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V. Illych L. posted:Also Sleipnir's mother. Loki is, uh, a bit weird. When you shapeshift into a mare in heat for the purpose of luring away a stallion, poo poo happens.
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my dad posted:When you shapeshift into a mare in heat for the purpose of luring away a stallion, poo poo happens. If he didn't want to get pregnant he shouldn't have shapeshifted that way.
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Olanphonia posted:If he didn't want to get pregnant he shouldn't have shapeshifted that way. Neigh means nay.
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I swear I read a comic somewhere where the horse can talk and keeps insisting on calling Loki "mommy," to his embarassment.
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Speedball posted:I swear I read a comic somewhere where the horse can talk and keeps insisting on calling Loki "mommy," to his embarassment. Something Valkyrie Yuki. It was godawful.
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I just assume he used divination to make sure there were no sufficient clerics in the city. Good way to further dupe Roy.
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Angela Christine posted:He's been Dominated a few times lately and forced to do things harmful to himself. He doesn't need to be smart to recognise that pattern and try to keep it from happening again. I wonder if Belkar didn't get a tiny wisdom bonus some time after his hallucination team player speech from Shojo. Like, not enough to be a decent spellcaster because that would just blow everyone's mind, but just the gap he needed to understand the sociology metagame, distrust Durkon, and ignore all written words following "I prepared."
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Do rangers get any healing spells? He'll use one of those on Durkon to hurt him and then die as he couldn't cast it on himself. 
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Anatharon posted:Do rangers get any healing spells? He'll use one of those on Durkon to hurt him and then die as he couldn't cast it on himself. He's too dumb to cast spells at all.
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Angela Christine posted:He's too dumb to cast spells at all. Too lacking in Wisdom. 
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Does anyone know what the feats that boost SR that Zz'dtri mentions are? I was searching for similar feats for a different reason and was unable to come up with any non-epic feat.
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wdarkk posted:Does anyone know what the feats that boost SR that Zz'dtri mentions are? I was searching for similar feats for a different reason and was unable to come up with any non-epic feat. It may be something from a third party splat book like Elan's prestige class.
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He may have taken this.
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Who What Now posted:He may have taken this. That's probably it. Doesn't really help me for my thing but I knew it would be a real feat.
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I am a consumer whore for rich burlew and just preordered the new compilation. I noticed the 2013 calendar is on sale for $3 if you want some cheap art.
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sebmojo posted:I am a consumer whore for rich burlew and just preordered the new compilation. I noticed the 2013 calendar is on sale for $3 if you want some cheap art. Accurate again in 2019!
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Coincidentally when we'll get to the next book!
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Current Status of Rich: Okay.
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+1 caster level is one hell of a "subtle increase."
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Can familiars ever learn spells?
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Shwqa posted:Can familiars ever learn spells? I don't think so... I vaguely remember certain kinds of familiars on the Improved Familiar feat and its assorted variants that had spell-like abilities, but not actual levels in spellcasting classes.
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I think if you can polymorph them into something that does have caster levels like a dragon they might get spells.
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My Lovely Horse posted:+1 caster level is one hell of a "subtle increase." It depends. +1 CL at level 3 is a 33% increase, but +1 CL at level 17 is only a 6% increase. Nothing to scoff at but it's not exactly enormous either.
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Caster level is a roll modifier, no? +1 CL means -1 to opposed saving throws and dispel checks and whatever, at any given level. It'd be a 5% increase at level 17 as much as it would be at level 3.
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Kajeesus posted:Caster level is a roll modifier, no? +1 CL means -1 to opposed saving throws and dispel checks and whatever, at any given level. It'd be a 5% increase at level 17 as much as it would be at level 3. Caster level has no effect on saves. That's all in stats. Spell resistance, dispels, and any spells that the text varies on caster level. Edit: And spells lower than 5th level tend to cap out. A fireball at level 10 is the same as at 20.
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Caster level also affect the magnitude of spell effects. For example: "The burst of flame deals 1d6 points of fire damage per caster level (maximum 20d6)." It increases standard ranges and durations for continuous spells that tend to be "1 <unit of time> per level".
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V's familiar has upstaged the party for about 300 strips now and I'm OK with that.
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Eifert Posting posted:V's familiar has upstaged the party for about 300 strips now and I'm OK with that. Sooooo shiny
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Awww, I'd at least tip the shopkeeper for being awesome enough to not only recommend his local competition but also for identifying the magic item and crafting it into something more practical just to make a bird happy.
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TunaSpleen posted:Awww, I'd at least tip the shopkeeper for being awesome enough to not only recommend his local competition but also for identifying the magic item and crafting it into something more practical just to make a bird happy. V's still looking for that teleportation magic, and DnD shopkeepers are notorious for not honoring any "Currently Saving the World" discounts.
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My Lovely Horse posted:+1 caster level is one hell of a "subtle increase." I'd say it's fairly subtle since the utility depends on a few different factors. An unsubtle one would be some kind of flat or percentile benefit, an increase in oft-capped, spell-specific, situation-specific scaling is a little more difficult to pin down just by examining the effect. If you're high level, how much is +1 caster level going to do? Some spells would have capped out (Burning Hands caps at like caster level 5 or something), other spells would have no benefit (a bunch of illusion spells don't scale on caster level whatsoever), others would only show a benefit if they were facing some kind of opposed check (Otto's Irresistible Dance against spell resistance or something), etc. A lot of spells would just get a fractional range or duration increase.
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I assume the 'as long as you're close enough' loophole Rich wrote in is as good as confirmation that V will desperately need that extra caster level at one point and the bird won't be nearby to give it to him.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:I'd say it's fairly subtle since the utility depends on a few different factors. An unsubtle one would be some kind of flat or percentile benefit, an increase in oft-capped, spell-specific, situation-specific scaling is a little more difficult to pin down just by examining the effect. If you're high level, how much is +1 caster level going to do? Some spells would have capped out (Burning Hands caps at like caster level 5 or something), other spells would have no benefit (a bunch of illusion spells don't scale on caster level whatsoever), others would only show a benefit if they were facing some kind of opposed check (Otto's Irresistible Dance against spell resistance or something), etc. A lot of spells would just get a fractional range or duration increase. I'm at work so I can't check, but I feel like back in 2nd Edition and prob. in 1st too, it was a straight "You're a level higher."
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Zoe posted:I assume the 'as long as you're close enough' loophole Rich wrote in is as good as confirmation that V will desperately need that extra caster level at one point and the bird won't be nearby to give it to him. That would be a lot more rules-pedantic than Rich bothers being these days. It's a tiny bonus and anything dramatic that relies on it is going to make no sense to anyone who isn't a massive 3.5e rules grog. It's a payoff of the running gag around V's familiar's fondness for shiny stuff.
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I could see a dramatic moment around the tiny contribution of Blackwing helping to overcome someone's Spell Resistance at a critical moment.
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Doesn't it also count for your spells per day? You still couldn't get spells above where you actually are, but you'd get more of the ones you can already cast.
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I'm pretty sure +1 CL doesn't increase your spells per day, no.
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Allstone posted:I'm pretty sure +1 CL doesn't increase your spells per day, no. It does not.
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seaborgium posted:Doesn't it also count for your spells per day? You still couldn't get spells above where you actually are, but you'd get more of the ones you can already cast. No, you only get extra spells per day if your casting stat is very high. In V's case it's their Intelligence stat.
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