v3.5 Core Books on sale!

[Cergorach]

How ethical is releasing the book for sale ahead of it's official release date (don't want to get you into legal trouble ...)?

I don't know about any 'official' release date for the netherlands and haven't been told by the distributor not to sell them before a certain date. So the ethicalness of selling the books now is mood imho, but you could say i'm biased. As for legal trouble, no date was given to me, so that should not be a problem.


Holy-Word and Blasphemy:
Evocation [Good/Evil, Sonic]
Clr7, Good/Evil7
Comp: V
Cast: 1 standard action
range: 40ft
area: nongood/evil creatures in a 40ft radius spread centered on you
dur: Inst.
Saving throw: None or Will negates, see text
spell resist: yes

HD = caster lvl => Deafened
HD = upto caster lvl -1 => Blinded, Deafened
HD = upto caster lvl -5 => Paralyzed, Blinded, Deafened
HD = upto caster lvl -10 => Killed, Paralyzed, Blinded, Deafened
All with no save!
+on home plane extraplanar creatures that are good/evil are banished, cannot return for 24 hours will save -4 penalty.

Caster lvl of Balor is 20th, that means that unless creatures have a high spell resistance they are instatly killed if they have 10 or less HD or levels. Not really a problem for the average party that encounters a Balor ;-)

Ranger: It doesn't mention anything about having to be a certain alignment to have a certain 'racial' enemy.

 

[youspoonybard]

Would you mind writing up Polymorph for us?

Thanks!

 

[Apok]

Ranger: It doesn't mention anything about having to be a certain alignment to have a certain 'racial' enemy.

W00T!!!

 

[Delgar]

I'm curious as to how the 3.5 Identify works. I have a group of players with a whole wack of items that need identifing and I'd like to use the new rules!

Thanks

Delgar

 

[Trainz]

Holy-Word and Blasphemy:

[snip]

HD = caster lvl => Deafened
HD = upto caster lvl -1 => Blinded, Deafened
HD = upto caster lvl -5 => Paralyzed, Blinded, Deafened
HD = upto caster lvl -10 => Killed, Paralyzed, Blinded, Deafened
All with no save!

+on home plane extraplanar creatures that are good/evil are banished, cannot return for 24 hours will save -4 penalty.

Awesome. Thanks for the answer.

Caster lvl of Balor is 20th, that means that unless creatures have a high spell resistance they are instatly killed if they have 10 or less HD or levels. Not really a problem for the average party that encounters a Balor ;-)

This is perfect. I dearly hoped they fixed that, And They Did.

I'm really looking forward to 3.5

 

[Cergorach]

Identify:
Bard1, magic2, sor/wiz1
casting time 1 hour
the spell determines all magic properties of a single magical item, icluding how to activate those functions (if appropriate) and how many charge are left. Does not work on artifacts. Pearl 100gp + other stuff.

Polymorph:
Write it up? Not at this moment!
Target: willing creature touched
duration: 1 min/lvl (D)

Form can't have more HD than caster level of caster or 15 (whichever is lower).
Gains all extraordinary attack (not special abilities)

Baleful Polymorph:
Drd5, Wiz/Sor5
Comp: V, S
Range: Close 25 ft. + 5ft./2 lvls
Target 1 creature
Duration: Permananet
Save: Fort negates, will partial, see text
spell resist: yes

as polymorph, but target creature can only be polymorphed into Small or smaller creature. If spell succeeds, make will save, if failed loses all extraordinary, supernatural and spellcasting abilities, also gains alignment, int, wis, and cha of creature.

 

[Delgar]

Thanks,

My other curiosity is Mounted Combat. Has the ride skill changed at all? DC's for checks?

Anything new in the mounted combat section?

Jerry

 

[A'koss]

Most of my questions have been answered already but I have a couple here I wouldn't mind knowing.

Are there any weapon enhancements that don't have +X modifiers towards the +10 limit (is there still a +10 limit?) like some of the 3.5e armor enhancements have?

Are there any new weapon enhancements in 3.5e?

How has Improved Whirlwind Attack changed (it'll be in the DMG section under epic level play)?

Has the Tarrasque changed in any way that might suggest it'd actually survive in a D&D world?


Thanks,

A'koss.

 

[Branduil]

If it's not gonna be a legal problem for you, could you scan the ranger page in the PHB?

 

[Cergorach]

Keep the questions comming, for now i'll go sleep a few hours, tomorrow morning i'll answer as many questions as possible...