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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 6133593" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dragon Issue 318: April 2004part 8/8Sage advice: Can a monster with a disease affect other things with the same disease (No. If they've got it, they've got it. If they're already immune, you are wasting your time.) Save DC's for disease attacks are based on con? That can't be right. Tough things are resistant to disease. ( Wrong way round! The tougher they are, the meaner the disease has to be to live in them. They're frickin typhoid marys. )Why do afflicted lycanthropes have lower damage reduction and no chance of passing on lycanthropy. Surely some mistake (Wrong again! We want them to be weaker. Plus, did you forget all the hassle we had with summon cascades? Well it's the same principle. Monsters like that cannot be permitted in this game anymore!)Can you use dispel magic to suppress a creature's supernatural abilities (no, and you can only deactivate spell-like ones, not stop them from casting in the first place. ) What happens when a monster uses a weapon plus it's natural attacks in the same round (Nothing much. This works just fine, albeit with the usual secondary weapon penalties. ) What happens if a monster doing this is high enough BAB to get iterative attacks (They get them with the primary weapon, as usual. Come on, give Skip a hard one. )Does the weapon have to be the primary attack (Skip is afraid so. It takes the most concentration. Tarrasques probably shouldn't bother. )What happens if you use a secondary weapon as your primary weapon (You can't. Even if that's your only attack, you still take the penalty. It's like fighting left handed. If you don't have ambidexterity, you'll always suffer the penalty)Do you have to use your primary natural weapon to trip or sunder. (No way. In many cases, using a tail or something for that makes more thematic sense. You still suffer the penalties though.) Do you have to use your primary weapon when making an AoO. No, but it's a good idea. No sense taking pointless penalties. ) How exactly does poisoning work again?  (Ah, another open ended question that gives Skip a chance to pontificate for ages and make loads of money. Skip loves the dumb ones. ) Do you have to save every time a paralyzing creature hits you. What happens if they overlap (Yes. Carrion crawlers are brutal buggers. The durations run concurrently. )How do nagas cast spells with somatic and material components. (By sinuously swaying their serpentine coils. )Can you disjoin a Golem (No. It may be magically animated and nonintelligent, but it's still a creature, not an object. Intelligent magical swords ought to form a union and protest about this blatant bias. ) Well, in the battle between ninjas, pirates and dinosaurs, I can definitely say the fight goes to the guys with scales and millions of years of experience. I am more than a little disappointed that they didn't squeeze in at least one joke article, but hey, it's still an improvement on last year. Let's hope that they can come up with more complementary gestalt themes as well, rather than ones that just feel shallow.  But for now, let's get back to the proper big themes. Next up, Dark Sun! (and psionics in general, which is an obvious complementary combination) Good to see the resurgence in settings isn't just a one-off.</blockquote>

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