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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
From the dungeon master's guide page 30: "For an NPC with an NPC class, determine
her Challenge Rating as if she had a PC class with one less level.". The orc warrior 1 is written as being CR 1/2 (and not 0), and the orc warrior 10 is CR 9. This clearly shows that reducing CR below 1 creates progressively smaller fractional CR and subsequently increasing CR makes the fraction go closer to 1. This is also clarified in Pathfinder as 1/8->1/6->1/4->1/3->1/2->1.Resurrecting the Negative LA thread, comments and discussion are very welcome!
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
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Challenge Rating: Kobolds with levels in NPC
classes have a CR equal to their character level –3.
If the half-troll template sets the half-troll kobold warrior’s CR to 2, we still then apply the -3 CR adjustment for only having levels in an NPC class. Thus CR 2 -3 = CR -1 (which is actually denoted as CR 1/3). Factoring the extra CR 1/4 back in (instead of ignoring it), raises up to CR 1/2.
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Q 91
Does a fire shed light? And if so, how much?
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The rules state that physics work much the same way as we are used to in reality, except when stated otherwise. I was not able to find a specific radius of bright or dim light for a fire, so you will have to ask your GM how much light is shed by a fire of a given size, but the absence of a specific numerical value does not imply that fires shed no light.In the Beginning Was the Word, and the Word Was Suck: A Guide to Truenamers
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If I play a cleric up to the point where I can cast 4th level divine spells and then take a level of Nar Demonbinder, can I use Nar Demonbinder's spells to qualify for other prestige classes that require 4th or 5th level arcane spells? On a similar question: Mystic Theurge requires 2nd level divine AND 2nd level arcane spells - does this requirement mean I cannot use Demonbinder to qualify for it (since I can't cast 2nd level arcane spells, only 4th and up)?
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A 92
Yes, you can. The Nar Demonbinder spellcasting is completely separate from the cleric spellcasting.
By RAW, you can't qualify for Mystic Theurge since you can't cast 2nd level spells. That said, you can prepare lower level spells in higher level slots or use higher slots to cast lower level spells, so if you can learn a 2nd level spell (Initiate feats or Arcane Disciple, a level in a prestige class that gives you new spells known, or even a Ring of Theurgy, so long as you don't actually cast the spell), you'll qualify for Mystic Theurge.Resurrecting the Negative LA thread, comments and discussion are very welcome!
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
Q. 93 The Headband of Intellect explicitly removes itself from giving extra skill points on level up. Other than the Ioun Stone, are there any other temporary Int enhancers that lack that bit of wording?
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
Q94: I'm sure I've seen some easy way to get a dragon to take heal among his spells, but I can't find support how anymore. Was I mistaken all along? how can dragon take healing spells?
Q95: breath-enhancing spells: a dragon using a quickened spell can apply two such spells to the same use of his breath weapon?In memory of Evisceratus: he dreamed of a better world, but he lacked the class levels to make the dream come true.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
A 95: Generally, no.
The Quicken Spell feat enables you to cast a spell as a swift action. But you can take only one swift action per round, regardless of which other actions you take.
The PLAYER'S HANDBOOK v. 3.5 (2012) states (on page 98) that the Quicken Spell feat enables you to cast a spell as a free action that you can take only once per round. However, the SRD changes the wording to swift action. This reflects the generally accepted assumption that the "free action" mentioned on page 98 of the PLAYER'S HANDBOOK should now be considered to be a swift action. You can cast both a Quickened spell and a swift-action spell in the same round only if you happen to have a dungeon master who rejects this assumption.
As far as I know, most spells that affect breath weapons are already swift-action spells that do not have to be Quickened. No matter how you may interpret the rules, you can cast no more than one of these spells per round.
The only spell I can find (in the SPELL COMPENDIUM v. 3.5) that affects a breath weapon but whose casting time is a standard action is the Animate Breath spell. Unlike all the other breath-weapon-affecting spells, this one has a duration of one round per caster level. It might be possible to cast the Animate Breath spell one round before you use your breath weapon – by "holding the charge," so to speak. Assuming that you could "hold the charge" of the Animate Breath spell, you might, when your next turn began, cast a second breath-weapon-affecting spell as a swift action. This would enable you to modify a single use of your breath weapon with two spells. For example, you might cast Animate Breath as a standard action, wait until your next turn, cast the Blinding Breath spell as a swift action, and create an animated breath weapon that blinds your enemies when it appears and then continues to attack them (as a fire elemental would) for one round per caster level minus one. Of course, since the rules don't explicitly allow you to do this, I advise you to ask your dungeon master.Last edited by Duke of Urrel; 2022-03-13 at 10:16 AM.
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A94 additional Some non-metallic dragons‚ such as the Red and Blue Dragons‚ can also choose cleric spells instead of sorcerer ones. Also‚ any true dragon can take a sovereign archetype (basically a LA+0 acquired template gain through extensive study and training). One archetype‚ Lightkeeper‚ allows them to choose cleric spells.
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a: At seventh level, a Dread Necromancer obtains a familiar, with a handful of modifications-- not gaining speak with others, changing type, and most importantly for my purposes being able to 'store' uses of Charnel Touch and other Dread Necromancer abilities. If a Dread Necromancer were to take the feat Obtain Familiar, would the familiar from this feat, being "a dread necromancer's familiar", be similarly modified?
b: If a dread necromancer were to already have or subsequently take levels in a non-Dread-Necromancer familiar-granting class, such as wizard, how would the above interact with the familiar?
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
A 96a No
A 96b It wouldn't. Obtain familiar grants you a familiar. If you had one already, congratulations, now you have two.
