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[The It's Man]

Reincarnation was supposed to be altered.

Can you give us the spell, or at least the jist of it?

Thank you profusely!

It now has a Material component (rare oils and unguent worth 1000 gp or more).
The body part(s) you're using must have been part of the creature at time of death.
If the creature was 1st level (or had 1 HD), it loses 2 constitution instead of 1 level or 1 HD; this losses cannot be repaired by any means.
A creatue turned into an undead or killed by a death effect can';t be returned to life by this spell, neither can someone who has died of old age and constructs, elementals, outsiders and undead.
You do not gain automatically the language of the new form.
Not only a wish spell, but also a miracle spell can restore a reincarnated character to his/her original form.
There is no mention of becoming a magical beast when reincarnated into an animal.
The table list now humanoids and is used for humanoids receiving the spell (Bugbear, Dwarf, Elf, Gnoll, Gnome, Goblin, Half-elf, Half-orc, Halfling, Human, Kobold, Lizardfolk, Orc, Troglodyte, and Other/DM's choice). For other types of creatures the DM should create a similar table or choose the new form.

I think this is almost all the changes.

 

[Mark]

@Mark:
Ah! That sig line ;-)
hehehe...
They asked nicely, i'm a nice guy, and can't order anymore before the release date anyway ;-)

I figured you'd acquiesce about the same time you'd run out of them...

 

[youspoonybard]

So they got rid of the ECL problem by limiting your choices to mainly humanoid?

Thank you for your reply!

 

[InShambles]

Does the new DMG have information on how to calculate experience for parties of characters of different levels and different sizes (i.e. more or less than the standard four players)?

 

[Philip]

Does the new DMG have information on how to calculate experience for parties of characters of different levels and different sizes (i.e. more or less than the standard four players)?

Yes, but the revisions thread already mentioned this. XP is calculated individually. Cross-reference your characters level with the Monster's CR on the table, then divide by the number of characters.

More importantly: Cohorts no longer cost the party a share of its XP. The Cohort's progression is now tied to the progression of his master. He gets an XP share equal to his master's times his level divided by the master's level in XP.

For Example: Character gets 1,000 XP
Character is 10th lvl, Cohort 8th lvl
Cohort gets 800 XP (80% or 8/10 * 1,000)

 

[Plane Sailing]

How is the 9th level spell "Foresight" described now?

The 3.0 description was somewhat vague, and seeing the power of "moment of presience" I hope that they've beefed up the description here a little!

Cheers

 

[The It's Man]

How is the 9th level spell "Foresight" described now?

The 3.0 description was somewhat vague, and seeing the power of "moment of presience" I hope that they've beefed up the description here a little!

Cheers

The only thing that's changed in the description is "if a creature were about to leap out from an unexpexted direction" to "if a creature were about to leap out from a hiding place".

 

[Hammer of the Circle]

Question for Brekki

Still answering questions Brekki? If so:

1) Is there a limit to the distance that the targets of a Meteor Swarms meteors may be apart?

2) Is the Spell Resistance spell limited in maximum casting level/effect? (i.e. SR 32 @ 20th is the top)

3) Did I understand you correctly that sorcerers using metamagic on spells cast 1 action spells as a full round action?

 

[youspoonybard]

The sorceror thing has always been the case in 3.0.

It's just not clarified anywhere.

I'm pretty new to the game, but the person who taught me (and his gaming group) for years didn't realize that.

Sorcerors are very good with metamagics.

 

[The It's Man]

Re: Question for Brekki

Still answering questions Brekki? If so:

I'm not Brekki, but got the PHB 3.5E in front of me too

1) Is there a limit to the distance that the targets of a Meteor Swarms meteors may be apart?

Nope, they have to be in the range of 400ft + 40ft/level though.

2) Is the Spell Resistance spell limited in maximum casting level/effect? (i.e. SR 32 @ 20th is the top)

Nope, it only mentions that it's 12+caster level.

3) Did I understand you correctly that sorcerers using metamagic on spells cast 1 action spells as a full round action?

Yep.