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Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XX
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Q001
Is there any way (feat, class feature etc.) to be able to use your own ability modifier when use spell trigger or spell completion items (i.e. wands and scroll), rather than the default of the minimum ability score required to cast the spell?
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A question about Mechanatrix & the Conductivity feat (UA). The feat specifies that you must take damage from an electrical attack to send an arc of electricity on to a target within 30 feet. Since Mechanatrix absorb electrical damage as healing, are they still eligible to use this feat?My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
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A 001 No.
There's no way to use your own ability modifier. However, for the specific case of activating a scroll with Use Magic Device, if you use Emulate an Ability Score your effective ability is your UMD check result minus 15. Whether that score is above or below your own ability, your result dictates how your Use a Scroll activation works.
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A 001
Residual magic (tactical feat, complete mage #46 (I believe))
Allows you to use your modifiers if you cast the spell normally the round before, if I remember correctly.
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Background: If you're a Paladin/Crusader (PHB/ToB) you have a Smite Evil ability (CHA-Mod to attack and Paladin level to damage) and a Smite ability (CHA-Mod to attack and Crusader level to damage).
A: Does the Smite-Progression of these classes by default stack in any way? If not: Are there any ways (e.g. feats) to make them stack?
B: Can I use my two smite abilities simultaneously on the same attack to gain double CHA-Mod to attack and combined level to damage? (granted, the enemy would have to be evil for the Paladin smite and I would still use one daily use of each ability).
Thanks in advance!Last edited by Darazel; 2012-01-25 at 12:03 PM. Reason: Wrong Question-Number.
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Q 004
The feats Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot and Improved Precise Shot seem to apply only to ranged attacks with weapons. (Exception: the 1st effect of Improved Precise Shot about cover and concealment says "ranged attacks" in general, and only the 2nd effect about shooting at grappling opponents specifies "ranged weapons".)
Do these feats apply to ranged touch attacks when no weapon is involved (spells, eldritch blast etc)?Last edited by HeadlessMermaid; 2012-01-25 at 01:41 PM.
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Q005: A creature with Flyby Attack, the ability to make full attacks as a Standard action, and multiple attacks per round flies within range of two different creatures but is not in range of both of them at the same time. Can it make attacks against both of them or does it have to choose one?
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A003 A:
They're separate class features, and do not stack. However, some means of boosting Smite might apply to both.
A003 B:
There's nothing that says you can't.
A005:
You can take a standard action at one point while flying. You can't take part of a standard action at two different points while flying. So you'd have to settle for full-attacking one of them and just flying past the other.Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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A 004 Generally yes.
Point Blank Shot and Precise Shot are included in the Complete Arcane treatment of Feats and Weaponlike Spells on pages 71-72. Weaponlike spells must have an attack roll and deal damage; there are some other limitations, so read carefully.
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Re: Simple Q&A D&D 3.5 (by RAW) XX
Q005:
In order to gain the bonus damage from Dungeon Crasher when bull rushing an enemy into a wall, do I have to move with them?
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Q006: Can Iron Heart Surge end a Web spell?
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A 006 Maybe.
Originally Posted by WebINITIATING MANEUVERS AND STANCES
To initiate a maneuver or a stance, you must be able to move.
A 005If you force an opponent to move into a wall or other solid object, he stops as normal. However, your momentum crushes him against it, dealing an amount of bludgeoning damage equal to 4d6 points + twice your Strength bonus (if any).Last edited by Curmudgeon; 2012-01-25 at 01:52 PM.
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While that's true, I'm not sure it matters in D&D terms. A character subject to the D&D paralyzed condition continues to breathe and swallow (they don't suffocate or choke), stand upright, and maintain their grip on items. The D&D character exercises voluntary muscles that the medical paralysis condition doesn't permit. So, in D&D, movement of your body within your square isn't treated as movement: you aren't using any of the game's movement modes. Initiating a maneuver requires that you must be able to move as D&D treats movement.
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Q007 Can a Combat Trapsmith (CSco 34) create more than one trap in the same square?
