Help me break in my 3.5 books! (3.5 Q&A)

[Olgar Shiverstone]

... which arrived at 1426 EST today!

Since you've all been very supportive of the running Compiled Revisions, and I've been lucky enough to receive the books, I'm willing to share by answering questions for a while (thank goodness I finished studying for my exam tomorrow!).

Post away; please be concise and specific. I'm not going to reprint sections of text or anything like that. I'll point you to the Compile Revisions thread if the question is already answered there. Fire away!


First impressions (t+20 minutes):

- These things are heavy! Lots of added pagecount.

- The new covers are nice -- the new DMG is beautiful. Unfortunately, mine arrived with a couple of minor dings in the edges thanks to UPS, but they aren't bent like the covers were one some WOTC books I've bought recently.

- The tables are much easier to read with the added highlighting.

- There are ads for the D&D novel line in the PHB and MM (boo! Ads go out of date!).

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Any change to Mind Flayers?

 

[drnuncheon]

I too will answer questions, if Olgar doesn't get 'em first. Might as well keep them on one thread, though - no sense cluttering things up!

J

 

[bloodymage]

Help me break in my 3.5 books!

Lean each individually against a stump, take a sledgehammer...oops! This isn't Dragonsfoot? I'm not in Edition Wars? Oooo...my bad. Carry on.

 

[drnuncheon]

Any change to Mind Flayers?

Looks like just the extra skill rank - no, wait, they lost Alertness and Dodge. There's also round-by-round tactics, a 'mind flayers as characters' section (LE +7 for an ECL 15) and an example mind flayer sorcerer. Extract has been clarified on what creature types it works with.

J

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Please be more specifc than "Any Change to ..." questions if you can , to minimize my time flipping back through 3.0 books.

Mind flayers: Some skill point changes, no alertness, Psionics DCs increased (varies by effect, but all higher than the 13 in 3.0 ... average 16 -- it specifies the abiliities are Cha based as an 8th level caster), there's a "Mind Flayer Sorcerer" block and decription; racial stats for mind flayers as characters, and a tactics section.

 

[Voadam]

Is there a revised method to calculate CR in the MM.

How about ECL?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Looks like just the extra skill rank - no, wait, they lost Alertness and Dodge. There's also round-by-round tactics, a 'mind flayers as characters' section (LE +7 for an ECL 15) and an example mind flayer sorcerer. Extract has been clarified on what creature types it works with.

J

Thanks!
Fun fun. My favorite villians got Dodge.

 

[diaglo]

Lean each individually against a stump, take a sledgehammer...oops! This isn't Dragonsfoot? I'm not in Edition Wars? Oooo...my bad. Carry on.

ditto that. i'll stop by on my way home and see if i can help him reshape them.

 

[Speaks]

Q:Align Weapon

On some of the other threads I remember seeing the cleric spell list and it has some spell second level called align weapon. What does this spell? I am guessing you can make a weapon have alignment type trait to be DR but no positive.

Speaks