Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition is a 2003 revision of D&D Third Edition.
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Can you enchant spiked gauntlets as weapons?
One of my players wants to play an unarmed fighter. What I need to know is; do spiked gauntlets count as weapons or as armor for the purposes of enchanting?
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Can terrain shape area affect spells or attacks?
I don't know if this is referenced in the rulebooks or just a matter of houserule, but what happens if someone uses a cone-shaped spell or ability in a corridor that is narrower than the width of the ...
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Plot granted special ability standards?
For the campaign in question, I'm running one person through a dungeon inspired by Vagrant Story. Clearly some things from the video game can't be emulated, and many of those are integral to the game: ...
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What use is Skill Beyond Your Years?
In low-level D&D variant E6, you max out at level 6 and only gain feats every 5,000XP thereafter. There is a feat as follows:
Skill Beyond Your Years
Prerequisite: Level 6
Pick a skill. ...
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Can werewolf cleric purify humans?
I was an inexperienced cleric in the old times…
Then I caught lycanthrophy.
Now that I'm a werewolf and humans are food to me, can I use the cantrip Purify Food and Drink to purify humans?
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Difference between a crit and extra attacks
In DnD 3.x and related systems, you threaten a critical hit on a natural 20, but then have to confirm the crit by making another to-hit roll. If your followup roll beats the target's AC (or is another ...
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Is there a Favored Soul Handbook?
Where can I find the information one would get in a favored soul handbook? My google fu has turned up no such page, so I'm curious.
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Is it really possible to represent a 'genius' character completely accurately?
In this thread, we had several examples of many ways to role-play a character that's smarter than its player. Many suggested letting the DM give information to the player that the character could ...
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Can a spellcaster use Harmonic Chorus on himself?
I've been looking into ways to boost my save DCs, and I came across Harmonic Chorus. There seems to be a bit of inconsistency in the description, which makes me think it may be possible to cast it on ...
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Adding HD to Homunculus
My PC (Artifacer, now 6th level) has an existing Iron Defender. It was the bare minimum build for the homunculus, which I believe is 2 HD.
If I want to increase the HD to 3, the Eberron book says ...
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Can a Void Disciple see the area around a sensed object?
The Void Disciple prestige class (Complete Divine) gains an ability called Sense Void as their primary class feature. This ability allows them to observe an "area, person, or thing" at a distance.
A ...
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How do Shrink and Enlarge work in constrained environments?
What happens if you cast a shrink spell on an ogre then lure it to a very narrow tunnel then dispelling first spell and casting enlargement? Does that ogre explode? deforms? just gets stuck? or ...
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Published adventures rewarding an athletic stealthy character
Probably largely inspired by all the time I spent fresh out of high school playing Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven, I put one of my players through a solo game in which I encouraged all the physical skills ...
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Aerial combat in 3.5e
I have a player who is using a homebrew flying race to add to his heal/buff cleric's survivability. He's promising not to use it too much to his advantage, especially because none of us have any ...
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Is there an oldschool-style morale system for D&D 3e?
Oldschool D&D has rules for morale, such as these from Labyrinth Lord:
Monsters have a listing for morale, which represents how likely they are to fight or flee when in an aencounter. Morale ...
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Any advice on how to design a good dungeon? [closed]
I'm kind of a new GM, and I haven't done much dungeon design. Specifically, I'm creating an ancient tomb of a powerful necromancer built underneath a tower that was lost in a swamp centuries ago. ...
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Brilliant energy not all it's cracked up to be?
I have this sai and it's already a speed weapon. That character will be taking improved disarm. Am looking at the entry for brilliant energy. "A brilliant energy weapon ignores nonliving matter." ...
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Does combat while swimming affect anything other than movement?
Does combat while swimming affect anything other than movement speed?
I assume that melee/ranged combat is affected if a PC is underwater after failing a swim check or choosing to dive?
Do these ...
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Can a creature use rake when you can't win a grapple check?
Creature A grapples creature B. Creature B has Rake. Creature B attempts to rake creature A.
Can you rake when you did not start the grapple, and can't win a grapple check?
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In this case, ...
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Rules for physical appearances based on charisma and race
I remember reading rules about how to determine physical attractiveness based on charisma and race, but I'm not sure which book. Does anyone remember where this was?
By the way, I'm not talking about ...
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How does the werewolf template alter my level?
If I'm a 5th-level monk who gains the werewolf template, what exactly happens to my character? I know I gain 2 d8-sized hit dice, but do I become a 7th-level monk? Or do the hit dice and level ...
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Where is the D&D 3.5 random loot table?
This should be easy -- however I've gone through three books trying to find it. What book and page number is the random loot per level table for 3.5 edition?
I saw it a couple months ago and didn't ...
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Is there a way to advance both Wizard and Assassin casting?
I'm creating a character for a challenge ("How would you help this village defend against an orcish army?") and in the interests of doing something wacky I decided to try and mix Wizard and Assassin ...
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How to make a Dark Brotherhood-esque Job Request System in D&D 3.5 E6
The Goal
In a E6 campaign I am playing in I want my character to start an assassins guild similar to The Dark Brotherhood from The Elder Scrolls games.
The Problem/Question
I am stuck on how to set ...
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Do druid animal companions get ability points due to high HD?
I'm not sure about that one, and I can't find any explicit text in the rules.
I know that regular HD for improved monsters also improves one ability by one point every four Hit-dices, but is it also ...
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If my Initiator Level is high enough, can I take Stances of a level higher than 1st when I take my first level in a martial adept class?
