Knight Otu
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Another note on alignments: Apparently, many of the 'Always' alignments were reduced to 'Usually' (such as trolls), and in a number of cases, 'Usually' has been reduced to 'Often' (dwarves and orcs).
3.5 Monster Manual Issues
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Darkness
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Re: Re: Re: 3.5 Monster Manual Issues
Only when it comes to background information, metaplot, The Definite Truth(tm) and similar things. Rules are a different matter. ('course, maybe that's just because they focus on rules so little.)Synicism said:
FireLance
Legend
Re: Rakshasa
I've mentioned this before, but it's worth saying again. Almost all offensive Conjuration spells, e.g. Acid Splash, Glitterdust, Melf's Acid Arrow, Web, Stinking Cloud, Cloudkill, Acid Fog, Incendiary Cloud, etc. do not allow spell resistance.
The change of the rakshasa's immunity to spells below a certain level to a high SR and the change in the golems' immunity to spells from a more or less blanket immunity to an immunity to spells that allow SR means that these spells would affect rakshasas and golems, too.
Well, golems are still immune to Stinking Cloud and Cloudkill because they're constructs.
Darkness said:Ah, yes; CR 10 it is. Hm. I guess confused it with its HD, for some reason...
So a spellcaster of the same level as the rakshasa's CR has a 20% chance of overcoming its SR (17+). Hm. Oh, well - it's still not a bad value, and probably more fun for spellcasting PCs, I suppose...
Anyway - thank you.
I've mentioned this before, but it's worth saying again. Almost all offensive Conjuration spells, e.g. Acid Splash, Glitterdust, Melf's Acid Arrow, Web, Stinking Cloud, Cloudkill, Acid Fog, Incendiary Cloud, etc. do not allow spell resistance.
The change of the rakshasa's immunity to spells below a certain level to a high SR and the change in the golems' immunity to spells from a more or less blanket immunity to an immunity to spells that allow SR means that these spells would affect rakshasas and golems, too.
Well, golems are still immune to Stinking Cloud and Cloudkill because they're constructs.
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Derulbaskul
Adventurer
Re: Re: 3.5 Monster Manual Issues
Cool, that matches my campaign. Let's hope the next edition sees the alignment of sahuagin adjusted similarly....
Cheers
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seankreynolds said:
Cool, that matches my campaign. Let's hope the next edition sees the alignment of sahuagin adjusted similarly....
Cheers
D
TheAuldGrump
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Hmmm, the only problem I have with the 3.5 MM (other than the 'square monster' thing) is that I was hoping that more critters would become templates. I enjoyed the Dragon 300 article on undead templates, and was hoping for more of the same. In particular the Mummy Lord would (in my not very humble opinion) have worked just fine as a template. Fortunately there are plenty of other D20 books with templates to keep me happy.
The Auld Grump, who would have liked to see a one page one monster format, but ah well...
The Auld Grump, who would have liked to see a one page one monster format, but ah well...
Voadam
Legend
TheAuldGrump said:Hmmm, the only problem I have with the 3.5 MM (other than the 'square monster' thing) is that I was hoping that more critters would become templates. I enjoyed the Dragon 300 article on undead templates, and was hoping for more of the same. In particular the Mummy Lord would (in my not very humble opinion) have worked just fine as a template. Fortunately there are plenty of other D20 books with templates to keep me happy.
The Auld Grump, who would have liked to see a one page one monster format, but ah well...
In GF: Monsters I have a risen mummy template, and it is available as part of the free four monster preview.
http://www.unitedplaytest.com/gamingfrontiers/index.html
Go to the monster book page and it has the preview in a zip file.
It is 3.0 but I think all you have to adjust is the DR.
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d4
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by my (probably not entirely accurate) counting, there are 293 different monsters in the "Monsters A to Z" section, which is 259 pages long. that's not counting variations such as the aboleth mage or the dread wraith or all the different sizes of elementals or dragons.TheAuldGrump said:
there are several entries, such as the skeleton, zombie, all the dragons, elementals, and others, which are already more than one page per entry.
to change the book to be at least one page per monster, they'd have to cut at least 40 monsters from the book, or add at least 40 more pages and raise the price to match. cutting 40 monsters is something like 13% of all the currently listed monsters, or removing more than 1 in 8!
i'd rather have the book the way it is.
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Great! Now this Semi-Autistic Obsessive Compulsive Arch-Pedant (kudos to Derulbaskul for this wonderful descriptor) wishes they had actually made elves NG and gnomes CG.
Elves - not that chaotic. Well the wild ones are, the moon ones aren't too much, and the sun ones ain't at all.
Gnomes: tricksters and pranksters, favored class bard... hmmm - yeah, that sounds CG to me.
Ah well...
Kobold Avenger
Legend
One issue I have a problem with is Mephits having their intelligence reduced from 12 down to 6. I really don't like it when a race's bonus is made into a penalty, and I don't see any good explanation for it. Sure they might be emphasizing mephits as cohorts, but smarter cohorts make better cohorts.
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