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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #920 on: October 26, 2010, 11:52:36 PM »
Q 265:I can make a tumble check to reduce fall damage by 1d6. I can make a jump check to reduce fall damage by 1d6 (so long as it's voluntary). Can I do both to reduce damage when jumping down by 2d6?
Yes. You can also pass each check by 10 to take another 1d6 off each time. There's no upper limit on it, but just use Feather Fall.

For the tumble check, it's 15 points per d6.  Where are the rules for a higher jump check reducing the damage by more than 1d6? 
aside from the Roofwalker feat (RoD), there is none.  

besides, if you think about it from a methodological perspective, landing from a height really is more a function of tumbling than it is jumping.

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Please note: I'm not asking about reducing fall damage, I'm asking if the reduction from a jump check stacks with the reduction from a tumble check.
yes. (at least, there is nothing that implies otherwise -- nor should there be)

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #921 on: October 27, 2010, 12:31:17 AM »
Yes, they stack. 
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #922 on: October 27, 2010, 12:52:56 AM »
Q266 : Polymorph changes your type and subtype, does this disqualify you from race specific PrC's (not type).  For instance the shadowcraft mage requires gnome, chameleon requires human, bladesinger requires elf, etc.  A template would not because it does not change your race, but polymorph temporarily changes your race as well.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #923 on: October 27, 2010, 01:07:05 AM »
Q266 : Polymorph changes your type and subtype, does this disqualify you from race specific PrC's (not type).  For instance the shadowcraft mage requires gnome, chameleon requires human, bladesinger requires elf, etc.  A template would not because it does not change your race, but polymorph temporarily changes your race as well.

A266: IIRC, you temporarily gain the Augmented Humanoid (Insert Race Here) subtype while polymorphed under the current errata. This prevents you from disqualifying yourself from feats and other set-in-stone choices.


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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #924 on: October 27, 2010, 01:13:54 AM »
Q266 : Polymorph changes your type and subtype, does this disqualify you from race specific PrC's (not type).  For instance the shadowcraft mage requires gnome, chameleon requires human, bladesinger requires elf, etc.  A template would not because it does not change your race, but polymorph temporarily changes your race as well.
Losing access to prereqs like this can get silly. Such as losing "Ability to Cast 2nd Level Spells" in an AMF.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #925 on: October 27, 2010, 01:17:21 AM »
You can still cast them.  They just don't do shit.

Now, if you're out of slots, on the other hand...
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #926 on: October 27, 2010, 01:22:43 AM »
Q267: You may use both a free action and swift action in the same round, yes? I forget.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #927 on: October 27, 2010, 01:24:20 AM »
Q267: You may use both a free action and swift action in the same round, yes? I forget.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #928 on: October 27, 2010, 01:26:57 AM »
Q268: Where can I find the latest polymorph errata? When I try to google it the links on the Wizards webpage brings me to the errata for books, and I can't find a Polymorph errata in any of them.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #929 on: October 27, 2010, 01:30:01 AM »
Q266 : Polymorph changes your type and subtype, does this disqualify you from race specific PrC's (not type).  For instance the shadowcraft mage requires gnome, chameleon requires human, bladesinger requires elf, etc.  A template would not because it does not change your race, but polymorph temporarily changes your race as well.

A266: IIRC, you temporarily gain the Augmented Humanoid (Insert Race Here) subtype while polymorphed under the current errata. This prevents you from disqualifying yourself from feats and other set-in-stone choices.

Nice.  I hoped that was not another case like the PrC's that disqualify themselves once they complete it and change their qualifying type to something else.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #930 on: October 27, 2010, 01:54:53 AM »
Q268: Where can I find the latest polymorph errata? When I try to google it the links on the Wizards webpage brings me to the errata for books, and I can't find a Polymorph errata in any of them.

A268 The rules compendium has the polymorph subschool's most current rules on page 122.  They seem identical to those found in Player's Handbook II.  I have not found the augmented subtype part yet besides this in the SRD:

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This seems to just grant the augmented type, not race like dwarf or elf.  Humans might be in luck at least since there is a human subtype (not refering to the humanoid subtype).  Working on a trick, might be out of luck.

