Discrete magical constructions used to accomplish an effect.
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Are Transmutation spells lost after dismissing or casting Alter Self
The description of transmutation spells is
Transmutation spells change the properties of some creature, thing,
or condition.
So if a transmutation spell was cast after an alter self, and then ...
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AD&D 1st Edition, Unearthed Arcana, Cooperative spell casting
My question refers to the 8th Level MU spell Binding found in Unearthed Arcana. In it, it describes the ability of other mages to enhance the power, essentially, of the primary spell caster (up to six ...
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Aganazzar's Scorcher: Rules for 'path' Spells
Agnazzar's Scorcher, a spell from the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, reads as follows:
A jet of roaring flame bursts from your outstretched hand, scorching any creature in a 5-foot-wide path ...
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Does Protection from Evil protect against the Fear spell?
Does Protection from Evil protect against Fear in Pathfinder?
Note that Protection from Evil is written a little differently in Pathfinder than in D&D 3.5:
Second, the subject immediately
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How many sorcerer and wizard spells are there in D&D 3.5?
While commenting on: this answer I tried to give an exact number of all sorcerer-wizard spells in D&D 3.5.
Trivial searching didn't produce any results.
Therefore, how many spells are there, by ...
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Can the Druid Wood Shape and Ironwood spells be used to create armor?
A player in my group is trying to figure out the logistics of creating armor by using a combination of Wood Shape and Ironwood.
Is it possible the he could create a Darkwood Breastplate out of a ...
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When exactly do I make a saving throw?
I had a slight argument with my DM and another player a few weeks ago when we were playing a modified version of D&D 4th. My wizard(-ish) character attacked another PC with a spell (specifically ...
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Can touch-range spells be counterspelled at range?
Rather than fight our way out of a particularly hard encounter at the end of the last adventure, the party tried to teleport away. An enemy spellcaster attempted to counterspell it from across the ...
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What, precisely, happens when you apply the Chain Spell metamagic feat to the Chain Lightning Spell?
The Chain Spell feat (Complete Arcane) causes a spell that normally has a single target to arc to multiple secondary targets based on your caster level. The spell chain lightning has a single initial ...
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Can my mage prepare powers of the same level but of a different type (encounter, daily, utility)?
I'm reading about the Mage on the Heroes of the Fallen Lands, and page 200 says
You cannot prepare more than one power of any given level on the same day. For example, a 14th level mage [...] can ...
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Are the Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil Class abilities vulnerable to Dispel Magic as well?
I was Looking at the class abilities for Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil and I Saw how specific spells got through them much like a Prismatic Wall needing 7 different spells to get rid of it. I was ...
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Is the wall created by a “Wall Of…” spell considered to be an object?
Is the wall created by a Wall Of XXX spell, e.g. Wall of Ice considered to be an object?, and hence immune to the effects details in the Rules Compendium, p.177 ...
necrotic damage, poison damage, ...
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A question about Celerity spells
I have a question regarding Celerity line of spells introduced in PHB2.
Let's say we have 2 wizards, A and B. Wizard A has higher initiative roll than wizard B; neither is flat-footed; it's A's turn; ...
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The effects of saving throws on mind reading
A number of creatures in D&D systems (specific editions may not be necessary here, but let's use 3/3.5/3.75 for simplicity) have the ability to use spell or spell-like effects such as Detect ...
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Can a Wizard/Artificer teach spells to himself?
So I have this Wizard1/Artificer3 multiclass character. Can I craft, say, a scroll of Cure Light Wounds taken from the Bard's spell list and then, as it is an arcane scroll, adding it to my spellbook? ...
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Pathfinder spell lists with properties
Where can I find a spell list for a class (let's say druid), where not only the name and (shortened) effect is listed, but also the basic properties (range, duration, casting time, components) are ...
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Do spells need to roll 4+ even if they are opposed rolls?
Some spells allow the enemy an opposed check to avoid the effect. Does the caster still need at least a 4+ on the roll, or is it sufficient that it is higher than the opposed roll?
Example: Burst - ...
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What “objects” can a spell target?
Some of the wizard spells have creature or object as the target, e.g. Force Orb [ddi]
What is an object ?
So in the case of Force Orb, could a wizard target say a pebble on the ground, hit it (as it ...
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How does a spell resolve when the target changes places before the spell is finished?
Here's what happened:
We've reached the end of the campaign, with only the last wave of minions standing between us and the dark sorcerer who's been flooding the local farms and villages with undead. ...
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Combination of Fire Shield and Protection from Energy
The way protection from energy combines with resist energy is explicit in the spell descriptions. But nothing is said regarding fire shield + protection from energy or fire shield + resist energy, or ...
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How many spells would a 3rd level Sorcerer have with a Charisma 19?
I'm trying to create a character with an online character sheet from google docs and the calculations are coming up unexpectedly. I suspect there is an error in the formula, so I want to make sure I ...
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Are undead subject to the adverse effects of having 0 in a mental ability score?
Undead are immune to the ability-score altering attacks I know of, but hypothetically, if one somehow suffered ability damage to their mental stats, would they suffer the adverse effects of having ...
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Does Mnemonic Enhancer give you extra spells the next day?
