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    Seems the writers of the ELH simply forgot their own rule that BAB does not increase after 20th level. I can picture a correction with some awkward wording that adds the epic attack bonus to the BAB for the purposes of this feat, but as it stands... yeah, the feat does nothing.
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    Maybe this general rule?
    Oops, missed that. In that case, yeah, the feat works just fine and dandy. Still underwhelming, like lots of epic non-magic stuff, but it works.

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    Crossposted from another thread Dhampir characters can die of old age during chargen:
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    While the errata document is okay, anyone else with the actual PDF notice the glaring issue they left? They only changed the starting age to 20, yet left the dice rolls alone!!!

    Which MEANS... that a dhampir wizard is at LEAST 30 years old and can be up to 80 years old, making him venerable and quite possibly (especially if 71+) needing the GM to immediately make a roll to see if he's already dead.. This is based on the STARTING AGE TABLE.
    Also, the dysfunction with Mutation Warrior's mutagen, where it didn't give any benefit when consumed because the Mutation Warrior isn't an alchemist, may have just been fixed by errata.
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    I had an odd thought, one that doesn't really fit here but doesn't fit at all anywhere else.

    By RAW a half dragon has a breath weapon. The damage on this breath weapon is invariably 6d8. A half dragon titan has the same breath weapon as a half dragon mouse. Now, by RAW any half dragon creature has it's breath weapon simply by virtue of being a half dragon.

    Dragon hatchlings can use their breath weapon immedately upon hatching. Logically then a half dragon human can use it's breath weapon immedately upon being born. Midwifery in D&D dangerous.

    By RAW roughly 85% of the world population of humanoids are first level commoners.

    And you thought that a two year old's temper tantrum was bad in the real world. In D&D a half dragon child is likely to kill anyone nearby every time it gets upset. Not to mention starting fires or melting holes in the walls.

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    Fortunately, Unholy Scions are the only creatures that are even discussed before early adulthood.
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    Fortunately, Unholy Scions are the only creatures that are even discussed before early adulthood.
    Are you sure about that? Blooded One template (Unapproachable East, page 61):
    The blooding process can be applied only to a young creature (any creature that has not yet reached the age of adulthood for its race).

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Viscount View Post
    Fortunately, Unholy Scions are the only creatures that are even discussed before early adulthood.
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    Are you sure about that? Blooded One template (Unapproachable East, page 61):
    Huh, so a blooded one can only be made from a young creature, but the only way to get a hold of a young creature with stats is for it to be an Unholy Scion. The Blooded One is a template for another template. BWOOONG, dawg.

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    Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
    If you ever come across that thought-experiment that is wearing full plate made out of live babies, not only is it not evil to attack your armored foe, paladins would be able to smite the exceptionally evil babies too.
    There's a blackguard in the BoVD (I think) that does something very similar; they have 8 orphans chained to them in each of their adjacent spaces, and a reach weapon.

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    If a dragon falls on you (perhaps by way of reversed greater seek the sky) it does no damage because it's not an object but a creature (which are explicitly not objects), and only objects deal falling damage when they land on you. An exception is made if it's dead. If it dies from the fall, it's in the process of changing from creature to object when it would deal damage to you, and no-one knows whether or not you actually take any damage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jormengand View Post
    If a dragon falls on you (perhaps by way of reversed greater seek the sky) it does no damage because it's not an object but a creature (which are explicitly not objects), and only objects deal falling damage when they land on you. An exception is made if it's dead. If it dies from the fall, it's in the process of changing from creature to object when it would deal damage to you, and no-one knows whether or not you actually take any damage.
    Dead creatures are objects? I thought they were still creatures, just with the Dead condition.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Necroticplague View Post
    Dead creatures are objects? I thought they were still creatures, just with the Dead condition.
    Certain creatures can damage creatures by falling on them with their Crush (Ex) attack, which dragons actually have at a certain size. The dysfunction here could be that a dead dragon doesn't deal damage when falling on someone because it can't take a standard action.

    As for creatures and their corpses as objects, the best RAI I can derive is that creatures possess their body parts as objects. When a creature dies, it becomes much easier to remove those objects from the creature. The creature no longer has control or possession of the objects that make it up and they can then be used in different ways.
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    Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
    Certain creatures can damage creatures by falling on them with their Crush (Ex) attack, which dragons actually have at a certain size. The dysfunction here could be that a dead dragon doesn't deal damage when falling on someone because it can't take a standard action.

