At first glance, this thing looks sooooo busted. Like wth do you mean i can use summon monster IX for only 2 charges, while i can "charge" it using my lv8 spell (i'm currently lv16) for 8 charges??? (I asked our DM and he said he allowed it) This is like a dream come true for a Conjurer, lol
Hi, I was looking at a Gish build and came across something interesting
Fighters can take the alternate class feature Armored Savant at level one. Among other things, it halves the normal arcane spell failure chance
The spellsword prestige class decreases the AFC by a certain percentage as you level in it
My question is: which applies first? Halve it and then -10 or more? Or vice versa?
Hola, hago está pregunta puesto que intente jugar 5e pero fracase rotundamente al comenzar a leer los manuales se me hicieron demaciado complicado, considerando que para ese momento no tenía ninguna experiencia con juegos de rol.
Actualmente llevo al rededor de año y medio jugando con el sistema "vieja escuela", sin embargo mi objetivo siempre fue jugar DnD, ahora recientemente encontré el manual de la 3.5, y al comenzarlo me pareció más entendible (no sé si es porque tengo algo más de experiencia), pero al entrar más en la comunidad escucho muchos comentarios que está edición es más complicada que 5e entonces en este punto que me recomendarían. ¿Intentar nuevamente con la 5e o entrar de lleno en la 3.5?
Well if you haven't, allow me to introduce it to you.
It's a user-friendly, comprehensive, customizable D&D 3.5e character creator made by u/Conscious-Guide-2738. It has so many sources under the moon, and it's got so many features for just a DEMO.
I've already recommended this to about 15 others, and they all love it!
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So, one of my players wants to just have an air elemental summoned with Summon Monster IX carry him around in combat to essentially get 100 ft. movement per round. Do I just treat this as the Ride skill (which he put no ranks into) or, as he puts it, it's a summoned creature so it obeys your orders regardless?
As an example, let's say that you had a manifester (class doesn't really matter for this,) that wanted to be able to efficiently destroy unattended objects, doors and walls. What would be the best power for a low-to-mid level manifester, mostly in terms of it's power point cost-to-damage ratio? I mean, psionic disintegrate is pretty tasty, but that's a 6th level power. I'm hoping for something of a lower level. I know that the ones that deal sonic damage most often ignore object hardness, but I can't figure out which one would be best, or if there's a non-elemental power that would work better. No explosions are required, but would not necessarily be frowned upon. TIA!
Does anyone know if there’s any rules for a player riding another player like a mount? In particular if the riding creature makes ride checks and if something like Equerry’s Armor applies to them.
So, first question: Why both instead of just one?
Simple. They’re pretty easily compatible with each other, so somethings can fit into both editions.
Sometimes I want to run mythic campaigns, where my players get to be powerful throughout the game, and have a good challenge with other mythic battles.
Sometimes I want to run epic campaigns, where my players grow more powerful and experience growth, until they literally become the most powerful beings in the universe.
It really depends on what I plan for the campaign. Either can be of any length, though typically, Pathfinder is used for medium-long campaigns, and 3.5 is either used for fast or long campaigns.
Second question: Why these editions over 5e or something newer?
More customization, honestly. So many archetypes, so many feats, so many spells, so many possible builds. Also, uncapped stats make players feel more powerful, and it makes danger actually seem dangerous.(35 STR score go BRRRRRRR).
Third question: What the hell is a Onerae?
My homebrew setting! The world is still a work in progress, my players and I build it as we play(the first campaign built up mainly The Talowood, Talomine, and The Great Dustlands).
Most of what happens for now takes place on the continent of Talo, as I want to focus on one location at a time. This time, I’m going to start building up North and South New Panama.
Follow-up to third question: The hell do you mean North and South Panama???
For some context, the established lore I have is that New Panama was established when hundreds of humans from the United States were, for lack of a better term, isekae’d into Onerae to the Panamian Peninsula in about 1920. Thus, being uncreative, not only did they name it after Panama, but they constructed yet another Panama Canal. And yes, North and South New Panama are both democracies, and they have a friendly rivalry going on, which even the minor deities have taken notice and, more importantly, entertainment to.
