once wrote an interpretation of Greater Consumptive Field that relied on the effects overlapping and resulting in diminishing returns in consequence. I need that interpretation so I can quote it. Help?
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Q158: Where's the one enchantment/quality that has your weapon sing as you fight from? Not intelligent, uses the wind or something.
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A158: Harmonizing weapon?
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Q156. What's the best tracker i can planar bind? Just Lesser available right now...
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A158: Harmonizing weapon?
Hm... yeah probably that. Pity it isn't useful for the person who wants it.
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Q156. What's the best tracker i can planar bind? Just Lesser available right now...
Kezelf the Chaos Hound. Champions of Ruin page 144. (http://i.imgur.com/E8WDi.jpg)
Just kidding, it has 28HD. But more people should know of its existence.
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
I'd love to hear it if it exists, but it strikes me as a bit silly to argue strongly for the ridiculously imbalanced implementation when there's a plausible argument for the balanced one.
AHEM. I'm EXPLOITING IT HERE!!
Eh, well, it still seems pretty ironclad since it doesn't say "arcane spellcasting levels", but actually spells out that they must be "her levels in another arcane spellcasting class". Which means either Orange Ioun Stones make you level up in Wizard, or they're not the same. Also, strictly speaking, it debuffs you if you've taken any levels in a class that grants "+1 level of spellcasting" or somesuch prior to Sublime Chord, because you can't count them (you only count the actual levels, and you only get a single class because it uses the singular). Although if you have more than 1 base class, Master Spellthief converts it into a buff (Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1/Sublime Chord 1 adds Sublime Chord and Wizard to get 9, Bard, Wizard, Spellthief and Sublime Chord are set to 9 each, and then you add them to get 36 through master Spellthief).
EDIT: I think that may actually have been what you were going for.
EDIT^2: What you can't do, however, is the following; You can't be a Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1 and take Sublime Chord 1, and say your CL is 10 thanks to Master Spellthief, so your Sublime Chord is 11, so all your classes are set to 11, so Master Spellthief sets them all to 44. There are more brutal abuses than this that have been argued over elsewhere, but which rely on basically the same misinterpretation.
I'll probably need a whole thread for this. Dangit.
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Q158: Where's the one enchantment/quality that has your weapon sing as you fight from? Not intelligent, uses the wind or something.
This it:
http://www.wizards.com/forgottenrealms/FR_Survival.asp
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
I'd love to hear it if it exists, but it strikes me as a bit silly to argue strongly for the ridiculously imbalanced implementation when there's a plausible argument for the balanced one.
AHEM. I'm EXPLOITING IT HERE!!
Eh, well, it still seems pretty ironclad since it doesn't say "arcane spellcasting levels", but actually spells out that they must be "her levels in another arcane spellcasting class". Which means either Orange Ioun Stones make you level up in Wizard, or they're not the same. Also, strictly speaking, it debuffs you if you've taken any levels in a class that grants "+1 level of spellcasting" or somesuch prior to Sublime Chord, because you can't count them (you only count the actual levels, and you only get a single class because it uses the singular). Although if you have more than 1 base class, Master Spellthief converts it into a buff (Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1/Sublime Chord 1 adds Sublime Chord and Wizard to get 9, Bard, Wizard, Spellthief and Sublime Chord are set to 9 each, and then you add them to get 36 through master Spellthief).
EDIT: I think that may actually have been what you were going for.
EDIT^2: What you can't do, however, is the following; You can't be a Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1 and take Sublime Chord 1, and say your CL is 10 thanks to Master Spellthief, so your Sublime Chord is 11, so all your classes are set to 11, so Master Spellthief sets them all to 44. There are more brutal abuses than this that have been argued over elsewhere, but which rely on basically the same misinterpretation.
I'll probably need a whole thread for this. Dangit.
Here. (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9983.msg338243#new)
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Q158: Where's the one enchantment/quality that has your weapon sing as you fight from? Not intelligent, uses the wind or something.
This it:
http://www.wizards.com/forgottenrealms/FR_Survival.asp
Wait, does that, wait, less than 10k? Cool.
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Q159
When you use a knowstone spell that is attuned to you do you need the material components or focus's ? The creation costs include them but it doesn't state anymore if you need additional ones per casting. I know it uses a spell slot? What about xp costs?
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Q 160 In order to keep the Evil hidden, what ways (if any exist) are there for an Ur-Priest to gain the ability to spontaneously cast cure spells?
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Q155: It's the Master Spellthief return. My DM and I are currently locked into a little argument about the viability of Sublime Chord + Master Spellthief abuse.
My argument:
The end result is X * Y (where X is your SC caster level and Y is the number of arcane spellcasting classes you have levels on).
His argument:
The end result is X, because Master Spellthief adds your levels in Arcane spellcasting classes together, NOT your CL in each of those.
I'm sure there was something that shot THAT counterargument down, but I cannot for the life of me remember what it was.
A 155
Strict RAW -- it does say "levels in arcane casting class" ... not "caster level" :(
I was sure there was something to the effect of arcane spellcasting levels and arcane caster levels being interchangeable.
I'd love to hear it if it exists, but it strikes me as a bit silly to argue strongly for the ridiculously imbalanced implementation when there's a plausible argument for the balanced one.
AHEM. I'm EXPLOITING IT HERE!!
Eh, well, it still seems pretty ironclad since it doesn't say "arcane spellcasting levels", but actually spells out that they must be "her levels in another arcane spellcasting class". Which means either Orange Ioun Stones make you level up in Wizard, or they're not the same. Also, strictly speaking, it debuffs you if you've taken any levels in a class that grants "+1 level of spellcasting" or somesuch prior to Sublime Chord, because you can't count them (you only count the actual levels, and you only get a single class because it uses the singular). Although if you have more than 1 base class, Master Spellthief converts it into a buff (Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1/Sublime Chord 1 adds Sublime Chord and Wizard to get 9, Bard, Wizard, Spellthief and Sublime Chord are set to 9 each, and then you add them to get 36 through master Spellthief).
EDIT: I think that may actually have been what you were going for.
EDIT^2: What you can't do, however, is the following; You can't be a Bard 1/Wizard 8/Spellthief 1 and take Sublime Chord 1, and say your CL is 10 thanks to Master Spellthief, so your Sublime Chord is 11, so all your classes are set to 11, so Master Spellthief sets them all to 44. There are more brutal abuses than this that have been argued over elsewhere, but which rely on basically the same misinterpretation.
I'll probably need a whole thread for this. Dangit.
Here. (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9983.msg338243#new)
Appreciated, but I'd better put a thread together anyway. (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9985.0)
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Q 160 In order to keep the Evil hidden, what ways (if any exist) are there for an Ur-Priest to gain the ability to spontaneously cast cure spells?
He could take a prestige class that grant a domain(ex. Contemplative) choose the healing domain then take the domain spontagn. feat....
This is from the top of my head but I am sure there are other ways....
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Q 160 In order to keep the Evil hidden, what ways (if any exist) are there for an Ur-Priest to gain the ability to spontaneously cast cure spells?
He could take a prestige class that grant a domain(ex. Contemplative) choose the healing domain then take the domain spontagn. feat....
This is from the top of my head but I am sure there are other ways....
The only way should be through a Domain, I think, as Spontaneous Healer won't work for evil people. (There may be a prestige class out there, but it's hard to tell.)
Contemplative works well, as you can pick any Domain.
Alternatives are to prep one slot with a healing spell, and have a lot of Pearls of Power to recharge that slot as needed.
Or get the Domain Staff of Healing, 36 K. So that you can convert any spell into the appropriate healing spell.
Also, if you haven't thought of it. Try using Undetectable Alignment (PH. Cl 2, 24 hours of no alignment detectable) or Moral Facade (Complete Champion. Clr 3, 24 hours of 'fake your alignment') to hide your alignment well.
It is rather hard to explain why you can spontaneously cast cure spells when you're rebuking undead though. Those two choices are supposed to be mutually exclusive for clerics. Good luck!
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q161 Was there a handbook on how to catch people flatfooted?
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Third time the charm?
Q 143 Where can I find information and stats on the 3.5 thonot? All I know is that they're a psionic quaggoth from Forgotten Realms, instead of their magic counterpart, and have psi-powers not unlike the psy warrior and psion/wilder.
Q 144 I came across this http://www.holdfast.org/2nd_DungeonIndex.pdf which is a complete list of 2nd Ed adventure modules for FR in Dungeon Magazine. Does anyone know of such a thing for 3.0/3.5?
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Q156. What's the best tracker i can planar bind? Just Lesser available right now...
Kezelf the Chaos Hound. Champions of Ruin page 144.
Just kidding, it has 28HD. But more people should know of its existence.
If it has the Evil subtype then you should be able to Implore (http://www.imarvintpa.com/dndlive/spells.php?ID=6041) it. Maybe you can do so even if it doesn't, but I'm not certain of the exact text involved with the various abilities required to summon 28HD critters.
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a143 check the mango index.
a144 my indexes. what do you need me to look up?
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Q162: Is there any nonmanifesting-completion item that gives the share pain (or forced share pain) effect? Like the chain of shield other but psionic...
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Q163 Can a sorcerer/wizard ultimate magus to be give up both of his abilities to gain a familiar for alternative class features that rely on giving up a familiar?
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Q163 Can a sorcerer/wizard ultimate magus to be give up both of his abilities to gain a familiar for alternative class features that rely on giving up a familiar?
So long as one is for sorcerer and one is for wizard, sure.
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Q164
What are some good spells for a Enlightened Fist to channel through his Unarmed Strikes?
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Q164 Can someone clarify how the feat Wand Surge allows for use of metamagic on wands. I was reading the The Unoffical Artificer Player's Guide (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=5929.0) and it said that the wand surge feat allows one to cast wands augmented with metamagic feats with a single use of an action point. I read the feat description, and I am not clear on how that works. I understand how using an action point in place of a charge works, but how does that then cover the extra charges required to activate a metamagic feat on a wand?
Thanks
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Q 165: In "The Powertool" Hood build, here http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7200.0
What would you guys recommend taking for a feat if I were to take Leap of the Heavens, then retrain it when I get Leaping Dragon Stance?
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a143 check the mango index.
a144 my indexes. what do you need me to look up?
The link no longer works.
You have indexes? I'm wanting to look for Forgotten Realms adventures. Found me a new player, but he's only played games based in FR, and wants to do more in that campaign setting.
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q161 Was there a handbook on how to catch people flatfooted?
A161: Here's a start of one. http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=9624.msg327779#msg327779
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Q 166:
Are there any items out there at level 8 WBL (ideally under 13,500 gp) that either grant immunity or a solid resistance to [Mind Affecting] abilities? They don't have to be permanent in nature, either.
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Renumbered so as to not conflict and I have a new question.
Q167
What are some good spells for a Enlightened Fist to channel through his Unarmed Strikes?
Q168
Is there a way to get Sneak Attack/Sudden Strike ability without investing Feats and Class Levels that does not need the class feature to function? I have a Rogue's Vest and Bracers of the Hunter and wish to make full use of them.
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Q 166:
Are there any items out there at level 8 WBL (ideally under 13,500 gp) that either grant immunity or a solid resistance to [Mind Affecting] abilities? They don't have to be permanent in nature, either.
Scroll of Mind Blank? :p
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Renumbered so as to not conflict and I have a new question.
Q167
What are some good spells for a Enlightened Fist to channel through his Unarmed Strikes?
Q168
Is there a way to get Sneak Attack/Sudden Strike ability without investing Feats and Class Levels that does not need the class feature to function? I have a Rogue's Vest and Bracers of the Hunter and wish to make full use of them.
A168: there's a spell that grants sneak attack based on caster level. Can't remember where from at the moment. Ranger spell, I think? or Sorc/Wiz.
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Renumbered so as to not conflict and I have a new question.
Q167
What are some good spells for a Enlightened Fist to channel through his Unarmed Strikes?
Q168
Is there a way to get Sneak Attack/Sudden Strike ability without investing Feats and Class Levels that does not need the class feature to function? I have a Rogue's Vest and Bracers of the Hunter and wish to make full use of them.
A168: there's a spell that grants sneak attack based on caster level. Can't remember where from at the moment. Ranger spell, I think? or Sorc/Wiz.
Well I found NIGHTSTALKER’S TRANSFORMATION (CArc), but it does not actually grant real Sneak Attack, and from reading it takes away Spellcasting. And worst yet I won't be able to Persist it onto my character with Cohort sense it is personal only. Not that I would be willing to lose casting over it anyways.
*SADFACE*
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Hunter's Eye, PHB2
Ranger Spell, but Unseen Seers often pick it up. :)
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Q 166: Are there any items out there at level 8 WBL (ideally under 13,500 gp) that either grant immunity or a solid resistance to [Mind Affecting] abilities?
Greater crystal of mind cloaking (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ps/20070306a): This augment crystal grants you a +5 competence bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting spells and abilities. In addition, if you fail a save against a mind-affecting spell or ability, you can choose to reroll the save as an immediate (mental) action. This ability functions once per day. (10,000 gp, Magic Item Compendium.)
Crystal mask of mindarmor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/items/universalItems.htm#crystalMaskofMindarmor): A crystal mask of mindarmor grants the wearer a +4 insight bonus on all Will saving throws. (10,667 gp, Expanded Psionics Handbook.)
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Q 166:
Are there any items out there at level 8 WBL (ideally under 13,500 gp) that either grant immunity or a solid resistance to [Mind Affecting] abilities? They don't have to be permanent in nature, either.
Scroll of Mind Blank? :p
Not spell completion. Sorry, I didn't specify.
Q 166: Are there any items out there at level 8 WBL (ideally under 13,500 gp) that either grant immunity or a solid resistance to [Mind Affecting] abilities?
Greater crystal of mind cloaking (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ps/20070306a): This augment crystal grants you a +5 competence bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting spells and abilities. In addition, if you fail a save against a mind-affecting spell or ability, you can choose to reroll the save as an immediate (mental) action. This ability functions once per day. (10,000 gp, Magic Item Compendium.)
Crystal mask of mindarmor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/items/universalItems.htm#crystalMaskofMindarmor): A crystal mask of mindarmor grants the wearer a +4 insight bonus on all Will saving throws. (10,667 gp, Expanded Psionics Handbook.)
These are both decent. A greater crystal requires +3 armor, right?
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These are both decent. A greater crystal requires +3 armor, right?
Or a +3 Shield
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These are both decent. A greater crystal requires +3 armor, right?
Or a +3 Shield
If you want to cheap out, I think the Lesser crystal has the same +5 bonus, but no reroll effect. It costs about half as much and can go on a +1 Armor/Shield.
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These are both decent. A greater crystal requires +3 armor, right?
Or a +3 Shield
If you want to cheap out, I think the Lesser crystal has the same +5 bonus, but no reroll effect. It costs about half as much and can go on a +1 Armor/Shield.
It's a +3 bonus, but it's 4,000 gp instead of 10,000. I already have a +1 suit of armor, so that might be a good investment in the mean time.
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Q167 Looking for awesome abilities which happen on a critical hit. Any ideas?
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Q167 Looking for awesome abilities which happen on a critical hit. Any ideas?
A167Exemplars of Evil:
TWIST THE KNIFE
You can make a vicious attack that leaves your victim gasping in pain.
Prerequisites: Sneak attack +2d6, Improved Critical (melee weapon).
Benefit: Whenever you confirm a critical hit while
wielding a melee weapon for which you have the Improved
Critical feat, you can forego the extra damage and wrack the
target with pain instead. For a number of rounds equal to
the weapon’s critical multiplier, the target takes a –3 penalty
on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, ability
checks, and skill checks.
EDIT: while not the best ability EVAR, it gives a crit-focused character - to whom the pre-reqs are less onerous - a good (if not great) debuff effect that lasts for a few rounds. A scythe or kaorti-resin scimitar has a reasonable chance of de-buffing for an entire combat, for instance. Without more specific info you the build in mind, specific advice is more difficult.
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Q167 Looking for awesome abilities which happen on a critical hit. Any ideas?
A167Exemplars of Evil:
TWIST THE KNIFE
You can make a vicious attack that leaves your victim gasping in pain.
Prerequisites: Sneak attack +2d6, Improved Critical (melee weapon).
Benefit: Whenever you confirm a critical hit while
wielding a melee weapon for which you have the Improved
Critical feat, you can forego the extra damage and wrack the
target with pain instead. For a number of rounds equal to
the weapon’s critical multiplier, the target takes a –3 penalty
on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, ability
checks, and skill checks.
Seems bad. -3 is not a huge penalty (although lowering saves is always good). Requires a crappy prerequisite.
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Q 166: Are there any items out there at level 8 WBL (ideally under 13,500 gp) that either grant immunity or a solid resistance to [Mind Affecting] abilities?
Greater crystal of mind cloaking (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ps/20070306a): This augment crystal grants you a +5 competence bonus on saving throws against mind-affecting spells and abilities. In addition, if you fail a save against a mind-affecting spell or ability, you can choose to reroll the save as an immediate (mental) action. This ability functions once per day. (10,000 gp, Magic Item Compendium.)
Crystal mask of mindarmor (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/items/universalItems.htm#crystalMaskofMindarmor): A crystal mask of mindarmor grants the wearer a +4 insight bonus on all Will saving throws. (10,667 gp, Expanded Psionics Handbook.)
These are both decent.
Mindarmor (Magic Item Compendium 13) is a +3,000 gp armor special ability that gives you a +5 untyped bonus to saves against mind-affecting effects as an immediate action 3 times per day.
Commander (Magic Item Compendium 9) is a +2,000 gp armor special ability that gives allies of the wearer within 30 feet (but not the wearer) a +1 morale bonus on will saves. You could put the ability on +1 armor or barding for a skeleton or pet.
A banner of law (Heroes of Battle 133) costs 8,000 gp and provides all non-chaotic allies within 30 feet with a continuous protection from chaos effect. It has to be held in two hands, but maybe you can get a skeleton or trained monkey to carry it. Possession and mental control aren't the entirety of mind-affecting effects, but they're a fair chunk.
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Q 168
does an Ocular Magic Missile do damage = ALL missiles, or just one?
(yeah, I know -- stupid question .... it was just a random thought)
Q168b
also, am I reading this right .... can Chain Spell also be used on magic missile?
Yes, I'm cooking-up something ridiculous for my MM OP thread (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=7802.0). :bounce
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Q167 Looking for awesome abilities which happen on a critical hit. Any ideas?
A167Exemplars of Evil:
TWIST THE KNIFE
You can make a vicious attack that leaves your victim gasping in pain.
Prerequisites: Sneak attack +2d6, Improved Critical (melee weapon).
Benefit: Whenever you confirm a critical hit while
wielding a melee weapon for which you have the Improved
Critical feat, you can forego the extra damage and wrack the
target with pain instead. For a number of rounds equal to
the weapon’s critical multiplier, the target takes a –3 penalty
on attack rolls, weapon damage rolls, saving throws, ability
checks, and skill checks.
Seems bad. -3 is not a huge penalty (although lowering saves is always good). Requires a crappy prerequisite.
Improved Critical is a lousy feat, but when a feat does something interesting on a critical then Improved Critical is usually a pre-requisite. It's kinda like PBS/Weapon Focus/etc. in that way. Besides, being able to have a keen Falchion regardless of whether or not you have a scabbard can be useful.
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Q169: Am I misreading Armor of God (Complete Champion Fighter ACF) or does it really let you lower your base will save (2 at level 8) to get +2 AC for the low low price of a feat? Worth it?!
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Q169: Am I misreading Armor of God (Complete Champion Fighter ACF) or does it really let you lower your base will save (2 at level 8) to get +2 AC for the low low price of a feat? Worth it?!
Hardly. If there were a feat that just gave +3 AC, and stacked with itself, it still wouldn't be very worthwhile.
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Mindarmor (Magic Item Compendium 13) is a +3,000 gp armor special ability that gives you a +5 untyped bonus to saves against mind-affecting effects as an immediate action 3 times per day.
I like this one. 3/day is probably plenty for what I need.
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Q 170 After being shown the drider template http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20011118a I have to ask how you'd put this on a large creature, which should become a huge-sized creature?
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Q170. Q171. Is there any creature with super-hearing qualities (not the skill, like an Extraordinary Quality, for example)?
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Q 170 After being shown the drider template http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20011118a I have to ask how you'd put this on a large creature, which should become a huge-sized creature?
Are you still on this? You're the DM, just make Driders huge.
There are no large "Humanoids." They're all either Monstrous Humanoids or Giants.
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Q 170 After being shown the drider template http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20011118a I have to ask how you'd put this on a large creature, which should become a huge-sized creature?
Are you still on this? You're the DM, just make Driders huge.
There are no large "Humanoids." They're all either Monstrous Humanoids or Giants.
Will you go away? I'm not "still on this". I'm not trying to make a drider huge. It's a template that I've been told can be added to outsiders as well, and some of those are large size already.
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Q 170 After being shown the drider template http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20011118a I have to ask how you'd put this on a large creature, which should become a huge-sized creature?
Are you still on this? You're the DM, just make Driders huge.
There are no large "Humanoids." They're all either Monstrous Humanoids or Giants.
Will you go away? I'm not "still on this". I'm not trying to make a drider huge. It's a template that I've been told can be added to outsiders as well, and some of those are large size already.
Well, the template says humanoid only, but whatever.
Anything that scales 3-4-6 I'd bump to 8, and I'd bump the bite to a d6.
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Q 170 After being shown the drider template http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20011118a I have to ask how you'd put this on a large creature, which should become a huge-sized creature?
Are you still on this? You're the DM, just make Driders huge.
There are no large "Humanoids." They're all either Monstrous Humanoids or Giants.
Will you go away? I'm not "still on this". I'm not trying to make a drider huge. It's a template that I've been told can be added to outsiders as well, and some of those are large size already.
Well, the template says humanoid only, but whatever.
Anything that scales 3-4-6 I'd bump to 8, and I'd bump the bite to a d6.
It does, but that's also 2001. awaken DM golem was the one who told me that it works on outsiders and just to ignore it.
Thanks for the help.
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Q159 bump
When you use a knowstone spell that is attuned to you do you need the material components or focus's ? The creation costs include them but it doesn't state anymore if you need additional ones per casting. I know it uses a spell slot? What about xp costs?
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Q169: Am I misreading Armor of God (Complete Champion Fighter ACF) or does it really let you lower your base will save (2 at level 8) to get +2 AC for the low low price of a feat? Worth it?!
Perhaps, if said encounter has no need of will saves. Plus, you can always multiclass (say, 2 lvs of monk?) to further improve your base will save. Highly situational, though I would take it only if I have no better feats to take.
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169 May be worth it for a Warblade with a fighter 2 dip only since they're replacing the will save with a maneuver anyway. I'd still take a feat or dungeoncrasher over that though.
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Q172:Can you use the Embrace/Shun the dark chaos trick to replace regular feats with epic if you are above level 21?
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Q172:Can you use the Embrace/Shun the dark chaos trick to replace regular feats with epic if you are above level 21?
A 172: Yes as you only need to qualify when you actually do the DCS.
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Q170. Q171. Is there any creature with super-hearing qualities (not the skill, like an Extraordinary Quality, for example)?
Marruspawn (Sandstorm) have Discriminating Hearing, which is a kind of blind-sense.
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Q173: Has anyone taken a shot at optimizing the use of mechanical traps by PC's? And if so, where can the results be found?
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Q170. Q171. Is there any creature with super-hearing qualities (not the skill, like an Extraordinary Quality, for example)?
