Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XXII

[mattie_p]

A 1757: Yes. They are power trigger items.

Power Trigger
This is the activation method for dorjes and psicrowns. It requires the special knowledge of power manifestation that a character of the appropriate class would know, and the formation of the appropriate command thought. If a power is on a character’s power list, the character knows how to use a power trigger item that stores that power.

[Brains]

Q 1758
Does having the throw anything feat allow your melee weapons to be enchanted as thrown weapons?

[Andezzar]

A 1758

No, the Throw Anything feat has no impact whatsoever on how enchanting works.

[Kred]

Q1759
Psionic Magic Mantle

In addition, you always treat magic and psionics as identical. Therefore, powers such as dispel psionics work for both magic and psionics.

I.e. with this mantle and with Power Resistance power i'll get a spell resist?

[mattie_p]

A 1759: Yes. Do note that you typically don't need the mantle to achieve this:

Psionics-Magic Transparency
Though not explicitly called out in the spell descriptions or magic item descriptions, spells, spell-like abilities, and magic items that could potentially affect psionics do affect psionics.

When the rule about psionics-magic transparency is in effect, it has the following ramifications.

Spell resistance is effective against powers, using the same mechanics. Likewise, power resistance is effective against spells, using the same mechanics as spell resistance. If a creature has one kind of resistance, it is assumed to have the other. (The effects have similar ends despite having been brought about by different means.)

All spells that dispel magic have equal effect against powers of the same level using the same mechanics, and vice versa.

The spell detect magic detects powers, their number, and their strength and location within 3 rounds (though a Psicraft check is necessary to identify the discipline of the psionic aura).

Dead magic areas are also dead psionics areas.

This mantle is especially effective when using the psionics are different variant from p 65 of the XPH.

[Kred]

Q1760
Will Magic Missile affect a person in Null Psionics Field if it will cast outside field?

Q1761
Can psion somehow get a mantle?

[Kred]

Q1762
Battle Jump + Leap Attack
Can i initiate this feats not from a height? Will the DC be 30 (10 ft. long jump + 5 feet high jump)

Q1763
Power Attack + Battle Jump + Leap Attack
2H sword
PA: -5 +10
PA + LA: -5 +30
PA + LA + BJ: -5 +?

[Sith_Happens]

A 1760

No (assuming transparency is in effect).

[Amiria]

Q 1764

The "Bow of Elvenkind", it is in Complete Champion, p. 137.

How much would it cost to add e.g. 'splitting' (+3) to it ?

The problem is that I'm not sure if it should be treated as as a +1 weapon (plus various bonuses) or a +2 weapon (plus various bonuses ... because of its 'seeking' (+1) property ... but that's restricted to a quite narrow group of possible users) for adding "+X" bonuses.

Q 1765

Are there even official rules for improving specific armors and weapons ?

[mattie_p]

A 1761: Yes. An egoist can pick up the life mantle in exchange for his 5th level bonus feat via an ACF available in a Mind's Eye article. Similarly, the Erudite, a psion variant found in Complete Psionic, has an ACF that grants access to a mantle of your choice, in exchange for the 1st level bonus feat. Also found in Mind's Eye.

[Curmudgeon]

A 1762 No.

Benefit: You can execute a charge by simply dropping from a height of at least 5 feet above your opponent.

Benefit: You can combine a jump with a charge against an opponent. If you cover at least 10 feet of horizontal distance with your jump, and you end your jump in a square from which you threaten your target, you deal +100% the normal bonus damage from your use of the Power Attack feat.

Battle Jump requires simply dropping: i.e., a straight vertical descent. Leap Attack requires a Long Jump, in which the maximum height is only 1/4 the length of the span: i.e., the leap is mostly horizontal with only a slight downward angle at the end. It is impossible to use these feats together.

A 1763 N/A.

A 1764

A specific weapon usually lacks a formula to determine the components of its pricing. In the case of the Bow of Elvenkind there is no formula provided, so you cannot add a +3 cost enhancement as that requires knowing the weapon cost formula. You may ask your DM if they could create an item formula for your use in their game, but they can (of course) refuse.

A 1765

You cannot add +n cost enhancements if there is no formula provided for the specific armor, but you can add fixed-cost enhancements to any armor.

[DeltaEmil]

Q 1766

Can a barbarian who is either raging, in a fit of whirling frenzy, in a state of ferocity or under the effects of berserker strength with at least 2 levels of the champion of gwynharwyf prestige class use metamagic rods to modify champion of gwynharwyf-spells cast during a rage or similar ability?

[Thurbane]

Q 1767

What Monstrous Humanoid of exactly 5 racial HD has the lowest CR?

[Venger]

Q1768 hey, if dominate person is cast on target A, say an outsider or dragon who is using polymorph to be a humanoid and then his polymorph effect wears off, does he stay dominated or not?

[Preaplanes]

Q1769: Do Celestial Creatures and Half-Celestials gain the (good) subtype and similarly do Fiendish Creatures or Half-Fiends gain the (evil) subtype?

[Curmudgeon]

A 1768 Yes.

Spells either are successfully cast, or not, depending on whether a target is valid at the time. After casting, it doesn't matter if the target criteria change; the spell is already in effect.

Spell Failure

If you ever try to cast a spell in conditions where the characteristics of the spell cannot be made to conform, the casting fails and the spell is wasted.

