Temple of Elemental Evil discussion thread (merged)

[Mystic Eye]

Can someone tell me how to use a familiar? I cannot seem to do anything with the bloody creature.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Can someone tell me how to use a familiar? I cannot seem to do anything with the bloody creature.

AFAIK, a familiar does nothing except sit in your inventory and give it's owner the appropriate bonus (such as a weasel familiar giving it's master a +2 bonus to reflex saves).

 

[Thanee]

Pointers?

Wow, those Gnolls in the Moathouse surely have been a tough fight for my whimpy level 3 party!

So now I have defeated the Master and cleared the Moathouse, I'm missing something to continue (except for numerous side quests). I havn't noticed anything besides the city of Nulb who seems to have suddenly appeared on my map for no obvious reason (or I just havn't seen it before!? ).

Any clues?

Oh and is there any way to identify potions besides paying 100 Gold? That's a tad expensive for those dozens of potions of cure light wounds!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

In the base game, you need an Identify to ID potions. With the unofficial patch, Read Magic will work.

Ahh... thanks!

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hypersmurf]

I havn't noticed anything besides the city of Nulb who seems to have suddenly appeared on my map for no obvious reason (or I just havn't seen it before!? ).

Any clues?[/b]

Yeah - go to Nulb

Oh and is there any way to identify potions besides paying 100 Gold? That's a tad expensive for those dozens of potions of cure light wounds!

That's why the Circle of Eight patch lets you use Read Magic on potions... since you can't do it with a Skill Check like the PHB says...

-Hyp.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I've noticed that my Rogue and Cleric aren't proficient with Longspear, despite it being a simple weapon in 3.5

On the other hand, I can sneak attack Air Elementals...

-Hyp.

 

[Thanee]

What exact rule is in the game states that potions cannot have their contents listed on them in magical writing?

Hehe, yep, that potion thing is quite annoying!

They could at the very least make it, that you must identify ONE potion and then all further you find are automatically identified.

That read magic fix will work too, tho.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Seems like they are not using 3.5 but 3.0 weaponry.

Hyper, could you tell me at what point I had Nulb appear on my map, as I seem to have missed that? Was it Lareth's Journal!? I don't think I've read anything about Nulb in there... Hmm...

I was there already, but have to go explore further, as the first quest I accepted was pretty suicidal (catching that fish with a 4th level party doesn't really work well)!

I wonder why Spugnoir is still with me, tho (have dismissed the other NPCs I tried (one fighter from the inn in Hommlet and a wandering bard) pretty quick as they are too expensive and it's too annoying that they just rack up on armors until they cannot move anymore ), didn't he say he only wants to explore the Moathouse? Funny, tho, that Spugnoir has so few spells. Only one choice in 0th and 2nd level each, so he basically can only cast 1st level spells (+ Cat's Grace).

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

Also, how does one find out what magic items do?

Lareth had some stuff labeled as "Lareth's magic ..." but doesn't say anything about what it does!?

Bye
Thanee

 

[Thanee]

BTW, what I find pretty annoying is (like with all those computer games), that you cannot (except when using metamagic) use higher level spell slots for lower level spells!

And they really don't need to list the spell levels for Sorcerers when casting, that don't have any spells per day left (like with the prepared casters)!

Bye
Thanee