Marruspawn (Sandstorm) have Discriminating Hearing, which is a kind of blind-sense.
It's more like Scent with a different sense type, actually, in that it takes actions to pinpoint things.
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Q173: Has anyone taken a shot at optimizing the use of mechanical traps by PC's? And if so, where can the results be found?
Not that I recall.
Chiefly because the magic ones are better in every possible way.
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okay, I'm gonna try just one more of these metamagic questions .... maybe this one will get something :p
Q174
Does the Delay Spell feat count as extending the duration of the spell for the purpose of the Recaster's "Metamorphic Spell (time)" ability? (because of the requirement of the spell needing a duration greater than 1 round)
For example, could I use the "Metamorphic Spell (time)" ability on a Delayed Lightning Bolt?
thanks.
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okay, I'm gonna try just one more of these metamagic questions .... maybe this one will get something :p
Q174
Does the Delay Spell feat count as extending the duration of the spell for the purpose of the Recaster's "Metamorphic Spell (time)" ability? (because of the requirement of the spell needing a duration greater than 1 round)
For example, could I use the "Metamorphic Spell (time)" ability on a Delayed Lightning Bolt?
thanks.
No.
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okay, I'm gonna try just one more of these metamagic questions .... maybe this one will get something :p
Q174
Does the Delay Spell feat count as extending the duration of the spell for the purpose of the Recaster's "Metamorphic Spell (time)" ability? (because of the requirement of the spell needing a duration greater than 1 round)
For example, could I use the "Metamorphic Spell (time)" ability on a Delayed Lightning Bolt?
thanks.
No.
:(
thanks :)
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Q175 Is fear mind affecting so I get the whatever bonus I might have vs mind affecting? I am referring to things like "this makes you shaken",
frightful presence, weird auras and generally whatever isn't a spell and has clear in its description [Fear] [Mind-Affecting]
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According to the Monster Manual, page 309, yes. More precisely, Fear (Su or Sp) and Frightful Presence (Ex) are mind-affecting.
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okay ... last one, I promise!
Q176
Reserves of Strength (DLCS) + Delay Spell -- would the stunning effect of raising your CL happen immediately, or would it wait until the spell actually happened?
For reference:
RESERVES OF STRENGTH [General]
Description: When you cast a spell, you can choose to increase its effective level at the cost of
exhausting yourself.
Prerequisite: Iron Will, Spellcaster
Benefit: When you cast a spell, you can decide to increase your caster level by 1, 2 or 3 but you
are stunned for an equal number of rounds immediately afterwards.[...]
(I think I know the answer to this, but I just want to make sure)
Thanks :)
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okay ... last one, I promise!
Q176
Reserves of Strength (DLCS) + Delay Spell -- would the stunning effect of raising your CL happen immediately, or would it wait until the spell actually happened?
(I think I know the answer to this, but I just want to make sure)
Thanks :)
A176: 99% certain that it wouldn't delay the stun. Delay spell delays the effect of the spell while the stun is an effect of the casting. Litmus test of saying would a RoS enhanced Delayed Blast Fireball also have a delayed stun would suggest no as well.
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Q177
What is the source of the Explosive Weapon Enchantment?
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okay ... last one, I promise!
Q176
Reserves of Strength (DLCS) + Delay Spell -- would the stunning effect of raising your CL happen immediately, or would it wait until the spell actually happened?
(I think I know the answer to this, but I just want to make sure)
Thanks :)
A176: 99% certain that it wouldn't delay the stun. Delay spell delays the effect of the spell while the stun is an effect of the casting. Litmus test of saying would a RoS enhanced Delayed Blast Fireball also have a delayed stun would suggest no as well.
*sigh*
that's what I thought .... I was just hoping that I was reading something wrong.
thanks.
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Q177
What is the source of the Explosive Weapon Enchantment?
A177: Complete Warrior.
Q178: Is there an early entry scheme for Mind Mage? In particular, I'm looking at it as a prospect for epic levels, as my character in question is planning to go Psion (Telepath) 5/Thrallherd 5/Anarchic Initiate 10. The 3rd level arcane casting requirement is the biggest one I'm trying to fit in.
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Q179 Can spell-like abilities be identified by spellcraft?
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Q162: Is there any nonmanifesting-completion item that gives the share pain (or forced share pain) effect? Like the chain of shield other but psionic...
bump
You have indexes? I'm wanting to look for Forgotten Realms adventures. Found me a new player, but he's only played games based in FR, and wants to do more in that campaign setting.
There are 20. What level? Any fluff you're after?
A178: see my prereq handbook
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Q180: What is a good invocation for Dragon Shaman to get with their one known Invocation from DrMagic?
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Q170. Q171. Is there any creature with super-hearing qualities (not the skill, like an Extraordinary Quality, for example)?
Marruspawn (Sandstorm) have Discriminating Hearing, which is a kind of blind-sense.
It's more like Scent with a different sense type, actually, in that it takes actions to pinpoint things.
Q179
Wait. Wait. Wait. Scent requires actions?
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Sometimes.
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Q170. Q171. Is there any creature with super-hearing qualities (not the skill, like an Extraordinary Quality, for example)?
Marruspawn (Sandstorm) have Discriminating Hearing, which is a kind of blind-sense.
It's more like Scent with a different sense type, actually, in that it takes actions to pinpoint things.
Q179
Wait. Wait. Wait. Scent requires actions?
A179, from http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#scent
Noting the direction of the scent is a move action. If it moves within 5 feet of the scent’s source, the creature can pinpoint that source.
Q180 If a dragonwrought kobold takes levels in beguiler and has one of the sovreing archetypes, can he cast spells from the additional lists? so could a child of eberon cast all druid spells for example?
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Q181: Are there any +1 LA (or lower) templates that add either acid or fire resistance or immunity? Homebrew is OK, also.
(I can't believe fiendish is +2...) The only thing I see is one level of one of the transition classes for fiendish, celestial, tiefling, etc, which only grant 5 and not much else. This is for a homebrew trollish monk character, if it matters. He has regen 1 (acid and fire), and I'm just looking to add some resistance/immunity to those.
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Q181: Are there any +1 LA (or lower) templates that add either acid or fire resistance or immunity? Homebrew is OK, also.
Check my planetouched handbook. There are a ton.
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Q181: Are there any +1 LA (or lower) templates that add either acid or fire resistance or immunity? Homebrew is OK, also.
Check my planetouched handbook. There are a ton.
It needs to be a template that I can add onto an already existing character, due to how the troll "class" is worded... I think one level of the Tiefling/Half-fiend transitional class is probably my best bet.
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Q182 are there any spells/abilities similar to bard's inspire greatness ability to grant HD. Spells would be optimal.
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Q181: Are there any +1 LA (or lower) templates that add either acid or fire resistance or immunity? Homebrew is OK, also.
Check my planetouched handbook. There are a ton.
It needs to be a template that I can add onto an already existing character, due to how the troll "class" is worded... I think one level of the Tiefling/Half-fiend transitional class is probably my best bet.
Ah, misunderstood based on your tiefling talk.
Um, I think the monster of legend? Template from SS would do. The one that gives like medusa gaze, tremorsense, and breath weapon.
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Q180: What is a good invocation for Dragon Shaman to get with their one known Invocation from DrMagic?
Magic Insight. Free Identify will always be useful. However, this can be replicated with a cheap magic item, so YMMV.
Also, this Handbook (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19870954/The_New_Dragonfire_Adept_Handbook!) may help. It ranks invocations and provides reasons behind them.
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Q183: Any cool luck-themed magic items, or items that could be changed easily to be luck/fortune themed?
The ones I've found are the luckstone and blade and then the bevy of "re-roll this 1/day" ones. But, I was wondering if there was something else useful.
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Q183: Any cool luck-themed magic items, or items that could be changed easily to be luck/fortune themed?
The ones I've found are the luckstone and blade and then the bevy of "re-roll this 1/day" ones. But, I was wondering if there was something else useful.
Rod of Wonder is very much luck-based. Of course, this is your luck as a player, not giving you a better shot of succeeding...
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Q 184 If Identity isn't used in your campaign (ie magic items just need fire ala Lord of the Rings to get figured out), what would be a good substitute to have for a second level Magic Domain spell?
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Q185: I'm reading "Hammer", the psion power. What is the action needed to make the touch attacks with it? Is it a standard? I can't find rules that say that a "melee touch attack" is always a standard action.
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Q 184 If Identity isn't used in your campaign (ie magic items just need fire ala Lord of the Rings to get figured out), what would be a good substitute to have for a second level Magic Domain spell?
Just glancing over some 2nd level spells, Spell Immunity Lesser (SC) or Distracting Ray (SC) seem to fit.
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Q185: I'm reading "Hammer", the psion power. What is the action needed to make the touch attacks with it? Is it a standard? I can't find rules that say that a "melee touch attack" is always a standard action.
Based on it being a swift action and lasting 1 round without augmentation. I would say action for attack depends your attack method. It just charges your hand to deal 1d8 when you touch someone for 1 round. So if you do a full attack with 3 attacks (wilder or Psi. War) each could be a touch attack that deals 1d8. Or you could move and make a single touch attack, etc...
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Q 184 If Identity isn't used in your campaign (ie magic items just need fire ala Lord of the Rings to get figured out), what would be a good substitute to have for a second level Magic Domain spell?
Just glancing over some 2nd level spells, Spell Immunity Lesser (SC) or Distracting Ray (SC) seem to fit.
Yes they do. I might take Distracting Ray.
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Q185: I'm reading "Hammer", the psion power. What is the action needed to make the touch attacks with it? Is it a standard? I can't find rules that say that a "melee touch attack" is always a standard action.
It's not always a standard action. It's an attack action, unless the specific ability says otherwise. So it works like arcangel.arcanis said. So you could make full attack with this, just as you can make full attacks with spells like Chill Touch.
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Q185: I'm reading "Hammer", the psion power. What is the action needed to make the touch attacks with it? Is it a standard? I can't find rules that say that a "melee touch attack" is always a standard action.
It's not always a standard action. It's an attack action, unless the specific ability says otherwise. So it works like arcangel.arcanis said. So you could make full attack with this, just as you can make full attacks with spells like Chill Touch.
They dropped attack action some where between D20M and 3.5. I kinda liked that your number of actions could be dictated by BaB, but that is another discussion.
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Q185: I'm reading "Hammer", the psion power. What is the action needed to make the touch attacks with it? Is it a standard? I can't find rules that say that a "melee touch attack" is always a standard action.
It's not always a standard action. It's an attack action, unless the specific ability says otherwise. So it works like arcangel.arcanis said. So you could make full attack with this, just as you can make full attacks with spells like Chill Touch.
They dropped attack action some where between D20M and 3.5. I kinda liked that your number of actions could be dictated by BaB, but that is another discussion.
Uhh... it's still in the SRD. (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsInCombat.htm#attack)
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Thanks; thats satisfactory (not exactly the simplest question, it seems). So, combine it with other natural / touch attacks, is what I'm getting from it.
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Q185: I'm reading "Hammer", the psion power. What is the action needed to make the touch attacks with it? Is it a standard? I can't find rules that say that a "melee touch attack" is always a standard action.
It's not always a standard action. It's an attack action, unless the specific ability says otherwise. So it works like arcangel.arcanis said. So you could make full attack with this, just as you can make full attacks with spells like Chill Touch.
They dropped attack action some where between D20M and 3.5. I kinda liked that your number of actions could be dictated by BaB, but that is another discussion.
Uhh... it's still in the SRD. (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsInCombat.htm#attack)
D20M basically redefined Standard actions as Attack actions (http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/systems/pennpaper/modern/smack/combatactions.html). What you linked to said that with a standard action you can make an attack. There isn't a whole lot of difference until you get into the horrible interpretation a player with one of my old groups forced on us. They saw it as essentially every iterative attack giving you another standard action. I never got to play in a game they ran with that rule otherwise I would have made a gish tossing 4 spells a round 5 with quicken.
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q186 Gaze attacks are still confusing the heck out of me. Are they a passive ability that affects everyone, including my allies, within range? Why then does fearsome mask (MOI) not specify a range?
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q186 Gaze attacks are still confusing the heck out of me. Are they a passive ability that affects everyone, including my allies, within range? Why then does fearsome mask (MOI) not specify a range?
A gaze special attack takes effect when opponents look at the creature’s eyes. The attack can have almost any sort of effect: petrification, death, charm, and so on. The typical range is 30 feet, but check the creature’s entry for details. The type of saving throw for a gaze attack varies, but it is usually a Will or Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 gazing creature’s racial HD + gazing creature’s Cha modifier; the exact DC is given in the creature’s descriptive text). A successful saving throw negates the effect. A monster’s gaze attack is described in abbreviated form in its description. Each opponent within range of a gaze attack must attempt a saving throw each round at the beginning of his or her turn in the initiative order. Only looking directly at a creature with a gaze attack leaves an opponent vulnerable. Opponents can avoid the need to make the saving throw by not looking at the creature, in one of two ways.
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Q187: I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but search failed me. What do you do with an Achorn of Far Travel?
So far I have Sanctum Spell, Rangers vanishing as if they were under trees, Hallow.
I guess I'm looking for more things like Sanctum Spell and Hallow if such things exist. The Hathran thing is another good one I know about.
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Q187: I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but search failed me. What do you do with an Achorn of Far Travel?
So far I have Sanctum Spell, Rangers vanishing as if they were under trees, Hallow.
I guess I'm looking for more things like Sanctum Spell and Hallow if such things exist. The Hathran thing is another good one I know about.
Earth nodes are a big one.
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Q187: I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but search failed me. What do you do with an Achorn of Far Travel?
So far I have Sanctum Spell, Rangers vanishing as if they were under trees, Hallow.
I guess I'm looking for more things like Sanctum Spell and Hallow if such things exist. The Hathran thing is another good one I know about.
Earth nodes are a big one.
Not familiar? What be those? Edit: Found them. Bingo.
Q188: It says you count as being under that oak tree. Assuming that oak tree is on natural soil, does that mean you get your Earth Spell benefit?
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Q187: I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but search failed me. What do you do with an Achorn of Far Travel?
So far I have Sanctum Spell, Rangers vanishing as if they were under trees, Hallow.
I guess I'm looking for more things like Sanctum Spell and Hallow if such things exist. The Hathran thing is another good one I know about.
The only other thing I have ever seen it used for was to benefit from climate extremes. This takes some trickery (normally some leniency from the DM) to get the tree to grow somewhere it shouldn't extreme cold or desert without changing the area's climate. This allows stuff from frostburn and sandstorm to be more useful in a game that isn't in just those extreme climates.
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Edit: Time to condense my related questions in to one post.
Q187: I'm sure this has been beaten to death, but search failed me. What do you do with an Achorn of Far Travel?
So far I have Hathran, Earth Nodes (Node Spellcasting, Metanode being the key ones it seems), Sanctum Spell, Hallow and the very mundane use of making Rangers able to hide.
Q188: It says you count as being under that oak tree. Assuming that oak tree is on natural soil, does that mean you get your Earth Spell benefit?
A188: Right now I assume that this answer is yes, which adds Earth Spell to the above.
Q189: My dedicated spellcaster is always under a spell effect per the effect of Hallow (the hallow follows me around in a magic achorn). What spell should it be?
Q190: How do I grow an Oak Tree in the underdark? Or maybe find an earth node on the surface? Perhaps a big one just extends to the surface? The fluff seems to imply that they are all underground nowhere near oak trees.
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Build it inside an earth node. They're huge.
And growing a tree in an impossible location isn't that difficult with enough continual flame spells. Stick on some permanent walls to protect it.
...Which actually would be a cool location for a campaign. The party goes through the underdark, and finds themselves in a large cavern, humming with mystical power, with an oak tree, continual flames sprouting on its branches, in the center.
[spoiler](http://host.trivialbeing.org/up/fountain-shot.jpg)[/spoiler]
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Q 190 I know this has been asked before, and it was only a guess, but what would the LA be for a Monster of Legend if you let a PC have it?
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Q 190 I know this has been asked before, and it was only a guess, but what would the LA be for a Monster of Legend if you let a PC have it?
A 190 Monster of Legend got assigned LA +7 in it's 3.5 update.
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Q 190 I know this has been asked before, and it was only a guess, but what would the LA be for a Monster of Legend if you let a PC have it?
A 190 Monster of Legend got assigned LA +7 in it's 3.5 update.
So it did. Seems it was skipped over in the CrystalKeep template. That seems a tad high for a LA though. Especially with only a +2 CR. It's almost as high as the vampire template.
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Q 190 I know this has been asked before, and it was only a guess, but what would the LA be for a Monster of Legend if you let a PC have it?
A 190 Monster of Legend got assigned LA +7 in it's 3.5 update.
So it did. Seems it was skipped over in the CrystalKeep template. That seems a tad high for a LA though. Especially with only a +2 CR. It's almost as high as the vampire template.
The template can give 5th level Cleric spellcasting, permanent spellturning(!), permanent Haste all at once. +7 LA seems about right if the player is making the best possible decisions and has a synergizing plan for the rest of its build (like going combat cleric).
Remember. +5 AC and +5 accuracy are in this thing.
The +2 CR thing was a retarded decision. It should have been +4 CR or more.
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Don't forget that it gives you +3 to all base saves. That mostly leaves hit points as what fall behind, until you get enough hit dice that the +10 con cancels out the loss. Also, you could choose +4 to spell save DCs instead of continuous haste, depending on your focus.
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Q 191 Are there any spells or magic items that allow you to act while at negative HP? I know there's the Diehard feat and the Bone Knight PrC, but I'm looking for a magical solution.
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A 191:
DELAY DEATH
Necromancy
Level: Cleric 4
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 immediate action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Will negates(harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)
You gesture toward your ally and call upon the power of your beliefs. A soft, golden glow appears on your companion’s chest, around his heart. The subject of this powerful spell is unable to die from hit point damage.
While under the protection of this spell, the normal limit of –9 hit points before a character dies is extended without limit. A condition or spell that destroys enough of the subject’s body so as to not allow raise dead to work, such as a disintegrate effect, still kills the creature, as does death brought about by ability score damage, level drain, or a death effect.The spell does not prevent the subject from entering the dying state by dropping to –1 hit points. It merely prevents death as a result of hit point loss. If the subject has fewer than –9 hit points when the spell’s duration expires, it dies instantly.
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A 191:
DELAY DEATH
Necromancy
Level: Cleric 4
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 immediate action
Range: Close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target: One creature
Duration: 1 round/level
Saving Throw: Will negates(harmless)
Spell Resistance: Yes (harmless)
You gesture toward your ally and call upon the power of your beliefs. A soft, golden glow appears on your companion’s chest, around his heart. The subject of this powerful spell is unable to die from hit point damage.
While under the protection of this spell, the normal limit of –9 hit points before a character dies is extended without limit. A condition or spell that destroys enough of the subject’s body so as to not allow raise dead to work, such as a disintegrate effect, still kills the creature, as does death brought about by ability score damage, level drain, or a death effect.The spell does not prevent the subject from entering the dying state by dropping to –1 hit points. It merely prevents death as a result of hit point loss. If the subject has fewer than –9 hit points when the spell’s duration expires, it dies instantly.
Combined with Beastland Ferocity, also from Spell Compendium.
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Q 192:
A warforged under a dragon shaman's vigor aura:
a) Heals 1 hp a round. (Since fast healing is not of the healing subschool).
b) Heals 1/2 hp a round (Since supernatural abilites that restore hp damage do so at half normal rate)
c) does not heal at all (since fast healing is like natural healing and warfoged do not naturally heal)
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Q 136: With the Enhance Wild Shape spell from Spell Compendium, is it even worth it to do a 3 level dip into Master of Many Forms or just stick to straight Druid? The spell doesn't seem to completely over-shadow the class as it gives all the extraordinary abilities but not the stats..
This is my mistake, I was thinking of Master Transmogrifist when I wrote this, sorry all. I even got my own hopes up to have a druid go into that class.
Edit: LOL, my mistake yet again.. I was apparently looking at it.
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Q 193
I've seen in a lot of optimized builds people taking Obtain Familiar as one of their feats. What's the reasoning behind this?
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Q 193
I've seen in a lot of optimized builds people taking Obtain Familiar as one of their feats. What's the reasoning behind this?
You get an extra set of actions in combat, a raven familiar can talk (so it can use magic items), and your familiar can aid another on all your skill checks, giving a +2 bonus to all skills.
And more, but the first set should be enough.
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Q 192:
A warforged under a dragon shaman's vigor aura:
a) Heals 1 hp a round. (Since fast healing is not of the healing subschool).
b) Heals 1/2 hp a round (Since supernatural abilites that restore hp damage do so at half normal rate)
c) does not heal at all (since fast healing is like natural healing and warfoged do not naturally heal)
c. assuming fast healing 1, otherwise b. if it's fast healing 2 or greater.
I know it doesn't always count for much to optimizers but this is from the FAQ
[spoiler]Does a warforged benefit from the vigor spells in Spell
Compendium?
Yes, but the warforged would get only half the normal value of fast healing, rounded down.
Thus, the lesser vigor spell would be useless to a warforged (fast healing 1 halved, rounded down, is fast healing 0).
Vigor or vigorous circle would provide a warforged with fast healing 1, while greater vigor would grant fast healing 2 to the warforged.[/spoiler]
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Of course, Vigor is a Conjuration (Healing) spell, which is explicitly halved.
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Of course, Vigor is a Conjuration (Healing) spell, which is explicitly halved.
True, and the draconic aura Vigor is a supernatural ability that cures hit point damage, which is also explicitly halved.
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—Living constructs can be affected by spells that target
living creatures as well as by those that target constructs.
Damage dealt to a living construct can be healed by a cure
light wounds spell or a repair light damage spell, for example,
and a living construct is vulnerable to a harm spell. However,
spells from the healing subschool provide only half
effect to a living construct.
This is the only bit regarding healing (other than that they don't heal naturally). Supernatural abilities are never mentioned. Magic of Incarnum (most recent printing of Living Construct subtype) has the same text.
So, the RAW answer is that Warforged are affected just like everyone else by the Vigor aura.
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—Living constructs can be affected by spells that target
living creatures as well as by those that target constructs.
Damage dealt to a living construct can be healed by a cure
light wounds spell or a repair light damage spell, for example,
and a living construct is vulnerable to a harm spell. However,
spells from the healing subschool provide only half
effect to a living construct.
This is the only bit regarding healing (other than that they don't heal naturally). Supernatural abilities are never mentioned. Magic of Incarnum (most recent printing of Living Construct subtype) has the same text.
So, the RAW answer is that Warforged are affected just like everyone else by the Vigor aura.
EbCS begs to differ.
[spoiler]—As living constructs, warforged can be affected
by spells that target living creatures as well as by those
that target constructs. Damage dealt to a warforged
can be healed by a cure light wounds spell or a repair light
damage spell, for example, and a warforged is vulnerable
to disable construct and harm. However, spells from
the healing subschool and supernatural abilities that
cure hit point damage or ability damage provide only
half their normal effect to a warforged.[/spoiler]
So really it depends if you are using Eberron Warforged or not.
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Looks like we need someone with Races of Eberron (my copy is an hour and a half drive away) to get in and have the final say, since that printing, being more recent than ECS, would trump, even in Eberron.
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Looks like we need someone with Races of Eberron (my copy is an hour and a half drive away) to get in and have the final say, since that printing, being more recent than ECS, would trump, even in Eberron.
Races of Eberron has the exact same text as Eberron Campaign setting.....
