Joshua Randall
Legend
Why are you looking to screw over the PCs? Surely there are plenty of ways to hurt them without resorting to rules cheese.
Where are wands & holy symbols kept? quick or stowed?
- Thread starter Emirikol
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frankthedm
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Why is it cheese? Those are in game items. I have players who target NPC cleric's holy symbols. Is that cheese?Joshua Randall said:
If casters can protect themselves so well a combatant can't cut them down, then in behooves the combatant to shut them down. Especially since doing so works off combat skill rather than magical protections. PC or NPC has no business in the equation. If you want to take an evil cleric alive and possibly redeem them, that’s the first thing you go for.
If your Knowledge:Local tells you a caster is relying on a small pointy stick or staff for mass destruction and is heavily protecting himself with magic, then that stick is more a target than he is.
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Pbartender
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Emirikol said:
Ah...
So that's what they call it now-a-days.
Darth K'Trava
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Rhun said:
I think wands that our various parties have carried were put into the HHH.
Location of the Holy Symbol depends on the cleric/cleric's player. Ours' have run the gamut from the usual pendant around the neck (most common) to painted/engraved on shields/armor and also on weapons. My cleric of Torm had her's being the gauntlet on her hand in addition to the usual pendant and also on the hilt of her sword. A friend's cleric has his on his shield.
Darth K'Trava
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Emirikol said:
Thief: HA! I disarm the cleric of his holy symbol!
Next you see the image of the cleric standing there with his arms crossed in front of his bare front, face red with both embarrassment and rage.
frankthedm
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If this was not the rules forum that would be funny. if a DM want to allow varient holy symbols on objects, thats his or her choice, but the the rules for divine foci are pretty straight forward.Darth K'Trava said:Thief: HA! I disarm the cleric of his holy symbol!
Next you see the image of the cleric standing there with his arms crossed in front of his bare front, face red with both embarrassment and rage.
Divine Focus (DF)
A divine focus component is an item of spiritual significance. The divine focus for a cleric or a paladin is a holy symbol appropriate to the character’s faith.
If the Components line includes F/DF or M/DF, the arcane version of the spell has a focus component or a material component (the abbreviation before the slash) and the divine version has a divine focus component (the abbreviation after the slash).
Holly and mistletoe — —
Holy symbol, wooden 1 gp —
Holy symbol, silver 25 gp 1 lb.
Holy Symbol, Silver or Wooden
A holy symbol focuses positive energy. A cleric or paladin uses it as the focus for his spells and as a tool for turning undead. Each religion has its own holy symbol.
Unholy Symbols
An unholy symbol is like a holy symbol except that it focuses negative energy and is used by evil clerics (or by neutral clerics who want to cast evil spells or command undead).
Ed_Laprade
Adventurer
#1. Be sure to ask your players where whatever it is that you are trying to sunder/disarm is before trying to do so. (Never assume!)
#2. The first time you do so to the cleric's Holy Symbol will also be the last, if the player's at all intelligent. S/he'll have them put on everything the character owns. (And argue fiercly about "Why can a piece of cloth be sew onto whatever and blessed?"
#3. Have fun, I do not envy you. Player hatred is not a nice thing.
#2. The first time you do so to the cleric's Holy Symbol will also be the last, if the player's at all intelligent. S/he'll have them put on everything the character owns. (And argue fiercly about "Why can a piece of cloth be sew onto whatever and blessed?"
#3. Have fun, I do not envy you. Player hatred is not a nice thing.
![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
Darth K'Trava
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KenM said:
Same friend's cleric has his tattooed onto his upper arm, done by the party dwarf fighter/tattoo artist. I also had a ranger who had his deity's symbol on his upper arm.
Frankthedm said:
Note: it doesn't specify a certain TYPE of holy symbol. So, it basically can be anywhere/anything you want as long as both DM and player are fine with it. And doesn't have to be any ONE item if you don't want it to be just one thing. You'd think a cleric, the epitome of a deity's faithful, would be happy to wear his deity's symbol wherever on his person he'd want. Anything from pendants to embroidered onto his robes or a tabard over his armor to his armor or weapons. If not all the above. For instance, see pics of the iconic cleric. He doesn't just wear one symbol on his person but several.
And, second note: this ain't the rules forum.
