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Thread: Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XXI
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I'm not aware of any rules for muffling it except casting silence on the hook, which has its separate issues.
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Q 168: When a party encounters a Prismatic Wall, it appears as though the wall doesn't stop anyone from walking through it, they just get hit with all the negative effects. Is that right, or do they need to save to understand that they could walk through it?
Q 169: With a prismatic wall, how do you determine all the various saves for everything, is it just the standard DC + SPELL LEVEL + CASTER LEVEL?Path of the Nefarious: A Way of the Wicked Journal.
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A 168 They can't see through it, but nothing (aside from a healthy sense of self-preservation) prevents them from trying to walk through it. They'll have to survive the damage and pass the saves for the green, blue, and violet walls to actually make it through to the other side.
A 169 Yes, It's the standard save DC. However, your formula is wrong.
Save DCs are calculated according to: 10 + spell level + caster's primary ability score bonus (Int for wizards, Cha for sorcerers, Wis for cleric/druids, etc.).
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Q 170
Does magic damage (for example, Magic Missile) bonus from Inspire Courage?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 started in the keep of a baron who was hiring the characters as his personal lackeys. It allowed me to give them some simple beginner quests, such as go kill this group of bandits to save this town.
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A 170 No.
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How does a darkness spell affect darkvision?Last edited by Duriath; 2012-06-06 at 10:17 PM.
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Q 172
I have seen many things using the "willingly fail a save/check/etc" clause, and I know where some of the citations of this are. But I have not found one saying you can willingly fail a dispel check. Is there a specific provision by RAW to allow willing failures on dispel checks, or is it just an assumption extended from a more general clause? If it exists, can I have a link/book and page number?Last edited by CommodoreCrunch; 2012-06-06 at 11:12 PM.
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Q 173: A level 4 medium sized fighter, with 18 strength, makes a trip attempt against a small target, is that attempt made with:
1d20 + 4 (bab) + 4 (str mod) + 4 (size), for a possible result of 13-32 that your opponent would need to oppose?Path of the Nefarious: A Way of the Wicked Journal.
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Last edited by Little Brother; 2012-06-06 at 11:59 PM.
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A 173 Correction
No. After the melee touch attack, which gets no special modifiers, and possible AoO the attacker makes a STR check opposed by the defender's STR or DEX Check, whichever modifier is higher. BAB is irrelevant. Every combatant gets a +4 for each size category he is larger than medium or a -4 for each size category he is smaller than medium. The target also gets a +4 if it has more than two legs or is otherwise exceptionally stable (like a dwarf for example)
In your example it is d20 + STR mod for the attacker and d20 + STR/DEX mod -4 for the defender.
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The only reference I can find at all to "voluntarily failing" in the Rules Compendium relates specifically to saving throws:
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A172 extension
The one exception to making caster level checks for dispel magic is against one's own spells:
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Q 175
Are there ways to remove or reduce the speed penalty from wearing medium or heavy armor?
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If you somehow get a speed of 25 ft., do you get a -6 penalty on jump checks?Last edited by Andezzar; 2012-06-07 at 06:08 AM.
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A 175
Yes. Off the top of my head, mithral medium armor is treated as light armor (no speed reduction), and the Knight (PHB2) has a pair of class features that remove the movement penalties associated with wearing medium/heavy armour.
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A 176 Uncertain
The rule as written does not seem to anticipate that possibility -- it is unclear on how multiples of 5 feet of speed (but not multiples of 10) should be handled. While there are several different reasonable interpretations or ways to adjudicate this rule, a hard-and-fast RAW answer may not be possible.
The most RAW-like answer I can give is to go back to the default rounding rules, which would say that since 25' is not a full 10' slower than 30', it rounds down to zero 10' increments less than 30', and therefore no penalty. (Likewise, a 15' speed would lead to only a -6 penalty, not -12 under that interpretation.) Without a clause to the effect of "or any portion thereof", I believe the rounding rule takes precedence from a RAW standpoint -- it clearly fits the intent for speeds greater than 30' (e.g., you wouldn't get a +4 bonus at 35', because you're not a full 10' faster than 30'.
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A 175
A tooth of Dahlver-Nar (associated with Savnok) will let you ignore any movement penalty due to armor. It is a slotless magic item and costs 2000 GP (ToM pg. 77-79). The caveat is that you are always under the influence of Savnok (ToM pg. 45-47), so yo cannot ever undone your armor or drop a shield (if you pick one).
Addendum if you coonsider using the tooth you might want to look at the Restful enhancement from Dungeonscape pg. 39.Currently playing:
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A 176 additional
While I think that Duke or URL has provided the correct RAW answer with regards to rounding, I feel it's notable to provide as evidence a monster statblock. The epic monster Genius Loci has a movement speed of 5 ft. and an associated -15 penalty to Jump checks (total mod +5 with a Strength of 50 and no ranks or other bonuses). This indicates that it may be the intention to halve the bonus/penalty when dealing with an increase or decrease of only 5 feet.
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A 177: No, a Bloodstorm Blade does not get new maneuvers since it does not specifically say that it does. Personally, I've never understood why it's even in that book instead of a CW web enhancement or something.
Q 178: A character with 1 level in Abjurant Champion gains Extend Abjuration. Could that character apply the Extend Spell feat to an abjuration spell affected by said class feature, tripling (quadrupling?) the duration of the spell?Homebrew
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A 176, additional
And indeed that was one of the options I was considering when I discussed "reasonable interpretations". Making the bonus/penalty +2/-3 per 5' movement difference would seem to make the most sense from both a RAI and verisimilitude standpoint.
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A 167 additional Not that I am aware of.
This is the sort of thing that a DM must adjudicate for themselves. The SRD lists a number of DCs for the listen skill for various circumstances.
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Shouldn't a rogue moving silently be an opposed test instead of a flat DC?
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Does a Paladin of Tyranny or Slaughter who takes Blackguard levels benefit from having Paladin levels? Do the bonuses from divine grace and dark blessing stack?
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A (unnumbered). Yes.
Shouldn't a rogue moving silently be an opposed test instead of a flat DC?
The DC 15 is for a 1st-level rogue, presumably using a standard NPC array of scores for a +1 Dexterity modifier and the maximum 4 ranks in Move Silently, taking 10.
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From the SRD entry on Diplomacy:
Synergy
If you have 5 or more ranks in Bluff, Knowledge (nobility and royalty), or Sense Motive, you get a +2 bonus on Diplomacy checks.
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A bunch of linked questions...
Q181
If an Artificer creates a wand of a wizard/sorceror spell (such as fireball), do they need to UMD it all the while?
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If an eternal wand is placed in a Warforged Wand Sheath (which states a wand can only be removed when it has no charges), is it stuck there?
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If the answer to Q182 is 'yes', is there a cheaper way to get a 'silenced' spell 2/day?Current Character: Pathfinder Tiefling Sorcerer (Abyssal Sorcerer 5, Souleater 1)
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