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Arguably Vigor Aura doesn't actually heal hit points, it just grants an ability. Lesser Vigor is still affected because it's a spell of the Healing subschool, and gets halved regardless.
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Q189: My dedicated spellcaster is always under a spell effect per the effect of Hallow (the hallow follows me around in a magic achorn). What spell should it be?
Bump.
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Q 194 Question about Stormlords. It says that it requires Weapon Focus (any spear or javelin), but that Enhanced Javelins become magic for various enhancements. Do spears count as javelins for this bonus? I see that sometimes you see "javelin" or "spear of javelin" depending on which class feature you read, but was wondering if sometimes "spear" was skipped.
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Q 194 Question about Stormlords. It says that it requires Weapon Focus (any spear or javelin), but that Enhanced Javelins become magic for various enhancements. Do spears count as javelins for this bonus? I see that sometimes you see "javelin" or "spear of javelin" depending on which class feature you read, but was wondering if sometimes "spear" was skipped.
A194 This interpretation would not overpower the class, but it looks like a houserule.
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Q195: Other than the Nightstick, the Reliquary Holy Symbol, and things that grant additional turning pools what effects increase the number of turn attempts available to you?
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Q 196 What is the true purpose of the Improved Spell Capacity epic feat? You can't learn any additional spells that go beyond the level, so is it just to house old spells for metamagic purposes? Does the feat really only give you 1 spell slot space, plus whatever your modifier would give you?
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Q 196 What is the true purpose of the Improved Spell Capacity epic feat? You can't learn any additional spells that go beyond the level, so is it just to house old spells for metamagic purposes? Does the feat really only give you 1 spell slot space, plus whatever your modifier would give you?
1st)You now can use metamagiced spells in these higher level slots just as you said,for example if you take improved spell capacity 2 times you could use a 9th level spell heightened to 11th and benefit because of the increased dc....2nd)If you have a class that normally caps its spell at a lower level than 9th(like bard,paladin, ect) you can use this feat to cast higher level spell and either qualify for prestige classes that require high level spells or if you take it enough times you can qualify for Epic spellcasting,for example a paladin who has taken improved spell capacity 5 times can qualify for epic spellcasting....
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Q197: What, if any methods exist to treat Mithril Full Plate as light armor?
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Q197: What, if any methods exist to treat Mithril Full Plate as light armor?
A197:
Halfweight: All halfweight armors are exceptionally crafted works of art that use psionic circuitry, exceptional materials, and unbelievable articulation engineering to reduce the weight of normal armor to half its listed weight. A halfweight armor is treated as light armor in every way, except that the protection it provides is not affected. Thus, +1 halfweight breastplate is light armor and can be used without penalty by someone who has proficiency only with light armor.
Moderate transmutation; CL 8th; Craft Magic Arms and Armor or Craft Psionic Arms and Armor, psionic creature; Price +3 bonus (+2 bonus if used on illithidwrought armor).
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(Drow of the) Underdark?
And any others?
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No, Underdark, its an FR sourcebook. What are you trying to accomplish by treating it as light armor? Id have a better idea of what you need if I knew. I know there are a few class features out there that will reduce ACP and increase Max Dex, but Im drawing a blank ATM for what treats it as lighter than it is.
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Q198
Is a spell emulated by Miracle valid for Persist Spell?
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No, Underdark, its an FR sourcebook. What are you trying to accomplish by treating it as light armor? Id have a better idea of what you need if I knew. I know there are a few class features out there that will reduce ACP and increase Max Dex, but Im drawing a blank ATM for what treats it as lighter than it is.
Well, the main idea is that medium and heavy armor slows you and light armor does not. As this slowness also applies to most extraordinary means of getting around (flight magic, etc)...
It's not a requirement or anything, but I'd rather not lose a third of my speed. Ordinarily I'd just say fuck it, mithril breastplate. But I'm playing one of the few characters who actually can have a level appropriate AC, and that who does not have a very high Dex so I'd rather not.
Also...
Q195: Other than the Nightstick, the Reliquary Holy Symbol, and things that grant additional turning pools what effects increase the number of turn attempts available to you?
Anyone know?
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Q199:
Does anyone here play 4e? I'm really new to it, and I'd like some tips on a Zerth Artificer. (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=10044.0)
Mostly I need help with items, and feats past 11th.
Also, it looks like the Enhanced Resistive Formula is amazing, too, as it essentially doubles the Temp. HP from Resistive Formula (and I still get 1/2 to myself), and yet, I'm sure I'm missing something important that makes Shielding Formula better in some way.
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Q200: Does an Archivist benefit from the Battle Blessing feat? RAW, it seems like it does, but I just wanted to make sure.
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Q199:
Does anyone here play 4e? I'm really new to it, and I'd like some tips on a Zerth Artificer. (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=10044.0)
Mostly I need help with items, and feats past 11th.
Also, it looks like the Enhanced Resistive Formula is amazing, too, as it essentially doubles the Temp. HP from Resistive Formula (and I still get 1/2 to myself), and yet, I'm sure I'm missing something important that makes Shielding Formula better in some way.
You're probably not, because 4e is horrible and for every good ability there is there are at least 2-3 bad ones.
As for optimization, just make sure to pick up the tax feats. Thats about all there is to it. It literally doesn't matter what kinds of feats you pick or what kinds of powers you pick so long as you pick powers that match your top ability score.
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Q201Does a creature bypass it's own regeneration? Like when attacking itself.
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Q200: Does an Archivist benefit from the Battle Blessing feat? RAW, it seems like it does, but I just wanted to make sure.
It appears so, but only for spells on the Paladin list.
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No, Underdark, its an FR sourcebook. What are you trying to accomplish by treating it as light armor? Id have a better idea of what you need if I knew. I know there are a few class features out there that will reduce ACP and increase Max Dex, but Im drawing a blank ATM for what treats it as lighter than it is.
Well, the main idea is that medium and heavy armor slows you and light armor does not. As this slowness also applies to most extraordinary means of getting around (flight magic, etc)...
It's not a requirement or anything, but I'd rather not lose a third of my speed. Ordinarily I'd just say fuck it, mithril breastplate. But I'm playing one of the few characters who actually can have a level appropriate AC, and that who does not have a very high Dex so I'd rather not.
Also...
Q195: Other than the Nightstick, the Reliquary Holy Symbol, and things that grant additional turning pools what effects increase the number of turn attempts available to you?
Anyone know?
Crack open your copy of tome of magic and flip to the pact magic magic item section. Look at the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar, look at Savnok's Tooth:
Savnok: You move at your normal speed even when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load (unlike other creatures, whose speed is reduced in such situations). Faint transmutation; CL 5th; Price 2,000 gp.
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Q201Does a creature bypass it's own regeneration? Like when attacking itself.
Not unless the attack form would normally overcome the regeneration (such as a Troll Dragonfire Adept using its breath weapon)
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Q 202: Must a creature currently have natural weapons to be a valid target for Greater Magic Fang?
Recently got a Ring of Dragonshape (polymorph into young gold dragon for 1 hour 1/day) and thinking I might want to get a permanent GMF so my bite/claw/claw/wing/wing/tail routine can ignore a half-fiend recurring enemy's DR 10/magic.
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Q203
Does a wizard's school specialization affect other classes and/or items with spells from those classes?
Q204
If you have multiple spellcasting classes, can you only control 4x the highest caster level or 4x each caster level?
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Q203
Does a wizard's school specialization affect other classes and/or items with spells from those classes?
Q204
If you have multiple spellcasting classes, can you only control 4x the highest caster level or 4x each caster level?
A203: No.
A204: Assuming you're talking about Animate Dead here. In that case, I'd say it was 4x the higher CL.
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Q 202: Must a creature currently have natural weapons to be a valid target for Greater Magic Fang?
Recently got a Ring of Dragonshape (polymorph into young gold dragon for 1 hour 1/day) and thinking I might want to get a permanent GMF so my bite/claw/claw/wing/wing/tail routine can ignore a half-fiend recurring enemy's DR 10/magic.
Spell check for legality once....
So cast the pernament GMF while you are in dragon form and you are set,you will also get the bonus when you are in humanoid form for your fists....
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No, Underdark, its an FR sourcebook. What are you trying to accomplish by treating it as light armor? Id have a better idea of what you need if I knew. I know there are a few class features out there that will reduce ACP and increase Max Dex, but Im drawing a blank ATM for what treats it as lighter than it is.
Well, the main idea is that medium and heavy armor slows you and light armor does not. As this slowness also applies to most extraordinary means of getting around (flight magic, etc)...
It's not a requirement or anything, but I'd rather not lose a third of my speed. Ordinarily I'd just say fuck it, mithril breastplate. But I'm playing one of the few characters who actually can have a level appropriate AC, and that who does not have a very high Dex so I'd rather not.
Also...
Q195: Other than the Nightstick, the Reliquary Holy Symbol, and things that grant additional turning pools what effects increase the number of turn attempts available to you?
Anyone know?
Crack open your copy of tome of magic and flip to the pact magic magic item section. Look at the Teeth of Dahlver-Nar, look at Savnok's Tooth:
Savnok: You move at your normal speed even when wearing medium or heavy armor or when carrying a medium or heavy load (unlike other creatures, whose speed is reduced in such situations). Faint transmutation; CL 5th; Price 2,000 gp.
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-caterpillar-makes-tv-reference.jpg)
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Q205
Is there a feat that allows you to spend Action Points to recall Spells you have cast that day?
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Q206: A raptor's mask "renders you immune to effects that would leave you blinded or dazzled. "
Does that mean you can just ignore Holy Word spells?
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Q206: A raptor's mask "renders you immune to effects that would leave you blinded or dazzled. "
Does that mean you can just ignore Holy Word spells?
I know we use it for Blasphemy.
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Wait. Even better. A kobold or orc vampire can wear one and go out in daytime. Since he's immune to the sun, and all.
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Q203
Does a wizard's school specialization affect other classes and/or items with spells from those classes?
Q204
If you have multiple spellcasting classes, can you only control 4x the highest caster level or 4x each caster level?
A203: No.
A204: Assuming you're talking about Animate Dead here. In that case, I'd say it was 4x the higher CL.
A: You can make a pretty strong case that from a RAW perspective, it does. RAI I think it certainly shouldn't, though.
B. I think it is calculated separately for each casting class. It's not really an ongoing effect, since it can't be dispelled, etc. So you can't really invoke the stacking rules.
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Q 207 Is there a list somewhere of what does and doesn't count as associated and non-associated classes for monsters? This includes PrCs. I know about ranger and fighter, and a few other classes that should be +1, but I'm reading that for a succubus two levels of fighter only increases their CR by +1 because they don't like to fight. That rogues and bards would be a straight up +1, etc.
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Q 207 Is there a list somewhere of what does and doesn't count as associated and non-associated classes for monsters? This includes PrCs. I know about ranger and fighter, and a few other classes that should be +1, but I'm reading that for a succubus two levels of fighter only increases their CR by +1 because they don't like to fight. That rogues and bards would be a straight up +1, etc.
No list. Just eyeball it.
Basically: if the class helps the monster do what it already does, it's associated. If it doesn't, it's nonassociated.
So if your monster makes a sucky cleric, at least you get twice as much sucky cleric for the same price.
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Q 207 Is there a list somewhere of what does and doesn't count as associated and non-associated classes for monsters? This includes PrCs. I know about ranger and fighter, and a few other classes that should be +1, but I'm reading that for a succubus two levels of fighter only increases their CR by +1 because they don't like to fight. That rogues and bards would be a straight up +1, etc.
No list. Just eyeball it.
Basically: if the class helps the monster do what it already does, it's associated. If it doesn't, it's nonassociated.
So if your monster makes a sucky cleric, at least you get twice as much sucky cleric for the same price.
What about when it says it's a favored class, but still doesn't look like it'd help very much? Like in Savage Tides there's a Succubus bard/thrall of Malcanthet. I thought for sure both would be associated classes, but the PrC wasn't. Despite it giving bonuses to her skills, and everything that makes a succubus what it is (it even turns you into a succubus at lvl 9 if you aren't one already), plus adding to her bard class's dominance and suggestion abilities, it was still only 1/2.
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Q208: theres a thread that tells ways to get different class abilities and such, like evasion or mettle for instance. i cant seem to find it... help?
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Lists of Stuff? http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=2546
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B. I think it is calculated separately for each casting class. It's not really an ongoing effect, since it can't be dispelled, etc. So you can't really invoke the stacking rules.
Since it's not an ongoing effect, it shouldn't have memory of which class/CL/etc. casts the spell.
Let's say you're Wiz 1/Clr 3/MT 6, so your Wizard level is 7, Cleric level is 9. No Practiced Spellcaster.
Cast Animate Dead from your Wizard 7 side to animate 10 HD of undead, you now have 10/28 HD of undead under your control.
Cast Animate Dead from your Cleric 9 side to animate 15 more HD of undead, you now have 25/36 HD of undead under your control via Animate Dead. There's no check to see if it was your Wizard side or Cleric side casting the spell the first time.
Cast Animate Dead from your Wizard 7 side again to animate 10 more HD of undead. This is where it gets weird, as you now either have 35/36 HD commanded or 35/28 HD commanded, and have to choose and let go of 7 HD of undead previously commanded. By my interpretation, I think the latter actually happens.
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Q 209: Assuming Psicrystal get feats, would a Psicrystal taking something like Psionic Body or Improved Toughness gain more HPs or it'll still have "hp 1/2 master's"? ???
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Q183: Any cool luck-themed magic items, or items that could be changed easily to be luck/fortune themed?
The ones I've found are the luckstone and blade and then the bevy of "re-roll this 1/day" ones. But, I was wondering if there was something else useful.
Here are some:
- Complete Champion: Bracers of divine luck, robe of the vagabond, sandals of the vagabond
- Races of Faerun: Catseye broach
- Epic Level Handbook: Robes of resisting enchantment (page 305)
I'm surprised a +5 luck bonus on saving throws against enchantment spells and effects only costs 6,250 gp.
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agabond[/li]
[li]Races of Faerun: Catseye broach[/li][/list]
Also in MIC.
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This question is more of a time/precedence issue (though, a bit of semantics is involved):
Q210
Can an Arcane Disciple (cleric variant from drag.mag.311) use his "arcane-to-divine" class feature to gain Arcane Fusion?
Here's the deal -- the ability says "may choose one arcane spell from either the bard or sorc/wiz spell list". However, this pre-dates the very concept of "sorcerer-only" spells by 3 years. Additionally, while it is a sorcerer-only spell, it does appear on the sorc/wiz spell list (albeit with the noted exception).
So, basically, is there anything that addresses this precedence?
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Q 211 How would you go about making a magic item of Wraithstrike, permanent? Or can you with it only being 1 round. Can you even make it into an item?
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This question is more of a time/precedence issue (though, a bit of semantics is involved):
Q210
Can an Arcane Disciple (cleric variant from drag.mag.311) use his "arcane-to-divine" class feature to gain Arcane Fusion?
Here's the deal -- the ability says "may choose one arcane spell from either the bard or sorc/wiz spell list". However, this pre-dates the very concept of "sorcerer-only" spells by 3 years. Additionally, while it is a sorcerer-only spell, it does appear on the sorc/wiz spell list (albeit with the noted exception).
So, basically, is there anything that addresses this precedence?
Well, there is that one spell in core that is on the sor/wiz list that says in the spell description it's usable by prepared casters only. I cannot think of it's name right now.
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Rary's mnemonic enhancer and Mordenkainen's lucubration.
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Q 211 How would you go about making a magic item of Wraithstrike, permanent? Or can you with it only being 1 round. Can you even make it into an item?
A 211 The rules compendium under activating magic items clarified that spell trigger items only take the same action as the spell to activate them. You might still have problems because of drawing said wand.
A 211 Formally, there is nothing in the rules saying that you can't use metamagic spell trigger feat / class ability upon a wand or wraithstrike. Also, there's rules for adding metamagic feats to spells during creation.
Be careful, though. This is an arms race with your DM, and if he decides to escalate, you can't win.
Q 212: If I have a psicrystal, is there an official statement somewhere that they get feats?
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This question is more of a time/precedence issue (though, a bit of semantics is involved):
Q210
Can an Arcane Disciple (cleric variant from drag.mag.311) use his "arcane-to-divine" class feature to gain Arcane Fusion?
Here's the deal -- the ability says "may choose one arcane spell from either the bard or sorc/wiz spell list". However, this pre-dates the very concept of "sorcerer-only" spells by 3 years. Additionally, while it is a sorcerer-only spell, it does appear on the sorc/wiz spell list (albeit with the noted exception).
So, basically, is there anything that addresses this precedence?
Well, there is that one spell in core that is on the sor/wiz list that says in the spell description it's usable by prepared casters only. I cannot think of it's name right now.
Rary's mnemonic enhancer and Mordenkainen's lucubration.
yeah, those (:ninja'ed)
so the answer to the first part would be "yes"?
thanks.
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Q213:
This came up in a game I ran last night, in which a player were playing a PHB2 knight; Is an opponent flat-footed against an attack of opportunity?
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A213 an AoO on it's own doesn't cause someone to be flat-footed. I can't think of anything right now that would allow someone to be flat-footed when provoking an AoO, though, unless they had been feinted.
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Q 209: Assuming Psicrystal get feats, would a Psicrystal taking something like Psionic Body or Improved Toughness gain more HPs or it'll still have "hp 1/2 master's"? ???
The HP would remain the same (1/2 masters)
Q 212: If I have a psicrystal, is there an official statement somewhere that they get feats?
Not that I'm aware of, but WotC never put out anything saying otherwise either. If they even touched the subject, I think it was in a Sage article, and that usually sticks to the RAW as opposed to FAQ or CustServ.
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Q 211 How would you go about making a magic item of Wraithstrike, permanent? Or can you with it only being 1 round. Can you even make it into an item?
A 211 The rules compendium under activating magic items clarified that spell trigger items only take the same action as the spell to activate them. You might still have problems because of drawing said wand.
A 211 Formally, there is nothing in the rules saying that you can't use metamagic spell trigger feat / class ability upon a wand or wraithstrike. Also, there's rules for adding metamagic feats to spells during creation.
Be careful, though. This is an arms race with your DM, and if he decides to escalate, you can't win.
That won't be a problem. It's just coming up with the math. The DM said if I could figure it out, he'd allow me make gauntlets of wraithstrike. So they'd be a swift action to activate, but what about cost? It's spell level x caster x 2000 x Y (days .5/hours 1/10 minutes 1.5/minutes 2/rounds 4, per level). Wraithstrike is 1 round. That's it. I'm think it'd be easier just to have it be charges per day.
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
Ouch, that is expensive. Or 9600 per charge. Hmm. I don't see how every gish could do it for free though, because not every gish made is a wiz/sor.
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
Ouch, that is expensive. Or 9600 per charge. Hmm. I don't see how every gish could do it for free though, because not every gish made is a wiz/sor.
Depends on how one defines gish. :P
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
Ouch, that is expensive. Or 9600 per charge. Hmm. I don't see how every gish could do it for free though, because not every gish made is a wiz/sor.
Depends on how one defines gish. :P
True, but most gishes I've seen on here clerics, druids, or ToB classes.
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A couple of quetions...
Q214
I can buy off the 2 ECL for a Mercury dragon wyrmling at lvl 6 and lvl 9. If I pick up more dragon HD to advance to the next category (young category increases the ECL from 2 to 3), at what level can I buy off this new ECL?
Q215
What are the ways to increase the Mercury dragon's size to "Large" category so that it can serve as a mount for a medium sized humanoid?
So far I've come up with using Fleshwarper's Aberrant familiar's "Size increase attribute" plus familiar mount. Is there something simpler like a low LA template to can increase the size category (something like the drider template)?
Q216
Sorcerer levels stack with the spell casting ability of Dragons. As Sublime Chord spellcasting work like sorcerers', do dragon spellcasting stack with Sublime Chord? Trying to gain a faster spell casting progression.
Thx!
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Shaikujin, your questions have "A###" in front of them instead of "Q###".
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Q 217: Is there any means outside of gestalt to advance artificer alongside a second casting class?
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Q218
Should Lucid Dream killing award XP, assuming a Dreamheart death?
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Q 219: I'm trying to understand Synchronicity (ab)use. Is the following true for my L2 Psion?
Linked Power Metapower Synchronicity + whatever. Synchronicity is the power manifest this turn: name the power to be manifest under normal situations as the readied action, to go off in the event that your turn ends (which is Synchronicity's effect). Specify that next round, you want the linked power to be manifest. This nets a -1 PP cost in the power to be manifest the following round, since Sync only costs one PP, which lets you manifest the power on the 2nd round augmenting it 1 pp further.
Example: 2nd level Psion with Synchronicity, Force Screen, Vigor, Linked Power, and Metapower: Synchronicity / Linked Power. Round 1, Sync is used to manifest Force Screen, Round 2 Vigor with 15 HP is manifested. The whole thing costs 1 Power Point and my focus.
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Q 217: Is there any means outside of gestalt to advance artificer alongside a second casting class?
A217:
yes,IIRC .... Legacy Champion
:D
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Q 217: Is there any means outside of gestalt to advance artificer alongside a second casting class?
A217:
yes,IIRC .... Legacy Champion
:D
Advances only one class in addition to LC, which is not a casting class.
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guess i didnt recall correctly :(
:D
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
Ouch, that is expensive. Or 9600 per charge. Hmm. I don't see how every gish could do it for free though, because not every gish made is a wiz/sor.
Spell domain. Magic domain.
:evillaugh
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Spell domain. Magic domain.
There's a spell domain now?
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Spell domain. Magic domain.
There's a spell domain now?
yes:
Spell Domain
Granted Powers: You get a +2 bonus on Concentration and Spellcraft checks
1 - Mage Armor
2 - Silence
3 - Anyspell
4 - Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer
5 - Break Enchantment
6 - Anyspell, Greater
7 - Limited Wish
8 - Antimagic Field
9 - Mordenkainen's Disjunction
:D
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Spell domain. Magic domain.
There's a spell domain now?
yes:
Spell Domain
Granted Powers: You get a +2 bonus on Concentration and Spellcraft checks
1 - Mage Armor
2 - Silence
3 - Anyspell
4 - Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer
5 - Break Enchantment
6 - Anyspell, Greater
7 - Limited Wish
8 - Antimagic Field
9 - Mordenkainen's Disjunction
Too bad there's only four deities that have access to that domain.
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
This seems quite reasonable for an all-day item. Brilliant Energy is quite comparable as a +4 weapon bonus (minimum cost = 50000 gp). Its easier to negate a Wraithstrike that's on someone vs. a Brilliant Energy weapon, though, and that could be about 2000 gp. Seems quite right.
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Q 220
Regeneration
A creature with regeneration treats all damage as nonlethal, except for specific types of damage, given in the creature’s description, that affect it normally (such as a troll’s vulnerability to acid and fire). A creature with regeneration can remove 1 nonlethal hit per round per 5 points of regeneration (minimum 1 hit).
An undead creature possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).
Not subject to critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability drain, or energy drain.
So are undead (or some other creature immune to nonlethal damage) with regeneration immune to all damage that doesn't bypass that regeneration?
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A220
I think regeneration requires a Con score.
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A220
I think regeneration requires a Con score.
Can you give me a link or a page number that says that?
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It's the last sentence in the description of the regeneration ability (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#regeneration).
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Q221
I'm a Psion5 with a psicrystal. Let's assume my psicrystal took Hidden Talent: astral construct. Can it then take Practiced Manifester and have ML5?
