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What are all sources of extra uses of bardic music?
You can steal some monster abilities that function like bardic music
This answer ranks very high on the cheese ladder, but there are some monster special abilities that you can steal in order to get ...
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dnd-3.5e Warmage Edge damage to Wounding Spell damage per turn
No.
The Wounding Spell feat says that the victim loses 1 hp per turn beecause of the wound, not that the spell keeps damaging the target dealing 1 damage on each subsequent turn.
The bleeding, not ...
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How can I gain the Swarm subtype?
Wild Shape
The Urban Class Features web enhancement for Cityscape includes the Druid ACF City-Shape:
City-Shape
The ability to transform into an animal is the hallmark of the druid, so much so that ...
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Are Bonus Feats from Class usable without prerequisites?
Near-universal consensus
The way just about everyone plays this is that if a bonus feat names a specific feat, you get it and can use it regardless of requirements. If a bonus feat allows you to get a ...
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How do you "safely" imprison a Lich?
Imprison the Phylactery
Your use of "secret" to describe the phylactery suggests this may not be possible, but it is still the simplest answer: to imprison the lich long-term, go get its ...
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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?
The Rules Compendium (RC) version of the skill Sleight of Hand (117) differs substantially from the Player's Handbook (PH) version of the skill Sleight of Hand (81–2). There are other differences, but ...
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I'm on fire and I'm invisible. Can I be seen?
People are over-complicating a simple thing.
Yes, you will be visible if you get set on fire. What you see when you look at flames is mostly light, not "flame molecules" or whatever. It's ...
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Can a cleric cast spells from his domain if his allignment does not match the spell?
“Only if your alignment matches” vs. “not of an alignment that opposes your own”
There are two major cleric class features that are restricted based on your/your deity’s alignment: the domains you ...
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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?
I believe this is an incorrect interpretation of the skill.
A sleight of hand skill's primary function is to conceal or to steal objects without being noticed by observers..
A sleight of hand check ...
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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?
No; drawing a hidden weapon is not a Sleight of Hand check.
"Do a standard action as a free action with -20" is not universal.
I'm guessing your players are arguing this based on a ...
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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
Secret chest (Leomund's secret chest in the PHB) has no change in storage functionality when shrunken via shrink item regardless of permanency. However, this is not due to shrink item. Instead, it is ...
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Slight of hand to take items faster from handy haversack
No.
Retrieving any specific item from a haversack is a move action, but it does not provoke the attacks of opportunity that retrieving a stored item usually does.
The text you are referring to about ...
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How does Anarchomancer handle a high Leadership score?
The prestige class anarchomancer at level 1 gains the supernatural ability ritual of the dark infiltrator that, in part, says, that the player should determine the maximum ECL of the creature into ...
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Full round spell and being attacked
You have to distinguish between spells with a casting time of 1 round (or longer) and spells which are modified by a metamagic feat and cast by a spontaneous caster.
A spell with a casting time of 1 ...
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Full round spell and being attacked
Concentration
To cast a spell, you must concentrate. If something interrupts your concentration while you’re casting, you must make a Concentration check or lose the spell. The more distracting the ...
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Full round spell and being attacked
Yes.
'If while trying to cast a spell you take damage, you must make a
Concentration check (DC 10 + points of damage taken + the level of the
spell you’re casting). If you fail the check, you lose ...
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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
After perusing other materials I came across a ruling that may provide some evidence to answer this question.
The premise that a spell made permanent only interacts with the object as it was when the ...
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Does a barbarian benefit from the fast movement ability while wearing medium armor?
Medium armor typically reduces the wearer's speed. A barbarian's extraordinary ability fast movement mitigates but does not obviate the medium armor's speed reduction. The barbarians in the examples ...
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Can a permanent Magic Mouth be used with new parameters after it has been discharged?
