@Delioth While the slot-conflict is a good point for some tables, that's only a +50% price tag. At my table, I wave the stacking-effects clause, though, so the excuse is entirely gone.
@godskook Either way, something like 10 fire resist on a suit of armor (at least in pathfinder) is a flat 18,000 gold. That's the same price as 24 wands of cure light wounds, and would have to block 6600 points of elemental damage to have the same gold-health efficiency as the wands. No character really wants to invest that heavily for something that's never going to be more efficient than a 1st level wand (also because in-combat healing for not-paladins is a losing battle)
Yeah, wands would still be more efficient... but then you're paying for 50 charges of something that might only be useful once. Yeah, it could be useful 50 times, but it's in no way guaranteed unless you straight-up go to an area with a ton of typed enemies (elemental plane, volcano, tundra, etc) for a reasonable-length adventure
Though the second-level wand is 4500 gold, unless you can find a Ranger with Craft Wands
@Ryan I pick a RL nationality/culture from Emily's list and (a) grab some of her random assortment (b) read a little about them IRL. Or in a pinch, I'll roll 2d20 for consonants and 2d6 for vowels and make something of the cluster that ensues.
@BanjoFox Yeah, wands aren't able to be charged up. They start with 50 charges and have no magic... there's no way to add charges to a wand (or if there is it's in a single archetype somewhere)
@Delioth Given that the choice is "face necklace of fireballs with or without Fire Resistance 10", for characters that get mission rewards of 10kgp or more? 1125gp seems a drop in the bucket to me.
@NautArch Complication is, to some degree, mandatory for depth. Its one reason I won't ever transition to 5e, although I might transition to Pathfinder at some point. Maybe. I'm still not convinced there's value in switching over back-porting for me.
@BanjoFox Same reason Toilet Paper isn't rechargeable?
@BanjoFox It's mostly technical typing. If you want to flavor your chargeable staff as a wand, that's fine (but you still can't put it in a wrist sheathe). Actually, I'm not sure if there is a size requirement or if it's just naming stuff (it would be awkward to have chargeable wands and nonrefillable wands and they're totally different things with different pricing scales)
@BanjoFox Oh yeah, just use staves and call them small. By all the rules they're staves, but staves are expensive enough and great enough that any given caster only needs one at a time and can thusly be named.
@Delioth Runestaves contain specific spells, and you can spend spell slots to cast the spells from the stave instead of a normal spell you have prepared.
But they're otherwise unusable.
From MiC
Regular Staves, in 3.5, from DMG/Core are charge-based and just consumable.
arrgh, I thought a question was a dupe "why so few choices on the weapons table compared to 4e" but I can't find any previous questions. (Maybe I've seen this on GITP and memory crossed wires.
@godskook Ah, in Pathfinder we don't have runestaves, but staves have specific spells. 10 charges, but a spellcaster can cast any spell that the staff contains to put a charge back in the staff. Only once/day though, so it's useful to recharge between adventures.
Do any of your recall a pod cast or tweet on the weapons table and why the number of choices is down? I did a bit of searching and answered the question, but I swear I've see a more detailed Crawford or Mearls comment on line
@godskook Yeah, they're solid. They do have a minimum CL of 8 though which makes them a bit pricey (If I know how to do a little math, you can get a staff for 640 gold... but it has one first-level spell in it and takes all 10 charges to cast). For one first-level spell that uses 1 charge it's 6400 gold, but I'm partial to making the spell take 2 charges which cuts the price in half, which is reasonable by level 4-5ish
@godskook Well, that's for a first-level spell, which would need a Ranger to make, which would require a 15th level ranger to get the feat to make it. If it's a second level spell (like Protection from Energy is), then you've got to double it
Though if you craft it yourself you can cut the price in half again, but at that point you're an 11th level wizard (or equivalent) and can blow the second level slots as you wish (third level for communal)
@Delioth sure, but if I like how the item is priced, and I like how a purchased version of it works, I can standardize the BS crafting back to a more reasonable 3.5 parity.
@godskook Oh, definitely. If you make it take 10 charges for the casting and cast Resist Energy (Communal), you can give 80 minutes of Resist Energy 10 to any number of people (80 minutes is total, split it among the people in 10-minute increments) once (with 10 days worth of recharging).
@SevenSidedDie So, “braising steak” in non-Americanspeak, I guess? Nope. I are American, and I was eating braised beef when I was in grade school. One of the things Mom made. We use ground chuck to make burgers 'round here, but I add my own spices and always grill it over mesquite wood.
@NautArch The interview I found isn't what I was looking for, and it gave a more general than specific kind of answer. Maybe a pod cast .... scratches head
@Delioth Note that "Mass" isn't a keyword or feat or anything, its just a naming convention in 3.5, in case you need to talk about that again sometime.
@godskook Mhm, I've noticed ("communal" is the same way, I think pathfinder has a few spells that are "mass" as well.. yeah, the healing spells don't make sense as "communal" spells)
@BanjoFox This is where @KorvinStarmast in texas is in a better spot. Grilling year round isn't as much of an option for me. Although, I do smoke meats year round.
@NautArch Where I live in Texas mesquite grows like a weed. I have a friend who is a part owner of a hunting lease, where annually they clear out a lot of mesquite. He can pile it into the back of a flatbed and sell it in Houston when he goes up there on business.
And yeah, year round grilling is a good feature. The Missus loves food cooked on the grill, be it meat or veg, so I get to set fire to charcoal and mesquite with some frequency.
@KorvinStarmast Loooove her stuff. There're actually two separate sites there--one's all names, the other's got things like logic puzzles, riddles, traps that you can just drag-and-drop into any-ol-thing.
