Questions tagged [dnd-3.5e]
For questions about Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition, a revision of D&D Third Edition, published in 2003.
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How does Freedom of Movement interact with Squeezing rules (ie: fitting through narrow spaces)?
I am curious about how Freedom of Movement effects would be affected by the squeezing rules in the PHB, p148. (Fitting through narrow spaces)
The Squeezing rules state two conditions:
Passing through ...
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Do you provoke an AoO when you evoke a beam with the spell Sunbeam?
During our last game session our cleric used the spell Sunbeam which reads:
For the duration of this spell, you can use a standard action to evoke
a dazzling beam of intense light each round.
We had ...
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Are two free hands required to throw a two-handed ranged weapon?
I have a character who routinely uses a shield. He has an Efficient Quiver and there are some spears in the quiver.
Spears are two-handed melee weapons and have a range increment of 20 feet.
Can I, ...
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The caster level for magic weapons and armor created by a Forge of Thautam
In Races of Stone page 167 an item called a Forge of Thautam is detailed.
Forge of Thautam: A dwarf using this forge can create magic weapons
and armor as if he had the Craft Magic Arms and Armor ...
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Summoning the same creature so frequently that it starts gaining class level
Can summon spells be used to summon the same specific creatures repeatedly?
I see that RAW wise it is actually allowed to let a PC repeatly summons the same creature over and over again.
If a PC ...
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Grant infinite use of polymorph (to humanoid only) to familiar?
I am wondering if there would be an option to grant the familiar the ability to polymorph itself into a humanoid form (just like what dragons do), which could be interesting story-wise.
The closes hit ...
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Which skill should be used if I want to let my PC drive a modern vehicle?
Let's say my PC get a chance to access some modern vehicles (cars and tanks) as their findings from a ruin, and they try to drive them. What skill should I ask them to check? Maybe first try Knowledge ...
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How is the spell DC of a staff calculated when used with UMD?
Related description from Use Magic Device:
Emulate an Ability Score: To cast a spell from a scroll, you need a high score in the appropriate ability (Intelligence for wizard spells, Wisdom for divine ...
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Can a readied action that changes character's location be used for dodging attacks?
There's a PC claims, "Since I haven't moved in this turn, I ready my 5-foot-step after my full-round attack to move to the left (which is still within the enemy's reach) when the enemy attack or ...
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How does spellcasting progression work if I go back to the original class after prestige classing?
Silly example, but it should be fairly understandable:
If a character takes 9 levels as a Wizard and then becomes a Loremaster. They take 3 levels of Loremaster, and decide they would actually really ...
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How should the price, hit point and hardness (and aura) be calculated for a magical weapon & armor shield?
The core rule mentioned that each enhancement bonus granted to a weapon/armor would also grant it additional hardness and hit points.
It also mentioned that while shields can be enchanted as armors, ...
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How do the knowledge skills of the cloistered cleric work?
The class description says that:
"the cloistered cleric class skill list includes decipher script, speak language, and all knowledge skills(from the Knowledge domain)"
Does that mean that ...
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Book of Exalted Deeds edition 3.0?
Although, printed in 2003, both page 6 and 191 list all 3.0 books it is designed as a supplement to and doesn’t have the 3.5 revision stated on page 6 as it should for a 3.5 book would. Isn’t it a 3.0 ...
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What land speed would be the minimal requirement for utilising Spring Attack?
In many build guides (e.g. RPGBOT), I see people saying this feat sucks for having so many prereq feats and providing so few character tactical options, except for certain classes like the Scout, who ...
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What happens when a class power is lost and then gained again from another source? [closed]
Example: a character has access to the smite ability from class A that he then has to lose to gain another ability (like a feat).
He then takes a level in class B that also gives smite.
Can he use ...
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Can the Ability Focus feat apply to a character's manifestation of psionic powers as a whole?
In Monster Manual 1, a core source, Ability Focus feat applies to special attacks, and psionics are defined as a special attack in the Stat blocks and as a spell-like ability in the glossary. Most ...