How else can I get my psicrystal's ML to 5?
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Excellent, thanks. New question.
Q 222
A creature with Regeneration converts all lethal damage to nonlethal damage, and a character with a high level in the Bone Knight prestige class (from Five Nations) is immune to nonlethal damage. Would such a character be immune to all damage that didn't bypass her regeneration?
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Excellent, thanks. New question.
Q 222
A creature with Regeneration converts all lethal damage to nonlethal damage, and a character with a high level in the Bone Knight prestige class (from Five Nations) is immune to nonlethal damage. Would such a character be immune to all damage that didn't bypass her regeneration?
A222 Yes. This is one of the selling points of the Ikea Tarrasque/Emerald Legion, if I'm not mistaken.
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Holy cow. That's... kinda scary.
Q 233
What's the lifespan of an Eberron Changeling?
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Holy cow. That's... kinda scary.
Q 223
What's the lifespan of an Eberron Changeling?
A223
Fixed numbering for you. Also, Eberron Campaign Setting, page 27.
Other answers include:
As an adventurer, until the diamond dust runs out.
As a commoner, til something threatens them.
As an NPC, til the PCs show up.
Age categories are 15/35/53/70, with a max of +2d20 years.
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Shaikujin, your questions have "A###" in front of them instead of "Q###".
Doh, thanks for spotting that! Changed the message. Also, re-posting questions:
Q214
I can buy off the 2 ECL for a Mercury dragon wyrmling at lvl 6 and lvl 9. If I pick up more dragon HD to advance to the next category (young category increases the ECL from 2 to 3), at what level can I buy off this new ECL?
Q215
What are the ways to increase the Mercury dragon's size to "Large" category so that it can serve as a mount for a medium sized humanoid?
So far I've come up with using Fleshwarper's Aberrant familiar's "Size increase attribute" plus familiar mount. Is there something simpler like a low LA template to can increase the size category (something like the drider template)?
Q216
Sorcerer levels stack with the spell casting ability of Dragons. As Sublime Chord spellcasting work like sorcerers', do dragon spellcasting stack with Sublime Chord? Trying to gain a faster spell casting progression.
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Q 224 I'm not seeing anything other than fire spells needing a spellcraft roll, but is there anywhere that lets you know how lightning, ice, and acid works underwater? Like how water conducts electricity, etc?
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A224
I know of no official rules on how energy types besides Fire function underwater. Assumedly, they follow the normal rules.
House rule: All Electricity effects get +2 DC if used against a target partially submerged in a conductive liquid, or +4 DC if the target is fully submerged.
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Q225 Is there any way for a Cleric to get an animal companion?
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A225
Wild Cohort (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/re/20031118a)
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Ahh, I should have specified besides Wild Cohort - I want them to be able to share spells :)
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Q226 Is there any way for a Cleric to get an animal companion, excluding use of the Wild Cohort feat?
Q227 Is there any equivilent feat to Magical Training that is not a regional feat? Ie, a feat that grants you a spellbook with some minor cantrips, that you cast as a Wizard
Q228 Is there any divine version of Magical Training, that allows you to cast a limited number of orisons?
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A227) Possibly Magical Affinity (Kingdoms of Kalamar - Player's guide).
Prereqs are int 13+; and Raised in Cosdol or Pel Brolenon; or Gray Elf, High Elf, Rock Gnome. You know and can cast a cantrip once per day for each point of intelligence bonus. That is, with int 14 you can pick light and detect magic and cast each of them once/day, but not pick light twice.
Doesn't have the [regional] tag, and if you're the right race you don't have to be from a specific region,
A228) Yes, but it's at the end of a three feat chain, and is dragon material.
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A228) Yes, but it's at the end of a three feat chain, and is dragon material.
I'll take it! Maybe :) What Dragon Mag is it?
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Q229: A lucky charm (Complete Scoundrel 115) allows you to expend a charge as an immediate action (as per the errata) to “gain the benefit of a successful luck reroll without expending one of your daily luck rerolls.” When it says “successful luck reroll,” does it mean you automatically succeed on the roll? What if you couldn't normally succeed on the roll, such as if you're rerolling a skill check without a sufficient modifier? What if it's not the sort of roll where success and failure apply, such as an initiative check?
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Q230: If I wanted to get some feedback and suggestions to my home made adeventure where should I ask it?
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Q230: If I wanted to get some feedback and suggestions to my home made adeventure where should I ask it?
A230: House Rules & Creations (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?board=39.0), or GM Gameology (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?board=56.0) would work.
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Q 231 Is there any way to be an Eldritch Disciple without being a cleric or paladin?
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Q 231 Is there any way to be an Eldritch Disciple without being a cleric or paladin?
A231: Warlock 5/Mindbender 1/Ur-Priest 2/Eldritch Disciple 10.
Q232: What are LA+0 ways of getting racial adjustment bonuses to Intelligence?
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Q 231 Is there any way to be an Eldritch Disciple without being a cleric or paladin?
A231: Warlock 5/Mindbender 1/Ur-Priest 2/Eldritch Disciple 10.
Q232: What are LA+0 ways of getting racial adjustment bonuses to Intelligence?
Remember that the level of Mindbender comes after the first level of Eldritch Disciple.
Simplest way to get an LA +0 race with +2 Int is Gray Elf. I think Sun Elf (FR) also has a +2. That said, maybe you're asking about templates?
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A232:The races that give you bonuses to Intelligence at La 0 are:Fire elf,Gray elf,Silvanesti,Sun elf,Tinker gnome,Deep Imaskari,Lesser air genasi,Lesser fire genasi,Lesser tiefling.....
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Q 231 Is there any way to be an Eldritch Disciple without being a cleric or paladin?
A231: Warlock 5/Mindbender 1/Ur-Priest 2/Eldritch Disciple 10.
Q232: What are LA+0 ways of getting racial adjustment bonuses to Intelligence?
Remember that the level of Mindbender comes after the first level of Eldritch Disciple.
Simplest way to get an LA +0 race with +2 Int is Gray Elf. I think Sun Elf (FR) also has a +2. That said, maybe you're asking about templates?
You can't get into Ur-Priest without Mindbender's +2 Fort save. Without Ur-Priest 2, you can't enter Eldritch Disciple.
Also, yes, stackable ways would be better, as a +2 is fairly standard, and I'm looking for higher.
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A228) Yes, but it's at the end of a three feat chain, and is dragon material.
I'll take it! Maybe :) What Dragon Mag is it?
Dragon 305. You'll also pick up a minor bonus 1/day, and a single turn attempt.
Feats are God Touched, Divine Channeler, Minor Divine Spellcaster
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Q 231 Is there any way to be an Eldritch Disciple without being a cleric or paladin?
A231: Warlock 5/Mindbender 1/Ur-Priest 2/Eldritch Disciple 10.
Q232: What are LA+0 ways of getting racial adjustment bonuses to Intelligence?
Remember that the level of Mindbender comes after the first level of Eldritch Disciple.
Simplest way to get an LA +0 race with +2 Int is Gray Elf. I think Sun Elf (FR) also has a +2. That said, maybe you're asking about templates?
You can't get into Ur-Priest without Mindbender's +2 Fort save. Without Ur-Priest 2, you can't enter Eldritch Disciple.
Also, yes, stackable ways would be better, as a +2 is fairly standard, and I'm looking for higher.
Well you could be venerable for a +3 net bonus to Intelligence.....
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Q221 Repost
I'm a Psion5 with a psicrystal. Let's assume my psicrystal took Hidden Talent: astral construct. Can it then take Practiced Manifester and have ML5?
How else can I get my psicrystal's ML to 5?
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A228) Yes, but it's at the end of a three feat chain, and is dragon material.
I'll take it! Maybe :) What Dragon Mag is it?
Dragon 305. You'll also pick up a minor bonus 1/day, and a single turn attempt.
Feats are God Touched, Divine Channeler, Minor Divine Spellcaster
Ta!
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Q233 Is there some mechanism for transforming a Dragon's inherent racial spellcasting into that of a Wizard?
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Q221 Repost
I'm a Psion5 with a psicrystal. Let's assume my psicrystal took Hidden Talent: astral construct. Can it then take Practiced Manifester and have ML5?
How else can I get my psicrystal's ML to 5?
Actually, that would only get the manifester level to 4. Hidden Talent doesn't give a manifester level.
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Q233 Is there some mechanism for transforming a Dragon's inherent racial spellcasting into that of a Wizard?
A233
If Dragon material is allowed, spell hoarding template from Dragon 313. The templates are presented as a form of psychosis that's contracted and comes with ways to cure the mental disorder. Can be used on top of sovereign types.
Cast as wizard instead of sorcerers, INT based instead of CHA. Learns spells like wizards, but instead of spellbooks, scribed spells appear as runes on the dragon's scales.
CR as base creature. There's no mention of LA though, so... a 0 LA template?
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It would be x4, so 48,000 gold and a swift action to Wraithstrike every round. That's actually a bit expensive, keeping in mind every gish can do it for free, or at least less gold as a matter of course and beatsticks need Nice Things. Well unless you're Aelryinth, then auto negate gimps for 48k is something to cry about. :lmao
This seems quite reasonable for an all-day item. Brilliant Energy is quite comparable as a +4 weapon bonus (minimum cost = 50000 gp). Its easier to negate a Wraithstrike that's on someone vs. a Brilliant Energy weapon, though, and that could be about 2000 gp. Seems quite right.
No, it isn't. However Brilliant Energy is also utter shit, and useless to everyone except NPC humanoids who cannot afford it. So don't take that as a bad thing. And you still need your Swift action every round, so if you want to do any boosts, or counters, or most other magic items you can't Wraithstrike that round.
Too bad there's only four deities that have access to that domain.
And how many have the Magic domain? 6? Most of them being the same deities who have the Spell domain?
Either you picked a magic god and you can get both, or you did the deity of a concept thing and cherry picked spell + something else.
In any case the Magic Domain itself will let you do it a level later, with a normal wand (cost = 90/round, which means it will take 534 uses to cost more than the continuous use item, and also has a lower entry cost. Or you can just UMD it (only at high levels, but works regardless of class). If going the wand route, make sure to be using a Wand Chambered version of your favorite weapon to free your hand. If your weapon cannot be Wand Chambered, then put it on the floating shield.
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If going the wand route, make sure to be using a Wand Chambered version of your favorite weapon to free your hand. If your weapon cannot be Wand Chambered, then put it on the floating shield.
That's just what I was thinking.
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Q 234 Is there an item or spell somewhere that allows a human to live for a really long time? Like, say, a millennium or two?
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Q 234 Is there an item or spell somewhere that allows a human to live for a really long time? Like, say, a millennium or two?
Even better there is a spell that makes you immortal(timewise).....
Kissed by the ages in dragon 354 it makes you immortal but you can't cast this on your self ,you have to find someone else to cast it on you....
Also this guide should be helpful for you......
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=5996.0
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Q 235
Is this math right? With partial BAB & Saves on Gestalt.
[spoiler]
Thaumaturge: Tome class, +1/2 BAB/level, Good Will
Psionic Illithid: Tome conversion of the Psionic Illithid, Aberration HD; Medium BAB, good Will.
Metaphysical Spellshaper: BoEF, Poor BAB, good Will.
01: Thaumaturge 1//Psionic Illithid 1: +0.75 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills (x4)
-+0.75 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref
02: Thaumaturge 2//Psionic Illithid 2: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+1.50 BAB, +3.0 Will, +2/3 Fort&Ref
03: Thaumaturge 3//Psionic Illithid 3: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+2.25 BAB, +3.5 Will, +1/1 Fort&Ref
04: Thaumaturge 4//Psionic Illithid 4: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+3.00 BAB, +4.0 Will, +1 1/3 Fort&Ref
05: Metaphysical1//Psionic Illithid 5: +0.75 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+3.75 BAB, +6.5 Will, +1 2/3 Fort&Ref
06: Metaphysical2//Psionic Illithid 6: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+4.5 BAB, +7.0 Will, +2/2 Fort&Ref
07: Metaphysical3//Psionic Illithid 7: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+5.25 BAB, +7.5 Will, +2 1/3rd Fort&Ref
08: Thaumaturge 5//Psionic Illithid 8: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+6.00 BAB, +8.0 Will, +2 2/3rd Fort&Ref
09: Thaumaturge 6//Psionic Illithid 9: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+6.75 BAB, +8.5 Will, +3/3 Fort&Ref
10: Thaumaturge 7//Psion Adv. Illith1: +0.50 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+7.25 BAB, +11 Will, +3 1/3rd Fort&Ref
11: Thaumaturge 8//Psion Adv. Illith2: +0.50 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+7.75 BAB, +11.5 Will, +3 2/3rd Fort&Ref
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Q236: Is the Sudden Stunning property (DMG2) limited to melee weapons only? Or can I stick that on a crossbow? (Don't have the book or pdf handy).
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Q236: Is the Sudden Stunning property (DMG2) limited to melee weapons only? Or can I stick that on a crossbow? (Don't have the book or pdf handy).
A236
unfortunately, yes -- it specifically says "melee attack" :(
(of course, it doesn't seem to explicitly limit what kind of weapon you can put it on .... so I guess you could use your crossbow as an improvised melee weapon, and work it that way :p)
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Q221 Repost
I'm a Psion5 with a psicrystal. Let's assume my psicrystal took Hidden Talent: astral construct. Can it then take Practiced Manifester and have ML5?
How else can I get my psicrystal's ML to 5?
Actually, that would only get the manifester level to 4. Hidden Talent doesn't give a manifester level.
Would it even up its manifester level though? Hidden Talent doesn't give a manifesting class which is needed to benifit from Practiced Manifester, unless I don't read this right.
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Q236: Is the Sudden Stunning property (DMG2) limited to melee weapons only? Or can I stick that on a crossbow? (Don't have the book or pdf handy).
A236
unfortunately, yes -- it specifically says "melee attack" :(
(of course, it doesn't seem to explicitly limit what kind of weapon you can put it on .... so I guess you could use your crossbow as an improvised melee weapon, and work it that way :p)
Well, that sucks. So you can't even stick it on a dagger, and then throw it, then?
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If you want to do it from a distance, then a whip should work.
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Q236: Is the Sudden Stunning property (DMG2) limited to melee weapons only? Or can I stick that on a crossbow? (Don't have the book or pdf handy).
A236
unfortunately, yes -- it specifically says "melee attack" :(
(of course, it doesn't seem to explicitly limit what kind of weapon you can put it on .... so I guess you could use your crossbow as an improvised melee weapon, and work it that way :p)
Well, that sucks. So you can't even stick it on a dagger, and then throw it, then?
Alternatively, Bloodstorm Blade?
You DO make your attacks as though they were melee attacks with it after all.
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q237 Is there any prestige class that advances Dragonfire Adept "spellcasting" which can be entered with only 2 DFA levels and no warlock levels (Will have several levels in some melee classes).
q238 What can i do to protect a mundane piece of equipment (object) from acid damage? Riding a mount with Acidic armor, and would like to keep my saddle intact.
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q238 What can i do to protect a mundane piece of equipment (object) from acid damage? Riding a mount with Acidic armor, and would like to keep my saddle intact.
A 238 Find a friendly shaper to coat it in quintessence (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/psionic/powers/quintessence.htm).
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Q239: What exactly are the requirements you need to meet to enter a PRC with a Domain requirement. Does this ACF from Complete Champion let you qualify:
Domain Granted Power
So great are the extent of your study and the depth of your faith that you can call upon the power of one of your deity's domains.
Level: 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th.
Replaces: This benefit replaces the bonus feat gained by a wizard at 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th level.
Benefit: Choose one cleric domain. If you worship a spe cific deity, the domain you choose must be one to which your deity grants access. You now can use that domain's granted power as a cleric does, but you do not gain access to its spells or extra spell slots.
Special: If you take levels in a class that grants you a domain choice (such as cleric), you gain the full benefits of the domain in addition to the other domains available to you from that class.
If not that, then would Planar Touchstone: Catalogues of Enlightenment let you qualify? Im trying to figure out how to get an Archivist||Wizard getstalt into Dweomerkeeper and hoping I can do it via feats instead of with Prestige classes (such as contemplative or divine disciple).
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Q239: What exactly are the requirements you need to meet to enter a PRC with a Domain requirement. Does this ACF from Complete Champion let you qualify:
Domain Granted Power
So great are the extent of your study and the depth of your faith that you can call upon the power of one of your deity's domains.
Level: 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th.
Replaces: This benefit replaces the bonus feat gained by a wizard at 5th, 10th, 15th, or 20th level.
Benefit: Choose one cleric domain. If you worship a spe cific deity, the domain you choose must be one to which your deity grants access. You now can use that domain's granted power as a cleric does, but you do not gain access to its spells or extra spell slots.
Special: If you take levels in a class that grants you a domain choice (such as cleric), you gain the full benefits of the domain in addition to the other domains available to you from that class.
If not that, then would Planar Touchstone: Catalogues of Enlightenment let you qualify? Im trying to figure out how to get an Archivist||Wizard getstalt into Dweomerkeeper and hoping I can do it via feats instead of with Prestige classes (such as contemplative or divine disciple).
Touchstone would, I know for sure, but that's considered a little cheesy. But hey, this is CharOp: Cheese is our bread and butter. ...Wait.
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Q240: is there any way to get the track feat for free, besides a ranger dip?
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Q240: is there any way to get the track feat for free, besides a ranger dip?
Depends on when you want it.
Base Classes
Wolf Totem Barbarian lvl 5
Survivalist lvl 1 (Fighter variant)
Thug lvl 1 (Fighter variant) gives Urban Tracking
Sacred Path of St. Cuthbert LN Monk lvl 1
Hunter of Fiends Paladin lvl 1
Scout lvl 4
Prestige Classes
Deepwarden (dwarf) lvl 1
Master Inquisitive lvl 2 (Track or Urban Tracking)
Sentinel of Bharrai lvl 1
Shadow Thief of Amn lvl 2
Son of Mercy lvl 1
Monsters
Hound Archon
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Q 241 This is a revision of a question I previously asked. I didn't quite get the answer I was looking for, so if I word it differently, I'm hoping to get a very different answer (especially since the answer I got was based on psions and 9th lvl wizards only). Is there a way for a low level human beguiler, bard, or illusionist (7th level), without the use of shadow magic, to affect blind people with their illusions in combat?
Q 242 Besides the Energy Substitution metamagic feat, is there a feat that mimics Snowcasting for spells to gain electricity, fire, water, and/or acid subtype?
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Q 241 This is a revision of a question I previously asked. I didn't quite get the answer I was looking for, so if I word it differently, I'm hoping to get a very different answer (especially since the answer I got was based on psions and 9th lvl wizards only). Is there a way for a low level human beguiler, bard, or illusionist (7th level), without the use of shadow magic, to affect blind people with their illusions in combat?
Major image, and ghost sound. Both have nonvisual components.
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Q 241 This is a revision of a question I previously asked. I didn't quite get the answer I was looking for, so if I word it differently, I'm hoping to get a very different answer (especially since the answer I got was based on psions and 9th lvl wizards only). Is there a way for a low level human beguiler, bard, or illusionist (7th level), without the use of shadow magic, to affect blind people with their illusions in combat?
A 241: Not all Illusions are visual. Major Image (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/majorimage.htm), for instance, includes sound, smell, and thermal effects. Senses that specifically don't rely on sight.
swordsaged.
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Q 241 This is a revision of a question I previously asked. I didn't quite get the answer I was looking for, so if I word it differently, I'm hoping to get a very different answer (especially since the answer I got was based on psions and 9th lvl wizards only). Is there a way for a low level human beguiler, bard, or illusionist (7th level), without the use of shadow magic, to affect blind people with their illusions in combat?
A 241: Not all Illusions are visual. Major Image (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/majorimage.htm), for instance, includes sound, smell, and thermal effects. Senses that specifically don't rely on sight.
So does this mean that technically, for thematic purposes, a character could technically make the image so real, that the blind person could visualize the image inside their head?
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q237 Is there any prestige class that advances Dragonfire Adept "spellcasting" which can be entered with only 2 DFA levels and no warlock levels (Will have several levels in some melee classes).
q238 What can i do to protect a mundane piece of equipment (object) from acid damage? Riding a mount with Acidic armor, and would like to keep my saddle intact.
Seriously guys, is there no simple way of making an object resist acid?
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Well, not permanently immune. There's some antacid stuff from dungeonscape, you could increase the hardness via various spells, or suck up the cost, make it magic, and stick everbright onto it.
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A238 Give the mount a durable (dungeonscape) barding; agree with the DM that saddle and barding are one piece of equipment. Note that durable only applies to metal armor.
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Yeah, the armor is the reason need acid resistant barding anyway.
It occurs to me that hardness 8 prevents any damage from Acidic armor, right?
So, hardness infusion at level 12 brings the hardness of leather up to 8. 720 gp.
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Q 243 Anyone know where I might have seen the stats on the broadsword? It was 2d4, and I think it cost 18 gold. I can't remember what d20 book I read that had it listed. I think it had a crit of 19-20/x2 as well.
Found it. It's actually 35 gold (which is significantly higher than a longsword). It's 2d4, 19-20/x2 crit, 5 lbs, and gives a +4 circumstance bonus against disarm checks. It's from the Ultimate Equipment Guide Vol 1.
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That's 3rd party though, right?
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Q 244: Can anyone think of a way to treat natural attacks or unarmed strikes as two-handed weapons for the purposes of power attack?
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Q 243 Anyone know where I might have seen the stats on the broadsword? It was 2d4, and I think it cost 18 gold. I can't remember what d20 book I read that had it listed. I think it had a crit of 19-20/x2 as well.
Found it. It's actually 35 gold (which is significantly higher than a longsword). It's 2d4, 19-20/x2 crit, 5 lbs, and gives a +4 circumstance bonus against disarm checks. It's from the Ultimate Equipment Guide Vol 1.
Arms and Equipment Guide said to treat it the same as a longsword, back in the 3.0 days, because functionally they "behaved" the same way.
And those stats make not a damned bit of sense, mechanically, much less in context with the other weapon stats already out there.
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Q 244: Can anyone think of a way to treat natural attacks or unarmed strikes as two-handed weapons for the purposes of power attack?
hammer fist (http://www.realmshelps.net/cgi-bin/feats.pl?Hammer_Fist) feat? :shrug
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Yeah, the armor is the reason need acid resistant barding anyway.
It occurs to me that hardness 8 prevents any damage from Acidic armor, right?
So, hardness infusion at level 12 brings the hardness of leather up to 8. 720 gp.
Alternatively, make it from Green/Black/Copper dragon hide. Draconomicon states that items made from dragonhide have the same enermy immunities as their parent dragon.
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Q 243 Anyone know where I might have seen the stats on the broadsword? It was 2d4, and I think it cost 18 gold. I can't remember what d20 book I read that had it listed. I think it had a crit of 19-20/x2 as well.
Found it. It's actually 35 gold (which is significantly higher than a longsword). It's 2d4, 19-20/x2 crit, 5 lbs, and gives a +4 circumstance bonus against disarm checks. It's from the Ultimate Equipment Guide Vol 1.
Arms and Equipment Guide said to treat it the same as a longsword, back in the 3.0 days, because functionally they "behaved" the same way.
And those stats make not a damned bit of sense, mechanically, much less in context with the other weapon stats already out there.
I know it does, but I thought that was kind of off. It's like when it says a claymore is a greatsword and a bastard sword, and then made it 1d12. WotC says one thing, and does another all of the time. There is no continuity with them.
