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I was recently thumbing through the rules for a bit of research and ran across this paragraph in regards to magic weapons:

“Some magic weapons have special abilities. Special abilities count as additional bonuses for determining the market value of the item, but do not modify attack or damage bonuses (except where specifically noted). A single weapon cannot have a modified bonus (enhancement bonus plus special ability bonus equivalents, including those from character abilities and spells) higher than +10. A weapon with a special ability must also have at least a +1 enhancement bonus. Weapons cannot possess the same special ability more than once.”

(Bold emphasis is mine.)

Does this statement mean that a level 17 fighter with four levels of Weapon Training in heavy Blades (+4 to attack and damage rolls), Weapon Focus (longsword) (+1 to attack), Greater Weapon Focus (longword) (additional +1 to attack), Weapon Specialization (longsword) (+2 to damage) and Greater Weapon Specialization (longsword) (additional +2 to damage) for a total of +6 to attack and +8 to damage , not counting at the moment his +17 BAB, get yanked right out of using a +3 Holy Vorpal Longsword (a +10 total bonus weapon)?

I understand immediately what spells wouldn’t affect the above mentioned weapon, but do the fighter’s class abilities, and for that matter, the Magus class abilities, fall into the emboldened character abilities and spells category? If not, what character abilities do come under this rule? I am certain there are at least three or four people who want to know.

Even discounting BAB in the calculation, would that mean there would be diminishing returns on using the more powerful weapons once a fighter reaches about 9th level?

Certainly seems harsh and thoroughly vexing considering this would presumably carry over into those as-yet-unwritten "mythic" rules I would enjoy playing with.

It got here yesterday and I am still eyeballing all the art in the books. I am quite impressed with what I see graphically as well as what I read while perusing the adventures. I hope I can convince my accountant ( my soon to be new wife) to let me have more money to buy more stuff.

Actually my question is abouit EM Vol. 2...
Where is it? Just a curiousity as to why the others are PDF'd and its missing. If somebody kind find one, I'll buy the set. I have the books, but I'd like to have the PDF's too.

I was attempting to give an in-depth analysis of my reading of the Wizards Presents: Races and Classes book when it got dropped off the face of the planet when I tried to preview it before posting it. There was over 300 words to that particular report. I am too tired now to re-write it and I just want to know why the dern thing dropped it. This has happened several time before with other posts I was making.

I just had a whimsical thought to ask who the next company will be to authorize a "blowout" sale. I want to start a list early...

Order nujmber- 473143, placed on Nov 15, 2007 seems to be severaly delayed in an effort to fill it entirely. Umm, how to put it delicately... stop that!! Please send what is accounted for to me so that I might divy it up for Yuletide presents as I intended. The two products still delaying the other 49 are by no means that important. I do still want them, but I'd rather have the majority of the order rather than a large number of friends looking at me crossly because I told them a bird whispered a hint of what they shouldn't by at the FLGS last weekend. If neccessary, strike the remaining two items and send the rest. I'll put an order infor them later.

Thank you,

James Walley

Loja Windcutter
~Don't ask... there is more than one reason.~

On order number 683617, made Saturday, I fouond a great deal of trouble downloading "A Touch of Evil Volume 2: Hobgoblins (d20) PDF". I saved a copy of the .zip file to my machine only to find that Windows refuses to open it. It is "Blocked". I followed the instructions given in the Help database and found them ineffective. I then tried to open the file for direct viewing and found that the file created 0 objects to view. What's the deal there? I was under the impression that an 8.7 mb download would have a bit more than the .zip file icon to it.

Help the computer idiot in me figure this out please.

Thank you.

James Walley

Not really a question for this product, though I will get this one when I find the one I do have a question about. Where in the world did the Wheel of Time Campaign setting go? I can't find it online anywhere it seems. Am I just missing it or what?

I recently chose my back issues for the transition. I personalized them, downloaded them to a separate temporary file on my desktop to peruse a later time. Then I started un-zipping the files and moving them to their lovely new home, only to find that I had already had a copy of Dragon 285 and 290 downloaded back in October 2006. Is there anyway for you to help me retrieve the credit for those two and maybe select two others that I left behind?

I'd appreciate it a heck of a lot.

Thanks,

Loja

For some odd reason I can't get my shopping cart to quit trying to make me buy the Eberron campaign setting...

HELP!!! It just won't die!!

I remember seeing a thread asking what the "selected back-issues" were going to be. Has there been an answer to this that I am just to tired to find right now?
Is the selection going to be from the "Paizo-era" only? If so, then the 4 I don't have will leave 14 I won't be getting....
Dilemma, dilemma....

I want to get certain back-issues, but don't want to lose remaining credit because they are not available.

I want to get a look at the new line, but before I own it so I know what I'm really investing in. After all, I read most of the PHB for 3.5 standing in a game shop just to see if they fixed the glaring screw-ups I saw in PHB 3.0.

I am, as a friend keeps saying to me... "I am so corn-fused".

I love the job you guys have done with the magazines, but I need to know ahead of time that the world you're inventing is really the world I want to play in. I am not a fan of any of the currently published worlds. My home-campaign world has been dubbed "Generica" by my longer term players.

Store credit to purchase the few back-issues and then pick up the first issue of Pathfinder might be the way to go for me.

Has WotC actually produced anything that gives hope for this "on-line initiative" thing at all? I can't find any substatial evidence it exists.