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    Phantom Steed & Movement

    its a "mount" so yes, however since it vanishes when the duration ends regardless, the consequences are rather moot, although the accumulating damage might effectively end the spell sooner by killing the summoned/called creature per normal.
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    Ultimate Magus no 9th level spells?

    try arguing Illiumian is directly from WOTC and thus "core" since not third-party?? ;)
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    Trivia: When did you first play D&D?

    watched my first campaign winter 1977 during a snowed-in boy scout weekender and first played a few months later, purchasing the original hardback dmg, ph, and mm when they hit the local book stores.
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    D&D 3.x How would I make this item (3.5)

    Given True Seeing is a magical sensory effect, it seems reasonable for it to provide the user with ability to see via the eye as a free side-effect (at least while the effect is active).
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    Calculating Skill Points for Familiar

    Familiar gets whatever "background" animal skills available to its species reflecting its life prior to becoming a familiar. Upon becoming a familiar, it also gains access to whatever skills its Master knows (and at his ranks). However its Intelligence also raises upon becoming a familiar...
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    Hirelings/Cohorts? Does any every hire them?

    generally hirelings are decent investments for lower level PCs augment their ranks withnear-equals, but quickly become of less and less value in the field. However hirelings remain good for overseeing things around home-base while the PCs are away. Cohorts otoh remain semi-valuable since they...
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    Surreal Elements

    waterfall RISING from the pool to the river above. (perhaps acting as an elevator as well?) odd gravity effects odd decorations, perhaps money trees? glowing sunflowers, harmless grab-grass, etc darkened rooms with "shadows" of dim light?
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    Magic Stone/Sling and size category

    sorry forgot they nerfed it to only affect "persons". Enlarging objects was fair game under the prior version and a semi-common practice when Arcane Lock / Hold Portal / etc wasn't viable (ie topple and enlarge a whatever to block a doorless archway).
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    XP for familiars?

    generally speaking, RAW treats familiars as "equipment" owned by the sorcerer so defeating it separate from its master would NOT be worth XP even though they cant claim this particular "treasure". However if you feel otherwise, the simplest way would be to award the party the amount of Xp the...
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    Magic Stone/Sling and size category

    sling with Enlarge ... insert mundane stone, victim hit by small boulder??
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    D&D 3.x (3.5) Flying Ships - Non-Eberron

    the older Champions of Mystara box set also had rules for flying ships/etc using a variety of means/materials. essentially fabricate/enchant sections which are assembled into the final ship so you can take damage/etc without disrupting the entire structure.
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    About EN World exclusive articles and other new stuff

    many of the recent articles seemed focused solely towards 4e. given the recent fact pathfinder tied with 4e in sales/popularity, will future content focus on both?
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    I have a PC who was turned Blue, how do I undo?

    IRC the Rod's effect is Instantaneous thus "permanent" since there is no on-going magic to dispel/undo thus Prestidigitation WOULD work ... however the 1-hour limit could prove bothersome. IRC one of the Dragon magazines described/suggested a Teleport subschool with a instantaneous zero/first...
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    How to bestow Templates in-game?

    sounds like either your DM is implying its beyond typical D&D single-caster spells so requires an Epic level ritual-spell or hopefully is alluding to the Incantation variant at d20srd.org Incantations :: d20srd.org
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    Marvel RPG/brandline

    Marvel Movies – “More As Brands And Less As Films” – Official Bleeding Cool Comic Book News and Rumors wonder/hope Hasbro will realize they would maximize their divisions by scaling/tying the implied RPG to their action figure/playset lines (which ideally would be an M&M tie-in akin to DC Heros).
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    unbalanced magic items

    the other thing to remind them of is the simple fact if they (as PCs) considered/attempted such an item then its quite likely somebody else either have also or presuming its truly new then would eventually be discovered and copied by others; either way its merely a matter of time before foes of...
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    D&D 3.x (3.5) co-op crafting ?

    yes in a fashion. Afirc, there is no limit asto how many people can be involved per RAW, however the majority of enchanted items are NOT modular so there would be -NO- time reduction in most cases since each needs his normal time with the item to complete his part. however a case for reducing...
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    Holy Avenger Artifact

    the other thing to consider is while Boris might spend the time/resources to mass produce the basic cold iron swords and then somehow convince the local church elders to bless them accordingly, they remain simple +2 swords ... UNTIL the appropriate deity grants his chosen paladins its additional...
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    Really confused about leveling animal companions/wild cohorts

    An animal's base stats (hit dice, bab, &etc) advance as per the Improving Monsters section. A Druid's animal companion remains an "animal" so continues advancing its basic stats, hit dice, size, &etc as a Cleric per the Improving Monsters section. This base improvement is separate and stacks...
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    Advancing Animals and Cohorts

    An animal's base stats (hit dice, bab, &etc) advance as per the Improving Monsters section. A Druid's animal companion remains an "animal" so continues advancing its basic stats, hit dice, &etc as a Cleric per the Improving Monsters section. This base improvement is separate and stacks with the...
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