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Lesser Ironguard says normal metal passes through you, presumably including items an adventurer might wear such as weapons armor, jewelry, and the like. Ironguard says it's like Lesser Ironguard, except you're also immune to magical metal. Does this mean someone with Ironguard on them can't wear/use magical items which are made of metal, or does the immunity clause only mean you're immune to attacks from magical weapons?
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That age old Ironguard question: How do partly-metal weapons such as spears, arrows, bolts, halberds, and the rest affect someone who is protected by Ironguard?Originally Posted by The Giant
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If a warrior with cleave attacks a wizard's mirror image can the warrior then cleave to another image? If possible, cite a rule that supports it. And, from extension, if the warrior has great cleave can he destroy a wizard's images in one swipe?Last edited by soulsabre345; 2012-01-25 at 10:23 PM.
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A 010 Yes.
Originally Posted by CleaveOriginally Posted by Mirror Image
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Here - http://brilliantgameologists.com/boa...php?topic=4398 is a handbook for lycantropy. As one of the suggestions for basic animal I saw this
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A010
No, a figment is not a creature.
And cleave requires you to drop a creature.
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A 011 No.
A swarm is a collection of Fine, Diminutive, or Tiny creatures that acts as a single creature.Becoming a lycanthrope is very much like multiclassing as an animal and gaining the appropriate Hit Dice.
Re: A010 There is no divination magic involved in the Cleave feat. A Mirror Image figment "dropped" in melee behaves identically to a summoned creature, which also disappears when "dropped" in melee; in both cases they drop out of existence in the combat plane rather than to the ground. Cleave operates by dropping an enemy creature out of the fighting, thus allowing a clear attack at the next nearby target. Its operation isn't dependent on the particular construction of any individual enemy, only that they be dropped in combat.Last edited by Curmudgeon; 2012-01-26 at 06:08 AM.
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RE: A010
Divination has nothing to do with it. It doesn't change whether anything is a creature or not.
Cleave specifically calls out to only work on creatures.
It works on summon monster since it summons a creature.
It does notwork on Mirror image, since Mirror Image is a figment and not a creature.
In your houserules it might work (it does in mine) but this is a RAW thread and by RAW it does not work.
Added the cleave quote from SRD below.
Originally Posted by SRDLast edited by mikau013; 2012-01-26 at 10:20 AM.
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Without divination magic or some other way of determining whether an apparent creature is actually a figment, the description of Mirror Image requires that Cleave functions identically, to your sight and hearing, with those figments.
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The Improved Trip feat grants an attack against the target after the trip attack succeeds. Does that attack now factor in the target's prone penalty for being tripped, or is the attack made before the target is considered prone?
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A 012
To receive Improved Trip's bonus attack, you must successfully trip your foe. That creature is then prone for the bonus attack, which is otherwise at the same attack bonus as on the tripping attack.
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As a Wizard, do you need to be of a level that can cast a spell to have that spell in your spellbook? (As in, could a level 4 wizard have level 3+ spells in their book, even though they can't yet cast them...)Last edited by qwertyu63; 2012-01-26 at 12:54 PM.
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A 013 No.
You can write anything you want, including grocery lists, in your spellbook. To be able to later use spellbook writing for spell preparation, you must satisfy the Spellcraft check to decipher the arcane writing, then study the spell and make a second Spellcraft check to copy the spell into your spellbook. Neither of these steps is dependent on the level of spell you can currently prepare and cast.
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How it is perceived is irrelevant for the rules. Just like for example bane(undead) weapons still function even if you don't know the target is actually undead.
It is literally stated that it requires the target to be a creature. You seem to confuse the rules with how you'd like them to be.
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The question is about the interaction of two D&D elements: the Cleave feat and the Mirror Image spell. You can't disregard half of the problem and assume the answer doesn't change.
Anyway, we're not uncovering any new RAW material that helps with the answer at this point, so I'll leave my answer (with its further elucidations of the rules) as stated.