    As for creatures and their corpses as objects, the best RAI I can derive is that creatures possess their body parts as objects. When a creature dies, it becomes much easier to remove those objects from the creature. The creature no longer has control or possession of the objects that make it up and they can then be used in different ways.
    RAI? Are you talking about the Italian TV network? That's gotta be it, because the alternative doesn't really hold much ground in a Dysfunctional Rules thread (I kid, of course, I'm trying to make sense of what was on the designer's mind all the time.)

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    RAI? Are you talking about the Italian TV network? That's gotta be it, because the alternative doesn't really hold much ground in a Dysfunctional Rules thread (I kid, of course, I'm trying to make sense of what was on the designer's mind all the time.)
    It's sort of a Rule Zero justification, really. Not even a rule on its own, but a way to make sense of what isn't written in the rules.

    Creatures have body parts. Various healing/ resurrection spells mention being (un)able to restore these body parts. Body parts can (somehow) be removed. Removed body parts can be used as objects. The objects aren't alive anymore. It must be that a dead creature has objects on its lootable corpse that include the inanimate and dissected corpse itself. Squid's Go-Pro. :p

    Bear in mind that this crude rule patch technically allow loot an entire corpse from a creature. This could mean that the creature still exists as an undefined rules 'article' and reviving it without any kind of body and may get weird. I wish somebody else had thought this out- my brain got looted.
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    Quote Originally Posted by No brains View Post
    It's sort of a Rule Zero justification, really. Not even a rule on its own, but a way to make sense of what isn't written in the rules.

    Creatures have body parts. Various healing/ resurrection spells mention being (un)able to restore these body parts. Body parts can (somehow) be removed. Removed body parts can be used as objects. The objects aren't alive anymore. It must be that a dead creature has objects on its lootable corpse that include the inanimate and dissected corpse itself. Squid's Go-Pro. :p

    Bear in mind that this crude rule patch technically allow loot an entire corpse from a creature. This could mean that the creature still exists as an undefined rules 'article' and reviving it without any kind of body and may get weird. I wish somebody else had thought this out- my brain got looted.
    ...I've clearly been playing D&D for too long, because that made a demented kind of sense.

    Re: reviving without body parts, isn't that what a ghost is?
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    PHB 157 says to "Assume you share your mount's space during combat." A pixie on the back of a great wyrm suddenly takes up space as though she were colossal during combat.

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    How is that dysfunctional? The pixie and/or the dragon can move in such a way that the pixie can attack all cubes adjacent to the cubes the dragon occupies.

    In spaces the dragon would not fit, the pixie on the dragon would not fit either, but it could dismount and thus pass through the narrow space.
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    It also means that the pixie can hit anything that is within the dragon's space. It could by by the dragon's back leg but still hit something near the dragon's front claw.
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    Two combatants 35 feet apart, on opposite sides of that great wyrm, can both attack it at once (assuming melee weapons with 5' reach). That does make sense. However, under this rule, they can both also attack the pixie riding the dragon. Two people, 35 feet apart, both using short-reach melee weapons, attacking the same pixie. Get the problem?

    I also wonder how does that interact with the reach of Tiny or smaller weapons. That pixie can't attack anything other than its own mount, right? Which does make sense, but just making sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SirKazum View Post
    I also wonder how does that interact with the reach of Tiny or smaller weapons. That pixie can't attack anything other than its own mount, right? Which does make sense, but just making sure.
    The pixie can't attack anything unless they share a space. If the pixie is treated as sharing the space of the dragon and the dragon shares any space at all with another creature, it can attack that creature even though it may be 10' away.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SirKazum View Post
    Two combatants 35 feet apart, on opposite sides of that great wyrm, can both attack it at once (assuming melee weapons with 5' reach). That does make sense. However, under this rule, they can both also attack the pixie riding the dragon. Two people, 35 feet apart, both using short-reach melee weapons, attacking the same pixie. Get the problem?
    It stretches verisimilitude a bit, but the rule works as written. At some point during the opponents' turns the pixie will be close enough. Neither the pixie nor the dragon stand still in their space.

    Quote Originally Posted by SirKazum View Post
    I also wonder how does that interact with the reach of Tiny or smaller weapons. That pixie can't attack anything other than its own mount, right? Which does make sense, but just making sure.
    Pixies are small fey so they have 5 ft reach. Smaller creatures would only be able to attack creatures in the mount's space, which other creatures generally aren't allowed to enter.

