New FAQ up!

[Klaus]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080124a

In a nutshell:

- Dopplegangers get racial and circumstance bonuses to Bluff and Disguise, and they stack.

- Rangers can't take "lycanthropes" or "humanoid (shapechanger)" as their favored enemies. (Boy is this gonna be House Ruled...)

- Disintegrate affects undead.

- If a summoned creature blocks your way and you have Protection from Evil on you, you can't bull rush or overrun it and keep the spell. You can Tumble past it, though.

- Summoned creatures with Ferocity (like a boar) still vanish when they reach 0hp (so the ability to fight until -10hp is moot). (Hello, House Rule!)

- You can ressurect a lich after you destroy it, but that includes destroying the philactery.

- Weapons made of thinaum (CW) suck souls into it if they deliver the killing blow. But the lich died when it became undead and now has no soul, only an animating force, so thinaum weapons don't keep it from going for their philacteries.

- Oozes *aren't* immune to entangling effects, like a tanglefoot bag, or a net.

- Vampires can't be staked in combat, only when helpless. (Already House Ruled)

 

[Thanee]

- Vampires can't be staked in combat, only when helpless. (Already House Ruled)

You like Buffy?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Klaus]

You like Buffy?

Bye
Thanee

Me like Buffy. All 5 seasons of it, and that musical one-shot they did.

 

[Selganor]

Me like Buffy. All 5 seasons of it, and that musical one-shot they did.

Seems like someone didn't like the two seasons after Buffy's second death.
(Maybe "Buffy between the lines" - which is placed between season 5 and 6 - would be something for you)

 

[Deset Gled]

- Rangers can't take "lycanthropes" or "humanoid (shapechanger)" as their favored enemies. (Boy is this gonna be House Ruled...)

- Vampires can't be staked in combat, only when helpless. (Already House Ruled)

Looks to me like Muffy the Werewolf Slayer will be just as pissed as Buffy.

Personally, I can't understand how someone could dismiss the arguale awesomeness that we saw in season 6 of Buffy, but defend the definitively awfulness that was season 4.

 

[frankthedm]

- If a summoned creature blocks your way and you have Protection from Evil on you, you can't bull rush or overrun it and keep the spell. You can Tumble past it, though.

I call BS on tumbling past part. Players would cry bloody murder in the reverse of this situation.

- Oozes *aren't* immune to entangling effects, like a tanglefoot bag, or a net.

The wording was;

Are oozes immune to entangle effects such as a net or atanglefoot bag?

Not as a rule, no.

Leaving plenty of room for common sense rulings.

 

[Elethiomel]

- Weapons made of thinaum (CW) suck souls into it if they deliver the killing blow. But the lich died when it became undead and now has no soul, only an animating force, so thinaum weapons don't keep it from going for their philacteries.

Huh. As I understood it, the Lich's soul is actually *in* the phylactery. This would lead to the same result (thinaum don't work on a lich's body) but for a completely different reason (liches don't have to go for their phylactery because that's where they always are - the body is basically just a drone).

 

[mvincent]

I call BS on tumbling past part.

Protection from evil says:
"the spell prevents bodily contact by summoned creatures" and
"The protection against contact by summoned creatures ends if the warded creature makes an attack against or tries to force the barrier against the blocked creature"

Tumbling past a summoned creature doesn't seem to fall into any of those descriptions, but I might possibly view the skill differently than you.

Players would cry bloody murder in the reverse of this situation.

You mean like a summoned creature tumbling past a PC with Protection from Evil? Itsa good point... players might indeed cry if that happened, but I still think I'd show them the FAQ ruling and tell 'em to 'cowboy up'.

 

[Iku Rex]

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/4dnd/20080124a

Is it really a new FAQ? It's dated 12212007.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Is it really a new FAQ? It's dated 12212007.

Yep, its new.