The 4th level spell Mnemonic Enhancer seems a bit weird and a bit useless:
Burn a forth level spell to get back a third or lower spell you cast the previous round.
You prepare up to three additional ...
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Can a Wall spell be unsupported to make an arch
Can a Wall spell be unsupported, e.g. to make an archway ?
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Can a caster hit themself with a Blast spell?
Can a caster hit themself with a Blast spell?
i.e. the usual example is the caster is in square A, casts a Blast 2 spell, so they could hit BCFG, FGJK, EFIJ, etc.
A B C D
E F G H
I J K L
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Can Minor Healing be used multiple times to cure a medium or serious injury in HARP?
In ICE's HARP (High Adventure Role Playing) system the Minor Healing spell says:
The caster must select one of the following options when casting this spell:
Reduce a maneuver penalty by up to 20
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When using the polymorph spell is the new shape always centred on the targets old shape?
Normally, you would assume that a character changing from a medium sized character to a Huge character using polymorph would do so as shown in example A, filling the empty squares.
Is example B a ...
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What hexes should I take for my huckster?
I'm in a Deadlands game using the classic Pinnacle rules set. Our posse is fairly well mixed — two or three gunslingers of varying types, a sharpshooter, a voudonista, a mad scientist, and me. What ...
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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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Why do spells need to be “prepared”? [closed]
I'm not asking about the rules or concepts of spell preparation, as they are well described and reasoned, but I'm wondering why it's even necessary, from a logical (well, however logical you can be in ...
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Alternative for 4e saves
So, recently I began playing 4e again and was discussing with a friend about how 'odd' the save mechanic for ongoing damage /lingering conditions appears to us. Right now it works like this:
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Can Dispel Magic remove Blindness?
Can Dispel Magic remove blindness, per the spell Blindness/Deafness. I thought it should be harder than just a straight dispel check, but since Blindness is a "permanent" duration spell, it should ...
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Supernatural abilities and spell duration
Does a supernatural ability that uses alter self as a spell like ability still subject to the spell duration?
For example, does a PC Kitsune only have the ability to Change Shape for one minute at a ...
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Is it possible to turn Tenser's Floating Disk into a chariot?
Is it possible to turn Tenser's Floating Disk into a chariot in AD&D 1st edition?
There are several problems that I'm not sure can be solved:
How would the harness be attached to the disk?
Can ...
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Can eladrin be affected by the 'sleep' spell?
As eladrin/drow have the "trance" ability, making them not need to sleep to rest, but instead enter a meditative state, are they affected by any kind of spell that induces sleep?
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Alter Self limits
So, alter self allows you to turn into any 5HD-or-less member of your type, be it humanoid, outsider or vermin - but HOW MANY times you can change your form per cast? As far as I've got it, it's any ...
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Does ASF Apply to the Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil Class Abilities?
I was recently looking at the Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil class and was looking at its class abilities and started to wonder, if they are equivalent to Xth Level spells.(X being a different number ...
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Regarding resting and spell meditation for casters
My group recently started a game in D&D 3.5. Even though we are all rather familiar with the ruleset, there are certain details that we have trouble discerning from the official documentation, ...
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Stone shape replacement in D&D 4e?
I'm a big fan of of the D&D 3.5 Spell Stone Shape. Is there any 4e equivalent of it?
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Is discharging a spell a purely mental action?
We know that casting a spell often requires verbal and/or somatic components. Verbal and somatic components are clearly defined game concepts, but on discharging a spell, all I have is this:
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Are Pathfinder daily spells 24hours or date
Do daily spells (spells that include "once per day" the description) recharge after 24 hours, or could they be cast at 23:59 (just before midnight), and cast again at 00:01 (just after midnight)?
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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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Can you use a Metamagic Rod and a Scroll together?
Are you allowed to use a Metamagic Rod (say Extend) with a Spell read from a Scroll?
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Do touch spells crit via a natural weapon's crit range?
If I increase the threat of my natural weapon (improved crit) (19-20) does this affect my touch spell cast through it?
Pg 213: A touch spell that deals damage can score a critical hit just as a ...
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Can penalties from Enlarge Spell result in negative damage?
Do the Enlarge Spell penalties mean the damage can become negative?
Benefit: Before using a wizard at-will or encounter attack power, you can choose to take a -2 penalty to each die of damage ...
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How does Armor of Earth work?
The spell Armor of earth pg. 216 in L5R 2ed Player's guide states:
For the duration of the spell all damage dice rolled against a shugenja which are less than or equal to their caster's school ...
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How high can 'Black Tentacles' reach?
The spell Black Tentacles does not say how high they can reach up. Could it grab some Stirges that fly over the area of effect for example?
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Does polymorph or wildshape give you extra attacks?
If a player casts polymorph and they get more arms, can they have extra attacks with those extra arms?
If they do get extra attacks, what is your base attack bonus?
Is the same true for wildshape? ...
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Does ending a Power early take the equivalent of an action?
Obviously it normally takes an spellcasting action to use Shape Change (Savage Worlds Deluxe EE, p. 115) to shift into animal form, but the description says nothing about how shifting back to normal ...
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Silence spell and when to roll saving throw
This is the spell (as most people know).
The saving throw section makes me confused. It is a powerful spell and the description reads as:
The spell can be centred on a creature, and the effect ...
