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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6056017" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 299: September 2002part 10/10Sage advice:Can clerics use scrolls of their domain spells (yes)Can you use metamagic feats on spell-like powers (No) Do barbarians get con increases on every HD when they rage, even ones from other classes (yes)Do familiars get spell points as they advance (Mamma mia mamma mia mamma mia let me go)Can anyone take 10 on hide and move silently checks (Not all the time. Ninja benefits goood.)Can an evershifting shifter heal themselves at will (No. We have already erratad that one. Skip wishes Skip could claim responsibility, but eh, what are you gonna do. )What do you factor into the damage calculation for wall of thorns (Everything but Dex and Dodge bonuses)Can a wall of thorns provide cover (yes. It can't tear out souls though.)Does wall of thorns hinder things movement (oh yes)Does magic fang affect all your natural weapons (no)Can you stack damage reduction and hardness (yes) Do spiritual weapons only get one attack when they move (It's not the moving, it's the switching targets. ) I don't get entangle at all. Help! (Grappling is always a hassle, even when you automate it. Fear not, Skip will explain this in words of four sylables and less.)If you have a stoneskin up and you take damage that bypasses it, does this also drain your damage buffer (no)If you're hit by dispel magic, are your items affected (generally, yes.) Does evasion protect you from prismatic sphere's layers (The appropriate ones, yes. ) Can diamond body protect you from the green prismatic layer. (Yes)What's new engages in a little role reversal. And the snail finally starts to slip from the page. This interesting. Another frustrating issue, albeit for different reasons to the last one. Where that had quite high and low extremes, this one has way too much dull stuff, and suffers from their attempts to make every article please everyone. Despite there being a fair amount of Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk stuff, they're always trying to make sure everything in those is useful in whatever campaign you might be playing as well, and the constant nagging awareness of this agenda sucks the fun out of those articles. The period of freedom they enjoyed at the start of 3e is long gone, and now they're more regimented in the kind of articles they produce and how they write them than they ever were. Let's hope they won't feel too bound by formula for the century celebrations at least.</blockquote>

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