D&D Magic

Trying to come up with cool ways to use a Flaming Sphere...

feeds@yuku.com (phindar) — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:01:24 GMT

I made a couple of Flaming Sphere minis, and now that I have them I want to use them. An upcoming game of mine will be a conversion of an 1e module, and there is an NPC Fighter/Mage that seems like a good candidate. (I play pretty fast and loose with module conversions, figuring that preserving the intent of the encounters is more important than trying to directly translate the rules.)

In some ways, Flaming Sphere seems to be starting from behind the line....

Silence for wizards?

feeds@yuku.com (Kylearanon) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:55:32 GMT

Hi (again )

Is it, in any way, possible for a wizard to aquire the spell 'silence' on his spell list? Without sidestepping into another class?

Kyle

Eternal charm and planar allies - possible?

feeds@yuku.com (Kylearanon) — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:52:14 GMT

Hello,

quick question. Would it be possible for a Mindbender to summon a planar ally (as per the spell) and then use eternal charm on him? Therwith forego any pacts or payments? Unnecessary to mention we´re not talking about good alignment here.

Kyle

Edit: And are there any feats which would support the Mindbender PrC nicely?

Tweaking Insect Plague & Creeping Doom

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 09:28:10 GMT

OK, so I was looking over the huge pile of suck that is Insect Plague, trying to figure out how on God's green earth it's a 5th level spell. It summons 3-6, CR 3 creatures that do not move. Essentially, it's a shapable AoE spell that covers 12-24 connected squares that deals 2d6 damage per round to those squares. Except that the damage is only dealt once per round, and creatures can...

Blindfold of true darkness underneath helm of teleportation

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:12:51 GMT

There's a PC in my campaign with both of these items. Quick description is the helm lets you teleport, the blindfold gives you blindsight 30 ft. and protects against gaze attacks.

What he wants to do is wear the blindfold like a bandanna underneath his helm of teleportation. Then he can pull it down over his eyes as a move action whenever he wants to.

Would any of you fellow DMs allow this?

Intelligent Magic Items/Egos [3.5]

feeds@yuku.com (PaladinTodd) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:09:48 GMT

An intelligent magic item can attempt to control it's possessor. If the item wins, it can make the possessor do certain things (Dmg271). What happens if the item loses? The top of page 271 says "Items with personalities are never totally controlled" - which seems to me that there is no effect if the item loses this ego roll -- it can withhold it's powers, complain bitterly, use telepathy to encourage others to kill the possessor, etc.? Or does the item have to grudgingly go...

If you could have 1 spell per level in Real Life which would you pick?

feeds@yuku.com (Devex) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:07:41 GMT

Heres what I would

0: Prestidigitation
1: Comprehend Languages
2: Locate Object
3: Fly
4: Improved Invisibility
5: Fabricate
6: Control Weather
7: Teleport w/o Error
8: Polymorph Any Object
9: tie between Wish and Shapechange

Need help with a magic item cost

feeds@yuku.com (Dan C Davis) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 07:51:12 GMT

I'm trying to figure out the cost for a magic item but can't find anything similar. Maybe someone else will have an idea. The item is this:

Crimson Bone Fleet insignia
This swatch of fabric marks you as a pirate in good standing of the Crimson Bone Fleet. In addition to functioning as a masterwork intimidation tool you are considered to be a demon for all effects that specifically exclude demons, such as a vrock's dance of ruin or a hezrou's...

House rule, or am I just reading it wrong: Spell Turning

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:57:47 GMT

As written, Spell Turning works on "spells that have you as a target. Effect and area spells are not affected. Spell turning also fails to stop touch range spells."

Spells like Disintegrate or even Scorching Ray don't have an entry for "Target", they produce an Effect of a Ray. Ditto for the Orb spells. So Spell Turning won't stop them?

This bugs me, because those spells clearly do target a creature....

Double Wand Wielding

feeds@yuku.com (SolissVL) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 07:56:52 GMT

Ok, the gnome wizard in my party has this feat along with TWF, Create Wand, Battle Caster (and he needs to send me the rest of his feat tree). He's level 7 and we're using BoXM rules on 1 feat/level.

