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For questions about Dungeons & Dragons 3.5 Edition, a revision of D&D Third Edition, published in 2003.

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How to run mid-climbing combat in D&D?

How steep is the area they're fighting in? This is the crux of the question. When they get attacked, are they walking up an inclined part, or are they actually using climbing gear? Walking up a hill/m …
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So I think I've found a caveat to Lesser Geas' limits

I couldn't find an official errata, clarification, or FAQ for this spell, so I'm going to use the spell wording and my own explanations as best I can. If you give a quest that has a definite end, the …
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What are the most effective ways to protect a character against critical hits?

If you're a Druid or a Wizard/Sorcerer, the Heart of Air/Earth/Fire/Water spells from Complete Mage will do it. If you have two of them active at once (doable at level 5) you get Light Fortification. …
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Is there a complete index of D&D 3.5 material?

No. It's unfortunate too, as 3.5 has a lot of material. Unfortunately it came out before WOTC really adopted the Internet and so they never consolidated everything. The closest things I know of are: …
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How do the final veils of Initiate of the Sevenfold Veils work against a Disjunction?

This is one of those cases of bad wording leaving it open to interpretation. Here's the wording for the Veils ability (emphasis mine): Veils: When an initiate creates a warding, she can choose and …
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Can you break your fall with a corpse in D&D?

There is no rule that says you can use a corpse that way specifically (as you noted in the question). That said, there is this from the Falling rules: Falls onto yielding surfaces (soft ground, mu …
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Convert a caster level to base attack bonus

No, but you can fake it On the surface, there's no way I know of to do this. That said, you can achieve something similar as a Cleric: Divine Favor The spell Divine Power makes your BAB your charac …
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How to Avoid Weakness to Cold Iron

"Marge... sometimes the best defense is a good offense." - Homer Simpson You need to not get hit by cold iron weapons. At the end of the day, that's the only real way to negate that vulnerability. Th …
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Ability drain (natural) attacks and subdual damage

The ability drain rule says this: This effect permanently reduces a living opponent’s ability score when the creature hits with a melee attack. Damage is never mentioned. In fact the Shadow ha …
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Are tricks the only way that I can control an animal companion?

Push You can use Handle Animal to push an animal to do something it doesn't know a trick for. Ask Nicely You can use the Speak With Animals spell to communicate and ask the animal for a favor. This …
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How do casting times greater than 1 minute work?

You Just Can The rules have next to nothing to say about this. Concentration (and the Concentratinon rules for casting spells) lists conditions that can cause you to have to roll to keep concentratio …
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Hide check penalty when under effect of light spell?

Rules Answer Lets break it down a bit. Light says this: This spell causes an object to glow like a torch, shedding bright light in a 20-foot radius (and dim light for an additional 20 feet) f …
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How do I develop cryptic tomes?

Skill Based Approach Decipher Script is the skill that would be used to read and understand something like this. You can set the DC to varying difficulties depending on the difficulty of the material …
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Full Round Actions with poor/average flying

Flight - Yes, you must move Specifically you have to move your minimum forward speed, which is defined in the movement rules. If a flying creature fails to maintain its minimum forward speed, it …
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How does strength affect a Brown Bear's bite damage?

The bite is a secondary natural weapon, as it shows up in the full attack but not in the attack line of the stat block. When a creature has more than one natural weapon, one of them (or sometime …
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