Endur's Expedition to Castle Ravenloft OOC

[Voadam]

Spurn Death's Touch requires a standard action. I don't believe a paralyzed character gets standard actions.

I believe they do, I believe they simply can't take physical actions. I believe a silent, stilled spell that did not require a component not held inhand could be used by a paralyzed caster.

 

[Voadam]

The Barrow Wight, for example, had a very famous cameo in my Grim Winter campaign over at dablackmoor.com.

I've used that one the most. It started off when a 2e PC in my ravenloft game got turned into a servitor wight by a darklord and I let the player keep playing as an undead, working the cold burning hunger for life angle heavily as well as the daylight helplessness. When the campaign turned 3e I adjusted the mechanics I had in place for 2e to 3e and it turned out well. I've since used them as adversaries in running Demon God's Fane and I've faced them as a player when going through the Banewarrens.

The Banewarrens one was harsh. We were working with a group of Lothian Paladins when they got ordered by their superior to delve deeper without us to retrieve for their church a specific corrupted holy sword that our party Cuthbertian paladin was questing to recover and restore for his own church. They all fell to a necromancer vampire's ambush who turned them into barrow wights and had them assail us when we followed after them. Since my character and one of the Lothian paladins were lovers it was pretty rough when I had to cut her down.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

So, one cannot wear the bracers over the full plate? - I thought one could... Then again, when I think of bracers, I think of something small, like a metal wrist protection or so.

 

[Rhun]

So, one cannot wear the bracers over the full plate? - I thought one could... Then again, when I think of bracers, I think of something small, like a metal wrist protection or so.

Bracers of Armor provide an Armor Bonus, just like Full Plate (or any type of armor) does. In almost all cases, similarly named bonuses do not stack.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

I basically used the Barrow Wight as a template for a female monk (nun? ), which kicked around the party members through a mist-covered backyard. One very memorable slaughter, I must say... Especially since the party was already terrified like hell and did act very defensively, making a normal encounter a near TPK...

The Barrow Wight might see a comeback in a similar role in a Ravenloft RPG soon: An undead witch from some dark wood in Tepest, maybe...

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

Bracers of Armor provide an Armor Bonus, just like Full Plate (or any type of armor) does. In almost all cases, similarly named bonuses do not stack.

*Posted nearly simultaneously, I believe*

Thank you for the clarification, then. In my campaigns, I let my players just put it over the full plate - but that's of course, only my reading of the rules. You have the luck of someone who has his very own interpretation of D&D 3.5...

 

[Legildur]

Bracers of Armor provide an Armor Bonus, just like Full Plate (or any type of armor) does. In almost all cases, similarly named bonuses do not stack.

Very true. But the bracers provide a force effect, so the armor bonus from those is effective against incorporeal attacks, unlike regular armor. Someone should definately be wearing those things.

 

[hafrogman]

Very true. But the bracers provide a force effect, so the armor bonus from those is effective against incorporeal attacks, unlike regular armor. Someone should definately be wearing those things.

Mage Armor provides a force effect.
Bracers of Armor never say that they do.

DM perogative.

 

[Pyrex]

Huh?

Bracers of Armor
These items appear to be wrist or arm guards. They surround the wearer with an invisible but tangible field of force, granting him an armor bonus of +1 to +8, just as though he were wearing armor. Both bracers must be worn for the magic to be effective.

Moderate conjuration; CL 7th; Craft Wondrous Item, mage armor, creator’s caster level must be at least two times that of the bonus placed in the bracers; Price 1,000 gp (+1), 4,000 gp (+2), 9,000 gp (+3), 16,000 gp (+4), 25,000 gp (+5), 36,000 gp (+6), 49,000 gp (+7), 64,000 gp (+8);Weight 1 lb.

Emphasis mine.

Not only *does* it say it provides a field of force, but it uses Mage Armor as the base spell.

 

[Rhun]

Hmmm...that's interesting. I never really thought about wearing them in conjunction with armor to get the bracer's bonus vrs incorporeal attacks.