Also I did not see anything in the FAQ.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #931 on: October 27, 2010, 01:55:42 AM »
Q268: Where can I find the latest polymorph errata? When I try to google it the links on the Wizards webpage brings me to the errata for books, and I can't find a Polymorph errata in any of them.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #932 on: October 27, 2010, 02:37:31 AM »
Q267: You may use both a free action and swift action in the same round, yes? I forget.

A267:  Yes, but note that Quickened Spells have been errataed to be Swift Actions.

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #933 on: October 27, 2010, 10:48:33 AM »
Q269: Does the Shadow jump ability, gained from shadowdancer or telflammar shadowlord, carry all the normal drawbacks of the dimension door spell like (like the stopping of all actions after the spell), or are there special rules for the shadow jump ability?

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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #934 on: October 27, 2010, 10:54:53 AM »
Q268: Where can I find the latest polymorph errata? When I try to google it the links on the Wizards webpage brings me to the errata for books, and I can't find a Polymorph errata in any of them.

A268 The rules compendium has the polymorph subschool's most current rules on page 122.  They seem identical to those found in Player's Handbook II.  I have not found the augmented subtype part yet besides this in the SRD:

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This seems to just grant the augmented type, not race like dwarf or elf.  Humans might be in luck at least since there is a human subtype (not refering to the humanoid subtype).  Working on a trick, might be out of luck.

Also I did not see anything in the FAQ.
The Polymorph subschool stuff doesn't affect the original Alter Self, Polymorph, and other spells based on them at all. This is stated in the sidebar called "Spells that came before" in the section of the Polymorph subschool writeup. Basically, WotC thought the original Polymorph line of spells was too overpowered to even bother fixing. So they made up different spells, and suggested that you use those instead of the originals.

To figure out how Alter Self, Polymorph, and the other original spells were supposed to work, you have to dig back into the Errata before the Polymorph subschool stuff. Basically, you don't gain/lose hit points despite changes to Con, and everything else is pretty much as written in the spell descriptions in the SRD.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #935 on: October 27, 2010, 10:59:45 AM »
Q269: Does the Shadow jump ability, gained from shadowdancer or telflammar shadowlord, carry all the normal drawbacks of the dimension door spell like (like the stopping of all actions after the spell), or are there special rules for the shadow jump ability?
Shadowlord gets special abilities when they shadowjump that allows them to break that rule in specific ways. Shadowdancer is SoL, though,  unless they also take a dip into Telflammar shadowlord or Crinti Marauder.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #936 on: October 27, 2010, 07:29:10 PM »
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Where can I find a number for how many spells of each level are printed in official 3.5/3.x supplements, if any? It is somewhat important sense I am having several thousand Wizard Followers scribing there spells into Blessed Books of Boccob.
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #937 on: October 27, 2010, 07:31:51 PM »
Q271: Could you use the Humanoid Form invocation as part of the qualication for Master Transmogriphist?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #938 on: October 27, 2010, 07:55:32 PM »
Q270
Where can I find a number for how many spells of each level are printed in official 3.5/3.x supplements, if any? It is somewhat important sense I am having several thousand Wizard Followers scribing there spells into Blessed Books of Boccob.
Copy and paste a search from Imarvintpa into excel and count the row numbers?
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Re: Ask a Simple Question, Part 18: Lucid Dreaming Ghost Pixie Hood Edition
« Reply #939 on: October 27, 2010, 08:39:30 PM »
Q272

If your a high level character and you commonly polymorph into anouther creature to take advantage of their higher ability scores. Do you apply your HD, inherent, enhancement bonus's to your new racial base? So if your normally an elf with a 14 Dex and you put your 5 HD ability scores into Dex and bought and read and tome of Dex +5 and have gloves of dex +6, when you polymorph into a pixie would you have an 18 dexterity or 34 ?