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2012-11-15, 06:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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What are the advantages of being Tiny?
I've almost finished helping my friend with her Petal Psion, and she wanted to know what are can being small do for her?
She's new to 3.5.
I can think of the obvious things in RAW, but what can you think of?Path of the Nefarious: A Way of the Wicked Journal.
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2012-11-15, 06:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2007
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Less likely to draw attention, can sit on ordinary people's shoulders. And of course the major AC bonus.
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2012-11-15, 06:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Sep 2011
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Getting into and out of otherwise impossible spaces.
I recall a previous game where my petal cohort and the party rogue duked it out with a lich. The rogue slammed an antimagic cage around them both, and the petal just sort of slipped out between the bars. She was also useful for investigating a small secret-area tunnel full of...well, the DM hadn't come up with the area yet.
Also, Mage Hand carries around objects up to 5 lb. Petals weigh 3 lb. of course they can fly naturally, but still, wheeeee!
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2012-11-15, 08:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Cover and total cover become a lot easier to make use of when you're the size of a potato. Your human comrades need a 4 foot stone wall or something to crouch down behind, you can just lay prone in a deep footprint.
Also, use a soup bowl and a spoon as an improvised kayak.Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-11-15, 10:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2010
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- London, EU
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
There are a number of modifiers in the table here (you need to scroll down a little).
The main things are +2 to hit, +2 AC, -8 Grapple, +8 Hide and Reach 0'.π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2012-11-16, 01:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2012
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Having a strength and load capcity so low that your clothes and a gold piece will imobilize you.
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2012-11-16, 10:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2006
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- Wandering in Harrekh
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
If you're using a Rogue-ish build, Confound the Big Folk & co. trigger with creatures 2+ size categories larger than you. With Tiny, that means anything Medium or larger is subject to sneak attacks from Knee Striker.
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2012-11-16, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
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2012-11-16, 12:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2009
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
But clothes made for smaller characters weigh a lot less. For instance, small characters can carry ¾ of what medium characters with similar strength can, but their armour and weapons (as a rule) weighs only ½ as much, and a large part of their equipment, such as food, waterskins, blankets, backpacks, and clothes weighs only ¼, so small characters are usually more than compensated for their lower strength in regards to carrying capacity. I haven't looked it up, but I can't see why the same shouldn't be the case for tiny characters.
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2012-11-16, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Dec 2007
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- Tintageer Terrace
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
something else you might find useful when using a tiny creature
Tiny Creatures with Reach Weapons
As noted earlier, using a reach weapon doubles your natural reach. If your natural reach is 0, your reach is still 0 when you wield a reach weapon. As a variant, allow Tiny creatures a reach of 5 feet when they use reach weapons.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20041102a
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2012-11-16, 06:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
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2012-11-16, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2010
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Best homebrew ever (shameless self plug)! The Stoner, always PEACH
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2012-11-16, 07:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Apr 2010
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- London, EU
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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2012-11-16, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
This is all kind of academic, since worn clothing is weightless, and anything else like a backpack is going to hold so little that you may as well not bother. You could put like, a single coin into a tiny backpack probably.
Witty sig here nosey, aren't ya?
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2012-11-16, 08:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2012
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
If you see me talking about Shaper Psions, assume that anything not poison immune within 100 feet will be dead.
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2012-11-16, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2010
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- Argonth
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2012-11-16, 09:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Mar 2011
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- Penthouse Suite
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Awesome Avvy by Sizlord!
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2012-11-16, 10:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2010
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Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
Tibbits are a Tiny race (in cat form) that can avoid most of the equipment issues. Some of their gear morphs into cat-shaped gear (e.g. a necklace becomes a collar) and remains useable, while the rest simply melds into their form. When you need to fish something out of your bag, pick up more loot etc., you can simply revert to Small size to do so. They also make great psions and psychic rogues.
A Petal Wilder would be interesting.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2012-11-16, 10:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Oct 2011
Re: What are the advantages of being Tiny?
78% of all DM's start their first campaign in a tavern. If you're among the 22% who didn't, copy and paste this into your signature and tell us where you DID begin.
I had my players wake up almost naked in a goblin-crafted dungeon, a voice booming in their ears over a speaker system that they were now a part of a trial experiment for a new piece of magitech.