Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition is a 2003 revision of D&D Third Edition.
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What modifiers are and are not included in a DnD 3.5e critical hit
I see one line in the SRD stating:
you roll your damage more than once, with all your usual bonuses
However, that is immediately followed by the line:
Exception: Extra damage over and above ...
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Minimizing Arcane Spell Failure with an armored Warforged
I'm starting out playing with a warforged in a D&D 3.5 campaign. I'm looking to minimize ASF – the concept behind this character is to play a sorcerer that specializes in touch attacks and uses ...
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Enhancement Bonus = Crit Threat Improvment? [closed]
In the AD&D Second Edition book Player's Option:Combat and Tactics, an enhanced weapon (+1 bonus or better) also improved the critical range by that much. So if I had a +2 Longsword (19-20 x2) it ...
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In which module did Goblins terrorize villagers with a Giant Mechanical Turtle?
A while ago I stumbled upon a low-level adventure in which a band of goblins has a giant mechanical turtle and terrorizes/scares the locals with it. I think it must have been a D&D/Pathfinder 3.X ...
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How do you make a wizard who doesn't need a spellbook?
I know what you're thinking: "Dude, just play a Sorcerer". Well, I ask this question because of two main reasons. Wizards get some extra spells for specializing, and my DM says sorcerers are rare.
I ...
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What makes grease a good spell?
I often see people list grease as good go-to 1st level spell. Why is this?
The spell description lists 3 of its uses: forcing saves and slows movement of enemies, disarming enemies, and preventing ...
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What are the best ways to move and full-attack in the same round?
One of the most important things for any physical fighter to accomplish is to maximize the amount of time you spend full-attacking. Once you have BAB +6, not full-attacking halves your potential ...
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Is there a feat to let monks multi-class as spellcasters without losing monk progression?
Feats like Ascetic Hunter or Ascetic Rogue allow a monk to multi-class with other martial classes. Is there a feat to allow a monk to freely multi-class with a spellcaster class? I'm looking ...
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Is a Dragonwrought Kobold a True Dragon?
The Monster Manual refers to some creatures with the Dragon type as “True Dragons,” and some later books refer to True Dragon status as a prerequisite for various options.
Races of the ...
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Do magical beasts have a magical aura with regard to Detect Magic spell?
The description for Detect Magic doesn't explicitly cover this. Some monsters, like the Ankheg, are categorized as magical beast, but don't have any magical or spell-like abilities. If they are ...
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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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Updating 3rd Edition Shade to 3.5e
I tried the other day to get my DM let me be a Shade (a template from page 314 of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, a 3.0 book) for a new campaign. He looked at its abilities and said there was ...
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Programs for keeping track of spells [duplicate]
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Is there a spell managing program/app for D&D 3.5e?
I have always loved playing spell casters, whether Divine or Arcane. It's nice to know that you do more than ...
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Can any dragon be used for half dragon?
I would like to know if the half-dragon template can use other dragons from the various monster manuals like the Ssvaklor (MM3) or Dragon Turtle(MM1) or any other nonstandard dragon (i.e. the ones ...
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When should I separate encounters?
I had a session this week involving a fairly large battle at sea. The encounter involved a couple of boarders while the enemy ship was still at quite a distance, and the larger group still on the ...
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Can I use a full attack and natural attacks in the same round?
I'm playing a 7th level monk variant in D&D 3.5e and I'm a werewolf. The variant has a 1 for 1 BAB. (level 1 = BAB+1) If I'm in hybrid form, Can I make my 2 standard attacks followed by 2 claws ...
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Can a custom spell's effect last after the caster's death?
As GM, I am having a now-deceased 30th-level wizard's spell last after his death. It is a spell to conceal an object in a Dimensional Pocket keyed to one of the right bloodline who knows the password. ...
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Why the huge difference between divine and arcane compulsion effects?
In designing a new compulsion spell am not sure whether to follow the cleric tree or the bard/wizard/sorceror tree in regard to spell levels and other rules/effects.
On the cleric side, we have ...
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Elemental Savants
There is this prestige class called Elemental Savant, which makes the character, actually, an elemental (with all the immunities AND the ability to be raised from dead, not to mention one can even be ...
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Epic Maneuvers?
So, the Book of Nine Swords gives us the opportunity to become the %race% of steel and pure awesomeness, it gives us maneuvers that make the character into one-man-army and stuff, and that's really ...
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Can you take 10 when creating an item?
You can take 10 when you make a skill roll "When your character is not in immediate danger or distracted".
Would this include when a character is making a magical item?
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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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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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In 3.5/Pathfinder, what is the rough CR adjustment for Damage Reduction?
I have seen several breakdown and rough rules for adjusting a monster's CR according to various special abilities and qualities. The Pathfinder Core book and Bestiary has rules about things like high ...
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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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Does “Dispel Magic” suppress the magic of an item whose imbued spell-type is instantaneous?
