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Means of pretending to be Dominated, thralled, or Charmed
There's a spell that does exactly this from Complete Scoundrel, called Disobedience. It's 3rd level (bard, sorcerer, wizard, spellthief) lasts 1 hour/level, and suppresses any spell that grants mental ...
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Are D&D 3.5 Armor Proficiencies Always By Category?
Yes if core-only, and No if you include certain extension(s) to your campaign.
In 3.5e core, there are only three feats for Armor Proficiency:
Armor Proficiency (light)
Armor Proficiency (medium)
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Means of pretending to be Dominated, thralled, or Charmed
Not if it was targeted: the caster can sense you succeeded
The core rules state under Saving Throws/Succeeding on a Saving Throw
A creature that successfully saves against a spell that has no obvious ...
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Means of pretending to be Dominated, thralled, or Charmed
A bluff check opposed by the caster's sense motive check is the best way. The DM would add a modifier based on whatever they thought was appropriate.
The DM might choose to use the casters spellcraft ...
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help with optimizing an effective character level 8 barbarian soulknife build
Energy weapons
There are a lot of options for energy weapons, but few of them are good, and fewer still work with barbarian.
Soulknife
The “Elizabeth Braddock, a.k.a. Psylocke, class” is soulknife. ...
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Do Neraphim Get any Armor Proficiency?
You didn’t complete your quote:
neraphim also prefer to wear colorful bone-spiked leather (made of stabilized and cured chaos beast hide).
(Planar Handbook, neraphim physical description, pg. 12
The ...
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Can a psion with Metamorphosis and Assume Supernatural Ability create an army of Scythers of Thoon under his command?
RAW on this is inconclusive, likely yes
This question is eerily similar to this one, but this one might work. It depends on if you think Metamorphosis is a similar effect to Polymorph. Assume ...
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Can a psion with Metamorphosis and Assume Supernatural Ability create an army of Scythers of Thoon under his command?
Yes, but it's more complicated than the question makes it out to be
Strictly speaking, a creature can take the feat Assume Supernatural Ability (launch spawn (Monster Manual V 115)) (Savage Species 30–...
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Is there an equivalent to archmage special ability Arcane Fire in previous editions?
OD&D, Compendium, AD&D1e and 2e do not have any such ability in the core rules.
Forgotten Realms had Spellfire as a setting-specific thing, as per KRyan's answer
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Is there an equivalent to archmage special ability Arcane Fire in previous editions?
The Forgotten Realms has had, basically from its inception, the concept of “spellfire” (e.g. Spellfire, 1985). It also has “silver fire,” a related ability (e.g. The Seven Sisters, 1995).
Arcane fire, ...
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Does Psicrystal Containment prevent a Psicrystal with the Wild Talent feat from psionically focusing itself?
In the context of the general mode of the rules text, “No.”
My answer is basically the same as Nobody’s fine answer, with the exception that I disagree that allowing this to work would be significant “...
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Does Psicrystal Containment prevent a Psicrystal with the Wild Talent feat from psionically focusing itself?
Yes, unless you have a generous-minded DM
It may be implied by the rules that Psicrytals can gain feats, but that may be an unintended result, and you should check with your DM if they allow it.
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Can a Psion who can manifest Metamorphosis grab Assume Supernatural Ability?
Here are most of the relevant rules quotes:
EPH p.3 PSI-LIKE ABILITIES Many of the races described in this chapter have psi-like abilities, which function much like spell-like abilities. For an ...
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Is it a standard action to obtain/replace a psicrystal?
Yes.
As you correctly pointed out
All Psionic Feats are supernatural abilities.
All supernatural abilities are a standard action to use unless otherwise noted.
p.21 of Expanded Psionics Handbook
A ...
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Which Level are a Familiar's Hit Points calculated from?
You use the total level and hit points as your base
The Player's Handbook glossary (p. 306) explains what "character level" means:
A character’s total level. For a character with levels in ...
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Can a warforged become a vampire?
You are essentially correct.
The vampire template "can be added to any humanoid or monstrous humanoid creature." As a living construct, a warforged is not a viable target.
Correspondingly, ...
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Can vampires drain non-sentient beings or monsters?
Vampires can drain non-sentient beings.
From the vampire stat block / template:
Blood Drain (Ex)
A vampire can suck blood from a living victim with its fangs by making a successful grapple check. If ...
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Shadow's incorporeal touch attack vs DR5/bludgeoning
Damage Reduction
A creature with this special quality ignores damage from most weapons and natural attacks. Wounds heal immediately, or the weapon bounces off harmlessly (in either case, the opponent ...
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Shadow's incorporeal touch attack vs DR5/bludgeoning
The Shadow's damage is unaffected.
The Shadow's incorporeal touch attack has specific rules.
Strength Damage (Su)
The touch of a shadow deals 1d6 points of Strength damage to a living foe. A creature ...
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Does Leech Field allow you to absorb your own powers, your Schism's powers, or your Fission's powers?
Ask your DM, it might work
The rules have nothing conclusive to tell us on this. Foe is not a defined term in 3.5e. Using the normal English definition, foe means things such as:
one who has personal ...
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Do objects created by prestidigitation last forever? And are they immune to dispel magic?
The objects vanish when the time is up
The rules for spellcasting state under Duration:
Timed Durations
Many durations are measured in rounds, minutes, hours, or some other increment. When the time ...
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What is the Dream Spirit created by the spell of the same name's move speed? Can they fly?
The rules provide no direct guidance...
I can't find anything in the rules that answers your question:
There's nothing in the text of the spell that you've missed.
"Dream Spirit" isn't the ...
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Dream Experiences and experience gain
I will give an answer related to 2e because it is a very good source of information and can be adapted to 3e with some effort.
Dreams are linked to the Ethereal Plane in 2e, so we have some rules ...
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