Usually, a martial adept’s Initiator Level is equal to his class level, plus his class level in any maneuver-granting Prestige Classes, plus half his level in all other classes.
This means a ...
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What happens if a commoner takes a prestige class?
I'm currently in a 3.5/pathfinder campaign. (Mostly 3.5, but since it's steampunk we're borrowing liberally from pathfinder as we find the need.) We started as commoners, the idea being that we would ...
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In 3.5e, does one have to be a martial adept class to use maneuvers?
I'm preparing for a 3.5e game, and I wanted to be a fighter or a marshal, but I also want to be able to use the maneuvers for martial classes. It does not say that one must be a swordsage, warblade, ...
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What's my initiator level for maneuvers from Martial Study?
I'm building a Warblade/Master of Nine using the rules in Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords. To qualify for MoN, I'm using the Martial Study feat to take maneuvers from disciplines that a Warblade ...
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Ways to add the [Good] Descriptor to Spells for Arcane Spellcaster
The 'Consecrate Spell' feat from Book of Exalted Deeds adds the [Good] descriptor to spells cast. Is there another way to achieve this for arcane spellcasters, e.g. as a prestige class feature?
The ...
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What is the penalty for stealthing at normal speed?
In both Pathfinder and D&D 3.5e, the rules for stealthing (Stealth, Hide and Move Silently) state:
When moving at a speed greater than half but less than your normal
speed, you take a –5 ...
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Can you use more than one martial maneuver in a single round?
At first I thought you could only use one martial maneuver a round, but after looking through Tome of Battle, I can't seem to find that explicitly stated anywhere. Is there really such a restriction ...
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How many natural weapon attacks would I get?
If a character has 3 natural weapons (2 claws and a tail), and has the feats Improved Multiattack (eliminates penalty to attack rolls for secondary attacks, but still uses 1/2 Strength damage bonus) ...
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Returning enchantment on a creature
I have a feat that allows me to pick up and throw another creature as if it were a thrown weapon. The greater belt of mighty hurling item from Pathfinder, among other things, allows me to apply ...
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Does attacking with a gauntlet provoke an attack of opportunity?
From the Player's Handbook:
Gauntlet: This metal glove protects your hands and lets you deal lethal damage rather than nonlethal damage with unarmed strikes.
A strike with a gauntlet is ...
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Advanced rules or suggestions for traps/trapped items?
I'm working on a story concept where the villain is a tinker who is seeking revenge against a noble house, and his M.O. is intricate mechanical traps. The trap rules given are fine for dungeon ...
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What can provide immunity to dehydration?
My party is working through Castle Whiterock and we just got clobbered by a group of lions with Goodman Games desiccated template. This template allows for a D6 Con damage on every hit (no save) ...
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What is the DC for Crafting an arrow?
In 3.5e D&D, what is the DC for Crafting an arrow or quiver of arrows? The table on p71 of the PHB gives DCs of 5, 10, 15 and 20 for a Very Simple, Typical, High Quality and Complex/Superior Item, ...
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Questions about Improved Familiar advancement
I have a sorcerer with a Gem Scarab familiar planned for a campaign starting at level 10, which would give the familiar 10 HD, which is more than enough for a Gem Scarab to advance a size category. ...
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What steps should I go about to balance a character class?
I'm trying to tweak/balance the Wizard (and to a lesser extent the Cleric) class(es) in Pathfinder.
The two things that really irritate me are:
Spell components. Tongue of frog and Eye of newt ...
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Necromantic Life Sight vs. Mirror Image
Necromancers and several undead creatures have the Life Sight ability. It's described as BlindSight" except for "life".
So how does this interact with an illusion spell like Mirror Image?
Clearly ...
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What could be the levels of the Archendale mounted militia?
In the Forgotten Realms Campaign Settings is written that Archendale has the strongest army of all the Dales: 10 rides of 60 mounted warriors. Knowing that the Dalelands militia (RPG stats Archfiends ...
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Would giving a swordsage the Iron Heart discipline unbalance him?
I am not really fond of disciplines with magical effects, like Desert Wind (Shadow Hand is in the same category, but let's face it, it has maneuvers called Shadow Jaunt, Shadow Blink, and something ...
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Tome of Battle maneuvers clarification?
There are many maneuvers that state that you use a skill check with your opponent's Armor Class as the check's DC, and then you proceed to attack with an empowered attack.
Does this mean that you ...
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RPG “yardstick” character builds
What does it mean to create a "yardstick" build in an RPG, specifically in Neverwinter Nights.
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Can I use the Eberron adventures as a short adventure path?
What level are the various Eberron adventures WotC put out for, and what level will my players most likely wind up after each one? Neither the WotC site or wikipedia list what level range all of them ...
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I need help with a 3e-4e merger homebrew system (specifically fighters)
I am trying to create my own RPG system, similar to 4e and 3e, and hopefully a happy merger of both.
For casting classes, there are 4 tiers of spells per 10 levels, totaling 12 tiers of spells ...
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Epic 3.5 Warblade Optimization
I'm sure we've all seen and/or played Final Fantasy VII. I was asked to join into the fray of an epic game being run once a month starting at ECL 21 and to bring a character with starting wealth as a ...
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Do you need line of sight to cast spell with Divine Ward?
I suspect so, since you needed to touch the person in the first place, which, clearly, requires line of sight. But how good of a line of sight? Can you do it to someone with cover?
Even so, the feat ...
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How to impose consequences for breaking the Paladin's Code without coming off as a insensitive GM? [closed]
It all started when we were going through a premade adventure's flavor text and got to the bit when the party walked into the town of Night Falls. One PC, a paladin, used his class ability to detect ...