The "Dispel magic" descriptor states that "the effect of a spell with an instantaneous duration can't be dispelled, because the magical effect is already over before the dispel magic can take effect", ...
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Castles construction costs in D&D
I remember in the original AD&D books there was something on the prices of building a castle. Cost for a tower, a length of wall, a drawbridge etc. Does anyone recall this, or know where I can ...
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Can the spells used to bind elementals in Eberron's airships/galleons/etc be dispelled?
Many of the descriptions of the magical forms of transport in the Eberron (v3.5) campaign setting (e.g. airships, galleons, lightning rails) speak of bound elementals as the source of propulsion for ...
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Does your initiative change if your dex changes?
After combat has started will changes to your DEX stat (sufficent to change your dex bonus) change your initiative score?
Example:
Wizard Bob sees a goblin approaching and initiative is rolled; the ...
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Survivalist NPC build?
How can I best optimize an NPC so that instead of having perfect power attack or sneak attack, they're just really hard to kill? I can think of thief acrobat and perhaps exemplar or dungeon delver, ...
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Alignment restrictions and Trap the Soul
Saw it mentioned in a thread (How do you make a vampire cleric stay dead?) and now I'm curious... Does binding a creature's soul into a gem in itself constitute an evil act?
Trap the soul says ...
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Does turn undead from different sources stack?
I've read somewhere in the Internet (in a Divine Metamagic build) that having levels as Cleric and Paladin lets you have twice thee turn undead attempts per day.
Is that true?
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Can a spellcraft check reveal the target of a spell?
You can use spellcraft to identify a spell as it is being cast. But does this check let you know the target of the spell? As an example of when this could matter quite a lot, Dominate allows you to ...
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Does Quick Reconnoiter let me use Hear the Unseen as a free action?
I have the Complete Adventurer, and I saw these two feats:
Hear the Unseen
Benefit: As a move action that does not provoke attacks of opportunity, you can attempt a DC 25 Listen check. If ...
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Helpless opponent & Coup de Grace
I had a question about Coup de Grace.
It says you can use it against a helpless opponent. Helpless opponent is defined as "Paralyzed, held, bound, sleeping, unconscious, or otherwise completely at an ...
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Is there a way to make a fey or outsider eligible for the Eidolon Ghost class?
In Ghostwalk it says that humanoid souls are able to resist the pull of the "True Afterlife" and return to the material plane. These souls become ghosts and are forced to take the Eidolon class. Is ...
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Silence as a ready action
If a caster readies an action to cast the spell silence next to an enemy wizard who begins casting a spell with a verbal component, what happens?
The silence interrupts the casting attempt, causing ...
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Can I brew a Lightning Bolt potion? What does it do?
If I brew a potion of lightning bolt, what happens when someone drinks it?
Lightning bolt strikes them?
They can cast a lightning bolt?
They emit lightning that strikes where they point?
Nothing ...
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Casting Feather Fall on an ballista bolt
Can casting feather fall on a ballista bolt make it travel farther?
Feather fall makes objects fall 60ft/round, but only vertically. So, if I cast it on the ammunition then fire, it would fall only ...
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A class like the “Action Survivor” trope
I'm currently rolling a character for a new D&D 3.5 campaign; the DM said that he's open to pretty much any class, as long as they are mortal. So, I wanted to try something fun that I haven't ...
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What do I need to do to make Ghostwalk 3.5 compatible?
One of my friends is wanting to use Ghostwalk but there are changes between 3.0 and 3.5 which require converting. What do I need to do to make it compatible?
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How does dual-wielding work?
It still confuses me after having it explained to me several times: How does dual-wielding work in D&D 3.5e and what is the point of building a character around it?
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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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Can I increase my size with a +1 template?
I'm currently playing a D&D 3.5 campaign, and I'm playing a gnoll that is Large sized. (Gnolls are normally Medium.)
A long time ago, I was told that a Player Character could be one size larger ...
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Ranged attacks against creatures trapped inside an air elemental's whirlwind
When an air elemental goes whirlwind and traps someone inside it, how do ranged attacks targeted at the trapped creature work?
Can I target the creature?
Does it have total concealment, as the air ...
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How worldly is a polymorphic elf?
In the 3.5e campaign I'm running, a very real concern has arisen that the player characters might actually fail to save the world from the horrific fate that the villian has planned for it. If this ...
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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 I wish to never auto-miss on a natural 1?
Any attack roll that comes up a natural 1 is an automatic miss regardless of bonuses. I'm playing a wizard and I like my touch-attack spells, and now I have access to wish.
Can a wish be used to ...
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Implementing xenomorph aliens in D&D 3.5e [closed]
As we know, aliens had inherited memory as seen in this review:
Ripley's genes are all right too:
They allow her reconstituted form to retain all her old memories,
as if cookie dough could remember ...
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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?
