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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #780 on: March 31, 2011, 05:14:53 AM »
Q 266: When I am large, and have a longspear I would threaten the field 20' and 15' away, correct? But if I just use that reach for AoO's and if somebody came into my natural reach, could I just use my unarmed strikes for my normal attacks without any penaltys? And vice versa?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #781 on: March 31, 2011, 05:54:49 AM »
Question 264

When combining the Paragon template with the Dragonfire Adept's invocation Draconic Flight a confusion struck me. It states that the character is gifted a fly speed equal to their land speed. But the Paragon template improved all movement by multiplying them by three. So wanted to make sure which one of these was fair within the rules.

Examples will use a 30 ft. base land speed.

1. Draconic Flight grants a character a fly speed equal to their land speed, so 30ft. The Paragon template then triples this to 90ft.

2. The Paragon template triples the character's land speed from 30ft. to 90ft. Draconic Flight grants a character a fly speed equal to their land speed, so 90ft. The Paragon template then triples this to 270 ft.

So which is it? 
I'd definitely go with the first. In the second you're basically multiplying twice.


A266: I don't see why not, provided you have some monk levels or something. Otherwise since the longspear is a 2H weapon you'd have to drop it to do unarmed strikes (unless you have more than 2 arms) and then you'd have to pick it up next turn, using a move action and drawing an AoO.


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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #782 on: March 31, 2011, 06:01:48 AM »
Q 266: When I am large, and have a longspear I would threaten the field 20' and 15' away, correct? But if I just use that reach for AoO's and if somebody came into my natural reach, could I just use my unarmed strikes for my normal attacks without any penaltys? And vice versa?

A 266: Correct, You dont threaten with your natural reach unless you Improved Unarmed Strike, or a natural attack that doesnt use your hands (like claws or slam)

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #783 on: March 31, 2011, 06:34:09 AM »
Q 266: When I am large, and have a longspear I would threaten the field 20' and 15' away, correct? But if I just use that reach for AoO's and if somebody came into my natural reach, could I just use my unarmed strikes for my normal attacks without any penaltys? And vice versa?

A 266: Correct, You dont threaten with your natural reach unless you Improved Unarmed Strike, or a natural attack that doesnt use your hands (like claws or slam)
Slams don't necessarily use your hands, so depending on how you got it and how generous your DM is, they might work.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #784 on: March 31, 2011, 07:01:46 AM »
Yeah, I have monk levels, so then I would threaten all fields.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #785 on: March 31, 2011, 07:05:10 AM »
Q 268
Is there any actual rules printed on how telepathy works?
Is it one-on-one communication?  Can I broadcast my thought to a whole crowd of people?(A telepathic shout or speech if you will)


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Ah.  I found the answer in the Monster Manual (I was looking in the DMG and RC)  According to it, I can telepathically communicate to several people if I wanted to, and has the same difficulty as speaking to several people .
Follow-up question 268a:
As a Bard, can I use my perform(sing) through telepathy to Inspire Courage on my party members? (I am quite sure that the voice in my head sings in perfect pitch!   :lol )
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #786 on: March 31, 2011, 07:13:22 AM »
Q 268
Is there any actual rules printed on how telepathy works?
Is it one-on-one communication?  Can I broadcast my thought to a whole crowd of people?(A telepathic shout or speech if you will)
I assume speaking with telepathy is the same as speaking, which means it'd be a free action, which means that even if it was one-on-one you could send a message to everyone within range as a number of free actions, anyway.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #787 on: March 31, 2011, 07:42:02 AM »
Q269:  Are there any ways to move as part of a full attack?  Spells, class abilities, racial abilities, feats?  Specifically thinking of 'that cleave that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends...'