The Spell’s Result

Once you know which creatures (or objects or areas) are affected, and whether those creatures have made successful saving throws (if any were allowed), you can apply whatever results a spell entails.

[TuggyNE]

Q1769: Do Celestial Creatures and Half-Celestials gain the (good) subtype and similarly do Fiendish Creatures or Half-Fiends gain the (evil) subtype?

A1769: No. Types and subtypes are explicitly mentioned; Celestial/Fiendish creatures gain (Extraplanar) on the Material Plane, as do other creatures native to other planes, while Half-Celestials and Half-Fiends usually have the (Native) subtype and are commonly native to the Material Plane. In no case are alignment subtypes mentioned.

[Andezzar]

A 1767

According to this search engine it is the Loxo.

[Kred]

Q1770
Vampiric Blade power
Does it regain hit points from Power Attack damage?

[juicycaboose]

Q1771

Are there any elf variants that do not have a penalty to strength, constitution or intelligence, besides the snow elf?

Q1772

Can you use both a tumble check and a jump check at the same time to reduce 20ft worth of fall damage ?

[Thurbane]

A 1771

Half-elf
Dargonesti (LA +1) +2 Str, +2 Dex, -2 Cha (Dragonlance Campaign Setting)
Dirminesti (LA +1) +2 Str, +2 Int, -2 Wis, -2 Cha (Dragonlance Campaign Setting)

[Curmudgeon]

A 1772

You don't exactly use these skills "at the same time", because otherwise they would operate to reduce the same distance from your fall. However, skill checks are not subject to the basic stacking limits, so you can apply the reductions to effective falling distance serially.

Stacking

In most cases, modifiers to a given check or roll stack (combine for a cumulative effect) if they come from different sources and have different types (or no type at all), but do not stack if they have the same type or come from the same source (such as the same spell cast twice in succession).

You never make a check or roll to compute your falling damage, and no modifier applies. Instead, falling damage computation is in the realm of the DM, and the falling damage rules are in the Dungeon Master's Guide. You can, though, make both Jump and Tumble checks as input into your DM's determination of falling damage.

Finally, note that for every 15 points of your Tumble check result, you can treat a fall as if it were 10 feet shorter than it really is when determining damage. See the rules in Complete Adventurer on page 103 and also here.

[TuggyNE]

A1770: No. Base weapon damage dice only — Str bonus, enhancement bonus, and so on are given as examples of the things that are not included.

[Clistenes]

Q 1755:

Since you can improve your item familiar even without having the required Craft feats, and the descripton say nothing about Epic Craft feats...Can you give magical improvements to your item familiar that raise its value above 200.000 gp? And what about epic enhancements, like +6 to attack and damage and above?

Since nobody has answered my question, I'm repeating it:

Does the Item Familiar feat allow a non-epic character to create a magic item with a monetary value above 200,000 gp?

If not, does the Item Familiar feat allow an epic character to create a magic item with a monetary value above 200,000 gp?

Does the Item Familiar feat allow a non-epic character to create a magic weapon with an enhancement above +10?

If not, does the Item Familiar feat allow an epic character to create a magic weapon with an enhancement above +10?

Thank you in advance.

[Curmudgeon]

A 1755 No.

If your DM permits its use, there is still no part of the item familiars variant system which contravenes the Epic magic item rules.

[Verditude]

Q 1721

If a warlock with the Mortalbane feat (BoVD, 49) applies it to his eldritch blast, and then applies the eldritch chain shape to the blast, hitting one extra target, does the mortalbane damage apply to both targets? Does all the mortalbane damage apply to the first target and half to the second target?

I think this one got missed. Also, 2 addenda:
Q 1721a
Can Mortalbane be applied twice to an eldritch chain, once to the eldritch blast SLA and once to the blast shape SLA? If an eldritch essence that deals damage is used as well (such as vitriolic blast) can Mortalbane be applied to it as well? If so, does the thrice-mortalbane vitriolic eldritch chain do an additional 6d6 damage to appropriate targets?

Q 1721b
Can Mortalbane be applied to SLA's that deal ability damage? For instance, would a creature with a Shivering Touch SLA and Mortalbane deal 5d6 Dex damage to appropriate targets?

I don't think these have been answered. Also:
Q 1773
Does the use of the Bloodstorm Blade's Thunderous Throw ability provoke attacks of opportunity?

[Juntao112]

Q 1776:

Do the movement penalties for Black Tentacles and Solid Fog stack?

[hokorippoi]

Q 1777
I don't see any disbelief saves for it, so will someone who feels a Invisible object know it is there?

[Khedrac]

A 1776
No. Black Tentacles states that one moves at half one's normal speed and Solid Fog that a creature trying to pass through it has a speed of 5' regardless of its normal speed. Since both effect calculate back to the normal speed you simply use whichever is the lower - 5' or half normal.

[DustyBottoms]

Q 1759

If I'm a warlock-9/hellfire warlock-3 with a base 6d6 eldritch blast + 6d6 for the hellfire blast, would the Maximize Spell-Like Ability (Eldritch Blast) extend to the hellfire?

Likewise, if I instead took Maximize SLA on Hellfire Blast, would it just be the hellfire damage or would it be the full 12d6?

Thanks.
(reposted in hopes for answer)