Simple Q&A 29: The CR 5 Gargantuan Dragon of DOOM

[awaken DM golem]

A 146: those Goofyfooted Halflings that are basically short Humans,
without the skill bonus, for the bonus feet ... I mean feat.


Q 147: Potion of Summon Monster 1 ... yes ?

[Vicerious]

A 146: those Goofyfooted Halflings that are basically short Humans,
without the skill bonus, for the bonus feet ... I mean feat.


Q 147: Potion of Summon Monster 1 ... yes ?

A 147

The drinker of a potion is both the effective target and the caster of the effect...

That implies that the spell in a potion must have a target, which the SM spells do not.

[ksbsnowowl]

A 146: those Goofyfooted Halflings that are basically short Humans,
without the skill bonus, for the bonus feet ... I mean feat.

If you mean Dark Creepers, they have LA +4.

Q 141: From the Ride Skill:

Fight with Warhorse
If you direct your war-trained mount to attack in battle, you can still make your own attack or attacks normally. This usage is a free action.

What exactly determines if something is a war-trained mount, especially when you get into non-animal mounts?  Is a goblin-ridden worg considered a war-trained mount for this purpose?

Unfortunately RAW isn't very clear here.  But generally, if a mount is written as being war trained (War Horses and Riding Dogs both mention this) or has the Warbeast template you can be sure it is.  If not, it's DM's call.  If there's fluff about them being ridden into battle, you're probably good to go... if not, just apply the Warbeast template on it to get it trained up.

Well, Warbeast unfortunately doesn't help when it comes to Magical Beasts.  I'll just have to assume that something of Troll-level intelligence (worgs) or better can figure out how to do this without "training."

[sirpercival]

Q148 There are ways to get an animal companion familiar, and a special mount familiar.  Is there any way to count your psicrystal as a familiar?

[Maat_Mons]

Q 146: Any Small humanoid (or humanoid-like form regardless of actual type) creatures with no Strength penalty, no racial HD, and LA +0?  Must advance by class levels.

I was honestly surprised to turn up four: gully dwarf (Dragonlance Campaign Setting p14), korobokuru (Oriental Adventures p171), wild dwarf (Races of Faerun p23), and vril (Drow of the Underdark p123). 

[zook1shoe]

Q 146: Any Small humanoid (or humanoid-like form regardless of actual type) creatures with no Strength penalty, no racial HD, and LA +0?  Must advance by class levels.

[snakeman830]

Q 146: Any Small humanoid (or humanoid-like form regardless of actual type) creatures with no Strength penalty, no racial HD, and LA +0?  Must advance by class levels.

I was honestly surprised to turn up four: gully dwarf (Dragonlance Campaign Setting p14), korobokuru (Oriental Adventures p171), wild dwarf (Races of Faerun p23), and vril (Drow of the Underdark p123). 

Of note, the Korobokuru are more or less Small PHB dwarves.

[Kethrian]

Q142: How do I make a carebear?  Needs to be a bear (being a druid doesn't count, but something else might) and needs to have a care bear stare.  Ideally it should sparkle and not wear pants.  Help?

The spell that jumps to mind for the care bare stare is Rainbow Blast.  How about an awakened bear wizard or sorcerer?  You're a real bear, so pant aren't necessary.  And you have access to plenty of magic for the sparkles...

[Nagukuk]

Q149   SwordSage - Shadow "Stride Jaunt etc"  + Setting Sun (feat) flash of sunset= Teleport and Attack?

Specifically do you NEED specifically the monk ability or a dimension door power. Or will the Teleport work also as it is a higher powered version of Dim-Door?

Or is this a DM call?

 

[weenog]

A 149 You just need to move adjacent to a foe instantaneously to activate Flash of Sunset.  Dimension door and abundant step are given as examples, as opposed to say, travel devotion's swift action movement.

[Maat_Mons]

Q142: How do I make a carebear?  Needs to be a bear (being a druid doesn't count, but something else might) and needs to have a care bear stare.  Ideally it should sparkle and not wear pants.  Help?

The spell that jumps to mind for the care bare stare is Rainbow Blast.  How about an awakened bear wizard or sorcerer?  You're a real bear, so pant aren't necessary.  And you have access to plenty of magic for the sparkles...

Urskans

[ksbsnowowl]

Q 150:  Why are the D&D ship speed rules so... wrong?

Vehicles                                    Per Hour    Per Day
Longship (sailed and rowed)    3 miles    72 miles

Longship ... 1-1/2 mph* (sailed, multiplied by wind modifier) or 2 mph (Rowed)

Even under favorable conditions, with a strong wind (providing a x3 multiplier to the ship's speed) providing for a 4.5 mile per hour sailing speed, it's about 1/3 real world speeds.

5 knots is ~5.75 mph

So the maximum speed of longships per the ship rules in Stormwrack is equal to the low average speed of real-world longships...

Was this ever addressed in a Sage question or something?

Q 151: Does the gem focus of a Trap the Soul spell detect as magical to a Detect Magic spell?

[zook1shoe]

Q142: How do I make a carebear?  Needs to be a bear (being a druid doesn't count, but something else might) and needs to have a care bear stare.  Ideally it should sparkle and not wear pants.  Help?

The spell that jumps to mind for the care bare stare is Rainbow Blast.  How about an awakened bear wizard or sorcerer?  You're a real bear, so pant aren't necessary.  And you have access to plenty of magic for the sparkles...

Anthropomorphic bear

[The_Mad_Linguist]

Q 146: Any Small humanoid (or humanoid-like form regardless of actual type) creatures with no Strength penalty, no racial HD, and LA +0?  Must advance by class levels.

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[Kethrian]

Q 152 Can you use move and/or standard actions to do swift actions?  Obviously, not to cast more than one quickened spell in a round, but, for example, if you wanted to shoot the Talon Sceptre more than once in a round?

[zook1shoe]

Q153 what's the most WotC content I can post?

[jojolagger]

Q153 what's the most WotC content I can post?

Depends where you live. 

In all seriousness, the less you post the better. Unless it's OGL (basically anything on the SRD), then your fine.

[zook1shoe]

Lol ok... I just occasionally see people post full feats n stuff

[zook1shoe]

Lol ok... I just occasionally see people post full feats n stuff

[kevin_video]

Q 154 Other than increasing their Dex, and taking Weapon Focus feats, how does one get a warlock's ranged touch attack up? Tonight he cost the party a huge amount of treasure simply because of the fact that he just couldn't roll over a 5 (the enemy teleported with a majority of it). The guy is systematically a phenomenon. Not quite as bad as The Spoony One's Mike who couldn't roll higher than a 10 for two months straight, but he's getting up there.