The feat (Complete Arcane 77) states- As a full round action you can use 2 wands. One in each hand. Doing so takes 2 charges designated from the wand in the secondary hand.
Prereqs: TWF, Create Wand

Ok, I'm a novice with arcane magic and Mr. Wizard was...

Domain Lists

feeds@yuku.com (Manofdusk) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:42:38 GMT

I've recently decided to rework a small portion of my cosmology (this particular part was never known to the PCs so it's not something that will drastically change anything). However, now I need an idea of what spells to include in certain Domain lists.

The Deity in question has the following domains:

Death, Destruction, Fate, Rebirth, and Supreme

However, I want to be careful with the Rebirth domain in this instance. The deity itself is not one who...

Vampiric Sword

feeds@yuku.com (Manofdusk) — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:34:20 GMT

I've been thinking about a weapon similar to this for a while now and would like some input on it.

Vampiric: This sword is engulfed in crimson light and leaves behind painful bruising around any wound it makes, transferring life energy to its wielder.
Effect: A weapon enchanted with this property converts the extra damage from a weapon's enhancement bonus into negative energy damage and the wielder is healed for an amount of damage equal to the weapon's enhancement...

Underpriced, but not necessarily broken? (MIC help/perspective needed)

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:08:53 GMT

So my players have discovered the Magic Item Compendium, which means I've had to discover the MIC as well.

There are several items built on a similar framework of "3 charges per day, 1 charge does X, two charges does 1.5X, three charges does 2x", where X might be healing hit points, or healing ability score damage, or adding energy damage to spells of the appropriate kind.

These items seem really...

How much would it cost to put Grave Strike 3/day on a weapon?

feeds@yuku.com (phindar) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:24:59 GMT

I've read through the DMG on this, but magical item creation is one area of the rules that eludes me. Grave Strike is a Cleric 1, Paladin 1 spell from CAd. It's a swift action to cast, and allows a sneak attack vs Undead for 1 round. I want to put a limited number of uses (3/day) on a +1 or +2 weapon.

Tinkering with the Alienist (3.5)

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:18:17 GMT

One of my players has the Alienist PrC. I actually looked at how the Pseudonatural Summoning ability works, and well, frankly, it blows.

For those not informed, the Alienst casts summon monster spells, but instead of the Fiendish or Celestial template, gets to apply the Pseudonatural template. The Pseu-template grants a 1/day, free action True Strike (versus the Fiendish/Celestial Smite), but otherwise follows the same progression for DR & energy resistances....

Magic weapon special abilities scaling with enhancment bonus

feeds@yuku.com (dok) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:12:19 GMT

I know there was a thread about this at some point, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now. I've been thinking about the idea, and looking at some of the content in the DMG2, and I wanted to put this up for folks to kick around:

Magic Weapon Templates
Each of the listed templates represents a specific, special type of power that can be added to a magic weapon. The benefits granted are determined by the enhancement bonus of the weapon. The template...

Wall of Force and Invisibility

feeds@yuku.com (canggar) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 09:43:37 GMT

If a player tries to create a wall of force in a room, and the wall of force would cut right through a big monster (e.g., a huge dragon), but the player doesn't know it (e.g., because the monster is invisible), what happens?

Rope Trick and collapsing tunnels

feeds@yuku.com (Manofdusk) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:32:55 GMT

In the game I'm DMing, the party is currently in a volcano. Unfortunately for them, it is now erupting (or, more accurately, a powerful entity within is awakening and going to destroy the volcano in the process).

The players are hiding in a rope trick at the moment and, from the spell description, it does seem to be safe from the explosion that the awakening is going to create (a 10 mile radius Flesh to Salt spell). However, the volcano itself is going to collapse.

I...

Different Wild Magic Charts

feeds@yuku.com (Azrael) — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:08:50 GMT

Ok I know that on page 150 of the 3.5 DMG there is a wild magic chart and I know there is one in a second edition book. But I was wondering if anyone out there in the community has a very detailed wild magic chart, to where each number on the percential die will give a different result. If anyone knows of something please feel free to send me a pm.

Thanks!!

anti-scrying items?

feeds@yuku.com (varianor) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:15:10 GMT

Spells, items, whatnot? What do you have, what do you recommend? WotC books only please. I know about the ones in Malhavoc Press books and those aren't allowed in the campaign. Thanks!