It is if you played AD&D where it was 1-8 damage for a long sword, and 2-8 damage for a broad sword. All the book did was bring back the 2nd Ed weapon. Much like other books have brought back 1st and 2nd Ed monsters.
That's 3rd party though, right?
Yes. It's still a weapon that used to be in the old D&D books.
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Q 243 Anyone know where I might have seen the stats on the broadsword? It was 2d4, and I think it cost 18 gold. I can't remember what d20 book I read that had it listed. I think it had a crit of 19-20/x2 as well.
Found it. It's actually 35 gold (which is significantly higher than a longsword). It's 2d4, 19-20/x2 crit, 5 lbs, and gives a +4 circumstance bonus against disarm checks. It's from the Ultimate Equipment Guide Vol 1.
Arms and Equipment Guide said to treat it the same as a longsword, back in the 3.0 days, because functionally they "behaved" the same way.
And those stats make not a damned bit of sense, mechanically, much less in context with the other weapon stats already out there.
I know it does, but I thought that was kind of off. It's like when it says a claymore is a greatsword and a bastard sword, and then made it 1d12. WotC says one thing, and does another all of the time. There is no continuity with them.
It is if you played AD&D where it was 1-8 damage for a long sword, and 2-8 damage for a broad sword. All the book did was bring back the 2nd Ed weapon. Much like other books have brought back 1st and 2nd Ed monsters.
That's 3rd party though, right?
Yes. It's still a weapon that used to be in the old D&D books.
Wasn't it 2d4 for a bastard sword in second edition?
Also IIRC the Longsword was better against large opponents, dealing d12 damage where the bastard sword dealt only 1d10. And the greatsword dealt 2d6/3d6.
Very confusing but so very rewarding when you slice up two gnolls as a level 1 halfling, who has his highest stat as a 13 in dex.
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Wasn't it 2d4 for a bastard sword in second edition?
Also IIRC the Longsword was better against large opponents, dealing d12 damage where the bastard sword dealt only 1d10. And the greatsword dealt 2d6/3d6.
Very confusing but so very rewarding when you slice up two gnolls as a level 1 halfling, who has his highest stat as a 13 in dex.
No, it was something different, but you're probably close. It did one kind of damage if you used it one-handed (1d8?), but it did more damage if you used it two-handed (and not the 1.5 we use now). I can't remember the exact details.
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Q 242 Besides the Energy Substitution metamagic feat, is there a feat that mimics Snowcasting for spells to gain electricity, fire, water, and/or acid subtype?
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Q 242 Besides the Energy Substitution metamagic feat, is there a feat that mimics Snowcasting for spells to gain electricity, fire, water, and/or acid subtype?
Energy admixture, but it grants cold and not water.
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Energy admixture, but it grants cold and not water.
It requires Energy Substitution though. No good.
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Elven Spell Lore lets you do it with 1 Spell chosen at the time you pick the feat.
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Elven Spell Lore lets you do it with 1 Spell chosen at the time you pick the feat.
But that requires Int 17 or being an elf. Hmm.
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Q245: In theory, if a psicrystal takes leadership, would it count as having a familiar/animal companion/special mount?
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Q245: In theory, if a psicrystal takes leadership, would it count as having a familiar/animal companion/special mount?
A 245
No. It would count as having a cohort. However, a cohort is not a familiar, animal companion, or special mount.
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Q245: In theory, if a psicrystal takes leadership, would it count as having a familiar/animal companion/special mount?
A 245
No. It would count as having a cohort. However, a cohort is not a familiar, animal companion, or special mount.
Ah, I meant for the purposes of leadership score for gaining a cohort. :)
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Q245: In theory, if a psicrystal takes leadership, would it count as having a familiar/animal companion/special mount?
A 245
No. It would count as having a cohort. However, a cohort is not a familiar, animal companion, or special mount.
Ah, I meant for the purposes of leadership score for gaining a cohort. :)
Ah. In that case, still no, since... well, it doesn't have one. A DM might decide that it has a master, which turns off potential cohorts all the same, but it isn't mentioned within the rules. Technically, a Psion with a psicrystal wouldn't count as having one either.
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Repost
Q221 Repost
I'm a Psion5 with a psicrystal. Let's assume my psicrystal took Hidden Talent: astral construct. Can it then take Practiced Manifester and have ML5?
How else can I get my psicrystal's ML to 5?
Actually, that would only get the manifester level to 4. Hidden Talent doesn't give a manifester level.
Would it even up its manifester level though? Hidden Talent doesn't give a manifesting class which is needed to benifit from Practiced Manifester, unless I don't read this right.
Q221 B I guess.
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Q 246: What school should a magical air freshener fall under?
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Q 246: What school should a magical air freshener fall under?
Conjuration or Transmutation depending on how it works.
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Yeah, the armor is the reason need acid resistant barding anyway.
It occurs to me that hardness 8 prevents any damage from Acidic armor, right?
So, hardness infusion at level 12 brings the hardness of leather up to 8. 720 gp.
Alternatively, make it from Green/Black/Copper dragon hide. Draconomicon states that items made from dragonhide have the same enermy immunities as their parent dragon.
Are there price guidelines for that?
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Q247 Would a multi-class character with two spell lists that enters into the Sand Shaper prestige class, gain the desert insight spells to both spell known list or just one of the classes spells known. What if one side was a divine caster(ie. Favored Soul)?
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Q 246: What school should a magical air freshener fall under?
Evocation.
That's where all the useless spells get put.
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Q 235
Is this math right? With partial BAB & Saves on Gestalt.
[spoiler]
Thaumaturge: Tome class, +1/2 BAB/level, Good Will
Psionic Illithid: Tome conversion of the Psionic Illithid, Aberration HD; Medium BAB, good Will.
Metaphysical Spellshaper: BoEF, Poor BAB, good Will.
01: Thaumaturge 1//Psionic Illithid 1: +0.75 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills (x4)
-+0.75 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref
02: Thaumaturge 2//Psionic Illithid 2: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+1.50 BAB, +3.0 Will, +2/3 Fort&Ref
03: Thaumaturge 3//Psionic Illithid 3: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+2.25 BAB, +3.5 Will, +1/1 Fort&Ref
04: Thaumaturge 4//Psionic Illithid 4: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+3.00 BAB, +4.0 Will, +1 1/3 Fort&Ref
05: Metaphysical1//Psionic Illithid 5: +0.75 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+3.75 BAB, +6.5 Will, +1 2/3 Fort&Ref
06: Metaphysical2//Psionic Illithid 6: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+4.5 BAB, +7.0 Will, +2/2 Fort&Ref
07: Metaphysical3//Psionic Illithid 7: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+5.25 BAB, +7.5 Will, +2 1/3rd Fort&Ref
08: Thaumaturge 5//Psionic Illithid 8: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+6.00 BAB, +8.0 Will, +2 2/3rd Fort&Ref
09: Thaumaturge 6//Psionic Illithid 9: +0.75 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+6.75 BAB, +8.5 Will, +3/3 Fort&Ref
10: Thaumaturge 7//Psion Adv. Illith1: +0.50 BAB, +2.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+7.25 BAB, +11 Will, +3 1/3rd Fort&Ref
11: Thaumaturge 8//Psion Adv. Illith2: +0.50 BAB, +0.5 Will, +1/3 Fort&Ref, 2+INT mod skills
-+7.75 BAB, +11.5 Will, +3 2/3rd Fort&Ref
[/spoiler]
Anyone?
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A235: At a glance that looks correct if you're using the partial save progression right out of UA. I don't like that one, and advocate only adding the +2 for the first class level that has a "good" save. That way, your saving throws can never be above a single-classed character with a "good" save. I know a few other people seem to be doing it that way on here (and maybe elsewhere), also.
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A235: It looks good, I think the reason it wasn't answered earlier is your formatting though. >.<
@ Phaedrus: Thats the proper way to do it, if you dont add the 2.5 for a new class or prestige class then multiclassing becomes less efficient, for example a Rogue 1/Barbarian 1 would have 5/6 Fort 2/3 Will and +2 Ref.
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A235: It looks good, I think the reason it wasn't answered earlier is your formatting though. >.<
@ Phaedrus: Thats the proper way to do it, if you dont add the 2.5 for a new class or prestige class then multiclassing becomes less efficient, for example a Rogue 1/Barbarian 1 would have 5/6 Fort 2/3 Will and +2 Ref.
No, that's not what I'm saying. You add either 0.5 or 1/3rd for every class level. You also add +2 for the first level that you take of a class that has a "good" save (it doesn't have to be at 1st character level. It just has to be the first time you take a level that has that save as a "good" save). You also get the 0.5 at that level.
So a fighter 1/rogue 1/barbarian 1 (not gestalt) would have 3.33 (0.5x2+2+0.33) for Fort, 1 (0.33x3) for Will, and 2.83 (0.5+2+0.33x2) for Reflex.
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A235: It looks good, I think the reason it wasn't answered earlier is your formatting though. >.<
@ Phaedrus: Thats the proper way to do it, if you dont add the 2.5 for a new class or prestige class then multiclassing becomes less efficient, for example a Rogue 1/Barbarian 1 would have 5/6 Fort 2/3 Will and +2 Ref.
No, that's not what I'm saying. You add either 0.5 or 1/3rd for every class level. You also add +2 for the first level that you take of a class that has a "good" save (it doesn't have to be at 1st character level. It just has to be the first time you take a level that has that save as a "good" save). You also get the 0.5 at that level.
So a fighter 1/rogue 1/barbarian 1 (not gestalt) would have 3.33 (0.5x2+2+0.33) for Fort, 1 (0.33x3) for Will, and 2.83 (0.5+2+0.33x2) for Reflex.
To clarify, Phaedrus is talking about his houserule for the system, rather than how it works out of the box.
Personally, my opinion would lean towards only giving base classes the +2, and not prestige classes. Small stealth nerf to casters.
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Q248: I'm having the hardest time choosing my spells known for a sorcerer I've been building for an upcoming campaign. Is there something somewhere I've missed that lists and rates spells that are the best candidates for sorcerers?
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Q248: I'm having the hardest time choosing my spells known for a sorcerer I've been building for an upcoming campaign. Is there something somewhere I've missed that lists and rates spells that are the best candidates for sorcerers?
A248:
Wings of Cover
Celerity
Arcane Fusion
Greater Arcane Fusion
Wings of Flurry if you want to blast.
Or just post your sources, your level, and what you have so far :)
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Q248: I'm having the hardest time choosing my spells known for a sorcerer I've been building for an upcoming campaign. Is there something somewhere I've missed that lists and rates spells that are the best candidates for sorcerers?
A248:
Wings of Cover
Celerity
Arcane Fusion
Greater Arcane Fusion
Wings of Flurry if you want to blast.
Or just post your sources, your level, and what you have so far :)
Right now I'm Sor 15//Dread Necro 15, all sources, and I have no spells set in stone (I had a bunch chosen, but accidentally got rid of the piece of paper they were written down on). Also, I'm undead (if that changes anything). I have the Mother Cyst feat as well. :D
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Q249: What tier are Sha'ir (Dragon Compendium)? My guess is 1 or 2, but looking for other opinions.
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Q250: Is there any +0 LA race with a racial bonus to Intimidate?
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Q250: Is there any +0 LA race with a racial bonus to Intimidate?
A250: Changeling
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Wow, how did I overlook Changelings?! Thanks.
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Q249: What tier are Sha'ir (Dragon Compendium)? My guess is 1 or 2, but looking for other opinions.
And another
Q251: How do I get Use Magic Device as a class skill? The only thing my tired brain can supply is Class with it + Able Learner.
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A251: Ways to get new skills as class skills (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=6832.0)
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Q251: How do I get Use Magic Device as a class skill? The only thing my tired brain can supply is Class with it + Able Learner.
A251:The golden ager background from dragon 354. That costs you a feat requires you come from the ancient past.
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Q252:
"The mentor’s associated
skills remain class skills for purposes of determining the
maximum rank he can have in those skills, and he still
retains the secondary benefi ts, but an associated skill can
only be purchased as a class skill if he gains a level in a
class that has that skill as a class skill."
Does this mean skill ranks cost 2 points after fifth level assuming you take a level in a class that does not provide the skill as a class skill?
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Yep. Just as normal.
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Q247 Would a multi-class character with two spell lists that enters into the Sand Shaper prestige class, gain the desert insight spells to both spell known list or just one of the classes spells known. What if one side was a divine caster(ie. Favored Soul)?
Bump, because almost no one reads the page before the last.
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Yep. Just as normal.
This seems annoying. The thing from Eberron would be good but you have to be an elf. Not familiar with the dragon magazine thing. I guess I am teh screwed.
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Q254: I'll just point out what I'm going for here and hope someone can help me out. I'm considering making a Sha'ir which can have it's Gen get a spell they have seen. I figured one way to do that effectively would be to cast the spell yourself with UMD, that way you can not just rely on the DM showing you spells all the time. Perhaps there's another way that's better?...Maybe I should just do a Cleric dip for Magic/Kobold domains or something. That seems ugly though. Let's see if someone has a better idea. I may just make a thread shortly but I hoped to have more done before I started the thread.
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Q253 Am I nuts or was the a way to switch the Bard spell list for the Wizard/Sorc list?
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Yep. Just as normal.
This seems annoying. The thing from Eberron would be good but you have to be an elf. Not familiar with the dragon magazine thing. I guess I am teh screwed.
No kalamar material allowed? Skill prodigy is a good choice.
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Q253 Am I nuts or was the a way to switch the Bard spell list for the Wizard/Sorc list?
A253: Sublime Chord Prestige Class?
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Q253 Am I nuts or was the a way to switch the Bard spell list for the Wizard/Sorc list?
A253: Sublime Chord Prestige Class?
I thought it was an alt class ability possible from a dragon
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Yep. Just as normal.
This seems annoying. The thing from Eberron would be good but you have to be an elf. Not familiar with the dragon magazine thing. I guess I am teh screwed.
No kalamar material allowed? Skill prodigy is a good choice.
Might work depending on how my stats work out, but the book I found seems 3.0. Is that the newest one? I found it in Kalamar Players Guide or something.
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Yep. Just as normal.
This seems annoying. The thing from Eberron would be good but you have to be an elf. Not familiar with the dragon magazine thing. I guess I am teh screwed.
No kalamar material allowed? Skill prodigy is a good choice.
Might work depending on how my stats work out, but the book I found seems 3.0. Is that the newest one? I found it in Kalamar Players Guide or something.
I believe the feat is unchanged in the 3.5 revision.
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Q247 Would a multi-class character with two spell lists that enters into the Sand Shaper prestige class, gain the desert insight spells to both spell known list or just one of the classes spells known. What if one side was a divine caster(ie. Favored Soul)?
Bump, because almost no one reads the page before the last.
The writers clearly didn't expect this type of interaction. This is one of those "ask your DM" questions because the text is completely silent on the issue. I'd say all lists but that's just me.
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Q254 (fallow up to 253) Is there a bard alt class ability that lets you add Wiz/Sor spells from a short list of schools?
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Q255 - How does a Wild Armor Works exactly? Does it Keep Maximum Dexterity Penalty? What about other enchantments? Say a Soulfire Wild Armor, for example, would it still be Soulfire while Wild Shaping?
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Q255 - How does a Wild Armor Works exactly? Does it Keep Maximum Dexterity Penalty? What about other enchantments? Say a Soulfire Wild Armor, for example, would it still be Soulfire while Wild Shaping?
You just get the armor bonus and nothing else from the armor when wild shaped. So no max dex and the other enchantments are not functional.
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Q256: How does the Blood Magus' ability to create potions in his blood and an Alchemical Savant's Brew Spellvial abilities interact?
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A couple of quetions...
Q214
I can buy off the 2 ECL for a Mercury dragon wyrmling at lvl 6 and lvl 9. If I pick up more dragon HD to advance to the next category (young category increases the ECL from 2 to 3), at what level can I buy off this new ECL?
Q215
What are the ways to increase the Mercury dragon's size to "Large" category so that it can serve as a mount for a medium sized humanoid?
So far I've come up with using Fleshwarper's Aberrant familiar's "Size increase attribute" plus familiar mount. Is there something simpler like a low LA template to can increase the size category (something like the drider template)?
Q216
Sorcerer levels stack with the spell casting ability of Dragons. As Sublime Chord spellcasting work like sorcerers', do dragon spellcasting stack with Sublime Chord? Trying to gain a faster spell casting progression.
Thx!
Bumpity bump, any help is appreciated
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Yep. Just as normal.
This seems annoying. The thing from Eberron would be good but you have to be an elf. Not familiar with the dragon magazine thing. I guess I am teh screwed.
No kalamar material allowed? Skill prodigy is a good choice.
Might work depending on how my stats work out, but the book I found seems 3.0. Is that the newest one? I found it in Kalamar Players Guide or something.
I believe the feat is unchanged in the 3.5 revision.
Q257:Do you know what book that might be in?
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Q247 Would a multi-class character with two spell lists that enters into the Sand Shaper prestige class, gain the desert insight spells to both spell known list or just one of the classes spells known. What if one side was a divine caster(ie. Favored Soul)?
A247
Although Arcane Caster level is required to qualify for entry to the PrC, the class ability does not limit how many spellcasting classes can benifit ... thus all gain the benifit of this class feature .... an interesting entry might be:
Chaotic Neutral
Warlock 1/ Favored Soul 5/ Eldritch Theurge 5/ Sandshaper 10 .... boosting Warlock abilities, and Spells Known for Favored Soul
another fun one might be this:
Favored Soul 2/ Warmage 1/ Mystic Theurge 7/ Sandshaper 10 .... would be great, since both Favored Soul and Warmage would get a Boost to Spells Known
:D
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A214: No you can't, only class levels count, not racial HD
A216: Nope. Not sorcerer casting.
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Q214
I can buy off the 2 ECL for a Mercury dragon wyrmling at lvl 6 and lvl 9. If I pick up more dragon HD to advance to the next category (young category increases the ECL from 2 to 3), at what level can I buy off this new ECL?
A214
No .... you can Buy off LA, not HD or ECL ...... LA+HD+class levels = ECL
Q216
Sorcerer levels stack with the spell casting ability of Dragons. As Sublime Chord spellcasting work like sorcerers', do dragon spellcasting stack with Sublime Chord? Trying to gain a faster spell casting progression.
A216
No
:D
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Q 257: The Sugliin weapon from Frostburn states "this weapon is so unwieldy and heavy that making a single attack with it is a full-round action."
Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action.
Can someone without the Sugliin Mastery feat charge with a Sugliin, or does the extended attack time prevent this?
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Q 258 I just read this...
There is a feat called Custom Domain from Dragon Magazine that lets you change the spells on your domain list. There is also another spell around that lets you switch your domains when you cast the spell and it lasts for days.
Sources?
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Q259
a
Is there anything keeping me from casting 2 Time Stops in a round (assuming proper metamagic shenanigans, of course)?
b
Like unto the first -- is there any issue with casting multiple Time Stops within a Time Stop?
Q260
Does the effect of Extend Spell also apply to Delay Spell?
I.E., can Extend Spell let you Delay a spell for 10 rounds?
Thanks.
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Q 246: What school should a magical air freshener fall under?
Dance of the unicorn is abjuration.
Q255 - How does a Wild Armor Works exactly? Does it Keep Maximum Dexterity Penalty? What about other enchantments? Say a Soulfire Wild Armor, for example, would it still be Soulfire while Wild Shaping?
You just get the armor bonus and nothing else from the armor when wild shaped. So no max dex and the other enchantments are not functional.
Beastskin armor would let you have soulfire while wild shaping.
Q 258 I just read this...
There is a feat called Custom Domain from Dragon Magazine that lets you change the spells on your domain list. There is also another spell around that lets you switch your domains when you cast the spell and it lasts for days.
Sources?
Customize domain is from Dragon 325. Substitute domain is from Complete Champion.
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Q259
a
Is there anything keeping me from casting 2 Time Stops in a round (assuming proper metamagic shenanigans, of course)?
b
Like unto the first -- is there any issue with casting multiple Time Stops within a Time Stop?
Buffer overflow error. Please reboot universe.
Q261 Has anyone ever figured the total amount of spellbook pages it would take to contain every Sorcerer/Wizard spell printed?
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Q259
a
Is there anything keeping me from casting 2 Time Stops in a round (assuming proper metamagic shenanigans, of course)?
b
Like unto the first -- is there any issue with casting multiple Time Stops within a Time Stop?
Q260
Does the effect of Extend Spell also apply to Delay Spell?
I.E., can Extend Spell let you Delay a spell for 10 rounds?
Thanks.
A259
12. Andre asks, Several friends and I are having a discussion about casting time stop in a time stop. Can you do it, and will it have any effect?
Casting time stop within an existing time stop only gives you extended duration if the duration roll of the second time stop exceeds that of the first time stop. To give an example, if you cast time stop, and you roll 3 rounds as the duration, then you cast another time stop within the first, rolling, say, 4 rounds of duration, you are granted one additional round within the original time stop. Further castings would have no effect unless you rolled greater than 4 rounds of duration, i.e. 5 rounds (the maximum), in which case you would have one additional round of apparent time within the original casting's effect.
A260: No.
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Q214
I can buy off the 2 ECL for a Mercury dragon wyrmling at lvl 6 and lvl 9. If I pick up more dragon HD to advance to the next category (young category increases the ECL from 2 to 3), at what level can I buy off this new ECL?
A214
No .... you can Buy off LA, not HD or ECL ...... LA+HD+class levels = ECL
Q216
Sorcerer levels stack with the spell casting ability of Dragons. As Sublime Chord spellcasting work like sorcerers', do dragon spellcasting stack with Sublime Chord? Trying to gain a faster spell casting progression.
A216
No
:D
A214: No you can't, only class levels count, not racial HD
A216: Nope. Not sorcerer casting.
Regarding 214, apologies, bad choice of words. I meant the 2 LA for playing a wyrmling Mercury Dragon and the 3 LA from being a very young Mercury Dragon. Didn't mean buying off the racial HD.
How i understand it is that:
1) if I start playing as a wyrmling Mercury dragon, I have 3 racial HD, plus an LA of 2 (ECL 5).
2) I pick up 6 levels of sorceror (ECL 11), now I can buyoff 1 of my 2 LA (ECL 10).
3) I pick up 3 more levels of sorceror (ECL 13), now I can buy off my remaining LA (ECL 12). I now have 3 Racial HD, plus 9 sorceror levels.
4) Next, I pick up 3 more dragon HD, which bumps me up to the next size category (from wyrmling to very young). Since a Mercury Dragon wyrmling has an LA of 2, and a very young Mercury Dragon has an LA of 3, I need to increase my LA by 1 right? 6 racial HD, 9 sorceror levels, 1 LA (ECL 15).
5) Can I
a - buy off that 1 LA immediately? I'm a level 9 sorceror, so I am eligible to buy off 1 LA right?
b - Or do I need to wait until I gain 3 more sorceror levels (ie 12 sorceror levels)?
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I'm thinking Sorcerer levels, since it hasn't been at least 3 actual class levels since your last buyoff.
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A214 Basically, the LA buyback mechanics did not intend this, you should work with your DM.
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Q261 Has anyone ever figured the total amount of spellbook pages it would take to contain every Sorcerer/Wizard spell printed?