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #788 on: March 31, 2011, 07:52:54 AM »
Q269:  Are there any ways to move as part of a full attack?  Spells, class abilities, racial abilities, feats?  Specifically thinking of 'that cleave that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends...'
Dervish Dance (Dervish PrC, CW) springs to mind, but it's a per day thing.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #789 on: March 31, 2011, 12:14:57 PM »
Q269:  Are there any ways to move as part of a full attack?  Spells, class abilities, racial abilities, feats?  Specifically thinking of 'that cleave that never ends, it just goes on and on my friends...'
Well, Frenzied Beserker lets you move between cleave attempts...
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #790 on: March 31, 2011, 02:18:14 PM »
Q: I'm making a ranger whose sole purpose in life is sundering. Are their any prestige classes that let me sunder everything the BBEG owns, from his jewel encrusted scepter to his Pokemon boxers?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #791 on: March 31, 2011, 02:21:44 PM »
Q2171:  What is the cost of the half-weight armor enhancement?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #792 on: March 31, 2011, 02:33:52 PM »
Q: I'm making a ranger whose sole purpose in life is sundering. Are their any prestige classes that let me sunder everything the BBEG owns, from his jewel encrusted scepter to his Pokemon boxers?
If you're a ranger, take the Strong-Arm combat style (DR 326). You get Power Attack, Improved Sunder, and Great Cleave. You're going to want to take the Combat Brute feat as well for the Sundering Cleave ability. I'm positive there is a class ability somewhere, or maybe it was a feat, that let you basically pull off being Zorro, where you could initial your name in wood, and make certain articles of clothing fall off. My mind's drawing a blank right now though.

Q2171:  What is the cost of the half-weight armor enhancement?
It's in Underdark, and is a +3 enhancement. It'd be cheaper to make it out of mithral, or take Armored Savant from the Dragon Magazine (costs you a 1st level Fighter feat).
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #793 on: March 31, 2011, 03:07:30 PM »
Yeah, I have monk levels, so then I would threaten all fields.

Or armor spikes, if you dont want to waste class levels. Also I thought you could hold a 2h weapon in one hand, you just have to use two hands to attack. If so you can get gauntlets.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #794 on: March 31, 2011, 03:13:31 PM »
Q2171:  What is the cost of the half-weight armor enhancement?
It's in Underdark, and is a +3 enhancement. It'd be cheaper to make it out of mithral, or take Armored Savant from the Dragon Magazine (costs you a 1st level Fighter feat).
I'm getting "free" +2 adamantine full plate, but need to lighten it up so it still works with the innate greater teleport ability with a max capacity of 50 lbs. of stuff.  Sadly I don't think I'm going to be able to get it to work out.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #795 on: March 31, 2011, 06:22:29 PM »
Q272: Is there any reason Psionic Shot could not be used with entangling ectoplasm?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #796 on: March 31, 2011, 06:26:09 PM »
Q 2172: Is there any way of getting the spell like ability of a form assumed by Shapechange?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #797 on: March 31, 2011, 06:45:56 PM »
Q 2172: Is there any way of getting the spell like ability of a form assumed by Shapechange?

Depending on how your DM rules it the assume supernatural ability feat lets you make use of one supernatural ability (per times you have taken the feat) of a form you have assumed. However with shapechange you already get the supernatural abilities, as well as the extraordinary of the form you are assuming, so it would depend on if the DM rules the SLA as supernatural, extraordinary, or something else. I know there was a discussion on this in a Master of Many Forms and in multiple threads on polymorphing
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #798 on: March 31, 2011, 08:28:41 PM »
Q2171:  What is the cost of the half-weight armor enhancement?
It's in Underdark, and is a +3 enhancement. It'd be cheaper to make it out of mithral, or take Armored Savant from the Dragon Magazine (costs you a 1st level Fighter feat).
I'm getting "free" +2 adamantine full plate, but need to lighten it up so it still works with the innate greater teleport ability with a max capacity of 50 lbs. of stuff.  Sadly I don't think I'm going to be able to get it to work out.
It's too bad you weren't a kensai PrC, or had the Ancestral Relic feat. That way you could basically "trade in" that +2 adamantine full plate at full price for the equivalent cost of something else.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question 23: You know the drill
« Reply #799 on: March 31, 2011, 08:49:16 PM »
Ooh, good thinking on the Ancestral Relic feat.  I might actually be able to squeeze that in.  Thanks!
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