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In D&D 3.5, can you cast with a fractional caster level?
Not that it's likely to come up very often, but I saw this answer suggesting that you can reduce your caster level, and I realized I didn't know: can you reduce that caster level to (say) 2.5?
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How does one-handed/two-handed switching work?
The specific scenario:
I have a fighter character with Quick Draw feat and Sidestep
Charge feat, and this fighter charges to a enemy wizard with his
longsword two-handed to utilize his 1.5 * STR DMG ...
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Do you have to go all the way up with an updraft spell?
The updraft spell in the spell compendium states you rise 10 ft per level and float back down. Do you have to go all the way up or can you choose to stop at any height? does the rise and float down ...
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Blizzard spell area of effect larger than range
The blizzard spell in Frostburn has a larger area of effect than range. An 11th level druid casts at max range 840ft. area of effect is 1100ft. He is 160 ft. inside area of spell. How does this work?
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Cataphract—homebrew martial adept base class
This is a defensively-minded Tome of Battle martial adept. As with most of my work, I strive to make it stand-alone: ideally, this class should just work, as-is, without any meta commentary, and fit ...
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Are the 'Rules of the Game' web articles for using special attacks as attacks of opportunity corroborated by any other source?
To provide some context, I am prepping a new direction for my players in to the the worlds of H.P Lovecraft for a change of pace. So I would like to use the D20 rules for that and I had a mind to try ...
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Wail of the Banshee Trap vs Bard's countersong
The party have just set off a Wail of the Banshee Trap.
Can a Bard's Countersong be used to mitigate the effects. The bardic music had not been started before setting off the Trap. My feeling is it ...
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What is defined as "secured item" when trying to grab an item from someone else?
With Disarm we have the possibility to grab an item that someone is holding or wearing.
If the item is "poorly secured" or "easy to snatch or cut away" the item can be grabbed with ...
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What are all of the armors and shields that are legal in 3.5e?
I want a complete list of every 3.5e-legal type of armor and shield published by Wizards of the Coast, or in Dragon or Dungeon magazine. (To be clear, I mean base type of armor or shield, not every ...
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Feat that allows sleeping in heavy armor without becoming fatigued?
I was shocked to discover today that Endurance doesn’t do this:
Benefit: […] you may sleep in light or medium armor without becoming fatigued.
Normal: A character without this feat who sleeps in ...
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What happens if the central portion of a Handy haversack is pierced?
The handy haversack has
two side pouches, each of which appears large enough to hold about a quart of material. In fact, each is like a bag of holding [...]
I can imagine that if either of the pouch ...
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Does the buckler make other shield options irrelevant?
Years ago in our group we came to the conclusion that the buckler is a shield that leads itself to help player optimization as it allows most character to have shield empowered with magical armour ...
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How does Constitution drain/damage interact with minimum hit points?
Related to, but not the same as this: Polymorph, HP, and Constitution damage/drain
In his answer to the question Loss of bear form and hp of a bear warrior, @KRyan mentions a rule about constitution ...
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Loss of bear form and hp of a bear warrior
We had a discussion at the table, where the player of a level 30 bear warrior claimed she would not lose any hp at the end of her bear form. She had a maximum 570 hp and was with 30 hp before her bear ...
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Which source gave the option for a spellcaster to use wishes as verbal component?
I vaguely remember that I have seen a Dungeons and Dragons subclass, variant or feat that allowed a spellcaster who studied Genies or was related to them to cast spells by using spoken wishes as ...
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Can Scorn Earth be used to prevent falling damage?
Can you use Scorn Earth to avoid falling damage since you never actually hit the ground?
Scorn Earth (Su) At 1st level, an elocater’s feet lift from the
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dnd-3.5e Warmage Edge damage to Wounding Spell damage per turn
Does Warmage Edge's additional damage apply to the damage per round caused by the Wounding Spell metamagic when applied to an instantaneous duration damaging spell?