The numbers according to IMarvinTPA (Wizards of the Coast material only):
| Spell Level | Number of Spells | Pages per Spell | Total Pages |
| 0 | 34 | 1 | 34 |
| 1 | 175 | 1 | 175 |
| 2 | 252 | 2 | 504 |
| 3 | 213 | 3 | 639 |
| 4 | 180 | 4 | 720 |
| 5 | 182 | 5 | 910 |
| 6 | 135 | 6 | 810 |
| 7 | 101 | 7 | 707 |
| 8 | 81 | 8 | 648 |
| 9 | 71 | 9 | 639 |
| All | 1424 | - | 5786 |
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Q261 Has anyone ever figured the total amount of spellbook pages it would take to contain every Sorcerer/Wizard spell printed?
The numbers according to IMarvinTPA (Wizards of the Coast material only):
| Spell Level | Number of Spells | Pages per Spell | Total Pages |
| 0 | 34 | 1 | 34 |
| 1 | 175 | 1 | 175 |
| 2 | 252 | 2 | 504 |
| 3 | 213 | 3 | 639 |
| 4 | 180 | 4 | 720 |
| 5 | 182 | 5 | 910 |
| 6 | 135 | 6 | 810 |
| 7 | 101 | 7 | 707 |
| 8 | 81 | 8 | 648 |
| 9 | 71 | 9 | 639 |
| All | 1424 | - | 5786 |
Thanks! Is there a way to get it to print out just the amount of spells available? Trying to figure out how much secret page trickery needs to go into a pair of BBBs for a Wiz/Archivist theurge.
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Q261 Has anyone ever figured the total amount of spellbook pages it would take to contain every Sorcerer/Wizard spell printed?
The numbers according to IMarvinTPA (Wizards of the Coast material only):
| Spell Level | Number of Spells | Pages per Spell | Total Pages |
| 0 | 34 | 1 | 34 |
| 1 | 175 | 1 | 175 |
| 2 | 252 | 2 | 504 |
| 3 | 213 | 3 | 639 |
| 4 | 180 | 4 | 720 |
| 5 | 182 | 5 | 910 |
| 6 | 135 | 6 | 810 |
| 7 | 101 | 7 | 707 |
| 8 | 81 | 8 | 648 |
| 9 | 71 | 9 | 639 |
| All | 1424 | - | 5786 |
Thanks! Is there a way to get it to print out just the amount of spells available? Trying to figure out how much secret page trickery needs to go into a pair of BBBs for a Wiz/Archivist theurge.
Actually there's even more. See, that site doesn't have every spell done up by WotC. They're still missing a couple of books.
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Q259
a
Is there anything keeping me from casting 2 Time Stops in a round (assuming proper metamagic shenanigans, of course)?
b
Like unto the first -- is there any issue with casting multiple Time Stops within a Time Stop?
Buffer overflow error. Please reboot universe.
agreed. :lol
Q259
a
Is there anything keeping me from casting 2 Time Stops in a round (assuming proper metamagic shenanigans, of course)?
b
Like unto the first -- is there any issue with casting multiple Time Stops within a Time Stop?
A259
12. Andre asks, Several friends and I are having a discussion about casting time stop in a time stop. Can you do it, and will it have any effect?
Casting time stop within an existing time stop only gives you extended duration if the duration roll of the second time stop exceeds that of the first time stop. To give an example, if you cast time stop, and you roll 3 rounds as the duration, then you cast another time stop within the first, rolling, say, 4 rounds of duration, you are granted one additional round within the original time stop. Further castings would have no effect unless you rolled greater than 4 rounds of duration, i.e. 5 rounds (the maximum), in which case you would have one additional round of apparent time within the original casting's effect.
okay, that makes sense (kinda sorta ... at least from a pragmatic PoV).
So, am I reading that right ..... let's say that I gots me a maximized time stop -- if I cast time stop again in the 5th round (maxed, of course), it still wouldn't do anything?
Thanks.
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For game balance, it appears so.
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For game balance, it appears so.
yeah.
but there's nothing stopping me from quickening one; and then when the duration is done, casting another one in the same round, right?
(yeah, I know .... I'm acting like a noob with this .... sorry)
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but there's nothing stopping me from quickening one; and then when the duration is done, casting another one in the same round, right?
You wouldn't even need to Quicken it. Just use your standard action from the last "virtual" round of Timestop to ready an action to recast it as soon as the spell ends. It isn't nested, but barring Contingencies and readied actions from your enemies which specifically go off when you cast Timestop (which should have already triggered the first time you cast it...), you'll be able to recast it before anyone else gets to go.
Of course, you need to know how long the first one is going to last, so unless it is maximized, you probably won't be able to do this, but that also applies if you're allowed to recast the second one before the first ends. So a Greater Rod of Maximize is pretty much a necessity for any version of this, I think.
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So a Greater Rod of Maximize is pretty much a necessity for any version of this, I think.
... or Arcane Thesis (Time Stop) + Icanatrix 8 + Maximize Spell + Easy/Practical Metamagic (Maximize) (or Metamagic School Focus) ;)
(since, you know, the whole "min +1" was errata'ed out of AT)
:D
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Incantatrix 10 you mean?
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Incantatrix 10 you mean?
no.
level 8 is when you get the "improved metamagic" ability. level 10 just gets you a bonus feat.
or are you just saying that any responsible player will take all 10 levels as a matter of principle? ;) (to which I say "duh!" :p)
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Incantatrix 10 you mean?
no.
level 8 is when you get the "improved metamagic" ability. level 10 just gets you a bonus feat.
or are you just saying that any responsible player will take all 10 levels as a matter of principle? ;) (to which I say "duh!" :p)
You're wrong, it's at level 10. Read the 3.5 Incantantrix in PGtF page 61.
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I'm not sure what question this should be because there were a bunch of unnumbered ones!
Q262: How many hours should Mage Armor last before it's a good deal? 4? I mean, yes ideally you'd like more, but at what level should a Sorcerer start picking it up, and at what level does it really not matter anymore how long it lasts? I guess I'm looking for two numbers then.
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I'm not sure what question this should be because there were a bunch of unnumbered ones!
Q262: How many hours should Mage Armor last before it's a good deal? 4? I mean, yes ideally you'd like more, but at what level should a Sorcerer start picking it up, and at what level does it really not matter anymore how long it lasts? I guess I'm looking for two numbers then.
The adventuring day is 8 hours long. But by then AC stops mattering. So get it at low levels, and don't really worry about it later.
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Q262: How many hours should Mage Armor last before it's a good deal? 4? I mean, yes ideally you'd like more, but at what level should a Sorcerer start picking it up, and at what level does it really not matter anymore how long it lasts? I guess I'm looking for two numbers then.
I think you shouldn't bother with mage armor after a mithral, feycraft (DMGII) chain shirt with a thistledown suit (RotW) becomes easily affordable. It has 0% spell failure, provides a +4 armor bonus, costs 1,850 gp, and is completely nonmagical. You could probably squeeze that in by 5th level, so I don't know if mage armor is ever a good deal.
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Q262: How many hours should Mage Armor last before it's a good deal? 4? I mean, yes ideally you'd like more, but at what level should a Sorcerer start picking it up, and at what level does it really not matter anymore how long it lasts? I guess I'm looking for two numbers then.
I think you shouldn't bother with mage armor after a mithral, feycraft (DMGII) chain shirt with a thistledown suit (RotW) becomes easily affordable. It has 0% spell failure, provides a +4 armor bonus, costs 1,850 gp, and is completely nonmagical. You could probably squeeze that in by 5th level, so I don't know if mage armor is ever a good deal.
Ignore people who are so ridiculously hung up over heavily-modded Mithral Chain Shirts. Get the spell itself at level 1, and a Wand (750 gp) when you can afford it (simultaneously removing it from your spells known list). By the time you run out of charges on the wand, you should have a battery of other defenses much more effective than AC (as Sunic says).
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Incantatrix 10 you mean?
no.
level 8 is when you get the "improved metamagic" ability. level 10 just gets you a bonus feat.
or are you just saying that any responsible player will take all 10 levels as a matter of principle? ;) (to which I say "duh!" :p)
You're wrong, it's at level 10. Read the 3.5 Incantantrix in PGtF page 61.
oh shit -- I didn't even realize the change (I've just always used MoF).
This thing is even more ridiculous than the 3.0 version :o (there were definitely some major balance issues going on with FR -- stuff like this makes me even more suspect of FR material ... more so than even drag.mag.)
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Q 257: The Sugliin weapon from Frostburn states "this weapon is so unwieldy and heavy that making a single attack with it is a full-round action."
Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action.
Can someone without the Sugliin Mastery feat charge with a Sugliin, or does the extended attack time prevent this?
Bumpity
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Q 257: The Sugliin weapon from Frostburn states "this weapon is so unwieldy and heavy that making a single attack with it is a full-round action."
Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action.
Can someone without the Sugliin Mastery feat charge with a Sugliin, or does the extended attack time prevent this?
Bumpity
I would say the latter.
normally, a single attack is a standard action. However, there are 2 times when this is not the case: iterative attacks and on a charge.
Charge lets you double-move and make a single attack.
You can't over-run on a charge, because that is a standard action.
As a matter of fact, you can't do any kind of special attack on a charge that is defined as being a standard action.
Full-round action > Standard action. If you can't do a standard action, then a full-round action should be out of the question.
sorry for the verbosity ... just wanted to be very specific.
For a little demonstration, go outside and try it yourself.
1st, take something that would be a suitable analog for a sword (if an actual sword is unavailable) - a broom handle will do - and then go charging 60 toward a tree and swing.
2nd, take a friggin' tree branch, and do the same thing.
Let me know if you can tell the difference. I think you'll see that the extra feat is warranted.
:D
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Q 257: The Sugliin weapon from Frostburn states "this weapon is so unwieldy and heavy that making a single attack with it is a full-round action."
Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action.
Can someone without the Sugliin Mastery feat charge with a Sugliin, or does the extended attack time prevent this?
Bumpity
I would say the latter.
... common sense
I agree with you, I'm just trying to find an actual rules mechanic way of proving it (your example about over-runs works nicely). My DM had us in a gladiatorial tournament last night, with exotic weapons hidden in the ring. He was allowing people (both PC's and NPC's) to charge and attack with the Sugliin. I didn't argue, but I wanted rules to back me up when it comes up in my game (we alternate campaigns each week).
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Ignore people who are so ridiculously hung up over heavily-modded Mithral Chain Shirts.
- The mithral chain shirt has exactly one modification. That makes it heavily modified?
- I put the idea forward once with no real vehemence. This makes me not only hung up, but ridiculously hung up?
- You feel he should ignore me, not just my suggestion? Should he only ignore things I say with regard to this question, or everything I say from this point on? You were a bit vague.
Anyway, I'm not a sorcerer expert. If you say learning mage armor is definitely worthwhile even when you only know two spells and it only last one hour, I won't argue.
I would appreciate it if, in the future, you restricted your criticisms to my ideas instead of saying I am ridiculous and should be ignored.
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...should be ignored.
Q 257: The Sugliin weapon from Frostburn states "this weapon is so unwieldy and heavy that making a single attack with it is a full-round action."
Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action.
Can someone without the Sugliin Mastery feat charge with a Sugliin, or does the extended attack time prevent this?
Bumpity
I would say the latter.
... common sense
I agree with you, I'm just trying to find an actual rules mechanic way of proving it (your example about over-runs works nicely). My DM had us in a gladiatorial tournament last night, with exotic weapons hidden in the ring. He was allowing people (both PC's and NPC's) to charge and attack with the Sugliin. I didn't argue, but I wanted rules to back me up when it comes up in my game (we alternate campaigns each week).
It actually seems to me that, if we work from specific-overrules-general, you can not only Charge with a sugliin, but you can actually full-attack with one as well, since the sugliin only changes the action needed to make a single attack.
Still a pretty crappy weapon, though...
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It actually seems to me that, if we work from specific-overrules-general, you can not only Charge with a sugliin, but you can actually full-attack with one as well, since the sugliin only changes the action needed to make a single attack.
Still a pretty crappy weapon, though...
That's debatable within the text, and also quite obviously against what the writers were intending.
"The Sugliin Mastery feat (see page 50) allows a character to make attacks with this massive weapon normally."
That's from the weapon description. It doesn't say that the feat allows you to make an attack (singular) normally (ie - as a standard action), it says attacks. Thus, it indicates you cannot make multiple attacks with it (within one round, presumably) without said feat. The text of the Sugliin Mastery feat expounds on this, explaining that attacking "normally" means single attack as a standard, or full attack as a full-round action.
I agree that the sugliin itself is generally an awkward and poor weapon, but it will be an interesting encounter for my PC's, as they face a half-stone giant (a mountain-raging goliath) who wields a nithing pole as a weapon (a pole with an elk head on it, ie - the sugliin), thus inciting vikings to attack him due to the insult. A raging goliath with 26 strength dealing 3d8+12 damage will be... interesting.
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Q263: Is it possible to elect not to apply the Shadowcraft Mage's silent illusion ability, or are you forced to apply it unless it directly conflicts with another class feature (as in the noted case with Bards)?
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Q263: Is it possible to elect not to apply the Shadowcraft Mage's silent illusion ability, or are you forced to apply it unless it directly conflicts with another class feature (as in the noted case with Bards)?
I would say no, you are not forced to.
It says that spells you cast "no longer require" a verbal component. I take that as meaning you have a choice.
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Q 264: Can a rogue using the ACF where he gains fighter bonus feats instead of sneak attack dice regain his sneak attack progression by way of Daring Outlaw and another sneak attack source?
Rogue 3/swashbuckler 2/assassin 1/unseen seer 1/rogue +X grabbing Daring Outlaw at 9th level, for example.
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Q 264: Can a rogue using the ACF where he gains fighter bonus feats instead of sneak attack dice regain his sneak attack progression by way of Daring Outlaw and another sneak attack source?
Rogue 3/swashbuckler 2/assassin 1/unseen seer 1/rogue +X grabbing Daring Outlaw at 9th level, for example.
By RAW it appears you can. Interesting.
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Ignore people who are so ridiculously hung up over heavily-modded Mithral Chain Shirts.
- The mithral chain shirt has exactly one modification. That makes it heavily modified?
- I put the idea forward once with no real vehemence. This makes me not only hung up, but ridiculously hung up?
- You feel he should ignore me, not just my suggestion? Should he only ignore things I say with regard to this question, or everything I say from this point on? You were a bit vague.
Anyway, I'm not a sorcerer expert. If you say learning mage armor is definitely worthwhile even when you only know two spells and it only last one hour, I won't argue.
I would appreciate it if, in the future, you restricted your criticisms to my ideas instead of saying I am ridiculous and should be ignored.
I don't have a dog in this hunt, but .....
[spoiler]
... to be fair, I don't think he intended to attack you, per sa. What I feel like probably happened was he saw "mithral, feycraft *(a bunch of other words)*"; and at that point, his eyes glazed over.
And why do I make such assumptions? Well, because I did the same thing (that, and I'm fairly familiar with x-codes' posting style); and I know that we're not the only 2. I've lost count of how many times I've seen overly-complicated contrivances that necessitate a very specific set of in-game allowances -- not only is that not always practical; but in some games, it's not even an option.
Don't get me wrong -- I'm not saying that what you presented was an overly-complicated contrivance. I'm simply explaining the most likely thought process involved. And when that thought process does get involved, it's a natural reaction to go "*sigh* not again; why does everybody always gotta .... ". Hasty? Yes. Mean-spirited? I doubt it.
Or maybe I'm just talking out my ass, and none of that is relevant. :shrug
[/spoiler]
TL;DR ..... don't take it so seriously. It's bad for you. :D
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Q 264: Can a rogue using the ACF where he gains fighter bonus feats instead of sneak attack dice regain his sneak attack progression by way of Daring Outlaw and another sneak attack source?
Rogue 3/swashbuckler 2/assassin 1/unseen seer 1/rogue +X grabbing Daring Outlaw at 9th level, for example.
By RAW it appears you can. Interesting.
RAW you don't have a sneak attack progression as a rogue at that point. At best, you could conceivably gain sneak attack based off your swashbuckler levels alone (0 + X = X), but stacking rogue and swashbuckler levels for the purposes of sneak attack is useless when your rogue levels don't give you sneak attack to begin with.
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Q 264: Can a rogue using the ACF where he gains fighter bonus feats instead of sneak attack dice regain his sneak attack progression by way of Daring Outlaw and another sneak attack source?
Rogue 3/swashbuckler 2/assassin 1/unseen seer 1/rogue +X grabbing Daring Outlaw at 9th level, for example.
By RAW it appears you can. Interesting.
RAW you don't have a sneak attack progression as a rogue at that point. At best, you could conceivably gain sneak attack based off your swashbuckler levels alone (0 + X = X), but stacking rogue and swashbuckler levels for the purposes of sneak attack is useless when your rogue levels don't give you sneak attack to begin with.
So, would you gain the bonus feats instead? :plot
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Q 264: Can a rogue using the ACF where he gains fighter bonus feats instead of sneak attack dice regain his sneak attack progression by way of Daring Outlaw and another sneak attack source?
Rogue 3/swashbuckler 2/assassin 1/unseen seer 1/rogue +X grabbing Daring Outlaw at 9th level, for example.
By RAW it appears you can. Interesting.
RAW you don't have a sneak attack progression as a rogue at that point. At best, you could conceivably gain sneak attack based off your swashbuckler levels alone (0 + X = X), but stacking rogue and swashbuckler levels for the purposes of sneak attack is useless when your rogue levels don't give you sneak attack to begin with.
So, would you gain the bonus feats instead? :plot
Or... what if you were had the 7th level rogue/4th level swashbuckler levels as listed in the example? Would you gain +6d6 sneak attack damage as an 11th level rogue as per RAW? :p
(assuming you had the Assassin1/Unseen Seer 1 levels for the prereq, or had +2d6 sneak attack through Assassin's Stance)
Relevant text:
[spoiler]Your rogue and swashbuckler levels also stack for the purpose of determining your sneak attack bonus damage.
For example, a 7th-level rogue/4th-level swashbuckler would deal an extra 6d6 points of damage with her sneak attack, as if she were an 11th-level rogue.[/spoiler]
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Q265: If a Duskblade takes Precocious Apprentice, does the 2nd level spell they choose have to be from the Duskblade spell list? The feat states:
Choose one 2nd-level spell from a school of magic you have access to.
Duskblades have access to most schools of magic.
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Q265: If a Duskblade takes Precocious Apprentice, does the 2nd level spell they choose have to be from the Duskblade spell list? The feat states:Choose one 2nd-level spell from a school of magic you have access to.
Duskblades have access to most schools of magic.
As a general rule, you can't cast spells not on your spell list. Precocious Apprentice doesn't overrule that.
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Q256: How does the Blood Magus' ability to create potions in his blood and an Alchemical Savant's Brew Spellvial abilities interact?
Bump. Please answer, I need to know for a build.
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Q256: How does the Blood Magus' ability to create potions in his blood and an Alchemical Savant's Brew Spellvial abilities interact?
Bump. Please answer, I need to know for a build.
Hmm... Impractical. I think you could, in theory, "brew" a Spellvial in your own blood, but you would need to bottle and throw it in the same round. Since that's considered to be part of the same action for using a potion, then you could probably do this as part of the same action for using a spellvial.
So by RAW, it looks a little iffy, but I think it would actually work. Definitely something to clear with your DM first.
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Q256: How does the Blood Magus' ability to create potions in his blood and an Alchemical Savant's Brew Spellvial abilities interact?
Bump. Please answer, I need to know for a build.
Hmm... Impractical. I think you could, in theory, "brew" a Spellvial in your own blood, but you would need to bottle and throw it in the same round. Since that's considered to be part of the same action for using a potion, then you could probably do this as part of the same action for using a spellvial.
So by RAW, it looks a little iffy, but I think it would actually work. Definitely something to clear with your DM first.
Well, I'm partially thinking of combining this with the "bind an alchemical item to a spellvial" ability the Alchemical Savant gets. More specifically, Trollbane as part of your blood; take that, Trolls! I'm gonna kill you with my blood.
Thanks.
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Q 266: If I alter self into myself after casting both draconic polymorph and giant size, do I return to normal size as well? If so, by RAW of alter self, I'd keep the massive Str boosts from both spells, which is the aim here.
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Q 266: If I alter self into myself after casting both draconic polymorph and giant size, do I return to normal size as well? If so, by RAW of alter self, I'd keep the massive Str boosts from both spells, which is the aim here.
If you can alter self back into yourself after casting Giant Size, then I'd say yes. You might be too big to alter self back into yourself, depending on how you interpret alter self's wording on size changes.
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Q 267 Anyone know where I can find a Savage Species progression for a nymph?
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Q 266: If I alter self into myself after casting both draconic polymorph and giant size, do I return to normal size as well? If so, by RAW of alter self, I'd keep the massive Str boosts from both spells, which is the aim here.
You can't. You're not within one size category of your normal size (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/alterself.htm).
Ignore this, I had a brain fart.
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Q 267 Anyone know where I can find a Savage Species progression for a nymph?
A267
Littha did one a while back -- check my sig for the link.
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Q 267 Anyone know where I can find a Savage Species progression for a nymph?
A267
Littha did one a while back -- check my sig for the link.
Sweet, thanks.
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Q 268: what are some good templates to add to a daelkyr half blood psion? Right now I have ten LA to work with.
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Q 268: what are some good templates to add to a daelkyr half blood psion? Right now I have ten LA to work with.
Some number of levels of ghost. Depending upon what you want to do, anywhere from 1 to 4.
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Ghost would be nice, but won't work for the character as the character has to be physical, (egotist with heavy melee focus, build isn't just psion, but based on it)
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Q 269: What base classes are there that have a good Fort save and Full BAB?
Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Crusader, Warblade, Swashbuckler, and Samurai. Any others?
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Q 269: What base classes are there that have a good Fort save and Full BAB?
Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Crusader, Warblade, Swashbuckler, and Samurai. Any others?
Hexblade, and Duskblade.
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Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells? Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list? Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells? (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?
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Q 275 Anyone know where I can read up on the warlock's errata written by Richard Baker? It was on WotC, but like most threads, it was removed when it was "updated". :eh
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Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
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Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
A276: Psycarnum Infusion + Azure Talent + Bestow Power + Cognizance Crystals, although it's of debatable legality.
I believe there's also a method using Earth Power that reduces the cost of Bestow Power to 1, and then you gain back 2 pp, but I don't know that one off-hand.
Regardless of how you do it, it's going to be a slow, time consuming process. It's actually a *lot* easier to just go Ardent/Metamind w/ Practiced Manifester and spam the Temporal Reiteration power every round for infinite PP.
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Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
A276: Psycarnum Infusion + Azure Talent + Bestow Power + Cognizance Crystals, although it's of debatable legality.
I believe there's also a method using Earth Power that reduces the cost of Bestow Power to 1, and then you gain back 2 pp, but I don't know that one off-hand.
Regardless of how you do it, it's going to be a slow, time consuming process. It's actually a *lot* easier to just go Ardent/Metamind w/ Practiced Manifester and spam the Temporal Reiteration power every round for infinite PP.
Quiver of +1 manifesting arrows and reduced cost bestow power.
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Q277: Is there a way to pick up a Lesser Dragonfire Adept Invocation as a Warlock without taking levels in Dragonfire Adept?
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Q277: Is there a way to pick up a Lesser Dragonfire Adept Invocation as a Warlock without taking levels in Dragonfire Adept?
infernal adept (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/frcc/20070613) feat.
Q278 Is there any ruleset for a Eberron hafling paladin picking up a Dinosaur as his mount? It really seems like there should be.