Ah, ok. Fourth question: What’s the plot?
You see, every 10 years for the last century, the two sides of New Panama have decided to have a friendly competition to determine who has the stronger warriors. This tournament is a spectacle to all of New Panama, and even those from outside its borders come to see the fights. These tournaments run for an entire year, as they never turn down a single applicant. After all, those with the spirit to fight are always worthy assets to the New Panamian Military, and for New Panama’s banks.
The overlap of overwhelming crowds and overwhelming power throughout its history eventually led to the most curious and important event in its entire lifetime: the Gods took notice. And they were enjoying it.
For additional context: this setting uses concepts from both Eberron and The Forgotten Realms, those being the Planescape setting, and Manifest Zones. As more and more crowds sought to gather to watch the innumerable “gladiators” battle it out, Aaron, the God of Battle, took it upon himself to make the Panamian Grand Stage a Ysgard manifest zone.
This means that anyone killed as a result of lethal damage were raised back to life completely at its conclusion, with no negative side effects. This one simple boon drew in MILLIONS in visitors, and BILLIONS in gold, and the Panamian Divine Stage, as it became known as, is now regarded as one of the most popular decennial events on the planet of Rae. Members of all races, be it half-gnomes, merfolk, or even dragons come to battle it out, as the Panamian Divine Stage is a neutral zone, meaning people of ALL alignments are allowed to attend. And because no one can die permanently, it means all business is to be settled outside the stage. They do not judge, they are simply there to watch the bloodshed and glory for all who wish to reach it.
And now, it’s my players’ turns to fight, for whatever their reasons may be.
This will be a 3.5 campaign, because it will lead into epic levels. There are people from all over the world, and beyond who attend this tournament hailed by the gods themselves, and therefore, there will be very powerful beings who wish to test themselves against other very powerful beings. If all goes well, my pcs may even be able to partake in these highest-level fights.
But for now, all I want is for them to experience a fast-paced, combat-focused campaign with compelling characters, because they all seem to love the numbers game a lot more than the roleplaying aspect(which is ok, and is why I’m running this in the first place!). I’ll give them more details as I work through the other details of this campaign.
If you have any further questions, I am open to all ears and forms of criticism! Except people telling me not to run something so combat focused, because my players are already on-board and hyped lol. Just advice on how I can make it better for them!
Hell, I may even let a few more people join, to really embrace that world-wide aspect!
I’ll update y’all more on it later!
-DanielTheTrombonist, who has never once played a bard
Warlocks are never as good as their 5e counterparts in 3.5.
So, if I were to rework the warlock class in 3.5, how should I do it in a way that makes them just as good as they are in 5e?
The text of the ability reads
[Any melee hit or constrict attack deals acid damage, and the opponent’s armor and clothing dissolve and become useless immediately unless they succeed on DC 21 Reflex saves. A metal or wooden weapon that strikes a black pudding also dissolves immediately unless it succeeds on a DC 21 Reflex save. The save DCs are Constitution-based.]
the next Paragraph reads
[The pudding’s acidic touch deals 21 points of damage per round to wooden or metal objects, but the ooze must remain in contact with the object for 1 full round to deal this damage]
So heres my confusion, the first paragraph says that armor and weapons dissolve immediately, but later on says that said objects take 21 points of damage after they've remained in contact for one round.
So which is it? do they dissolve immediately or in one round, and is the dissolving an item taking 21 points of damage, which is enough to reduce most objects health or is that a separate point.
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Looking for brave adventurers to uncover dark secrets, solve mysteries, and survive things that were never meant to be found…
Horror • Mystery • Dark Secrets • Suspense
Who’s ready to enter the darkness?
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Want to optimize the party success rate through the roof?