"If a spell deals damage for ...
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Are Bonus Feats from Class usable without prerequisites?
I was looking at a Dragon Magazine Wizard Alternate Class, the Fleshcrafter (DM #312). At level 1, one of the class features given is:
Craft Construct: A fleshcrafter gains Craft Construct as a bonus ...
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What is the source of the persistent rumor that D&D 3.5's Orb spells were written to provide an advantage in the writer's home game?
D&D 3.5's Complete Arcane introduced the Orb of Fire/Acid/Whatever line of spells. They are conjuration spells (normally you might expect them to be evocation), they do a reasonably large pile of ...
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Can a cleric cast spells from his domain if his allignment does not match the spell?
Can a cleric with say lawful neutral allignment cast a spell from one of his domains that has a good / evil / chaos disignator?
As the anwer below points out.
chaos vs law is a no go.
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Can Sleight of Hand be used to retrieve a hidden item or weapon as a free action with a -20 penalty?
My understanding from the Rules Compendium page 7 is that retrieving an item either from a bag or from a pocket is a move action and I have not found any way to make this a swift or free action.
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Slight of hand to take items faster from handy haversack
We have a rogue in our campaign that uses slight of hand (taking a -20 penalty check) to take items (scrolls, potions, etc.) from her "handy haversack" claiming that this would reduce the ...
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Full round spell and being attacked
If a caster casts a spell that in the casting time states "full round", or uses a metamagic feat casting and her spell casting time increases to "full round" is the caster "...
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How does Anarchomancer handle a high Leadership score?
In Dragon Magazine #315, a prestige class called
Anarchomancer
was introduced.. It comes with a class feature called "Ritual of the Dark Infiltrator", which is described thusly:
Ritual of ...
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Does a barbarian benefit from the fast movement ability while wearing medium armor?
The Player's Handbook makes a conflicting statement that some people may find confusing, requiring some official clarification.
Barbarian (PHB pg. 25)
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Can a permanent Magic Mouth be used with new parameters after it has been discharged?
A wizard casts magic mouth, permanently, on the door to his study.
Is the magic mouth then limited to its set parameters and message indefinitely, or could the caster set a new set of parameters for ...
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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
A caster has Leomond's secret chest and casts shrink item to carry it around (while it's not on the ethereal plane) regularly enough to warrant spending the experience points to cast permanency on it. ...
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Is the blindness caused by Sunbeam/Sunburst permanent?
Is there a difference between the blindness caused by the sunbeam spell and the sunburst spell?
Both spells are worded basically the same:
Sunbeam
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Can a bag of holding be put into a Leomond's Secret Chest?
Extradimensional and non-dimensional terms are interchangable.
Leomond's secret chest is the foundation spell by which all magic containers that function like a bag of holding are formed, but the ...
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Is armor invulnerable?
Since armor can't be the target of the special attack sunder, when would it ever take damage?
Weapons and shields have listed hardness and hit points that may be adjusted by its material composition, ...
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To what degree does Polymorph Any Object change the subject?
Alter self changes just the form, and lists the ways in which the change is limited:
must be the same creature type, must be within one size category, retain your own ability scores, Supernatural and ...
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Optimizing fatal/demolition setups during long Time Stop with strict RAW rules against targeting creatures
I'm in a 9th level high-powered gestalt game in a Tippyverse setting with a fairly permissive DM that allows for highly optimized shenanigans. Game rules are PF as a base with 3.5 content to ...
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Using RAW, can the Polymorph Any Object spell allow a Simulacrum to gain in power?
I was unable to delete this and post the revised question. I apologize to those who have invested time in answering, but I feel that this is now more evidence based than presentation based and better ...
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Does the Obscure Object hide things inside the object?
If a character casts Obscure Object on a box, would someone still be able to cast Scrying on an object inside the box?
Alternatively, if that character casts Obscure Object on boat, would it still be ...
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