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Q 275 Anyone know where I can read up on the warlock's errata written by Richard Baker? It was on WotC, but like most threads, it was removed when it was "updated". :eh
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19520666/Warlock_Faq_by_Rich_Baker
http://web.archive.org/web/20051204200607/http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=360534
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Q276:What is the easiest way for recahrging power points?
A276: Psycarnum Infusion + Azure Talent + Bestow Power + Cognizance Crystals, although it's of debatable legality.
I believe there's also a method using Earth Power that reduces the cost of Bestow Power to 1, and then you gain back 2 pp, but I don't know that one off-hand.
Regardless of how you do it, it's going to be a slow, time consuming process. It's actually a *lot* easier to just go Ardent/Metamind w/ Practiced Manifester and spam the Temporal Reiteration power every round for infinite PP.
Psycarnum Infusion + Midnight Augmentation allows you to manifest bestow power with a base augment cost of 1 power point. Assuming Overchannel, a bestow power so augmented to ML 23 would grant 42 power points to the target. If you have Leadership (or are a Thrallherd), your cohort/thrall can take the same setup and you can recharge each other ad infinitum.
A spell-to-power erudite can do this if he learns simulacrum. Create a simulacrum of yourself and use it as your recharge battery.
The best option, however, is to perform the fusion dance with your psicrystal, granting it control and having it manifest astral seed so that you can destroy it and have it reform as a psion 1 level lower than you. It's still your psicrystal, which allows you to share powers with it. Now you can recharge at will with no downtime: share an augmented temporal acceleration with your psicrystal and begin the recharge loop, pausing to re-manifest temporal acceleration whenever it would drop.
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Easiest recharge is Torc of Power Preservation + Earth Power. Spend 1 power point, get 2.
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Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells? Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list? Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells? (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?
Bump. Plus More
Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast. Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)? For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)
Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
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Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells? Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list? Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells? (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?
Bump. Plus More
Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast. Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)? For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)
Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
Can't help with the others. But can help with the last one.
A280: The Divine Minion template (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mb/20050209a) gets Wild Shape as an 11th level druid at will into deity-specific forms.
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Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells? Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list? Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells? (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?
Bump. Plus More
Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast. Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)? For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)
Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
A270 -- it appears to be both :twitch :shrug
A271 -- basically.
A272 -- yes.
A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type. regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
A274 -- take your pick (I'm not all that familiar with the efficacy of reserve feats)
A279 -- you still can't do anything with spells above what you can cast. it does you no good. (but I guess if you can contrive a crazy enough semantics argument, you could do what ever you want to with it :eh). yes, the writing/verbiage/editing for that class is sub-par.
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Q270: Are Sha'ir Arcane Casters, Divine Casters or neither? Example: Contemplative spell advancement
Q271: Do Sha'ir "Prepare" Spells? Example: Alacritous Cognition
Q272: Are spells on the wizard/sorcerer list considered on the Sha'ir's list? Example: Wand activation
Q273: Do Sha'ir need to sleep to cast spells? (I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no.)
Q274: What are some good reserve feats?
Bump. Plus More
Q279: Attempting to take advantage of the fact that Sha'ir don't need to retrieve a spell they can actually cast. Any advantage to just fetching a 9th level spell at level 1 (assuming you can make the check)? For those not familiar with the class, it would make me memorize a level 9 spell as a wizard but I would be unable to cast it (I don't have a slot for it)
Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
A270 -- it appears to be both :twitch :shrug
A271 -- basically.
A272 -- yes.
A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type. regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
A274 -- take your pick (I'm not all that familiar with the efficacy of reserve feats)
A279 -- you still can't do anything with spells above what you can cast. it does you no good. (but I guess if you can contrive a crazy enough semantics argument, you could do what ever you want to with it :eh). yes, the writing/verbiage/editing for that class is sub-par.
Thanks. The only thing I hoped to do with 279 was maybe qualify for a prestige class early. Thanks for the answers, I got basically what I wanted/expected. =D
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Q281 What is the source on the two-weapon fighting swashbuckler variant?
Q282 I remember that the invisible blade were not supposed to have the entry requirements he has, what was he supposed to have? Have anyone got a source?
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A282: Sorry, but I believe your memory is confused. Here's the (design-intent) 10 level Invisible Blade (http://www.wakinglands.com/htm_files/prestige_classes_invisible_blade.htm).
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Q 293 If a half caster, such as a ranger or paladin, takes Practiced Spellcaster, do they get the full +4? Or because they're a half, do they only get +2?
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Q 293 If a half caster, such as a ranger or paladin, takes Practiced Spellcaster, do they get the full +4? Or because they're a half, do they only get +2?
They get the full +4...
So a 10 level paladin with practiced spellcaster has a caster level 9......
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Q282 I remember that the invisible blade were not supposed to have the entry requirements he has, what was he supposed to have? Have anyone got a source?
A282: Sorry, but I believe your memory is confused. Here's the (design-intent) 10 level Invisible Blade (http://www.wakinglands.com/htm_files/prestige_classes_invisible_blade.htm).
A282 addendum:
No, he's not confused.
Check the Handy Links, or rather, this (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=143.msg276558#msg276558)
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A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type. regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
Can you quote a page? I believe you, but the stuff I found specifically mentions Wizards which need to rest, and Clerics which don't. I understand I'll have to sleep, but Wizards and Sorcerers require a certain amount. Clerics don't and Sha'ir doesn't say (I don't think).
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Easiest recharge is Torc of Power Preservation + Earth Power. Spend 1 power point, get 2.
The most recent printing of torc of power preservation (Magic Item Compendium) only functions five times per day.
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A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type. regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
Can you quote a page? I believe you, but the stuff I found specifically mentions Wizards which need to rest, and Clerics which don't. I understand I'll have to sleep, but Wizards and Sorcerers require a certain amount. Clerics don't and Sha'ir doesn't say (I don't think).
Divine casters do not need to rest during the night. They simply pray or meditate at the time of day they choose to renew spells. PHB p179
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A273 -- sleep is a function of race/creature type. regardless, you still need 8 hours of rest each day (see Magic chapter of PHB)
Can you quote a page? I believe you, but the stuff I found specifically mentions Wizards which need to rest, and Clerics which don't. I understand I'll have to sleep, but Wizards and Sorcerers require a certain amount. Clerics don't and Sha'ir doesn't say (I don't think).
Divine casters do not need to rest during the night. They simply pray or meditate at the time of day they choose to renew spells. PHB p179
So clearly Sha'ir must pray for spells. I guess.
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Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
Can't help with the others. But can help with the last one.
A280: The Divine Minion template (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mb/20050209a) gets Wild Shape as an 11th level druid at will into deity-specific forms.
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Do GMs usually let this fly since it is A) Not a Class feature B) Technically is called Fast Wild Shape and not Wild Shape? It's still a good idea, I'm just curious. I think it wouldn't be too hard to convince someone that was fine (no harder than convincing someone that Planar Shepards are fine...)
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Easiest recharge is Torc of Power Preservation + Earth Power. Spend 1 power point, get 2.
The most recent printing of torc of power preservation (Magic Item Compendium) only functions five times per day.
True, but unlike Spell Compendium, MIC is not noted to be an update of old items. There are officially two Torcs of Power Preservation: the continuous one and the much cheaper 5/day version.
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Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
Can't help with the others. But can help with the last one.
A280: The Divine Minion template (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mb/20050209a) gets Wild Shape as an 11th level druid at will into deity-specific forms.
Do GMs usually let this fly since it is A) Not a Class feature B) Technically is called Fast Wild Shape and not Wild Shape? It's still a good idea, I'm just curious. I think it wouldn't be too hard to convince someone that was fine (no harder than convincing someone that Planar Shepards are fine...)
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I seem to remember that divine minion was used in the early Pun-pun Incarnations,or is my memory completely failing me?
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Do GMs usually let this fly since it is A) Not a Class feature B) Technically is called Fast Wild Shape and not Wild Shape?
"A divine minion can wild shape as an 11th-level druid "
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Q284: Assuming you are using normal Polymorph rules, and not one of the 9 kajillion erratas Polymorph changes your HP, correct?
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Q284: Assuming you are using normal Polymorph rules, and not one of the 9 kajillion erratas Polymorph changes your HP, correct?
Yes because it changes your Constitution so it also changes your hp...
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Do GMs usually let this fly since it is A) Not a Class feature B) Technically is called Fast Wild Shape and not Wild Shape?
"A divine minion can wild shape as an 11th-level druid "
Planar Shepard Requirements:
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Special: Wild Shape Class Feature.
Being able to wild shape as an 11th-level druid is not having the Wild Shape class feature. If it said "Ability to wild shape" I'd be with you. That being said, the fact that I have to point this out answers my question I guess.
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Wild Shape Ranger is an option, if you don't care about spells at all.
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Wild Shape Ranger is an option, if you don't care about spells at all.
Has the same problem as Druid, requiring a bunch of class levels. Might be time to stop pursuing this line. Even if I get Divine Minion to work I need to be able to Spontaneous Summon Nature's Ally too for Greensinger Initiate which I also can't do (yet). It's sad, Sha'ir has a lot of synergy with Planar Shepard (who doesn't have synergy with 10 rounds to your opponent's one round).
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Wild Shape Ranger is an option, if you don't care about spells at all.
Has the same problem as Druid, requiring a bunch of class levels. Might be time to stop pursuing this line. Even if I get Divine Minion to work I need to be able to Spontaneous Summon Nature's Ally too for Greensinger Initiate which I also can't do (yet). It's sad, Sha'ir has a lot of synergy with Planar Shepard (who doesn't have synergy with 10 rounds to your opponent's one round).
CD has spontaneous summoner.
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Wild Shape Ranger is an option, if you don't care about spells at all.
Has the same problem as Druid, requiring a bunch of class levels. Might be time to stop pursuing this line. Even if I get Divine Minion to work I need to be able to Spontaneous Summon Nature's Ally too for Greensinger Initiate which I also can't do (yet). It's sad, Sha'ir has a lot of synergy with Planar Shepard (who doesn't have synergy with 10 rounds to your opponent's one round).
CD has spontaneous summoner.
Just need a few ranks in Knowledge (Nature) to access it.
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Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
Can't help with the others. But can help with the last one.
A280: The Divine Minion template (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mb/20050209a) gets Wild Shape as an 11th level druid at will into deity-specific forms.
Do GMs usually let this fly since it is A) Not a Class feature B) Technically is called Fast Wild Shape and not Wild Shape? It's still a good idea, I'm just curious. I think it wouldn't be too hard to convince someone that was fine (no harder than convincing someone that Planar Shepards are fine...)
Even better answer:
A 280: Dip one level of Abolisher from Lords of Madness. Req's are pretty easy too (Track, some skills [Know Nature, Dungeon, etc], not being an aberration, maybe wild empathy). Gets wildshape at first level, but only medium animals.
Q 269: What base classes are there that have a good Fort save and Full BAB?
Barbarian, Fighter, Paladin, Ranger, Crusader, Warblade, Swashbuckler, and Samurai. Any others?
Hexblade, and Duskblade.
Actually, Hexblade is a good Will save, not Fort. But I had forgotten Duskblade.
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Actually, Hexblade is a good Will save, not Fort. But I had forgotten Duskblade.
Not 100% true. It completely depends on your DM, and whether or not they allow the Mike Mearls Update that was done how ever long ago.
Before moving on, it is more than obvious that hexblade is an underpowered class. This is because, in the early days of 3.5 (the hexblade class is from complete warrior, an early 3.5 supplement), the R&D thought that a class which could wear armor, grab martial feats and use magic would be potentially broken. Unfortunately, the contrary is true, but the hexblade still suffers from the punishment of early armored mages. For example compare the hexblade class with her sister class, the duskblade from player's handbook II, a much more mature gish. Several years ago, one of the creators of the class, Mike Mearls, made some suggestions of boosting up the hexblade. His post is quoted below from here (http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19547530/Contacting_Wizards_of_the_Coast_about_Hex_Blades?post_id=332210466#332210466):
The hexblade suffers a little because he came on the scene relatively early in 3.5's life. As R&D pushes the boundaries of the game, we learn that some things we thought were risky or potentially broken aren't. Other times, we learn things that look fine don't actually work in play. Armored mages fall into the first category. Them seem really powerful, but in the long run they aren't. Spells and magic items allow an unarmored mage to build great defenses. The spell mage armor is as good as medium armor, and its duration allows most mages to keep it active at all times. If you compare the hexblade to the duskblade from PH 2, you can see how the thinking has changed. If you want to boost the hexblade, I'd try the following changes:
- Good Fortitude save
- Curse ability usable 1 + the hexblade's Cha modifier per day
- Curse ability usable as a swift action
- Curse ability does not count as used if the target makes his saving throw
- Ability to cast in light or medium armor and while carrying a light shield or buckler
- At 6th level, the hexblade can cast one hexblade spell per day as a swift action, as long as its original casting time is a standard action or faster. He gains an additional use of this power at levels 8, 11, 14, and 18.
The key to the hexblade is his curse ability, but it's a little un-fun to have it so limited in use. The hexblade also has trouble casting spells and using his melee attacks, so shifting spells to swift actions fits in with the idea of an armored mage. (These are by no means official. They're just off the top of my head changes I'd consider making.)
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Wild Shape Ranger is an option, if you don't care about spells at all.
Has the same problem as Druid, requiring a bunch of class levels. Might be time to stop pursuing this line. Even if I get Divine Minion to work I need to be able to Spontaneous Summon Nature's Ally too for Greensinger Initiate which I also can't do (yet). It's sad, Sha'ir has a lot of synergy with Planar Shepard (who doesn't have synergy with 10 rounds to your opponent's one round).
CD has spontaneous summoner.
Just need a few ranks in Knowledge (Nature) to access it.
Requires you to be able to cast Summon Nature's Ally normally, also requires a Wisdom bonus. All in all, not going to work for me.
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Q 285 If a spell says that its effect produces a 'wall' of some length, and the spell does not explicitly say that the wall be straight, can the wall actually become a spiral? In other words, is the only requirement continuity?
Instead of forming a straight wall like this: 0123456789ABCDEF
could you make a spiral wall, like this?
FEDC
432B
501A
6789
Examples: Wall of Stone specifically says that it does not need to be a straight wall. Wall of Iron explicitly states that it must be a straight wall.
Important Case: Blade Barrier does not specify whether the wall must be straight or not. If it doesn't..., clerics just got their first real damaging zone spell. (The blade wall is 20' long per level. At lvl 11, that's 220' of blades, which means it can cover a 44 (~7x6) square patch of the battlefield.
Q 286 Is it alright to use 'pushing' effects to force enemies through the Blade Barrier? Would they take damage each time they went through the barrier or just once? [If it's the former, the solid spiral case could lead to quite a bit of damage when combined with a pushing spell like Rejection. Would this be considered 'evil'? Or just good tactics?]
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Q280: How do I meet the Wild Shape requirement of Planar Shepard without taking a bunch of levels of druid?
Can't help with the others. But can help with the last one.
A280: The Divine Minion template (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mb/20050209a) gets Wild Shape as an 11th level druid at will into deity-specific forms.
Do GMs usually let this fly since it is A) Not a Class feature B) Technically is called Fast Wild Shape and not Wild Shape? It's still a good idea, I'm just curious. I think it wouldn't be too hard to convince someone that was fine (no harder than convincing someone that Planar Shepards are fine...)
I seem to remember that divine minion was used in the early Pun-pun Incarnations,or is my memory completely failing me?
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Past Lives in the DMG II. It's +5 LA, but it gives as one of the option wildshaping as an 11th level Druid 1/day.
Only downside is the freakin' LA.
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Q 285 If a spell says that its effect produces a 'wall' of some length, and the spell does not explicitly say that the wall be straight, can the wall actually become a spiral? In other words, is the only requirement continuity?
Instead of forming a straight wall like this: 0123456789ABCDEF
could you make a spiral wall, like this?
FEDC
432B
501A
6789
Examples: Wall of Stone specifically says that it does not need to be a straight wall. Wall of Iron explicitly states that it must be a straight wall.
Important Case: Blade Barrier does not specify whether the wall must be straight or not. If it doesn't..., clerics just got their first real damaging zone spell. (The blade wall is 20' long per level. At lvl 11, that's 220' of blades, which means it can cover a 44 (~7x6) square patch of the battlefield.
A285: Any spell whose area is shapeable has the notation (S) in it's area (Player's Handbook, pg. 176). As an example, wall of stone has this notation, while blade barrier does not. Therefore, blade barrier cannot be shaped.
Q 286 Is it alright to use 'pushing' effects to force enemies through the Blade Barrier? Would they take damage each time they went through the barrier or just once? [If it's the former, the solid spiral case could lead to quite a bit of damage when combined with a pushing spell like Rejection. Would this be considered 'evil'? Or just good tactics?]
A286: You can definitely push a target through a blade barrier to force them to take damage, since blade barrier's damage conditional only refers to when targets pass through the wall.
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Q281 What is the source on the two-weapon fighting swashbuckler variant?
Bumping this :)
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Q281 What is the source on the two-weapon fighting swashbuckler variant?
Bumping this :)
Are you talking about the Shield of Blades variant from PHB2? Instead of a Dodge bonus you get a shield bonus for attacking with two light weapons.
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Q281 What is the source on the two-weapon fighting swashbuckler variant?
Bumping this :)
Are you talking about the Shield of Blades variant from PHB2? Instead of a Dodge bonus you get a shield bonus for attacking with two light weapons.
Thats a stupid trade, Dodge Bonuses stack, Shield Bonuses do not, and everybody should have an animated large steel shield (or mithril if you need it) anyway. Just stick to normal TWF if thats the alternative.
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Q281 What is the source on the two-weapon fighting swashbuckler variant?
Bumping this :)
Are you talking about the Shield of Blades variant from PHB2? Instead of a Dodge bonus you get a shield bonus for attacking with two light weapons.
Thats a stupid trade, Dodge Bonuses stack, Shield Bonuses do not, and everybody should have an animated large steel shield (or mithril if you need it) anyway. Just stick to normal TWF if thats the alternative.
I have no idea of that's the one he's talking about. Just answering a question with a question.
And unfortunately not everyone can have an animated large steel shield like a fighter can. Namely, those that use light armor or no armor. They tend to not have any shield proficiencies. There are a couple of exceptions, but not many.
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Q281 What is the source on the two-weapon fighting swashbuckler variant?
Bumping this :)
Are you talking about the Shield of Blades variant from PHB2? Instead of a Dodge bonus you get a shield bonus for attacking with two light weapons.
Thats a stupid trade, Dodge Bonuses stack, Shield Bonuses do not, and everybody should have an animated large steel shield (or mithril if you need it) anyway. Just stick to normal TWF if thats the alternative.
I have no idea of that's the one he's talking about. Just answering a question with a question.
And unfortunately not everyone can have an animated large steel shield like a fighter can. Namely, those that use light armor or no armor. They tend to not have any shield proficiencies. There are a couple of exceptions, but not many.
Im just saying the tradeoff is a bad one, and everybody can use a large mithral shield, it has no Armor Check Penalty, so theres no penalty for non-proficiency.
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Q 287. How does Psychic Reformation work for Familiars?
Let's say i'm a 15th level Wizard with an Imp and i use Psychic Reformation... Will i remake 15 Hit Dices or the 3 standard for Imps? Is there any trick in that case?
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Im just saying the tradeoff is a bad one
Even so, the question needed an answer. If it's not the right answer, hopefully someone else can come up with what is needed.
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Q 287. How does Psychic Reformation work for Familiars?
Let's say i'm a 15th level Wizard with an Imp and i use Psychic Reformation... Will i remake 15 Hit Dices or the 3 standard for Imps? Is there any trick in that case?
A287: You would redo the imps 3 hd, letting you pick 2 feats for him.
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Q 288 Is there a Marshal handbook?
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Q 289: Treebark carapace (Magic of Eberron 136) gives a bonus to saves against “polymorph effects.” Is there anything other than baleful polymorph and polymorph any object that this would apply to?
Q 290: Cat's-eye brooch (Magic Item Compendium 84) gives “a +1 luck bonus on all saving throws and an additional +4 bonus on saving throws against disease.” Is the +4 an increase to the normal luck bonus or a separate, untyped bonus?
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Q 289: Treebark carapace (Magic of Eberron 136) gives a bonus to saves against “polymorph effects.” Is there anything other than baleful polymorph and polymorph any object that this would apply to?
Maybe something like a Chaos Beast's http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/chaosBeast.htm (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/chaosBeast.htm) Corporeal Instability?
Q 291: How does a Spellguard of Silverymoon's (PGtF) Selective Spell ability interact with a spell like Freezing Fog (SpC)? Would creatures unaffected be able to move and see through the cloud normally?
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Q284: Assuming you are using normal Polymorph rules, and not one of the 9 kajillion erratas Polymorph changes your HP, correct?
Yes because it changes your Constitution so it also changes your hp...
It's still debatable even without Errata, because the spell specifically says your hit points don't change. The question is whether that is all-inclusive and includes the changes due to Con, or not. And I think it was the FAQ that originally clarified that you don't get hit points due to Con change, anyway, and not an Errata.
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Q 292
What was that build that replaced basically all rolls with a Perform (usually Breakdance) check called again?
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Q 292
What was that build that replaced basically all rolls with a Perform (usually Breakdance) check called again?
The Lord of the Dance. It basically consisted of making everything rely on Concentration and then swapping it for Perform via a Bard spell (the name escapes me at the moment, though).
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Q 293 RAW, can you create a wall of stone in a room completely made out of adamantine?
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Q 293 RAW, can you create a wall of stone in a room completely made out of adamantine?
I would say that is iffy. I could see it interpreted as it needing to be cast where there is stone or that if there happens to be stone that it will merge with it. The former making it more like wall of iron that can be tipped over.
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Q294: My character has a Janni that follows him around, are Janni as completely useless as they look?
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Q 289: Treebark carapace (Magic of Eberron 136) gives a bonus to saves against “polymorph effects.” Is there anything other than baleful polymorph and polymorph any object that this would apply to?
Maybe something like a Chaos Beast's http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/chaosBeast.htm (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/chaosBeast.htm) Corporeal Instability?
Also, Aboleths.
And I believe the spells that change a lycanthrope's form also have the [Polymorph] subtype, but I'm not certain.
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Q294: My character has a Janni that follows him around, are Janni as completely useless as they look?
Ethereal jaunt for an entire hour is pretty nice. Planeshift between astral, elemental, and material at will is nice as well. And telepathy 100 feet qualifies for mindsight.
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Other than tieflings, are there any other LA 0 or +1 races that have fire resistance?
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Other than tieflings, are there any other LA 0 or +1 races that have fire resistance?
A295:Fire Elves/Fire Hobgoblins (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/races/elementalRacialVariants.htm#racesOfFire). If your DM is generous, other races can be extrapolated from that base.
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Other than tieflings, are there any other LA 0 or +1 races that have fire resistance?
Check my planetouched handbook.
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Q 268: what are some good templates to add to a daelkyr half blood psion? Right now I have ten LA to work with.
Bump, and:
Ghost was suggested, but unfortunately won't work, as I need him corporeal, the psion part is egotist+tashalona(sp?) for melee focus.
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Well, phrenic and half-fey are always solid. Feral is cool beans.
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Other than tieflings, are there any other LA 0 or +1 races that have fire resistance?
A295:Fire Elves/Fire Hobgoblins (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/races/elementalRacialVariants.htm#racesOfFire). If your DM is generous, other races can be extrapolated from that base.
