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[Hijax]

Q94: In kells thread about the ultimate magus, he talked about an action point trick to get NI spell slots. what is this?Go Eddie

[cru]

A93 I would say no but I don't have too many arguments for that. Their abilities depend on HD and HD does not change. Perhaps this sentence: All true dragons gain more abilities and greater power as they age.

[Suzerain]

Q94: In kells thread about the ultimate magus, he talked about an action point trick to get NI spell slots. what is this?Go Eddie

A94
That's explained in the thread actually. You use Primal Scholar's Secret of Power ability to recover up to class level spell levels you've already cast today by expending an action point. Tack on Bloodlines and/or Legacy Champion to recover 9th level slots, and unfettered heroism for lots of action points.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

A88: Spontaneous Clerics?

Its clear from UA page 48 that a character can be a cleric 1 / cloistered cleric 1 or a Wizard 1 / Domain Wizard 1, since these variants "are wholly separate from the character class." The specialist wizard variants are clearly a 'class feature' variant since, "a character cannot, for example, take a few levels of conjurer using the rapid summoing variant and then 'multiclass' into regular conjurer levels." (page 59)

But the Spontaneous Casting strangely has no such restriction. So is it a seperate class? Since the spellcasting is explicitly said to not stack this seems to indicate that they are sperate classes.

Q95: So is spontaneous cleric 1 / cleric 1 legal?

[PhaedrusXY]

A88: Spontaneous Clerics?

Its clear from UA page 48 that a character can be a cleric 1 / cloistered cleric 1 or a Wizard 1 / Domain Wizard 1, since these variants "are wholly separate from the character class." The specialist wizard variants are clearly a 'class feature' variant since, "a character cannot, for example, take a few levels of conjurer using the rapid summoing variant and then 'multiclass' into regular conjurer levels." (page 59)

But the Spontaneous Casting strangely has no such restriction. So is it a seperate class? Since the spellcasting is explicitly said to not stack this seems to indicate that they are sperate classes.

Q95: So is spontaneous cleric 1 / cleric 1 legal?

Wow... what a messed up can of worms that is. I'd never actually read that section carefully, and had just assumed that you couldn't multiclass between any variants of the same class. However, that is explicitly not true, as spelled out in the link you provided (I'm going to repost the text below).

Multiclassing And Variant ClassesUnder no circumstances does spellcasting ability from multiple classes (even variants of the same class) stack. A character with levels of bard and levels of bardic sage has two separate caster levels and two separate sets of spells per day, even though the classes are very similar.

I think it is certainly totally fine to let them stack, because of the underlined sentence. I'm not sure what the RAW or RAI are, though, as I don't see "wholly separate from the character class" defined anywhere, and the meaning is not clear without a definition, IMO.

[SixthDeclension]

Reasking.

Q90 Is there a Dinosaur Rider PrC anywhere?

[Kuroimaken]

Reasking.

Q90 Is there a Dinosaur Rider PrC anywhere?

You can always go with Halfling outrider and make your animal companion mount be a dinosaur.

[houkama]

Q90 Is there a Dinosaur Rider PrC anywhere?

A90: Also if you have a DM that understands that D&D is not set in stone you could easily use the stats for one thing to describe another. In which case any mounted combat or animal focused build could work. If you don't already have it, MM3 has plenty of dinosaurs with animal companion and cohort adjustments.

[SixthDeclension]

Q90 Is there a Dinosaur Rider PrC anywhere?

A90: Also if you have a DM that understands that D&D is not set in stone you could easily use the stats for one thing to describe another. In which case any mounted combat or animal focused build could work. If you don't already have it, MM3 has plenty of dinosaurs with animal companion and cohort adjustments.

Q96: Where are the stats for the Velociraptor?

[PhaedrusXY]

Q90 Is there a Dinosaur Rider PrC anywhere?

A90: Also if you have a DM that understands that D&D is not set in stone you could easily use the stats for one thing to describe another. In which case any mounted combat or animal focused build could work. If you don't already have it, MM3 has plenty of dinosaurs with animal companion and cohort adjustments.

Q96: Where are the stats for the Velociraptor?

Here: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/dinosaur.htm#deinonychus]

The RL velociraptor was the size of a turkey... The dinosaurs depicted in Jurassic Park are more like deinonychus.

[BowenSilverclaw]

Q90 Is there a Dinosaur Rider PrC anywhere?

A90: Also if you have a DM that understands that D&D is not set in stone you could easily use the stats for one thing to describe another. In which case any mounted combat or animal focused build could work. If you don't already have it, MM3 has plenty of dinosaurs with animal companion and cohort adjustments.

Q96: Where are the stats for the Velociraptor?

A96: Not sure about the Velociraptor, but RL Velociraptors are hardly suited as mounts. I can advise you to take a look at the Fleshraker though (under the Dinosaur entry in MM3), it's pretty much the default Druid Animal Companion and a great mount for small critters

[SixthDeclension]

Yes, was looking at fleshraker.

[Hallack]

Q97: Are Devotion feat effects such as the Animal Devotion flying ability or Str. bonus negated in an Anti-magic field?

[Suzerain]

Q97: Are Devotion feat effects such as the Animal Devotion flying ability or Str. bonus negated in an Anti-magic field?

A97
CC p.52 specifies Domain Feats as SLAs by default. So yeah, they're supressed in an AMF.

[Khorus]

q98

Does metamagic infusion from artificers let you apply metamagics to trigger items (such as wands) do so without increasing the level of the wand?

Such as I know empower, I infuse my wand with empower. Does it use 1 charge or 2?

[Paradox]

A98 No, You don't actually increase the level of the spell you use from the wand, unless the metamagic is Heighten.

[Mushroom Ninja]

Q 99:  If you are a cleric not devoted to a particular deity and you choose the war domain, do you get to pick any weapon as your proficient/focused weapon?

[PhaedrusXY]

Q 99:  If you are a cleric not devoted to a particular deity and you choose the war domain, do you get to pick any weapon as your proficient/focused weapon?

A 99: No, you get the one associated with your alignment. These can be found in the description of the Spiritual Weapon spell.

[Suzerain]

Q 99:  If you are a cleric not devoted to a particular deity and you choose the war domain, do you get to pick any weapon as your proficient/focused weapon?

A 99: No, you get the one associated with your alignment. These can be found in the description of the Spiritual Weapon spell.

Could we get a reference for this? I think that rule's not actually spelled out anywhere.

[PhaedrusXY]

Q 99:  If you are a cleric not devoted to a particular deity and you choose the war domain, do you get to pick any weapon as your proficient/focused weapon?

A 99: No, you get the one associated with your alignment. These can be found in the description of the Spiritual Weapon spell.

Could we get a reference for this? I think that rule's not actually spelled out anywhere.

I think that was from either a FAQ or RotG. Neither are "official rules", but they usually spell out RAI pretty well. YMMV.