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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #741 on: October 22, 2010, 06:54:54 AM »
Q218 Is there any way to boost Meldshaper Level?  The only thing that came to mind is Incarnate + Necrocarnate + Bloodline
Eh, the wizard have more money than them combined, he could in theory just use all his money on a fleet of trained attack mules, but then we aren't playing 3.5 but zergling rushing in Starcraft instead.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #742 on: October 22, 2010, 08:58:43 AM »
Q219 I asked before but I don't think it was answered, Can Wish and limited Wish duplicate psionic powers?
What about mysteries from shadowcaster Utterances from truenamer and Invocations from warlock?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #744 on: October 22, 2010, 11:55:24 AM »
Q216
Sacred exorcist maybe?
why would a warmage have only a 10 int?

3 reasons: Concentration, Spellcraft and Knowledge (Arcana). I don't care much for Warmage's Edge, and thus I only use int for skills. Sacred Excorcist is always a nice option, but it would be nice to find something that were a little less demanding in the skill point department.. Is there another option?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #745 on: October 22, 2010, 12:08:04 PM »
Eh, I'm a skill point junkie, I guess.

Could always grab Planar Touchstone: Catalogus of Enlightenment to grab the Sun domain power, which nets you a turning ability. Other than that, nothing I know of would allow you to progress existing spellcasting and provide turning.
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A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
Three Errata for the Mage-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #746 on: October 22, 2010, 01:15:19 PM »
Q220:Aside from web material, Dragon material, and Savage Species, are there any other WotC books with monster class savage progressions?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #747 on: October 22, 2010, 01:47:30 PM »
Q220:Aside from web material, Dragon material, and Savage Species, are there any other WotC books with monster class savage progressions?

A220: Planar Handbook.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #748 on: October 22, 2010, 01:49:10 PM »
Q219 I asked before but I don't think it was answered, Can Wish and limited Wish duplicate psionic powers?
What about mysteries from shadowcaster Utterances from truenamer and Invocations from warlock?

Wish: "Duplicate any other spell of 6th level or lower, provided the spell is not of a school prohibited to you."

IMO as a DM, yes, but I don't know of any specific RAW. I believe Utterances and certainly Invocations have an effective "spell level". You're definitely covered up to Greater Invocations for Wish, but Dark can go over 6th.
Psionics I suppose falls under whatever transparency your campaign is running under, matching up the disciplines to schools if you have any banned.

FWIW, the most often used case in my games - I allow Limited Wish to replicate Psychic Reformation, of course, at the most dis-favorable XP cost RAW.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #749 on: October 22, 2010, 02:30:56 PM »
Q 221 A friend of mine who plays 4th was saying that they've introduced the headless horseman in one of the new online dragon magazines. Is there such a creature in 3.5?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #750 on: October 22, 2010, 04:02:21 PM »
Q 221 A friend of mine who plays 4th was saying that they've introduced the headless horseman in one of the new online dragon magazines. Is there such a creature in 3.5?
One of the halloween articles on the WotC site had him, not sure when, though.
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A gygaxian dungeon is like the world's most messed up game show.

Behind door number one: INSTANT DEATH!
Behind door number 2: A magic crown!
Behind door number 3: 4d6 giant bees, and THREE HUNDRED POUNDS OF HONEY!
They don't/haven't, was the point. 3.5 is as dead as people not liking nice tits.

Sometimes, their tits (3.5) get enhancements (houserules), but that doesn't mean people don't like nice tits.

Though sometimes, the surgeon (DM) botches them pretty bad...
Best metaphor I have seen in a long time.  I give you much fu.
Three Errata for the Mage-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Barbarian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Monks doomed to die,
One for the Wizard on his dark throne
In the Land of Charop where the Shadows lie.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #751 on: October 22, 2010, 04:08:45 PM »
Q 221 A friend of mine who plays 4th was saying that they've introduced the headless horseman in one of the new online dragon magazines. Is there such a creature in 3.5?
One of the halloween articles on the WotC site had him, not sure when, though.
I think it was one of the death knights, actually. They didn't explain the missing head part though.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #752 on: October 22, 2010, 04:53:56 PM »
Q220:Aside from web material, Dragon material, and Savage Species, are there any other WotC books with monster class savage progressions?
Libris mortis, probablt one of the dragon-based books
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #753 on: October 22, 2010, 05:01:02 PM »
Also, every Races of X book and Complete Psionic. 

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #754 on: October 22, 2010, 06:31:05 PM »
Q 222:
For spells that grant you a Gaze Attack for a duration (Freezing Glance from Frostburn for example), is it assumed that it takes a Standard Action to use?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #755 on: October 22, 2010, 06:56:06 PM »
A222: No. By default, gaze attacks require no action to use. For the sake of balance, most* gaze attacks from powers or spells do require some action to activate (like the Eyes of the Basilisk power from Complete Psionic) or otherwise carry some restrictions (Freezing Glance can only affect one target per round).

*Cast in Stone (Spell Compendium) carries no restrictions, oddly enough.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #756 on: October 22, 2010, 07:01:03 PM »
Q 222:
For spells that grant you a Gaze Attack for a duration (Freezing Glance from Frostburn for example), is it assumed that it takes a Standard Action to use?
Gaze Attacks are way more bitchin' than that.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #757 on: October 22, 2010, 07:35:55 PM »
Q223: A Druid 11 has Rapid Spell, and a 6th level spell slot devoted to a Rapid Spelled SNA 5. They also have a Ring of the Beast. Do they still get the effect of a SNA 6 or does the metamagic bit violate the clause on the ring?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #758 on: October 22, 2010, 08:04:30 PM »
A223
it kinda depends on interpretation:
in this case, "normal" would be a "rapid spell SNA" ... which would mean no (at least, AFAIC, RAI-wise)

a much more liberal interpretation, on the other hand .....

« Last Edit: October 22, 2010, 08:06:23 PM by wotmaniac »

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #759 on: October 22, 2010, 08:19:05 PM »
Q 224: Are there any feats other than dragonwrought and otherworldly that change your type? 

Q 225: Are there any +0 LA templates other than necropolitan that change your type?