D&D Rules

Minimum Damage?

feeds@yuku.com (PaladinTodd) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:28:54 GMT

A dagger does 1d4. With a STR of 2, I have -4 to damage rolls. Minimum damage is always 1.

Let's say the dagger is +1. I roll a 1 for damage. How much damage do I do? 1 - 4 (str) = -3 +1 (magic dagger) = -2, minimum 1. Or 1 - 4 = -3, minimum 1 + 1 dagger = 2?

Pull Him Out of the Way

feeds@yuku.com (PaladinTodd) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:02:34 GMT

For some darn reason, my players have been making a lot of "I want to back up and pull PC Joe with me" type of actions. Or "I grab my PC buddy and put him behind me" type actions. Is that allowed? Are then any rules to invoke or do you just let the players do it (as long as their ally is willing)?

Does Concealment Stack?

feeds@yuku.com (phindar) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:11:21 GMT

Does Concealment stack or do you simply use the best of whatever is affecting you? If adjacent opponents are within the effects of overlapping Darkness and Fog Cloud spells, do you roll twice for Concealment? Is there ever a point with Concealment that it effectively becomes Total Concealment (such as foggy, shadowly illumination in heavy undergrowth against a Blurred opponent)?

I get the rationale for not rolling Total Concealment more than once (if...

How long does it take to throw Caltrops? (And other equipment questions)

feeds@yuku.com (ironsapper) — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:48:12 GMT

Hey boards!

I have some questions about caltrops and some other pieces of equipment. Do you think you can help?

1. How long does it take to scatter caltrops on the ground? A Standard action? A Move? Also, do you think caltrops can only be placed in an adjacent square, or is it realistic that they could be tossed 5 ft away (or more?) and still spread effectively?

2. Pitons - trying to be inventive here, do you think pitons could be used to jam a door and make...

Die Rolling Marathon

feeds@yuku.com (PaladinTodd) — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:11:57 GMT

So last night my players are tracking somebody through the Cold Waste.

A tracking roll lets you track somebody for 1 mile, at 12 miles a day, means 12 tracking rolls are needed for one day of travel. The 4 day trip was going to require 48 tracking rolls.

And it's cold out, so one Fortitude roll, for each of the six players, for each hour. At night they get to huddle around a fire so we'll ignore that. 6 players x 8 hours = 48 fortitude rolls every day. And for each...

Spell Storing + Necklace of Natural Weapons

feeds@yuku.com (yuzhonglu) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:04:31 GMT

The Necklace of Natural Weapons (Savage Species) allows any weapon special qualities to be applied to the necklace. These qualities in turn are applied to the natural weapons of the animal.

Therefore, can we have a Spell Storing Necklace of Natural Weapons?

Also, if I use a Spell Storing Necklace of Natural Weapons that affects 4 natural weapons, and I cast girallon's blessing on my...

Deities & Challenge Rating

feeds@yuku.com (GreyWanderer1014) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:43:47 GMT

Gang:

This has probably been asked before (many times), so I apologize.

So, you create a diety from a mortal creature (say, an Outsider with some class levels), and add the abilities of a Quasi-Diety or a Demigod to it. How do you calculate the Challenge Rating? What if it was a lesser diety?

(I wouldn't go higher than that - I think attacking, even killing a deity that was once a mortal and still has a mortal form is one thing - but higher level dieties are...

Spell Storing Item Question

feeds@yuku.com (yuzhonglu) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:58:41 GMT

According to the DM Guide, a weapon can have the "spell storing" magical enhancement that lets a weapon store a spell that activates when the weapon does damage to a target.

Can I put a beneficial spell into the spell-storing weapon and use it to buff an ally?

And more importantly, can I attach five small daggers, each with the spell storing enhancement, on a plunger and cast five buffing spells on an ally with a single stab of the plunger into my ally?
...

Monster HD advancement & special abilities/qualities

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:15:23 GMT

If a monster increases their HD, do any of their special abilities/qualities that aren't based specifically on HD go up as well? For example, take an erinyes. They have 9 HD and can advance up to 18 HD. They have spell-like abilities and SR. If you increased their HD by one, would their spell resistance increase by 1? Or would their caster level for their spell-like abilities go up by one? The improving monsters section of the SRD doesn't really mention any of it.