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    So the assumption, then, is that if something is riding a mount several sizes larger than it, the rider is scampering all over the mount?
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    I think the assumption is that the mount is moving around.

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    So the assumption, then, is that if something is riding a mount several sizes larger than it, the rider is scampering all over the mount?
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    I think the assumption is that the mount is moving around.
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    It stretches verisimilitude a bit, but the rule works as written.
    Yes, and drowning rules "Work", they just lead to utterly stupid results. They don't "Crash the game", they just end up with something which doesn't make any sense.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andezzar View Post
    It's both I think.
    So... if that pixie (yeah, Small, not Tiny, my bad) decides to do a Whirlwind Attack, its dragon mount spins the pixie around like a carnival ride so it can get to all enemies all around the dragon's space?

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    No, it's the dragon that spins ;)

    You are right, somehow the pixie gets to all the locations where it can attack the adjacent squares.

    Jormengand omitted the "For simplicity, " part of the quote. So it seems the writers acknowledged that in some cases this would look weird. Without that rule however, a medium rider on a large mount would only be allowed to attack 5 squares:
    X X X O
    X R M O
    X M M O
    O O O O
    X: attackable squares
    O: squares out of reach of the rider
    R: space occupied by the rider and the mount
    M: space occupied by the mount.

    Of course the rider can occupy one of the other three squares the mount occupies but that would not change the number of attackable squares.
    That seem much weirder.
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    Of course, neither rule makes much sense, though actually having to choose a side of your mount makes some level of sense (have you ever tried attacking someone to your left while mounted and wielding a sword in your right?), but it doesn't stop being a dysfunction just because it's assumed for simplicity, or because the obvious alternative is also dysfunctional.

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    A weapon’s size category isn’t the same as its size as an object. Instead, a weapon’s size category is keyed to the size of the intended wielder. In general, a light weapon is an object two size categories smaller than the wielder, a one-handed weapon is an object one size category smaller than the wielder, and a two-handed weapon is an object of the same size category as the wielder.
    There are two problems here. One is that a medium greatsword both is and isn't medium. The second is that a diminutive shortsword or fine longsword, as well as a fine shortsword, occupy two different nonexistent size categories.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jormengand View Post
    Of course, neither rule makes much sense, though actually having to choose a side of your mount makes some level of sense (have you ever tried attacking someone to your left while mounted and wielding a sword in your right?), but it doesn't stop being a dysfunction just because it's assumed for simplicity, or because the obvious alternative is also dysfunctional.
    I have not fought from horseback (who does that these days) but there are techniques that enable The rider to strike targets on his left side. Look at this drill video. They are also doing attack on the left side.
    On top of that don't forget there is no facing in D&D (except in variant rules), so it does not matter whether the rider does a left side attack or turns the mount and attacks to his right side.

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    ...I've clearly been playing D&D for too long, because that made a demented kind of sense.

    Re: reviving without body parts, isn't that what a ghost is?
    THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO HEAR! I might just sig that first line, if you don't mind.

    I hope the demented sense it made came from the bizarre logic I used and not my hideous grammar there. I edited that post three times and I still messed up conjugating the "loot" sentence. I guess I took a few points of INT damage just trying to think of my reasoning.

    As for the ghost, it needs a +5 LA template and/or however Ghostwalk does it. Ghosts technically have more to them than their base creatures... I think I feel that INT damage coming back.

    Quote Originally Posted by SirKazum View Post
    Two combatants 35 feet apart, on opposite sides of that great wyrm, can both attack it at once (assuming melee weapons with 5' reach). That does make sense. However, under this rule, they can both also attack the pixie riding the dragon. Two people, 35 feet apart, both using short-reach melee weapons, attacking the same pixie. Get the problem?

    I also wonder how does that interact with the reach of Tiny or smaller weapons. That pixie can't attack anything other than its own mount, right? Which does make sense, but just making sure.
    Quote Originally Posted by illyahr View Post
    The pixie can't attack anything unless they share a space. If the pixie is treated as sharing the space of the dragon and the dragon shares any space at all with another creature, it can attack that creature even though it may be 10' away.
    Quote Originally Posted by SirKazum View Post
    So... if that pixie (yeah, Small, not Tiny, my bad) decides to do a Whirlwind Attack, its dragon mount spins the pixie around like a carnival ride so it can get to all enemies all around the dragon's space?
    I like where this is going.
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