Super Fey!!! Half fey pixie warlock?

[Empath Negative]

Maybe the reason it's a super fey is because it's 150% fey?

That was actually my reasoning behind it.

 

[LiL KiNG]

That was actually my reasoning behind it.

OK, if I just ignore the naming behind the template I can see what you're going for here; a stronger Pixie, and hell, for +2LA you should have one. But how much of the Half-Fey template is redundant? The flying for sure, but will the DR stack? (errata added DR to the Half-Fey template). I know all the spell-like abilities from Half-Fey are absolutely golden/ridiculous depending on which side of the DM screen you're sitting on - I've got a PC who is a Half-Fey/Tiefling in our game right now and the Charm Person at will thing has been a huge boon for the party, and the flying especially has made challenges much easier.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Tangentially, one thing to look at would be the racial character classes of Arcana Unearthed/Arcana Evolved as an alternative to 3.5Ed's system for having powerful races be "viable" for PC races.

It definitely avoids the glass cannon effect.

 

[Empath Negative]

OK, if I just ignore the naming behind the template I can see what you're going for here; a stronger Pixie, and hell, for +2LA you should have one. But how much of the Half-Fey template is redundant? The flying for sure, but will the DR stack? (errata added DR to the Half-Fey template). I know all the spell-like abilities from Half-Fey are absolutely golden/ridiculous depending on which side of the DM screen you're sitting on - I've got a PC who is a Half-Fey/Tiefling in our game right now and the Charm Person at will thing has been a huge boon for the party, and the flying especially has made challenges much easier.

DR always stacks if it's the same type.

This means I'd start the game with 15/cold iron.

 

[Empirate]

Source? I can only find this:

If a creature has damage reduction from more than one source, the two forms of damage reduction do not stack. Instead, the creature gets the benefit of the best damage reduction in a given situation.

Which would imply DR never stacks, ever.

EDIT: Yip, neither FAQ nor Errata show anything else.

 

[LiL KiNG]

Source? I can only find this:



Which would imply DR never stacks, ever.

I remember something similar, the example gave something like a creature having both DR 10/Silver and DR 5/Evil; said the DR 10/Silver applies to all attacks unless they are made with a silver weapon, but then the DR 5/Evil would kick in - only way past both was if the weapon was both silver & evil aligned.

Now that didn't go into the same type of DR stacking or I don't remember it mentioning it, but for that I can think of a few examples of DR x/- that stacks with the Barbarians DR x/- ability.

 

[Empirate]

The only example of stackable DR that I can think of is the Fey Skin feat, which specifically states that the DR granted by the feat stacks with that granted by Warlock class levels.

 

[Empath Negative]

In every d&d product ive played dr of the same type stacks if its from your race, class, or from feats. Spells and items do not stack. If you dont play it that way things quickly become nonsensical. The various feats and prcs that grant dr/ci often dont stack with each other then thus making them mutually useless.

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[Empirate]

Still waiting for the rules text quotation to disprove the rather general rule from the DMG/SRD... that you've played it that way doesn't mean it's the way it's meant to be played.

 

[Empath Negative]

Try reading the PHB. It doesn't list source as being Cold iron from a helm + cold iron from race... it lists source as being dr/cold iron and dr/evil or somesuch.

So, turn to stacking rules themselves...

Combine for a cumulative effect. In most cases, modifiers to a given check or roll stack if they come from different sources and have different descriptors (or no descriptors at all), but do not stack if they have the same descriptors or come from the same source (such as the same spell cast twice in succession). If the modifiers to a particular roll do not stack, only the best bonus or worst penalty applies. Dodge bonuses and circumstance bonuses however, do stack with one another unless otherwise specified. Spell effects that do not stack may overlap, coexist independently, or render one another irrelevant, depending on their exact effects.



So, with the relative ambivalence of the srd rules (their example doesn't list different "sources" in the traditional sense, but different "types", and that stacking rules as a whole permit stacking so long as the source is different... and various d&d endorsed products all back this up...

I'm going to go with it.