The 2nd-level Sor/Wiz spell magic mouth [illus] (Player's Handbook 251) when made permanent by the 5th-level Sor/Wiz spell permanency [univ] (PH 259–60) should probably repeat the the identical ...
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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
The Shrink Item spell has a special rule when used with the Permanency spell in its last paragraph that reads:
Shrink item can be made permanent with a permanency spell, in which case the affected ...
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What's the best way to handle new objects placed inside a permanent shrink item chest?
Restoring the shrunken object to its normal size and composition ends the spell.
Permanency doesn't allow you to reshrink items. It just extends the duration of the original spell. If you restore ...
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Using RAW, can the Polymorph Any Object spell allow a Simulacrum to gain in power?
A quick d20srd search for "Improving Monsters" reveals:
When a monster adds a class level, that level usually represents an increase in experience and learned skills and capabilities.
A DM ...
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Is the blindness caused by Sunbeam/Sunburst permanent?
In discussing this with KRyan, who has made some astute observations, I believe that I have discovered the answer to this question. I'm prone to error so I'm open to clarification and corrections.
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Using RAW, can the Polymorph Any Object spell allow a Simulacrum to gain in power?
TL;DR The simulacrum spell creates game elements that aren't called abilities therefore have no designations. The DM determines how the simulacrum spell's game elements interact with the wider game (...
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Can a bag of holding be put into a Leomond's Secret Chest?
The Secret Chest is not an extradimensional space.
The chest is a normal (albeit expensive) chest that gets transported to and from the Ethereal plane.
Can a Bag of Holding be put into a Leomond’s ...
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Is the blindness caused by Sunbeam/Sunburst permanent?
Sunburst is very clear—the blindness lasts until cured
Sunburst has instantaneous duration, so everything it does just happens and is now a fact of reality. It cannot be dispelled, because there is no ...
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Is armor invulnerable?
Weapons don't get damaged when they strike, armors and shields don't get damaged when they intercept a hit... or at least the game rules don't care about these sort of nicks which yes, your character ...
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Optimizing fatal/demolition setups during long Time Stop with strict RAW rules against targeting creatures
This Sounds Like a Job for Book Bombs
1) Get a blank book, like a spellbook. Don't get fancy, just go for a simple, mundane book.
2) Fill every page with explosive runes. Assume that's 100 pages, like ...
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To what degree does Polymorph Any Object change the subject?
A wizard who casts the 8th-level Sor/Wiz spell polymorph any object [trans] (Player's Handbook 263) so as to change a rock into a troll (Monster Manual 247–8) doesn't change that rock into a troll ...
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Using RAW, can the Polymorph Any Object spell allow a Simulacrum to gain in power?
3rd Edition Polymorph doesn't work like that.
The line of Polymorph spells in 3rd Edition were built to be very selective in how they transform a creature from one thing into another. The result is an ...
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Using RAW, can the Polymorph Any Object spell allow a Simulacrum to gain in power?
There is no simulacrum type
Simulacra are, according to the Rules of the Game by Skip Williams, the same type as their "original":
The simulacrum spell creates a duplicate of some other ...
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Does the Obscure Object hide things inside the object?
There's nothing to suggest that obscure object would have an effect on anything within the object, and several things to suggest it would not. Given that, if a wizard cast scrying to locate a person ...
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Slashing with Short Swords
The shortsword is probably meant to be the Roman gladius
The gladius was the sidearm of choice for the Roman legions, and was short, stout sword that was used primarily for thrusting—because it was ...
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Cheapest way to get Spring Attack?
Marshal can help (RAW, at least)
Marshal 1
Special:
Minor Aura Not useful here
Skill Focus (Diplomacy)
Skill Focus (Diplomacy): Because a marshal has a way with people, he gains this feat as a bonus ...
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Does an Epic character in 3.5 get new spells if they pick up a new base class?
YES an epic character continues to earn new spells when leveling a class that is not yet level 20.
This is the section causing confusion (from Epic Level Basics: Class Features):
For spellcasters, ...
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