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Q 97
Considering the rules about touch spells...
Originally Posted by Touch Spells in Combat
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B) Would this stunning also interfere with holding the charge of the touch spell in any way?Last edited by St Fan; 2022-03-15 at 06:11 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
A 97a No. Making a touch attack is part of casting a touch spell.
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A 97 additional
Moreover, since "You make all pertinent decisions about a spell (range, target, area, effect, version, and so forth) when the spell comes into effect", several of which are determined by caster level (and caster level being generally irrelevant before this point), it's implied that caster level is determined when the spell comes into effect. In the case of touch spells, the target is determined by touching it, so that's when the spell has to come into effect.
(And if you got stunned any earlier than that, Reserves of Strength broadly wouldn't work on spells with a casting time of longer than 1 round since you normally wouldn't have an action to keep casting it.)
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Q98: What kind of damage does the Necrocarnum Touch soulmeld deal?
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
I hadn't seen it that way. Interesting. (That still makes using Reserves of Strength on an offensive touch spell a pretty bad idea, since you're way too close to an opponent while vulnerable.)
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Originally Posted by Touch Spells and Holding the ChargeOriginally Posted by Touch Powers and Holding the Charge
B) Can a multiclassed spellcaster/manifester cast a touch spell, and then manifest a touch power (or vice-versa) while holding the charge on both without dissipating either?
C) If B) is correct, then does a single touch discharge both the spell and the power upon the target?Last edited by St Fan; 2022-03-16 at 03:58 PM. Reason: Edited number, since a post was made before.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #37: 3d12+1
A) Yes. From "Spell Flower" : She could also use any of her spell-like or supernatural bilities, since those do not interfere with holding a charge.
B) Magic-Psionics transparency : everything that affects spells also affects power. You can't.
C) Without Transparency : Obviously no explicit rule on this. You'd probably use Spell Flower rules : "Since he has multiple limbs that are considered armed, he can make an off-hand attack with the other touch spell in the same round, with the normal penalties for fighting with two weapons (PH 160)."Resurrecting the Negative LA thread, comments and discussion are very welcome!
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A 99 continued
I was going to contest the answer, but I found the relevant rule. It seems you're correct.
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With psionics-magic transparency in effect, can a spectral hand spell thus deliver touch-range psionic powers of 4th level or lower as if they were spells?Spoiler
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A100 Yes you can.
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I'm looking for but can't find an arcane spell in D&D 3.5e that summons or calls a flock of giant eagles. Anyone recall which I'm talking about?
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Q 102a
What constitutes "access to" a domain?
Suppose a cleric, say, of Obad-Hai, takes the Fire and Plant domains. At 1st level, she takes the Spontaneous Domain Casting ACF, giving up the ability to prepare the domain's spells. At 3rd level, she takes the Divine Restoration ACF, giving up the domain power. At 6th level, she enters Holt Warden, and elects to exchange her ability to spontaneously cast spells from the Fire domain for the ability to spontaneously cast spells from the Plant domain.
Does this cleric have "access to the Fire domain"? Can she take the Domain Focus feat, selecting the Fire domain? Can she take Domain Spontaneity, selecting the Fire domain?
Q 102b
A 5th-level sorcerer takes the Domain Access ACF and selects the Fire domain. Does this sorcerer have "access to the Fire domain"? Can she take the Domain Focus feat, selecting the Fire domain?
Q 102c
A dread necromancer takes the Touchstone feat and fulfills the recharge condition of the Catalogues of Enlightenment, selecting the Fire domain. Does she have "access to the Fire domain"?
Q 102d
The dread necromancer in (c) also takes the Arcane Disciple feat, selecting the Fire domain. Does she have "access to the Fire domain"?
Q 102g
The cleric in (a) casts substitute domain, swapping the Plant domain for, say, the Air domain. Does she still spontaneously cast spells from the Plant domain?
Q 102e
The cleric in (a) casts substitute domain. Can she swap the Fire domain to gain the granted powers and access to the spells of the Air domain?
Q 102f
Does she have "access to the Air domain"?
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A 102a Yes. Yes. Yes. You may have changed out many of the normal benefits of access to the fire domain but if you were to find for example, a magic item which provided access to a fire domain spell not normally on the cleric list, you could use it without rolling.
A 102b Yes.
A 102c No. You just have the granted power.
A 102d Yes.
A 102e Yes.
A 102f Yes.
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A 102 contention
I share most of Venger's conclusions, except for 102d. The Arcane Disciple feat only add spells to your spell list. It doesn't matter if you combine that with acceding to the Domain power by whatever mean, you still doesn't have "access to the domain".
Although most elements of a domain already granted can be indeed swapped through ACF and still count as having it, a domain isn't just "granted power+spells". It cannot be assembled by bit and pieces from other sources; the class, prestige class or ACF must clearly specify you gain access to a domain.
For example, the wizard's ACF "Granted Domain Power" includes this specific text:
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Q 103
Let's have a look at the battlemagic perception spell:
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For this option to be any useful, it should allow counterspelling "as an immediate action", right?Spoiler
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A 103
If an effect says you can take a free action outside of your turn‚ then you can. It's the same way Feather Fall was initially a free action useable outside your turn‚ or‚ incidentally‚ how counterspelling is described in the SRD ("
If the target of your counterspell tries to cast a spell, make a Spellcraft check (DC 15 + the spell’s level). This check is a free action."). It would probably be clearer to change it to an immediate action‚ but as written‚ Battlemagic Perception doesn't use your swift action to counterspell.Last edited by Beni-Kujaku; 2022-03-17 at 11:18 AM.