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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 30
The Sun School's Flash of Sunset maneuver is stated as such (emphasis mine):
Originally Posted by Complete Warrior
A) The attack, I guess, can be a trip attack, but can someone with Improved Trip that succeeds in tripping the foe follow up with the free attack granted by the feat?
B) Since Flash of Sunset's attack is part of whatever action (standard, move or even swift) initiating the instant displacement, can the attack be a strike maneuver (which usually requires a standard action of its own)?
C) Can someone with the Snap Kick feat use this additional attack alongside the one granted by Flash of Sunset?
D) If the Flash of Sunset attack downs a foe, can someone with the Cleave feat (that hadn't been used yet this round) hit another adjacent foe?
E) If you're doing the instant move as your standard action (or as a move action, but your standard action is used for something else than attacking), then can you apply the Combat Expertise feat to the attack granted by Flash of Sunset for the dodge bonuses? I'm asking because, technically, you can be considered not actually using the attack action or full-attack action this round...Last edited by St Fan; 2020-11-27 at 01:42 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
A 29 Yes. It also affects spell-like abilities that mimic those spells and any supernatural abilities that specify they are necromantic effects.
A 30a Yes, yes.
A 30b If you have the action required to initiate a maneuver, yes, otherwise, no.
A 30c Yes.
A 30d Yes.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q31a
If you do the wight thing and dispense with a racial hitdie for a Kaorti (Fiend Folio 108), exchanging the remaining HD into your first class level, what would be the effective end-result for this LA+2 race?
Based on the Monsters and Class Levels section, I'd think you'd lose any BAB, saves, racial skill points, or feats granted by the HD, but retain the natural armor, natural weapon, SLAs, SU abilities, Ex abilities, and skill bonus, making Kaorti essentially read:
Spoiler: Modified Kaorti StatblockAttributes:
Size/Type: Medium Outsider (Evil, Extraplanar)
Base speed: Land 30
Strength: -4
Intelligence: +4
Dexterity: +4
Wisdom: -
Constitution: -
Charisma: +6
Level Adjustment: +2
Space: 5 ft.
Reach: 5 ft.
Automatic languages: Kaorti.
Bonus languages: Common, Sylvan.
Racial Traits:
Spell-Like Abilities: 1/day--alter self, color spray, feather fall, ray of enfeeblement, reduce, spider climb. Caster level 2nd; save DC 14 + spell level.
Vile Transformation (Su): A kaorti can infuse any living creature with otherwordly essence from the Far Realm, permanently transforming the target into a mockery of its previous form. This process takes 8 hours, during which time the kaorti's jaws must be locked onto the victim, who must either be willing or helpless for the duration. After 8 hours, the victim must make a Fortitude save (DC 11). Failure indicates that the victim transforms into a kaorti (if the victim was a humanoid), or into a kaorti thrall. If the victim succeeds at at the save, the kaorti can attempt the transformation again; each additional attempt to transform a victim increases the save DC by +1.
Creatures transformed into kaortis retain any class abilities and modify their ability scores as follows: Str -4, Dex +4, Int +4, Cha +6. They become neutral evil and embrace the racial ethos of the kaortis. They gain all of the other abilities and disadvantages of a standard kaorti. This transformation is the only way the kaorti can propagate their kind.
A victim transformed into a kaorti thrall gains the fiendish creature template, except that instead of gaining the smite good special attack, it gains the ability to cast true strike on itself once per day.
Material Vulnerability (Ex): The Material Plane is painful to an unprotected kaorti. An unprotected kaorti must make a Fortitude save each hour (DC 15, +1 per previous check) or take 1d6 points of subdual damage and become fatigued. The fatigued condition persists until the kaorti recovers all the subdual damage it took from its exposure to the Material Plane. If a kaorti is rendered unconscious through the accumulation of subdual damage (from this ability or from any other source), the Material Plane environs begin to deal normal damage at the same rate (Fort save negates; save DC continues to increase per check as stated above). A kaorti wearing a resin suit, or a kaorti inside a cyst, is protected from the effects of the Material Plane.
Skills: Kaortis have a +8 racial bonus on Heal checks.
