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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    Okay. In a place without a clock, and there is no night or day, such as the Plane of Shadows or the Ethereal Plane, when is midnight? In a near-polar location, thecelestial event" "midnight line" might never be farther away than a few hundred feet. See the issue? "Midnight" is as much a...
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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    What is the start point for your rotation? Or is it something else? I cast a Daily spell/power at, say 10:00 am. Do I have to wait until 10:01 am the next day (one planetary rotation later)? If I use something like a Ring of Sustenance that allows minimal or no sleep/rest, does that affect...
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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    Can a "Daily Use" item take a "Long Rest" while the bearer is active? Presume character A uses said item right after a Long Rest, then hands it to character B, who is just coming off shift and about to take a Long Rest. Does the item recharge? After character B awakens and uses said item, can...
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    Experience for lower CR monsters

    I was DM in our regular D&D 3.5 game yesterday. The party is 15th and 16th levels. Thy faced two Elder Storm Elementals (MM III, CR 14) an Air Elemental (CR 7) and a Fire Elemental (also CR 7). According to the EXP chart in the DMG, the two CR 7s are worth exactly zero EXP to the party, yet...
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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    How the device works? It works the way the rules say it does. I mean, it's not like there really are magic wands around. In 5e that recharge time may mean "After a long rest". It may not. A person might get powers back after they rest, but since items don't "rest" per se, it's kind of hard...
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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    Not exactly portable, in the sense that a pocket watch or wristwatch is. And the traverse of the sun doesn't work so well in the winter, beyond the arctic (or antarctic) circle: Depending on how far beyond it you ar there may be days, or even months when there is no sunrise at all. It isn't...
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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    We had an item in one game that granted Transport Via Plats once per day, recharging at Sunrise. Since that campaign world was round and rotating, time zones were a factor. It was possible to transport west several thousand miles, just after sunrise, do your business there, where/when the sun...
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    General Fantasy RPG question regarding game time

    In many fantasy games, such as Pathfinder or any of the D&D editions, there are items that work "Once per day", or people who get spells or abilities renewed once per day. In common parlance this usually means that it happens at a particular time, like sunrise or midnight or some such. I'm in...
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    The PCs dillemna - When the monster threatens innocents

    The Paladin idea has merit. The group, however hasn't got a Paladin available, nor do they know where to send him. The Dragon's lair isn't known, and even if they can manage to Scry him, all that shows is the immediate surroundings. It doesn't give actual location. Beyond that, the group's...
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    The PCs dillemna - When the monster threatens innocents

    Fair. They fought him on the ground. He won't attack from the ground, he'll attack from the air, hit and run style. He won't stop to engage the PCs, since his target is all of the innocents. The Half Fiend package allows him the use of a Blasphemy once per day, which auto-kills every...
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    The PCs dillemna - When the monster threatens innocents

    In our D&D 3.5 game the party came into a region with very little information about what was going on (they failed to take advantage of several opportunities to gather facts.) As a result they found themselves facing the Big Bad without preparation. The monster was a Half Fiend Black Dragon, a...
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    Harvesting Monster Parts for Arcane Reagents

    I'm presuming that this is a 3.* setting. Translate as needed. Seen this request. The best answer would be to have someone post a bounty on various specific monster parts. They need to be very fresh, or expertly preserved. I mean, we've probably all seen low level PCs, desperate for more...
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    Can tongues allow a person to speak druidic?

    In D&D 3.* the spell says that you can speak any language. It doesn't say it has to be their "native" language, or first language. The only limit it puts are that you can only speak one language at a time (i.e. you speak a specific language, not some universal tongue that can be understood by...
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    Iconic Bard?

    Haven't played the 5E Bard. In 1st edition, to be a Bard meant you were superman. Fighter levels, then change class to Thief, then to Druid. Your Druid level was your Bard level. He was a full powered triple threat. Personally I tend to think of Alan Adale, from Robin Hood legends...
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    Fighting Demons, Is tripping effective?

    Not that familiar with Mage Slayer, but Supernatural abilities don't require any kind of Concentration check, nor do they provoke Attacks of Opportunity. In general, creatures that can Teleport can escape any kind of restraint, including Entanglement, Grapple/Pin etc. They can still be knocked...
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    Fighting Demons, Is tripping effective?

    Tripping will work, if they aren't flying. The Improved Trip feat can be very useful, if you have the right weapon and build. When facing an opponent with a hard-to-hit AC, the feat/maneuver lets you make a touch attack to initiate the Trip, followed by the contested Trip Check. Unlike many...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Awakened Animals as Player Characters

    The original question was a general one, not about the one specific case. In the 16th level game a 9th level character of just about any build will be underpowered. That's a given. The same character, as an awakened animal, can be broken as hell in a game at "its own" level. Celebrim, you...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Awakened Animals as Player Characters

    In theory the awakened bear could have taken those two extra hit dice as character levels. Not sure how forgoing extra hit dice is power gaming, but to each his own I suppose. He's been playing the party weakling though, since he's currently 9 hit dice in a 16th level game. His AC says "Power...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Awakened Animals as Player Characters

    My group is looking at the Awaken Animal spell, what it is, what it does, and Awakened animals as PCs. Consider the Brown Bear. It starts with six "Monster levels", represented by six hit dice, and is considered a Challenge Level 4. Physically it's Large, though it only has a 5 foot reach...
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    How do you rule on Force effects vs harmless energies?

    How could someone suffocate in that short a time, I wonder? One ongoing "blew it" in 4e is that diagonals are counted the same as straight movement and distance, so a "Fireball" is a fire-cube, as is any other circular/spherical area or volume. But we've beaten that horse to death a long time...
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