@NautArch I usually chop mesquite into chunks, and soak in water for 30 minutes before grilling. They go on the back of the coal bed and add smoke to everything.
Our KofC council does it different. We head out to the ranch, harvest a bunch of mesquite, and then for bar b q's and fund raisers cook the chicken or whatever over dried mesquite.
@KorvinStarmast I'm not sure why, but I haven't oversmoked anything yet. And i'm not shy with the smokewood. Sadly, I get my smokewood from amazon mostly.
@KorvinStarmast oooh. I'd like to try and take my kids to one. Neither of them love loud noises, though.
We lived in Italy long enough to learn that "one can never have enough garlic." Oddly enough, we see very few vampires in our neighborhood. I use magic bullet to get loads of pepper ground up.
It's also good for making single serving daquaris or margeritas for sipping while the brisket slow cooks.
@KorvinStarmast I bought an electric mill, but it was cheap. And works like it was cheap. Takes longer and have to hold the button down. My wrist is borked from an injury and after awhile it aches.
@godskook - Eating mostly. I gave a jar of peppers to a co-worker at the time and he made an excellent pot of chili. Another one just spooned the puree onto his sandwhich like it was salad dressing....
Admitedly... I did also want to weaponize the plant for use against local rabbits :P
@NautArch Donne' sali is pretty hot, but not so hot that ANY amount is going to set off alarm bells on your tongue. Using small amounts, or dilute amounts, is very possible without losing the flavor.
If you're sensitive to peppers, though, you probably do want to dial back the amount that goes into Chamorro recipes. Chamorros are one of those cultures that have a Tabasco bottle on every table in every restaurant.
Nearly every gas station on island has a siobao steam case, and people argue about which are better tasting vs which are less likely to give you food poisoning.
IIRC, someone mentioned the dev thought process awhile ago to be something along the lines of, "If the spell is mitigated by armor, attack roll against AC. If the spell isn't mitigated by armor, target rolls a save".
Actually, my viewpoint's a different side of it. I'm also moving towards the idea of removing touch-AC entirely from my personal rule-set. I'm not convinced its a useful addition to the game when casters can pick up Full BAB.
Is item rarity relevant in 5e for players? Besides cost and probability to find. I'm making item cards and I'm considering dropping the rarity from the description because it doesn't seem to mean anything.
I think I'll bring that up in a late session 0. They can either look around and find he best price with haggling and such or just always get an average price.
I want to fact-check the "Gandalf was a 5th level Wizard" article by reading *Lord of the Rings* and marking anything supernatural that happens. This will be my first reading of those books (yes, after 15 years into fantasy, lol), so I hope I will not miss anything.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how is it better to mark? I am currently going to make a Google Spreadsheet with several columns for each supernatural action: 1) Short description of what had happened 2) Direct quote from the text 3) The closest (in effect) Pathfinder or 3.5e spell
In my groups next campaign I am hoping to be a PC instead of the DM and I want to play a character who is like Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. I began looking at options; he would probably be a bard, but what race would he be? I want him to be proficient with a sword, and he sh...
@godskook My friend, a 3.5e/Pathfinder expert, when I asked him about this article, told me that 1) Gandalf actually likely had around 10 levels of Fighter 2) Eagle Aerie is a 6th level spell, and Gandalf has done something similar at some point.
@Baskakov_Dmitriy I mean that Gandalf in no way shape or form teleported, "summoned with magic", or otherwise conjured those eagles. He may have cast Sending, I'd have to check.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the eagles were immense flying birds that were sapient and could speak. Often emphatically referred to as the Great Eagles, they appear, usually and intentionally serving as agents of eucatastrophe or deus ex machina, in various parts of his legendarium, from The Silmarillion and the accounts of Númenor to The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Just as the Ents are guardians of plant life, the giant eagles are the guardians of animal life.
These creatures are usually thought to have been similar to actual eagles (for example, as an independent...
@Baskakov_Dmitriy What evidence hath he for the "10 levels of fighter"?
@Baskakov_Dmitriy also, keep in mind that things such as Gestalt and E6 are perfectly viable alternative explanations for how Gandalf had large quantities of low-level power.
@godskook I can't recall exactly where but I think I remember reading somewhere that the eagles weren't part of the plan to take the Ring to Mordor because they were incredibly vain and arrogant creatures. Even though they served Manwe, their personalities meant that they were more susceptible to the corruption of the Ring.
@Yuuki I don't remember a definitive answer to why the Eagles were not used in-canon. The wiki suggests, out-of-canon, that Tolkien was trying to avoid them becoming a Deus-Ex-Machina.
@NautArch There's some duration issues depending on level and available spellslots, and by level 6, its trivial to have 18+Dex AC
+1 Heavy Shield, +1 Chain Shirt covers it for ~2.5k.
(This IS 3.5 we're talking about)
+1 Mithral Breastplate, +1 H.Shield, is 19+Dex for ~3.5k, and +1 Ring of Deflection and +1 AMulet of Natural Armor are another +2, for 21+Dex AC(Max Dex applies, though).
I made this with that. Could probably be made prettier and I'm going back and forth if the item description should contain referenced information or not.
Question: is there any "lore reason" for magical item "per day" cycles? I understand it's used "per day" because items don't sleep, so you can't regain abilities after a short/long sleep, so managing it like that makes sense. And managing it per day rather than every 24hr cycle is also easier.
I wanna show this to my DM, cos he has all sorts of custom stuff... but his spelling is so bad!!
@nwp I think it does. That's what defines it as a difference between a +1, +2, and a standard. Otherwise the item is just better that another for no discernable reason
I've also seen this in games like Dark Souls - you can get variations of the same ring, +1 and +2