Kaortis possess darkvision out to 60 feet.
As an extraplanar outsider, Kaortis require limited wish, wish, miracle, or true resurrection to restore it to life.
Kaortis are proficient with all simple weapons and martial weapons.
Kaortis are proficient with all light armor and shields.
Kaortis breathe, but do not need to eat or sleep (although they can do so if they wish).
Does this stat block seem accurate?
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If a Kaorti is created from a creature on the PMP, would it be considered native?Last edited by Doctor Despair; 2020-11-27 at 10:26 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Yes, you have accurately listed the things you would keep and lose if you kept one hd to replace with a class level.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 32
About coup de grâce...
A) Can you use a strike maneuver as a coup de grâce? I see problems with it since not only a is coup de grâce a full-round action while most strikes are standard action, but also the rules for strikes include this:
"In addition you cannot combine special attacks such as sunder and bull rushes with strikes, even if you have feats that make such special attacks more potent."
Does a coup de grâce count as a "special attack" for strikes?
B) A precedent question answered that Power Attack could be used with a coup de grâce, the to-hit malus becoming irrelevant since a coup de grâce automatically hits. However, can you use Combat Expertise alongside a coup de grâce to likewise get the maximum bonus for the rest of the round?
C) If the answer to B is yes, does the dodge bonus from Combat Expertise already concern any attack of opportunity made by foes against the character performing the coup de grâce?Last edited by St Fan; 2020-11-28 at 03:45 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Rhymes with "Protracted."
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 33
What traits does a warforged have, if it is allowed to take the Human Heritage feat? Pretend, if you have to, that it's some kind of cyborg: half-human, half-robot.
Originally Posted by Races of Destiny, p. 152
Does this warforged have humanoid traits? Construct traits? Living construct traits? Some combination of each of them?
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
A half-human, half-warforged cyborg, by RAW, would have to be a 10th-level renegade mastermaker, since as far as I'm aware, that's the only method in the rules by which you might achieve such a thing. So, assuming that's the case, Human Heritage's type change occurs when you take the feat and can be overridden by later type changes normally, which means the renegade mastermaker would become a living construct with all living construct traits as normal upon reaching level 10, and would count as both human and warforged for prerequisites.
If you're talking about starting as a warforged and somehow gaining the Human Heritage feat, then the feat would have no effect, as you do not meet the prerequisites and therefore cannot gain the benefits.Rhymes with "Protracted."
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 35
I just noticed an easy-to-forget little rule about the Charge special attack:
"Even if you have extra attacks, such as from having a high enough base attack bonus or from using multiple weapons, you only get to make one attack during a charge."
The mention "such as" usually mean "including, but not limited to", so...
A) Does one cannot use the Snap Kick feat alongside a charge?
B) Does one cannot use the Cleave feat on another opponent if the charged one is downed?Spoiler
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 36
Can creatures with no Int score have class levels?
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
A 35 Both of those things take place after the charge is completed, so you are able to do snap kick and/or cleave at the end of a charge if you meet their respective conditions.
A 36 No. No skills or feats either.Last edited by Venger; 2020-11-29 at 06:00 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 37 Mithral armor and proficiency.
I remember seeing/hearing a debate on this particular matter in the first years of Core Pathfinder 1e, that in 3.5 you didn't need proficiency in armor's normal category, if you had proficiency in the category where the armor is when made of mithral. That is, in particular, if a character with proficiency in up to medium armor got their hands on mithral full plate, they could use it without proficiency related problems. Is this correct?
FWIW/to compare, in Pathfinder it's spelled clearly that you do need proficiency in the armor's normal category, even if mithral made it lower.Last edited by Arkhios; 2020-11-30 at 01:42 AM.
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A 37 If you have medium armor proficiency, you can wear a set of mithral full plate without penalty.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 038
I'm sure there is a 3.5 citation somewhere that racial bonuses stack, but I can't find it despite searching.
[edit] Found the citation: second part of my question below stands.
Originally Posted by PHB p.171; bolding mineLast edited by Thurbane; 2020-11-30 at 08:18 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
A 38
Ask your dungeon master.
