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One of the really annoying things about the new "line" description is that it's only of use if you are, in fact, using a battlemat or similar graphing surface. If you aren't, and just want to know whether a Lightning Bolt can affect two people defined as standing 5' apart (and not one behind...

Caliban and Jhyrryl: Thanks for the great diagrams! It occurs to me that I may be mistaken about a Lightning Bolt "line" being 10' wide, even though it affects a coulmun 2 squares wide. At 5' wide, if you cast it down a square-side, it fills up half of each "touched" square, affecting both...

Lots of interesting replies here; thanks! As I noted in my original post, the MM 3.5 lists a Dragon breath weapon "line" as being "5' wide and 5' high"... but it also lists a Dragon breath weapon "cone" as being "as high and wide as it's length," rather than a quarter-circle like a 3.5...

Where "goes through" includes "touches an edge or corner?" That what I *think* it means as well, although as remarked that could include the caster's own square.

The 3.5 rules introduce a new standard spell area type, the "line," for such old standbys as Lightning Bolt. Unfortunately, the SRD and PHB descriptions of a "line" are confusing, written entirely in "squares" terminology, and leave me *guessing* that a "line" is probably meant to be 10' wide...

I agree that 10,000 per *pair* would be more reasonable than 10,000 per *glove*, but I also agree that the price needed to go up somewhat, since Gloves of Storing are now the *only* retrieve-an-item-as-a-free-action storage device (Handy Haversacks now take a move-equivalent action (but no AoO)...

But Nerf tm isn't "a legit toy company." It's a brand, owned by... Hasbro! (http://www.hasbro.com/nerf) Makes you think, doesn't it? :D

The Talisman of the Sphere is now a Minor Artifact (which makes sense to me, since it's only function is to control a Minor Artifact, except perhaps leaving it lying around as a nasty 5d6 "practical joke" against people who can't cast Arcane spells :D) and is listed with them. As such, it...

Planar Ally/Binding have been toned down: Instead of Lesser/normal/Greater getting you 8/16/24 HD, they now get you only 6/12/18 HD. Combined with the general increase in HD for many Outsiders, this seriously reduces your options, especially for Lesser Ally/Binding (see...

Not as many combat-worthy choices as there used to be, though, especially among the Demons and Devils, which as a DM I regret (my CE and LE NPC Clerics were just starting to make good use of Lesser Planar Ally). All that's left from the Demon list are Dretches, Quasits, and Succubi, all of whom...

I thought the plural of "erratum" was "3.5". :D

I see that "Lesser Planar Ally" and "Lesser Planar Binding" now Call creatures of up to only 6 HD, rather than 8. And many outsiders have had their HD increased. So, anyone have opinions about what's left that's worth Calling?

You could try Lisa Steele's "Fief: A Look at Medieval Society from it's Lower Rungs," available as a PDF from Cumberland Games at http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/fief.htm. Some of White Wolf's Dark Ages Vampire/etc. stuff isn't bad either, and might be adaptable (Dark Ages Europe, Spoils of War...

A portable hole's interior is a 10'-high cylinder with a diameter of 6' (= 3' radius). The volume is therefore 10' times pi-r-squared = roughly 282.75 cubic feet. If that much air lasts 10 minutes, then 1 cubic foot should last approximate 2.1 seconds, which seems rather low. :eek: Then...

Isn't that "tastes like almonds" paragraph taken directly from 3.0? It was optional then; is it the default now? In 3.5, Spellcraft will identify a potion: "DC 25 Identify a potion. Requires 1 minute. No retry."

At the moment, the All-in-one zip file still has the 3.0 SRD. All the individual files are 3.5, though.

Definitely looks like the all-in-1 isn't converted yet. And in the piece-by-piece, the link for "Spells (P-R)" points to "Spells (S)".

This (plus the new Ranger) also means that, in 3.5, the first level of Arcane Archer is generally inferior to a level of Ranger, assuming the character has at least a +1 bow (fewer skill points, same HD, smaller skill list (I think), comparable saves (though if you already have Ranger levels...

Sinjin, Check out the link Nikolai posted two messages previously. Looks like there's now a lot more no-SR spells...

Are you saying that you don't expect the 3.5 SRD to contain, well, the actual rules??? :eek: If so, that seems unnecessarily cynical. It won't specifically say "Bards used to have 4 skill points, now they have 6," but it'll say "Bards have 6 skill points," which is what you need to know...