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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6081591" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 306: April 2003part 9/9Sage advice has redecorated with a fetching books, vines and crystal balls motif. It's quite pretty really. I rather approve. Can bards affect themselves with bardic music (Skip thinks it's case by case time again, as this gets fiddly. ) Which description of harmonize is correct (The big one)Does long term care + healthful slumber = 4x healing (No. Multipliers add, remember. Don't forget your basic math again. )Can you use endurance on a petrified character before turning them back, to increase their odds of survival (No, but for complicated reasons, not simple ones. But you don't need to worry your head over that. Just remember not to waste your time doing it. )Will wind wall affect a sling stone  (yes)Where are the brackets on bless weapon. (Nowhere. Read it as a full sentence, don't try and get lawyery or Skip'll throw some compound predicates at you. )Can a barbarian use a wand while raging (No. The best they can do is smash you on the head with it.)When do you apply automatic metamagic feats (Any time you like. ) Can shambling mounds get infinitely tough from lightning bolts (Yes, but not for long. We've learned our lesson from last edition, just as we did about summoning cascades.)Can darkmantles grab creatures much larger than them (Yes. Special exemption)Can undead automatically be killed by arrows of slaying (No. You have completely misunderstood the no constitution rule)Does evasion work on shadow dragon breath (yes) Can runecasters get infinite uses of a triggered spell by making it permanent (yes, but only one at a time. This can still be very twinky.)Can you make AoO's against someone with spring attack if you have reach. (Only if they do something other than moving to trigger them. Nothing changes unless the rules specifically say it's changed.) What's new reveals the real reason good gets such a bad rap, and why chaotic good is a necessary alignment. AND THAT DAMN SNAIL FINALLY GETS OFF THE PAGE! Thank god for that. That was one of the most painfully dragged out jokes in history. With a ton of information on how they're going to shake things up in 3.5, and a few hints as to what lies even further in the future, this is fairly interesting as a general issue, but a complete failure as an april one, with not even an acknowledgement of the things they usually do here. So it shows that the transition to Paizo has once again made them even more serious and focussed on just a few things than the TSR > WotC one did. Still, at least we're getting tons of easy to use and often rather good game material, so at least they're succeeding at what they're focusing on. Now they just have to deal with the fact that diminishing returns arrive so much faster when you do that. I guess that's what the revision is for. :\ Let's move another step closer to it.</blockquote>

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