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Thread: Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XXVI
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A 051
You're overlooking the options for the Tiny or smaller creature to avoid the AoO that movement into another creature's square normally provokes. Those include using their own 5' step, making a successful Tumble check, and not being visually apparent (because you can't make an AoO against a character with total concealment).
Additionally, there's no requirement for very small creatures to enter melee combat. Their size bonuses work fine for ranged attacks also.
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Re: Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XXVI
Q53
Can Quaal's Feather Token: Bird (DMG 264) be used to pinpoint an invisible creature?
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Q 54
About 5ft steps:
Can you:
5ft step diagonally past an enemy? (H=Hero, E=Enemy, O=Space, O=intended Square)
OHO
OEO
OOO
5ft step around a corner?
OHO
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Both examples assume that the line you draw from your square to the intended square crosses the barrier/enemy square while still measuring as 5 feet.
And can you actually 5ft step into an enemy's square if you're small enough? o0
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Re: A 46
There is no such general rule. Only certain spells (invisibility etc.) have such a rule, Greater Blink does not. As such only the standard definition of attack applies.Originally Posted by SRD on InvisibilityOriginally Posted by SRD
Yes, but it would take several rounds, unless you are somehow allowed to make more then one 5 ft step.
Only if the creature is or becomes helpless before the end of your movement:Originally Posted by SRD
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A 053
Maybe, but only in the special case in which you are already able to designate the target. ("An invisible creature nearby" is not a target designation.) You could pinpoint the location of an invisible friend if you specified them as the target to the Bird, and then succeeded in a Spot check to see where the Bird delivered the note.
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A 54 correction
Originally Posted by PHB,Chapter 8, Tactical Movement, Measuring Distance,p147Originally Posted by DMG,Chapter 2, Big and Little Creatures in Combat, Mixing It Up,p29
This reference to 'only if... helpless' is too broad for a question about creature sizes.
This reference to tiny creatures and Spring Attack is simply not true.Last edited by Fitz10019; 2014-02-26 at 05:36 AM.
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Q53 followup
A If I spend 3 rounds fighting a creature, then see him/her/it disappear (by potion/spell/SLA), and then activate the Bird feather token, will the bird successfully go to the invisible creature that I can only identify from this encounter?
B If I am searching the office of a person I have met before, find a hot cup of tea, suspect that person is in the room invisibly or hiding, and then activate the Bird feather token, will the bird successfully go to the person?
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A 053 followup
A You'll have to ask your DM. I don't of any RAW citations which would say if 3 rounds of combat, where you're concentrating on staying alive, would be enough acquaintance to designate a target suitably for a magic device. The spell Locate Creature would fail with such a poorly-known target. Parallels for magical identification exist for "viewed once" to designate a location (for Teleport), but that spell has a built-in degradation of effectiveness for poor targeting.
B Probably.
If they're invisible or nearby is not the issue; the ability to designate a target is. You may succeed in designating a target and have the Bird fly all the way across town when an acquaintance of the target has set down their beverage on the desk.
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Q55
What happens when a creature stops being a (I hesitate to use the word legal) lets say viable target for a spell?
I don't know of many examples but here are the one's I do know of,
a) A Construct affected by Greater Humanoid Essence is then affected by Telepathic Bond or similar. What happens when the GHE duration expires and the Humanoid is now a Construct immune to mind-affecting?
b) A corpse is affected by Animate Objects but is then brought back to life by Resurrection or similar. What happens to the Animate Objects effect now that the corpse it was cast on is a living thing again?
If there is no RAW on these specific instances that's fine, but I suspect there's some RAW somewhere about spells affecting targets and what happens when those targets sudden;y become immune to those spells.
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A55 partial: No discussion has so far turned up any rules on this in the years I've been here, and I am reasonably certain from considerable study that Core has no such rule at all. Therefore I suspect there is no RAW answer, or if there is it is not widely known at all.
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The "other" squares don't include the primary one. It's like saying "I have eight brothers in red shirts" doesn't imply that you have no brothers in yellow shirts. Just because there are eight other squares adjacent to the primary square doesn't mean that they are the only adjacent ones: the primary square itself is not "other", so it doesn't count as one of the eight. I claim that the primary square is adjacent to itself, making nine adjacent squares: eight "others", and one "same". If they wrote it out in full, the text would read "A square is adjacent to eight other squares [as well as to itself]."
