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

[Artoomis]

Do stunned characters still drop what they were holding?

Yes. WotC posted the Conditions summry, and this was on it. My books are on the way, so there is a small (very, very small) chance that this is inaccurate as I have not seen it published in the DMG yet.

 

[drnuncheon]

Yes. WotC posted the Conditions summry, and this was on it. My books are on the way, so there is a small (very, very small) chance that this is inaccurate as I have not seen it published in teh DMG yet.

Stunned creatures do indeed drop everything held.

J

 

[Tazawa]

Pielorinho,

Any chance you could post the list for Summon Nature's Ally I-III?

Many thanks from a fellow druid-lover

 

[Voadam]

Any new animals/vermin (otter? dire otter?)

 

[drnuncheon]

Pielorinho,

Any chance you could post the list for Summon Nature's Ally I-III?

SNAI: Dire rat, eagle, monkey, octopus, owl, porpoise, sm viper, wolf
SNAII: Black bear, crocodile, dire badger, dire bat, sm elemental, hppogriff, md shark, md viper, squid, wolverine
SNAIII: ape, dire weasel, dire wolf, giant eagle, lion, giant owl, satyr (no pipes), lg shark, constrictor snake, lg viper, thoqqua

and what the heck,

SNAIV: juvi arrowhawk, brown bear, giant crocodile, deinonychus, dire ape, dire boar, dire wolverine, md elemental, flamebrother salamander, sea cat, hg shark, hg viper, tiger, juvi tojanida, unicorn, minor xorn.

I'm a bit disappointed at the disappearance of elemental critters like salamanders and xorn from the Summon Monster lists, though. I suspect they were trying to separate them more, but the wizard's list seems more animal focused than the druids!

J

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Can a wizard voluntarily "give up" a familiar without losing EP?

No.

Any chance you could post the list for Summon Nature's Ally I-III?

1: Dire rat, eagle, monkey, cotopus, owl, porpoise, snake, wolf

2: black bear, crocodile, dire badger, dire bat, ele,emtal (small), hippogriff (!), M shark, snake, squid, wolverine

3: apre, dire weasel, dire wolf, Giant eagle, lion, giant owl, satyr (w/o pipes), L. shark, snake, thoqqua.

Any new animals/vermin (otter? dire otter?)

The list is pretty extensive; I'm not going to go through page by page. Nothing jumps out in particular, but there's so much there's probably some new stuff. No otters, though.

 

[jgsugden]

Double post of the weird variety ...

 

[jgsugden]

I'm a double posting fiend.

 

[jgsugden]

We've heard about rings and staffs. Are there any interesting tidbits to share about rods?

 

[totoro]

The argument given in 3.0 for why the permanent spells were more expensive and easier to 'destroy' than items: They require no feat and use no item slot.

It looks like they didn't change their stance.

Yeah. I wish they would have made permanency a feat instead of a spell. It made sense in 2e when all you had was spells, but not anymore.

I suppose it was a sacred cow.