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

[Tethlis]

Q84. Is the Ghost Pipes spell from Lost Empires of Faerun a legal Persistent spell target?

[TC X0 Lt 0X]

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.

[Epimetheus]

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. )

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]?

[gemsna]

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)

[wotmaniac]

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)

[snakeman830]

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.

[kevin_video]

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.

[Havok4]

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.

[wotmaniac]

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 

[kevin_video]

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?

[Kajhera]

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.

[The_Mad_Linguist]

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.

[Bauglir]

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.

[kevin_video]

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.

[X-Codes]

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)

[Bauglir]

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.

[kevin_video]

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.

[Bauglir]

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.

[something random]

Q90: What effect if any does wild magic have on psionics?

[kevin_video]

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.