I looked up the relevant page in the Rules Compendium: page 21. This page doesn't explicitly overrule the Player's Handbook, but it does indeed omit racial bonuses from its short list of exceptions. The Rules Compendium states that bonuses of the same type don’t stack "except for dodge bonuses and some circumstance bonuses."
The question is what to make of this omission.
Intriguingly, the Dungeon Master's Guide makes the same omission as the Rules Compendium, but with a loophole. This happens on page 21.
Different named bonus types all stack, but usually a named bonus does not stack with another bonus of the same name, except for dodge bonuses and some circumstance bonuses.
Moreover, we might also look at the Monster Manual for guidance, since the question of whether we can or cannot stack racial bonuses arises when we add templates to a creature, so that a creature effectively belongs to more than one race. And this is what the Monster Manual tells us (on page 293) to do when we add a template.
Add any skill bonuses given by the template.
I don't have the time to check to see how consistently or inconsistently the Monster Manual identifies various bonuses as "racial" or not. I am also not going to try to answer the question of whether two racial bonuses from two different races really qualify as belonging to the same type or not. Suffice it to say that there are interpretive challenges here.
Depending on how you weigh the authority of the Player's Handbook and the Monster Manual against the authority of the Dungeon Master's Guide and the Rules Compendium, and depending on how strictly we interpret an omission and how much freedom we grant ourselves with the word "usually," I think we can answer question Q 38 in different ways.
So: Ask your dungeon master.Last edited by Duke of Urrel; 2020-12-01 at 01:05 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
A 38 Addendum
From my perspective, the organization of the rules is as much a part of RAW as the actual rules text: like, there's an inherent hierarchy built into the rules. In this case, the general rule for bonus-stacking is written in the DMG section called "Bonus Types"; but then it's contradicted by the quote you provided, which is a line in the PHB chapter on Magic, in a section called "Casting Spells," in a subsection called "Special Spell Effects." The inherent organizational hierarchy of the rules should tell us that the general section on "Bonus Types" is authoritative, while the line from the subsection of the rules for casting spells applies only in the context of bonus types granted by spells.
So, by RAW, only racial bonuses granted by spells stack with other racial bonuses, and racial bonuses from non-spell sources do not stack. But, I don't think racial bonuses are a thing that spells grant very often (ever?), so I feel like the line about racial bonuses stacking is essentially impotent.Last edited by Blue Jay; 2020-12-02 at 12:17 AM.
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Q 39.
A rogue with a wisdom of 10 wants to use a scroll of cure light wounds. Is it the case that he would have to make literally three and possibly four UMD checks to activate it?
Activating a Scroll
1. DC 21 to emulate the divine spellcasting feature of a cleric.
2. DC 21 to fake having cure light wounds on his fake clerical spellcasting list
3. DC 26 to fake having a wisdom of 11
and then once activated, since they have a caster level of zero and need a caster level of 1 they would need to make a caster level check.
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A 39
Not quite.
Here's what the Use Magic Device skill has to say about using a scroll:
Originally Posted by SRD - Use Magic Device
- Dechipher a written spell (DC 25 + spell level = 26)
- Emulate an ability score (result is UMD check - 15 = 26 again for a score of 11)
- Use a scroll (DC 20 + caster level = 21)
Essentially, the UMD check to use the scroll includes faking the required caster level.Last edited by KillianHawkeye; 2020-12-03 at 01:23 PM.
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Re: Simple RAW Thread for 3.5 #36: The Triple Dozen
Q 40: Telekinetic thrust says:
, as long as all are within the power’s range and each is no more than 10 feet away from another one.
X - 10 ft - X - 10 ft - X
In other words, can it target all three X's here?
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A 41 No. ten characters
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Unless there's an int requirement listed as a prerequisite, is there anything preventing a 2-int animal that gained a bunch of HD from taking any feat, providing they meet the prerequisites?
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Q 43
A creature is trapped in an amber sarcophagus (Book of Exalted Deeds spell), which holds it in stasis.
Is that creature was summoned and the summon expires, does it still disappear from the current plane despite being locked in time?Spoiler
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