Negative levels & spell-like abilities

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:10:22 GMT

The negative level condition in the SRD mentions that spellcasters lose their highest-level, currently available spell. But what about spell-like abilities? Would any of those be lost? And what if their highest-level spell-like ability is at will?

ranged touch spells

feeds@yuku.com (Knowe Remorse) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:15:04 GMT

I think I have found myself rather stumped.

In D&D, a touch spell requires a attack roll. However, if a friendly unit allows you, you can touch the person without having to make a roll. (like in a cure spell).

Now, one of my players expressed interest in taking a feat (metamagic from Complete Arcane I think) that allows you to convert touch spells into ranged touch -by increasing the spell level 1 or 2 levels.

He's a cleric, and I think what hes trying...

Another Tome of Battle Question

feeds@yuku.com (SolissVL) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:32:33 GMT

Ancient Mountain Hammer: (pg 81) Warblade, crusader, swordsage 7.

This attack does an extra 12d6 damage and automatically overcomes hardness and DR. (paraphrase)

I have a couple questions. First, 12d6 seems insane at level 7. I realize the moves are supposed to be powerful, but...average of 36hp in one hit?

The 2nd is more how it works. Automatically overcomes hardness and DR?

Now, granted, DR is pretty much going to be overcome just by...

Tome of Battle question

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:16:18 GMT

Do you need to use a discipline's weapon in order to use a discipline's maneuver? I've got a red dragon that wants to use burning blade, but the description always mentions a "blade." Could he use a claw instead?

Our cleric's new... pet??

feeds@yuku.com (Useless Trivia Man) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:49:49 GMT

In my campaign, the cleric has been "adopted" by a gnoll who is following her around like a lost puppy. (She freed it from its petrified state after killing a basilisk, and now it acts like it has a Wookiee-ish life debt.) She doesn't have the Leadership feat.

The gnoll is essentially joining the party as a follower. It might even decide to turn good and become a cleric of Torm, same as its mistress. If she gives it a choice though, it'll become a ranger.
...

Mithral full plate of speed effective bonus (3.5)

feeds@yuku.com (edwin) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:47:45 GMT

+1 or +4?

Normally I'd say +1 with 15,000 gp extra for the haste, but speed as an armor property has a bit of a history at +3, including in Defenders of the Faith. And then there is the homonymous weapon attribute, also at +3.

Gathering some 3.5 resources now that it's all done...

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:19:57 GMT

So, I found a WotC board thread that has all official summon-able monsters here. That's one thing I'll be copying to my gaming folder.

I'm also hunting around for a few other, similar lists.

Does anyone know where I can find a comprehensive list of...

is it possible for a character to wear more than 2 rings at once?

feeds@yuku.com (warder120) — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:37:13 GMT

Is there some sort of feat for this? or should I just stick with switching rings for each situation.

Undead and negative levels

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:39:38 GMT

How do negative levels affect undead?

Here's the situation. One party member is a shadow half-dragon with the dragon breath feat from Draconomicon, meaning she can breathe a cone of negative energy that deals 1 negative level every 1d4 rounds. Another party member is a necropolitan from Libris Mortis, meaning that he's the undead type.

If...

Monte Cook: Biggest Anti-3.5 Partisan?

feeds@yuku.com (joela) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:03:27 GMT

Quote from rpgnet:

Which makes it ironic that Monte Cook was hired to help with Pathfinder, and that so many fans celebrated this fact. As I said just now, he's pretty much the biggest anti-3.5 partisan there's ever been. And on the grounds that the game didn't need any...

Monks Flurry of Blows and Two Weapon Fighting

feeds@yuku.com (dude3516) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:13:47 GMT
So a player recently argued that you could use Flurry of Blows in conjunction with your two-weapon fighting because of semantics in PHB. The ruling reads "A monk must use a full attack action (see page 143) to strike with flurry of blows." He argues that because it doesn't read rougly Flurry of Blows "is" a full attack action, that any full attack made unarmed or using a monk special weapons is also a flurry of blows. I can technically see both ends of this argument...