Arcana Unearthed/Evolved Rules

weaving spells question

feeds@yuku.com (wrathgon1) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:57:32 GMT

Hi all, i am wondering what you would make weaving spells cost as a action, is it a full round, can it be done if you leave a spell slot open at a later date? the rules are not so clear on this.

OGL question

feeds@yuku.com (wrathgon1) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:54:33 GMT

Hey all, does anyone know if the magic system is Product Identity or Open content? I got a d20 i am writing and would love to use some of the magic rules in it. Any help would be great.

Let's do this here: If you could have 1 spell per level in Real Life which would you pick?

feeds@yuku.com (Tiburon Silverflame) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:25:41 GMT

Now, of course, we're talking AE spells, not D&D spells.

0 -- Enchanting Flavor
1 -- Betray the Years (ST)
2 -- Read Mind
3 -- Invisibility
4 -- Telepathy
5 -- Greater Creation (AWESOME spell!!!)
6 -- Shape Element
7 -- Lesser Immunity
8 -- City Transport
9 -- AHH!!! THE toughest choice...Immortality, Shapechange, or Perfect Health???
10 -- Magical Fortress (yeah, I can only cast it once...but what fun when I do) or, if I...

Oathsworn Issues

feeds@yuku.com (Azgulor) — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:54:52 GMT

Ok, although I've had AE for a while now, I hadn't had a chance to use it in play. I'm currently planning on inserting some AE classes into the Pathfinder campaign I'm running for my son, which will be a test-run of sorts for an eventual AE campaign with my regular gaming group.

While I love the concept of the Oathsworn, I'm not sure about the mechanics. I know Monte is fond of high-magic and the Diamond Throne is a high-fantasy setting. However, the...

Corrupted Template

feeds@yuku.com (phindar) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:42 GMT

The Corrupted Template can be added to any attack spell. So what's an "attack spell"? Is it a spell that causes damage, or is it basically any targeted non-beneficial spell?

Anyone interested in an official Pathfinder version/update of AE races/classes?

feeds@yuku.com (Azgulor) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:34:15 GMT

What the title says. I'd love to see an official Pathfinder update to the Arcana Evolved Races and Classes to bring them to parity with the PF races and classes.

Anyone else think this would be a good product? Not a full-on re-release necessarily but perhaps a PDF conversion/update doc.

Feat: Title

feeds@yuku.com (phindar) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:21:15 GMT

Will someone make the case for the feat Title? It seems kind of weird to me, and I'm not sure I see the point. One of my players has expressed interest in taking it next level (9th, the first level he is eligible for it), but honestly before he mentioned it, I had completely forgotten it existed. Has anyone here taken it or seen it in play? What sort of in-game benefits (other than the +1 CHA) were attached to it? Any cool stories to share?

Conjured, Called, Summoned

feeds@yuku.com (Tarondor) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 05:13:22 GMT

Okay, Conjured creatures are just constructs and fight as you direct. Called creatures are free-willed and must be convinced or negotiated with.

What about Summoned creatures? What's their deal? If it's in the book, I'm missing it.

Overwatch - A system for counterspelling.

feeds@yuku.com (Tarondor) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:14:52 GMT

My friend Scott, who sometimes posts here as "Skutai", and who plays Goro in my Company of the Vallis Moon campaign, came up with this system for counterspelling in AE (fleshed out by me). I'm sure he would be happy to have people see this and comment. I am also interested in your comments:

Casting spells with a higher level slot

feeds@yuku.com (Finniss) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:40:14 GMT

I seem to recall that you could cast a spell using a higher level slot. I'm not talking about weaving a 4th level spell into two third level spells, I'm talking about casting the third level spell (not heightened version) with a single 4th (or 5th or even 10th) level slot in order to increase the difficulty of the saving throw (by one in this case). I cannot find this in the AE book. Does anyone know if I'm pulling this from the 3rd edition feat or if there really is this...

Touch spells

feeds@yuku.com (Finniss) — Mon, 25 May 2009 12:31:33 GMT

Some touch spells have a duration and can be used on many targets for the duration, like Touch of Fear or Touch of the Harrid. Could a caster cast multiple touch spells and have them all work with each touch attack for the duration? I can't find any reason that they couldn't.

Stacking and Overlapping issues

feeds@yuku.com (Finniss) — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:50:22 GMT

I understand how stacking and overlapping work but in a few cases it's a bit unclear. In the case of "Ability Boost" you could give yourself multiple boosts except it explicitly says, "As with most spells, you gain no benefit from having this spell cast on you twice."

With Dragonskin, from the Spell treasury, you gain natural armour and energy resistance of a specific type. If this spell was cast on you a second time, with a different type of energy, what...

SR vs lasting effects.

feeds@yuku.com (Finniss) — Sun, 03 May 2009 20:11:55 GMT

I was wondering if there is an official rule on how this works. For example, someone using ghost weapon against a creature with spell resistance. Would you make one check and the spell either always works or always doesn't, or would you make a SR check for each attack?

Diamond Throne Fansite

feeds@yuku.com (md429) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:15:48 GMT

Hi all,

Uhm, what happened to the site? Everytime I try to go there it says something about a FTP load or something. It has been happening since yesterday to my knowledge.

Dracha Breath Weapon

feeds@yuku.com (Ariakon) — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:30:09 GMT

I guess I'm just dense, but what is the maximum damage of an Evolved Dracha's Breath Weapon. The text says, "
Evolved Dracha Breath Weapon: This is a cone of fire, cold, acid, or electricity (character choice, but once made it cannot be changed) 30 feet long that inflicts 1d6 points of damage per character level (maximum 2d6 per dracha racial or evolved level)." Is the maximum damage for a 6th lvl Dracha 6d6 or 12d6? Or does the damage keep going up as the...

Define "check"

feeds@yuku.com (lostdrewid) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:51:19 GMT

Okay, so I'm running a Ptolus game, and I'm blatently stealing the AE Runechild template to use for Ptolus Runebearers [it seemed appropriate]. The problem is that I don't have the book. Can go to a friend's house to check the rule out to see if it answers my question, but he lives in Pennsie and I'm in eastern Jersey now, so I'm not exactly close anymore. I know it grants a +1 luck bonus to all checks. But what's a check? Is it every single die roll made with...

PHB2 Classes and AE

feeds@yuku.com (Finniss) — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:51:49 GMT

I know Monte designed AE to work well with standard D&D classes. The rogue is a good example of a class that easily drops into his campaign. Has anyone used PHB2 classes in AE? I honestly haven't even looked in a PHB2 so I don't know what's in there. Is it worth even looking at?

Expanding PHB classes to level 25

feeds@yuku.com (lostdrewid) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:17:06 GMT

Has anyone ever taken Arcana Evolved and used it as a template-of-sorts to apply to the PHB, in giving the standard classes another five levels and crafting another level of spells? I would love to do this for my Ptolus game, make everything scale to 25 levels without using the [kinda crap, imho] rules from the Epic Handbook. I don't yet own AE but I've flipped through it, and I've been really sold on that idea since.