Look at this Prestige Class review from ThreeFiveArchive @Jozan
It's insane!!
https://youtu.be/wlqkgSXCL\_c?is=lV--IVISKQPgB6r-
Here was my build.
Fighter 1/Paladin 2/War Chief 10/ Dread Commando 5 . Protection devotion feat, healing belts. Take leadership.
Race: Lesser Aasimar +2 Cha +2 Wis LA+0
Template: Magic Blooded +2 Cha -2 Wisdom LA+0
Get all Charisma to saves.
18 Cha to start
22 Cha at level 1
+4 Cha to 26 by leveling
+6 Cha from WC PrC class is 32
+7 AC to all allies
+5 Initiative all allies
+10 Strength to all allies
+11 to all saves
Leadership feat:
Attract a Constitution based cohort that gets optimized for AC and hp that's level 16. Give him the PrC bodyguard ability to give you points of his AC every round.
Staggering AC!!
Excellent review from @Jozan at ThreeFiveArchive
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A little while ago I posted my Android 3.5e character creator/manager here: original post.
I really appreciated all the feedback, bug reports, feature requests, and encouragement. A few people asked whether I might bring it to PC—so I’m happy to say the new PC version is here:
OpenSheet 3.5e SRD
It’s a character creator and manager intended to make the bookkeeping-heavy parts of 3.5e easier: tracking stats, feats, equipment bonuses, spells, rages, Wild Shape, prestige-class prerequisites, and the many little moving pieces that make the system great (and occasionally a lot to manage).
I’ve also kept the feedback from the Android release in mind, including support for custom feats and continuing work on the huge range of 3.5e options.
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5055520/OpenSheet_35e_SRD_Demo/
I’d genuinely love to hear what you think—especially if you spot an incorrect rule interaction, missing option, or feature that would make it more useful at your table. 3.5e is enormous, so community feedback has been incredibly helpful already.
Note: As before I did use Claude for error checking and code review, it was just me working on this and I wanted to make a good first impression and not be nothing but guess haha. For transparency I did want to mention this.
Thanks again to everyone who tried the Android version and helped improve it.
Please feel free to message me directly if you have feature requests or find any issues too!
I did make a discord if anyone wants to join for feedback and discussion!
Update: Wow, thank you all for the feedback and comments! Working hard to address some of the reports, I will do my best to make this a solid tool for all 3.5e lovers!
I’ve been a dm for about 4 years now and have only played 5E/5.5E DnD, but I want to branch into 3e/3.5e. I’ve got most of the necessary books as pdf’s but the challenge for me is reading stat blocks, specifically for the higher level monsters (including but not limited to various gods, one of which I’ll use as an example here). I can read the ability scores well enough, as well as skills and the feats too, but then there’s stuff like some of the attacks, spell like abilities, domain stuff, divine abilities. Right now the one that’s confusing me is Vecna, though he’s also the first of the deities from the Deities and Demigods book I’m looking at. And I’ve looked at various dm books and pc books too but there’s stuff that still just doesn’t make sense to me. So here are my questions about his stats and such:
Final question though not about the stat sheet, Would it be easier to learn pathfinder 1e as a jumping off point instead of trying to learn 3.5 directly and the just use what I learned from that to figure out 3.5?
Just what the title says, is there an up for me to keep track of my character that you know is good?
Hello everyone, I been playing dnd 5e for a year and I heard alot about how hard is dnd 3.5 and I want to learn to play.
My problem is
I will very grateful if anybody answer me with this
My DM had a creature with both telepathy and charm monster and we're hiding on a different floor of a cave system. She argued that since it had telepathy, it could tell there were minds present where we were and that we could be targeted by charm monster through it.
I found a rule in Lords of Madness that said that telepathy doesn't allow you to know where a person is, but she argued that it means you just don't know an exact position and as long as you have the ability to address them, the spell can take effect.
Is that how the spell works?
I'd like to play one of my favorite AD&D 2e adventures (Die Vecna, Die!) at 3.5 so I can master it for my group. I've searched online but haven't found much. Are there any guides?