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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tharkon" data-source="post: 5519095" data-attributes="member: 6674292"><p><strong>Graz’zt’s Long Grasp</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">I am wondering about a few things when using <em>Graz'zt's Long Grasp</em></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"> (BoVD 96).</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">This is a variant of <em>Spectral Hand</em> (PHB 282), where you actually lose your hand and double the hitpoints, and the hand becomes a creature (flanking, grappling and punching) as well as part of yourself.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Would the hand be able to use natural weapons based on it's owner's hands, like the Lich's paralyzing touch, seeing as for a Lich this would be considered a normal unarmed attack?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Would you be able to use the hand for somatic spell components, and if so, do you provoke an attack of opportunity if the hand is threatened?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">It says the hand can be controlled by thought alone as a free action, does this mean that the hand can attack without the owner having to spend a standard action, or only move?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">And last, what happens if the hand gets destroyed before it can return and it's owner is undead, since undead are not affected by <em>Regenerate</em>?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Perhaps intelligent undead are able to replace lost limbs using the mere magical energy that makes them undead?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">The loss of a hand can cripple a spellcaster so this would make this spell very risky for an undead spellcaster.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">This is not concerning a specific campaign or setting, but just a general query seeing how the majority would go about this.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">--</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px">Tharkon</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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