There are also the Fireblood Dwarves in Dragon Magic.
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Q296: Sanity check: do metamagic spells still count as lower level spells for the use of metamagic rods. Specifically: can a reach spell Superior Resistance (normally level 6 but in an 8th level slot) be chained by a normal Metamagic Rod of Chaining?
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Q296: Sanity check: do metamagic spells still count as lower level spells for the use of metamagic rods. Specifically: can a reach spell Superior Resistance (normally level 6 but in an 8th level slot) be chained by a normal Metamagic Rod of Chaining?
Yes, because the spell level doesn't change (with exception of Heighten and Sanctum).
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Thank you
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
just natural
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
just natural
You can, however, use two-weapon or multiweapon fighting to make a main-hand UAS sequence with a series of off-hand manufactured weapon attacks (and possibly the other way around as well, depending on how you interperet unarmed strikes never counting as off-hand weapons).
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Q294: My character has a Janni that follows him around, are Janni as completely useless as they look?
Ethereal jaunt for an entire hour is pretty nice. Planeshift between astral, elemental, and material at will is nice as well. And telepathy 100 feet qualifies for mindsight.
Q298: Does that mean the Sha'ir's ability to Planar Bind a Janni once per day as the spell is better than I thought? Because it looks unbelievably awful from here.
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Q294: My character has a Janni that follows him around, are Janni as completely useless as they look?
Ethereal jaunt for an entire hour is pretty nice. Planeshift between astral, elemental, and material at will is nice as well. And telepathy 100 feet qualifies for mindsight.
Q298: Does that mean the Sha'ir's ability to Planar Bind a Janni once per day as the spell is better than I thought? Because it looks unbelievably awful from here.
Yes it is. Even if Janni suck if you bind enough of them you can make someone very unhappy. As Stalin said "Quantity has a quality all its own"
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Q294: My character has a Janni that follows him around, are Janni as completely useless as they look?
Ethereal jaunt for an entire hour is pretty nice. Planeshift between astral, elemental, and material at will is nice as well. And telepathy 100 feet qualifies for mindsight.
Q298: Does that mean the Sha'ir's ability to Planar Bind a Janni once per day as the spell is better than I thought? Because it looks unbelievably awful from here.
Yes it is. Even if Janni suck if you bind enough of them you can make someone very unhappy. As Stalin said "Quantity has a quality all its own"
But is it really that important to have it as an ability rather than a spell? You still pay for it and you can only get Janni. You're already a spellcaster, why would you want this ability?
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Q294: My character has a Janni that follows him around, are Janni as completely useless as they look?
Ethereal jaunt for an entire hour is pretty nice. Planeshift between astral, elemental, and material at will is nice as well. And telepathy 100 feet qualifies for mindsight.
Q298: Does that mean the Sha'ir's ability to Planar Bind a Janni once per day as the spell is better than I thought? Because it looks unbelievably awful from here.
Yes it is. Even if Janni suck if you bind enough of them you can make someone very unhappy. As Stalin said "Quantity has a quality all its own"
But is it really that important to have it as an ability rather than a spell? You still pay for it and you can only get Janni. You're already a spellcaster, why would you want this ability?
Would you have something better if it weren't there? Does it make you weaker for having it? Even a crappy ability is better than nothing, as long as it doesn't restrict you like that stupid grappling class does. This at least saves you the spell slot even if it is only for Janni.
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Q298: Does that mean the Sha'ir's ability to Planar Bind a Janni once per day as the spell is better than I thought? Because it looks unbelievably awful from here.
It's a decent means of interplanar transportation, and going ethereal for a full hour lets you bypass a lot of bullshit. Plus, think of it as a way to summon a vendor to sell loot to.
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Q298: Does that mean the Sha'ir's ability to Planar Bind a Janni once per day as the spell is better than I thought? Because it looks unbelievably awful from here.
It's a decent means of interplanar transportation, and going ethereal for a full hour lets you bypass a lot of bullshit. Plus, think of it as a way to summon a vendor to sell loot to.
That last point is pretty funny, and the previous poster makes a good point of "If nothing else, it's something." I was asking because I was attempting to draw some lines of when to abort the class and wasn't sure if this was really worth staying in. At least the level 11 ability lets you once per day summon something with Wish. Still I suppose it's not awful.
Q299: I think I could find it, but I'm not able to right now so...What are the downsides to being on an elemental plane (example: fire) I assume you take some amount of firey damage per round? How much. I also assume Fire spells are empowered or something as well. So. Planar traits of the Elemental Plane of Fire? =D
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A299 (mostly): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/planes.htm#elementalPlaneOfFire
How much damage you take per round depends on where you're at, exactly. In some places none, but if you're standing in a lake of lava... a lot.
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A299 (mostly): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/planes.htm#elementalPlaneOfFire
How much damage you take per round depends on where you're at, exactly. In some places none, but if you're standing in a lake of lava... a lot.
Endure Elements required? Trying to figure which of the 4 elemental planes would count as an escape and which of them would just kill me if I suddenly teleported there.
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A299 (mostly): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/planes.htm#elementalPlaneOfFire
How much damage you take per round depends on where you're at, exactly. In some places none, but if you're standing in a lake of lava... a lot.
Endure Elements required? Trying to figure which of the 4 elemental planes would count as an escape and which of them would just kill me if I suddenly teleported there.
Air is safe. If you have a form of water breathing water would also be safe as well.
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A299 (mostly): http://www.d20srd.org/srd/planes.htm#elementalPlaneOfFire
How much damage you take per round depends on where you're at, exactly. In some places none, but if you're standing in a lake of lava... a lot.
Endure Elements required? Trying to figure which of the 4 elemental planes would count as an escape and which of them would just kill me if I suddenly teleported there.
Air is safe. If you have a form of water breathing water would also be safe as well.
Air seems the best. Planning on using the Sha'ir ability (Yes them again damnit!) to go to another plane as an "OH SHIT YOU CAUGHT ME WITHOUT SPELLS" button.
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Q 300: Do natural attacks all gain +1 1/2 strength bonus for being primary and +Strength bonus for secondary, or does it depend on the natural weapon itself?
My specific example is an illithid with a full natural attack routine of 4 Tentacles+2 Claws+1 Bite (Bite of the Wereboar, which says it gets 1 1/2 Strength bonus and doesn't say anything about it changing if it's a secondary).
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Q 300: Do natural attacks all gain +1 1/2 strength bonus for being primary and +Strength bonus for secondary, or does it depend on the natural weapon itself?
My specific example is an illithid with a full natural attack routine of 4 Tentacles+2 Claws+1 Bite (Bite of the Wereboar, which says it gets 1 1/2 Strength bonus and doesn't say anything about it changing if it's a secondary).
A300
Typically, for natural attacks, the primary attack uses x1, and secondary is x1/2. It would appear that your specific example would be an exception.
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A300b
Generally, Bite attacks and Slams are given the specific exceptional benefit of 1 1/2 times STR, while most other Natural Attack forms, like claws and tentacles, are not. If memory serves, Tail Slaps usually get the 1 1/2 x STR benefit as well.
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The 1.5*Str benefit to natural weapons is also for creatures with any single natural weapon, but no more than one. Low-level Astral Constructs have a single Slam attack, for instance. There are some exceptions, such as herbivorous animals, whose single natural weapons are considered secondary weapons (even if they have no primary antural weapons) and thus gain only 0.5*Str.
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The 1.5*Str benefit to natural weapons is also for creatures with any single natural weapon, but no more than one. Low-level Astral Constructs have a single Slam attack, for instance. There are some exceptions, such as herbivorous animals, whose single natural weapons are considered secondary weapons (even if they have no primary antural weapons) and thus gain only 0.5*Str.
What this guy said.
The Bite of the Wereboar spell assumes that you don't have any natural weapons when you cast the spell, so it may or may not be a case of specific-overrules-general, so you'll have to ask your DM. In any case, it's almost certainly not going to be 1.5x strength applied to that attack.
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Q301
Is there any way to make Heavy Armor into Light? I don't care about the Dex bonus or anything, just the armor category.
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Q301
Is there any way to make Heavy Armor into Light? I don't care about the Dex bonus or anything, just the armor category.
A301 Use the Halfweight armor property (+3 bonus, or +2 if it's already Illithidwrought). Makes any armor weight half as much and count as light armor. I think it's from Drow of the Underdark, certainly one of those books dealing with that general area.
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Q301
Is there any way to make Heavy Armor into Light? I don't care about the Dex bonus or anything, just the armor category.
A301 Use the Halfweight armor property (+3 bonus, or +2 if it's already Illithidwrought). Makes any armor weight half as much and count as light armor. I think it's from Drow of the Underdark, certainly one of those books dealing with that general area.
It's in Underdark, and thus just BARELY 3.5. Thank you so very much.
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
just natural
You can, however, use two-weapon or multiweapon fighting to make a main-hand UAS sequence with a series of off-hand manufactured weapon attacks (and possibly the other way around as well, depending on how you interperet unarmed strikes never counting as off-hand weapons).
Given that the character in question fights with a two handed weapon, and I just wanted to know if I could kick people too to make Monks feel worse about themselves, yeah. Not happening. Doesn't really matter, I just wanted to do it for the lulz.
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Q301
Is there any way to make Heavy Armor into Light? I don't care about the Dex bonus or anything, just the armor category.
Use it on the thunalid stone armor from Anuroch: empire of shade.
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
just natural
You can, however, use two-weapon or multiweapon fighting to make a main-hand UAS sequence with a series of off-hand manufactured weapon attacks (and possibly the other way around as well, depending on how you interperet unarmed strikes never counting as off-hand weapons).
Given that the character in question fights with a two handed weapon, and I just wanted to know if I could kick people too to make Monks feel worse about themselves, yeah. Not happening. Doesn't really matter, I just wanted to do it for the lulz.
Snap kick from ToB lets you make an unarmed attack in addition to your normal attacks by taking an extra -2 to all attacks that round. So yes you can kick them while using a 2 hander just to piss off monks.
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
just natural
You can, however, use two-weapon or multiweapon fighting to make a main-hand UAS sequence with a series of off-hand manufactured weapon attacks (and possibly the other way around as well, depending on how you interperet unarmed strikes never counting as off-hand weapons).
Given that the character in question fights with a two handed weapon, and I just wanted to know if I could kick people too to make Monks feel worse about themselves, yeah. Not happening. Doesn't really matter, I just wanted to do it for the lulz.
Snap kick from ToB lets you make an unarmed attack in addition to your normal attacks by taking an extra -2 to all attacks that round. So yes you can kick them while using a 2 hander just to piss off monks.
Yeah but at that point you've wasted two feats to act like a monk O.o
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Q302: Drow of the Underdark gives partial details on a potentially interesting race known as Vril. Info for them is on pages 123 - 126. However, info on their racial Shriek and Skinshift abilities seem to be completely missing. Are these found elsewhere? Or just poor editing by WotC? Or am I blind and completely glossing over it?
Edit: Nevermind. Vril were statted out in the online errata (http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/dnd/20070504a). :banghead
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Q297: Can you do an unarmed strike sequence and a manufactured weapon attack sequence in the same round, or is that just natural weapons?
just natural
You can, however, use two-weapon or multiweapon fighting to make a main-hand UAS sequence with a series of off-hand manufactured weapon attacks (and possibly the other way around as well, depending on how you interperet unarmed strikes never counting as off-hand weapons).
Given that the character in question fights with a two handed weapon, and I just wanted to know if I could kick people too to make Monks feel worse about themselves, yeah. Not happening. Doesn't really matter, I just wanted to do it for the lulz.
Snap kick from ToB lets you make an unarmed attack in addition to your normal attacks by taking an extra -2 to all attacks that round. So yes you can kick them while using a 2 hander just to piss off monks.
Yeah but at that point you've wasted two feats to act like a monk O.o
I didn't say it was good. It was just a way to grind some salt into the wound of monks.
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I'll just give them a spiked gauntlet Falcon Pawnch for 1d4+20 or so. Which is worse than just using the normal weapon for 1d6+32 but whatever. They're Monks. I can afford to fuck around.
...Now I'm tempted to find a way to get Knockback on the quick. Just so the Monk can do its Flurry of Misses, and then get punched across the room. :D
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Q 288 Is there a Marshal handbook?
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Q 288 Is there a Marshal handbook?
I don't think so. There's lots of stuff that talks about using marshal, but no handbook dedicated to the class.
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Q 288 Is there a Marshal handbook?
I don't think so. There's lots of stuff that talks about using marshal, but no handbook dedicated to the class.
I was afraid someone would say that. I was hoping to hear something about it other than "use it for a one-level dip." Especially since it's in the tier threads as a solid 4.
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Q 303 What deity is it that's actually a group of deities? I think it's Forgotten Realms.
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Q304:Is gestalting a group in age of worms okay?
The group in question are moderately good optimizers(they're beginning to understand that fireball blows goat chunks and know of a few good tricks here and there)
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Question 305
Can fast ability healing (say from a level of Binder) cure the wisdom and intelligence damage from the Drink Like A Demon ability of the Drunken Master?
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Q 303 What deity is it that's actually a group of deities? I think it's Forgotten Realms.
It is the Sovereign Host, and it is a FR deity.
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Q 303 What deity is it that's actually a group of deities? I think it's Forgotten Realms.
It is the Sovereign Host, and it is a FR deity.
Sovereign Host is an Eberron deity, not FR. But it is a group of deities.
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Ah, my bad, I don't know how I messed that up.
Q306 Bit of a stupid question, but how can you remove a curse from an item? I have a cursed vorpal sword I want to sell once my party gets a Raise Dead cast on me.
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Ah, my bad, I don't know how I messed that up.
Q306 Bit of a stupid question, but how can you remove a curse from an item? I have a cursed vorpal sword I want to sell once my party gets a Raise Dead cast on me.
What kind of curse? It varies.
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A304: Gestalt is meant to be used for campaigns with small groups, not just in general. If the recommended party size for the module is 6ish, then you should probably use Gestalt if you have 4ish or fewer players. If the recommended party size is more like 4ish, then you should probably use Gestalt if you have 3ish or fewer players.
A305: No, Drink Like a Demon isn't ability damage, it's an untyped penalty.
A306: I don't know of any methods for removing curses from items without actually breaking the item. There's probably some application of the feat Craft Magic Arms and Armor that you can use.
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Q 307 If you are affected by a curse, cursed item, or other nasty (spell-based) permanent duration effect, would entering an antimagic field (temporarily) undo the effects?
(This would mean bestow curse and baleful polymorph are suppressed very easily. Being in an antimagic field can make you stronger...?)
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Ah, my bad, I don't know how I messed that up.
Q306 Bit of a stupid question, but how can you remove a curse from an item? I have a cursed vorpal sword I want to sell once my party gets a Raise Dead cast on me.
What kind of curse? It varies.
I don't really know. A ghost appeared and gave it to me on the condition that I:
1) Go after the people who are stealing his treasure. (Mission accomplished.)
2) Don't touch his treasure. (Someone did.)
I knew it was Vorpal when I first touched it, but not that it became cursed. On a natural 20, it cut my head off. That's the only effect the curse had (as far as I know).
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Sounds homebrew, then. Odds are that remove curse (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/removecurse.htm) won't be sufficient, but break enchantment (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/breakenchantment.htm) possibly could (as written, it'd bring you back to life after chopping your own head off, since it works on instantaneous effects caused by cursed items). Your best bet is to ask the ghost for forgiveness, or possibly hold an exorcism ritual like the kind that gets rid of haunting presences.
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Question 305
Can fast ability healing (say from a level of Binder) cure the wisdom and intelligence damage from the Drink Like A Demon ability of the Drunken Master?
A 305: Yes. The definition for "ability score damage" would seem to include any penalty to any ability score (and there is no definition for "ability score penalty"). So since Drink Like A Demon gives penalties to ability scores, I'd say binding Naberius will heal those penalties.
It's not overpowered even for a nuke-wizard, heal-bot-cleric, fighter20, rogue20 game. Since the rules are nonexistent, it'd be fine for my group.
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Q 303 What deity is it that's actually a group of deities? I think it's Forgotten Realms.
It is the Sovereign Host, and it is a FR deity.
Sovereign Host is an Eberron deity, not FR. But it is a group of deities.
Technically, the Sovereign Host is just another pantheon that's often worshipped as a whole. If you're looking for a group of deities that are always worshipped as a single entity, then it's not the Sovereign Host.
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Because I'll most certainly will miss the opportunity to create the next thread I vote that It'll be called "Return of the Dread Gazebo"
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Question 305
Can fast ability healing (say from a level of Binder) cure the wisdom and intelligence damage from the Drink Like A Demon ability of the Drunken Master?
A 305: Yes. The definition for "ability score damage" would seem to include any penalty to any ability score (and there is no definition for "ability score penalty"). So since Drink Like A Demon gives penalties to ability scores, I'd say binding Naberius will heal those penalties.
It's not overpowered even for a nuke-wizard, heal-bot-cleric, fighter20, rogue20 game. Since the rules are nonexistent, it'd be fine for my group.
Uh. No.
Ability Damage
This attack damages an opponent’s ability score. The creature’s descriptive text gives the ability and the amount of damage. If an attack that causes ability damage scores a critical hit, it deals twice the indicated amount of damage (if the damage is expressed as a die range, roll two dice).
Points lost to ability damage return at the rate of 1 point per day (or double that if the character gets complete bed rest) to each damaged ability, and the spells lesser restoration and restoration offset ability damage as well.
Penalties are completely different.
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Q 303 What deity is it that's actually a group of deities? I think it's Forgotten Realms.
It is the Sovereign Host, and it is a FR deity.
Sovereign Host is an Eberron deity, not FR. But it is a group of deities.
Technically, the Sovereign Host is just another pantheon that's often worshipped as a whole. If you're looking for a group of deities that are always worshipped as a single entity, then it's not the Sovereign Host.
Who would that be?
Q 308 Is there any way for a basic human character to get natural fast healing of any kind, pre epic?
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Q 303 What deity is it that's actually a group of deities? I think it's Forgotten Realms.
It is the Sovereign Host, and it is a FR deity.
Sovereign Host is an Eberron deity, not FR. But it is a group of deities.
Technically, the Sovereign Host is just another pantheon that's often worshipped as a whole. If you're looking for a group of deities that are always worshipped as a single entity, then it's not the Sovereign Host.
Who would that be?
Don't know, unfortunately. I'm less than well versed in FR. The only thing that comes to mind is the Triad, which is indeed three entities that are treated as one, but that's a vestige and not a deity.
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Q309: Is energy resistance calculated every attack or every round? e.g. If I have acid resistance 30 and take 20 acid damage from one opponent one round and another 20 from a different opponent the next round do I take no damage or 10 damage? It'd be nice to reference a source here too.
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Q309: Is energy resistance calculated every attack or every round? e.g. If I have acid resistance 30 and take 20 acid damage from one opponent one round and another 20 from a different opponent the next round do I take no damage or 10 damage? It'd be nice to reference a source here too.
It's as it says. You have resistance from each attack. It's the same resistance that creatures get, just with a spell.
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Q309: Is energy resistance calculated every attack or every round? e.g. If I have acid resistance 30 and take 20 acid damage from one opponent one round and another 20 from a different opponent the next round do I take no damage or 10 damage? It'd be nice to reference a source here too.
It is each time it takes damage....
So in your example you would take no damage.....
See the reference in Monster Manual 314....
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Q309: Is energy resistance calculated every attack or every round? e.g. If I have acid resistance 30 and take 20 acid damage from one opponent one round and another 20 from a different opponent the next round do I take no damage or 10 damage? It'd be nice to reference a source here too.
Oh, this.
Long story short, it used to be on a per-round basis for the spell, but per attack for the special quality, except when it wasn't. But since everyone played it as per attack, always, it got updated in the RC so that's how it works.
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Q 308 Is there any way for a basic human character to get natural fast healing of any kind, pre epic?
A 308: Two means that spring to mind end up making the character a bit more (or less) than human. Gain the vampire template, or become a necropolitan and take a jaunt to the negative energy plane to somehow get the Evolved Undead template.
Q 310: Are there any sources that list hardness and HP/inch of more exotic materials? Particularly crystal substances like ruby or diamond.
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Q 308 Is there any way for a basic human character to get natural fast healing of any kind, pre epic?
A 309:Two means that spring to mind end up making the character a bit more (or less) than human. Gain the vampire template, or become a necropolitan and take a jaunt to the negative energy plane to somehow get the Evolved Undead template.
Closest I can think of is the Troll-Blooded feat which gives Regeneration 1 (fire and Acid deal lethal damage). Other than that, I'm drawing a blank (note: Humans are one of two races that can get it at level 1 without flaws).
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Q311: How do I qualify for a Raptoran only prestige class without being a Raptoran >_>
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Q311: How do I qualify for a Raptoran only prestige class without being a Raptoran >_>
Changeling with Racial Emulation. Emulate a Raptoran and you count as one.
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Q311: How do I qualify for a Raptoran only prestige class without being a Raptoran >_>
Changeling with Racial Emulation. Emulate a Raptoran and you count as one.
Hm, was hoping for an option that didn't require a different specific race, but this is a decent step.
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Q312: Can a Sha'ir use the Customize Domain feat to alter what Divine Spells are available to him/her?
Q313: Can a Sha'ir drink a Domain Draught to increase the domains he/she has access to?
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Q314: What is the dc of the solar's slayer arrow?
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Q314: What is the dc of the solar's slayer arrow?
A 314
Presumably the same as on a regular slaying arrow, which would be DC 20.
Also, here's a new thread (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=10149), with enough wriggling space in the old one for the inevitable extra posts. :P
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Q311: How do I qualify for a Raptoran only prestige class without being a Raptoran >_>
If you look at the example raptoran on page 83 of Races of the Wild, you notice that his size and type is listed as "Medium humanoid (raptoran)." This indicates that raptorans have the type "humanoid" and the subtype "raptoran." If you look at Savage Species in the section on Minor Rituals on page 148 you find the Ritual of Association. The only requirement for this ritual is that you can not use it to acquire the subtype of one of the common races of human, dwarf, elf, gnome, or halfling. So, simply use the ritual to gain the raptoran subtype.
The best thing about this ritual is that it doesn't cost a level adjustment. However, it still isn't cheap compared to other purchases; 56,000 gp and 2,240 XP.
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Q 308 Is there any way for a basic human character to get natural fast healing of any kind, pre epic?
What do you mean by "natural" fast healing? One level of Nature's Warrior can get you fast healing 1 while wildshaped. You can qualify for that with a single level dip into Abolisher (Lords of Madness).
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A healing blood graft (Lords of Madness 216) is a part of your body and nonmagical after creation. Of course, it's hard to imagine anyone spending 182,000 gp for fast healing 2.
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A healing blood graft (Lords of Madness 216) is a part of your body and nonmagical after creation. Of course, it's hard to imagine anyone spending 182,000 gp for fast healing 2.
Not so unbelieveable for a Druid. What else are they going to do with their cash? :p
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A healing blood graft (Lords of Madness 216) is a part of your body and nonmagical after creation. Of course, it's hard to imagine anyone spending 182,000 gp for fast healing 2.
Not so unbelieveable for a Druid. What else are they going to do with their cash? :p
Equip their Animal Companion obv. :P
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Q 315: Isn't this thread gonna get locked in like 1 answer or 2 or Zero ?
minor far buddhist realms koan
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No, we don't lock these. People stop necroing after a while.