Granted, this might not be intended. But it is what the rules say: the square itself does meet the criterion of sharing a side or corner, and it is not covered by the "eight other squares" clause.Last edited by Flame of Anor; 2014-02-26 at 08:22 AM.
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I was afraid you'd say that.
To my mind it becomes a binary problem then. Either they work and do as much as they can or they don't and stop applying when the target becomes illegal.
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Q 55 addendum:
If spells stopped functioning when their targets became invalid, then Greater Humanoid Essence all by itself would be dysfunctional: It targets constructs, and then immediately changes their type to humanoid.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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Q 56
If a substitution level (for example, Zhentarim Fighter) grants a new skill as a class skill, is that applicable only at the level indicated, or for all future levels of the class? Taking the Zhentarim Fighter example, would the Fighter have to spend one skill point or two if he wanted to gain a single rank in Bluff at Fighter4?
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Re: Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XXVI
Q57
What the heck "Identify does not function when used on an artifact." means at the definition of Identify spell?
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A57
An Artifact is a special class of magical item. You can find a list of them here. They're usually very powerful. The wording of the spell means that if you attempt to cast Identify on an Artifact, the spell doesn't work.
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I disagree that that is the same as what the rules say.
I disagree. All standard definitions of share as a transitive verb require a third party. So a square cannot share a border with itself.
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Q58:In Polymorph Any Object Does the HD-Limit from Polymorhp still apply ?
The assumed form can’t have more Hit Dice than your caster level (or the subject’s HD, whichever is lower), to a maximum of 15 HD at 15th level
Q58-B Alter self no-template limitation still apply? (In Dragon 324p65 when I was browsing for that druid skin, I came across the actual recommendation of using Polymorph Any Object to turn a squirrel corpse into a templated dragon turtle. Domo Arigato Mr Roboto has been confirmed as RAI.)Last edited by TheG; 2014-02-26 at 12:26 PM.
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Q 59
Let's say I'm a druid 5/Planar Shepherd 6 with the Realm of Dream (so magical beasts are OK no matter what), with a Skin of Keltar (which gives me +4 to my wildshape level, OP, I know) Does that allow me to turn into a huge creature with 15 HD? It's a bit unclear (http://www.scribd.com/doc/108544523/Dragon-Magazine-324 pg 76 or so)
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A 058 Yes.
A 058-A 1 HD creatures only.
The example table does not specify how many HD the Lizard to be turned into a Manticore has. You follow the text of the RAW instead of guessing at how the examples might include some unspecified exceptions.
A 058-B
No templates are allowed with Polymorph Any Object, as it inherits this restriction via Polymorph and Alter Self. A Dragon Turtle is not a templated creature, and the specific mention of Polymorph Any Object you reference does not include any templates:Of course, your DM might not always present such creatures for your party to slay, but that's why your necromancer has a transmuter ally with access to polymorph any object. The skeleton of a squirrel can become the dead body of a dragon turtle with the casting of a single spell.
Polymorph Any Object is a problematic spell. Following the RAW, the Marionette to Human transformation would produce the corpse of a Human, because the spell provides no mechanism to create HD.
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Re: Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XXVI
Q.60
If a Caster is protected by a solid fog and another caster throws an area version of dispel magic, can he attempt to dispel the fog and any 1 buff the hidden caster has on him?
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A 060 Yes.
The operative word here is "try". There is no guarantee that the 20' radius burst of Dispel Magic would catch both the origin point of the Solid Fog spell and the spellcaster who cast the spell. In the worst case you would end up just temporarily dispelling part of the Solid Fog effect, which would immediately spread out again from its origin point.
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Do familiars get their own turn each round or do they share it with their masters? If it is the former, what Initiative do they use? Does their Empathic Link have any mechanical impact on their master regarding Initiative, Flat-Footedness or Surprise Rounds?Thanks to zimmerwald1915 for giving me the random on-the-fly pic he made as an Avatar. You're awsome zimmerwald1915!
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Q. 062
Can a targeted spell like dispel magic, go through a cloudy conjuration with a 50% miss chance, or is it completely negated?
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Can you have something in common with yourself?
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