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Then I will ask again, why differentiate between Features and Traits if either one can be eliminated by lack of non-class hit dice?

Whoops, forgot to answer that with my last entry. Almost none of the races offered up in Dragon Magazine include example creatures. The article that brought this one up was the one that included the Dust Para-Genasi.

The thing is, the description in the SRD specifically breaks out the different abilities into Features and Traits. Your argument seems to assume that this was done for no reason whatsoever. Which may be the case. This does weaken your argument that the exclusion from the stat information of...

Remember that this is from the Outsider entry, not the plane-touched one. Whether or not the example Aasimar is a warrior immaterial to the the question. That aside, the specific race I am looking at has no example creature.

When making a plane-touched PC (Tiefling, Assamir, Genasi), what outsider abilites doe they get? Since none of them have racial hit dice, it seems obvious to me that the Features (HD, BAB, Saves, Skills) don't apply. Beyond that though, it does look like all the traits (Darkvision and weapon...

It came up in the game tonight where my rogue failed to spot an arrow trap and set it off. I couldn't find anything saying otherwise, so the GM ruled I was flat-footed. Is there anything in the rules which makes this clear one way or the other?

I see no particular reason why it is evil, particularly if they are ending up dead no matter how he does it. I do agree that potentially sowing discord among the party with the ghast stench seems not to be a particularly lawful thing to do, but it isn't like he can't take the gauntlets off when...

Ah, the debate that won't die and will, if allowed, overtake all other threads! The whole 'CON changes do/don't effect HPs' debate has been going on strong for some time and it seems that no amount of publishing, editing, errata, typos and so forth will change the opinions of those who want to...

Speaking as a player, I feel that it really is the role of the player to be more flexible then the GM in this regard. After all, the GM is (ostensibly) putting the most effort into the game, and restricting player choices doesn't in and of it self indicate that the game will be no fun, though...

Sadly, this tactic doesn't always work. On several occasion I have asked the GM what kind of campaign it would be so I could determine what kind of character would be appropriate. THe response was often as not 'oh, make whatever you want, I'll make sure it fits in the game.' About half the...

Thanks for the help eveyone. That gives me a starting point.

True, but a closed container?!? The outside of it, sure, but until it is actually opened, I don't see how you can paw through it for a potion.

In a game today, my cleric cast a Summon Undead spell for the first time, and I promptly realized that the spell list makes no real clarification on what you actually get. In this case, with Summon Undead II, I can summon a large skeleton or a medium zombie. Opting for the skeleton and...

As Sejs said, since the casting happens out of the enemy fighter's reach, there is no AoO, even if you rule that the cleric has to enter the swashbuckler's space to actually apply the healing. However, the rules are pretty clear about how reach works with touch spells, ans since touch attacks...

Speaking of property destruction, those playing 3.0 should consider an energy substitution (sonic) fireball with energy amixture (sonic). 20d6 sonic damage will take out a good many structures. Otherwise, add my vote the the no expansion, to heck with logic, and what do you mean by 'realism'...

I voted for 'Would try it once', only because you didn't have a catagory for 'Have already tried it once'. :heh: Of course, that was back in 2nd edition, so the character generation wasn't insanely complicated.

To be honest, it is the hit point loss that hurts the most for high LA fighters. Taking your examples, we will assume a base Con of 14 and hit points based on half hit dice +1 after 1st level. Since you have already spent the attribute boosts, we will assume no adjustment other then racial...

So I am either remembering the same Sage Advice or a GM's house rule.

Well, you COULD in 3.0, could it be from that time period?

That was pretty much my take on the matter. Most GMs I have played with as well. So ask your GM and see what s/he says.