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Thanks for the info! So since 3.0 Animal Empathy works a lot like Diplomacy but on animals, would you agree that it seems likely the class ability will just allow you to use your Diplomacy skill on animals to achieve old Animal Empathy effects? Also, can you point me to any source for the...

Hey folks, I'm making a Druid/Wizard and the DM is going to use 3.5 changes when they come out, so I'd like to avoid as many problems as possible by incorporating as much knowledge about upcoming 3.5 changes to Druid as possible now. We're playing tomorrow (Saturday) for the first time, and I...

Hey folks, I'm looking to design a clerical spell of 3rd level or less that can remove or temporarily suppress the effects of fatigue stemming from starvation (although not necessarily limited to fatigue from that source). I'm asking for assistance here because I want a spell that I can grant...

Wow, Sigil, that's great. Are you doing this in Access? I don't have much time available, but if I can help a bit I'd like to. Unfortunately I have no experience building or even using databases with Access, although I'm fairly adept with Excel. If you already have the fields set up in the...

Hi there, Does anyone know whether someone has put the spells in the SRD into a MS Access or similar database? I've seen Excel spreadsheets with certain spell details and the summary description, but I'm thinking of something with the full SRD text and with binary fields for the various...

Does anyone else here use a house rule where wands can be quickdrawn? One of my players plays a halfling rogue and is getting Quickdraw as his newest feat. He normally dual-wields daggers, but has a magic missile wand (used with Use Magic Device) for dealing with certain monsters (e.g. oozes...

Mahali wrote: Where do you get the idea that hustle = run? One is a double move and the other is a triple/quadruple (depending on encumbrance) move. There are separate rules for walking, hustling, and running in the overland movement rules, and different distances listed on the travel chart...

Hi there. If you are using Fly spells for overland movement, can you hustle just as if you were on foot, getting one double-speed hour "for free" and then taking 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. hp subdual damage for each additional hour during which you Fly double speed? I can't see any reason why not but I...

Do constricting monsters do normal attack damage plus constrict damage every round during a grapple when they win the check? The constrict damage listed for the Oozes is the same as the slam attack damage, and I wonder whether it's supposed to be essentially double damage or whether the...

Green slime isn't a monster, but a "hazard" in 3e, as I said. I'm not sure how any rules about oozes specifically relate. When I asked about adjudicating spotting it, I meant adjudicating a Spot check, yes. Let me try being more specific: what would the DC be? What factors would apply to...

Some slimy questions: 1) Does green slime do its initial damage on contact or after it has been on someone for a round? In other words, if someone scrapes it off during that first round when they are able to do so, does the victim take Con damage from the slime? 2) How do you adjudicate...

Compare with moderate darkness, or any of the factors which grant less than total concealment. You can still target the person, but sneak attacks are negated. Displacement is no different. Any amount of concealment negates sneak attacks, whether or not you can target the creature.

These look pretty good. Any chance you can email me these so I don't have to copy, paste, and remove the HTML? Was it your intent that with Poly Self you can incorporate as many of those features as you want at once? A related question is does your Poly Self allow one to assume the form of an...

I love it when my players impress me with creative uses of spells. One time when I was DMing an OD&D campaign back in college (6+ years ago), one of the PCs had his Fly spell dispelled, sending him hurtling to the ground toward his death. The PC Elf cast a Web below to cushion the blow as much...

OD&D Poly spells Hey folks, For those who are concerned with Poly Self/Other and are thinking to make house rule mods to it, I thought you might be interested in the way Poly Self and Other work in OD&D: Polymorph Self Range: 0 (Caster only) Duration: 6 turns + 1 turn per level of the caster...

So in this battle against the orcish hordes, you and all 100 of your friends have the prerequisite 13+ strength and 3 feats to spare (Power Attack >> Improved Shield Bash >> Shield Charge)? Please, if that's what you're starting with you could pick many other feats that would let you kick butt...

Enlarge spell (PHB 82) doubles a spell's range, which affects the area of effect if its area of effect "is determined by its range (such as bless or a cone spell)." It costs +1 spell level to metamagick. Widen Spell (T&B 42) increases the area of a burst, emanation or spread by one half. It...

IMC, buckler yes, but small shield no. One of the main reason (other than economic) for using bucklers.

. . . . . . . o . . . . = . . . . . . . . . t . . o is the point of origin for a fireball t is the target character = is a 5' wide solid wall with no hole in it dots are just placeholders, but indicate 5' squares My question is whether the character gets cover from the fireball. Clearly, if...

kreynolds: if you don't think you can have cover against area spells like fireball, what is the point of having differing amounts of cover provide reflex save bonuses, and 9/10 cover providing the effect of having evasion? Reflex saves modified by cover are almost always going to be related to...