According to the Craft Wand feat, you need to be a 5th level caster to make a wand. Shouldn't the wand of magic missiles be at caster level 5?
Nope; it's always assumed to be the minimum caster level required to cast the spell. You can MAKE one at 5th level, but that will dramatically increase the price.
Ah. Okay then.
Don't know why I thought otherwise...
Just remembered I was gonna pick up magic weapon. Can I swap two castings of it for bless and protection from evil?
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NOOOO! Not the Bowl of Grapes!
I'm having my lunch a bit late today and didn't want to Google Image "Pile of Eyeballs".
I mean, shut up! Those aren't grapes, they're eyeballs. Stop peeking through the blindfold!
(dubious sniff) I hope at least those are peeled grapes. Quality is all about the little things.
O_O
Well, Astraden CAN prepare remove blindness... if it comes to that, I think we can afford to make the Faceless One live up to his moniker.
Also, a certain drow-bold is up in Second Darkness.
He's actually a slackbold, a much maligned subtype.
So, would I be able to make a Knowledge check right now? Or do I have to wait until the next round comes up?
Me thinks folks should get in there and kill that thing before it finishes waking up.
Knowledge doesn't take up any actions, so you can roll whenever you like.
Oh that's right I've still got an action and most of my HP back.
LET'SA GO!
Well you're up. Get to it!
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Dear RNGesus,
Please stop tormenting Farrukh with bad rolls.
Sincerely,
Zalamandra
With the allip dealt with, Cuetzpalli should rush forward to help deal with the eye-monster.
Spiny will get out himself eventually.
Tell you what, Farrukh, just give up your last three Action Points and assume you have Blind-Fight for the rest of the module. We're almost finished, and Farrukh's not gonna have much to do if he can't hardly fight or move.
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Tanith can grapple the thing lowering it's AC a bit and giving everyone a turn to file in where there's more space but he's not going to survive another full attack.
By the way, apparently the main reason you can't take actions that involve more than one arm while grappled is:
I think folks need to remember that the grappled condition is not as severe as it once was. You are no longer draped all over the target. It is more like you got a hold on them, typically an arm (hence the restriction). The pinned condition is more of your greco-roman wrestling hold.
As such, I'm not sure how this applies to something with three claws, but I'm asking around. Just didn't want to spring this on you after you already grappled the guy.
Oh, I'm aware that he'll be capable of full attacking Tanith. The big advantage would be disabling his ability to take AoOs letting everyone file into the room.
Offense-wise, the only characters grappling is effective against is folks with two-handed weapons and casters.
At most, he'll only get a bite and two claw attacks. At least, it'll just be a bite and a claw. Small comfort, I know. :P
I'm shooting myself in the foot here but I'll be honest.
By RAW, he can fight at full effectiveness while grappled. Grappling does almost nothing to inhibit characters with natural attacks or TWFers. I'm a bit of an expert - I'm sure you've noticed, I have a few grapplers.
If you want to rule otherwise, I certainly won't complain. =)
Would it be worth our while to have me try and fascinate it?
If you're going to do something that depends on it failing a save I think grease would be better. If it landed, it'd break up its full attack for next turn.
I think I like the sound of that...
I'm shooting myself in the foot here but I'll be honest.
By RAW, he can fight at full effectiveness while grappled. Grappling does almost nothing to inhibit characters with natural attacks or TWFers. I'm a bit of an expert - I'm sure you've noticed, I have a few grapplers.
If you want to rule otherwise, I certainly won't complain. =)
Grappled: A grappled creature is restrained by a creature, trap, or effect. Grappled creatures cannot move and take a –4 penalty to Dexterity. A grappled creature takes a –2 penalty on all attack rolls and combat maneuver checks, except those made to grapple or escape a grapple. In addition, grappled creatures can take no action that requires two hands to perform. A grappled character who attempts to cast a spell or use a spell-like ability must make a concentration check (DC 10 + grappler's CMB + spell level), or lose the spell. Grappled creatures cannot make attacks of opportunity.
Folks,
The RAW do allow the grappled to make a full attack action, assuming they can do so with only one hand. Since flurry does not require two hands to perform, a monk could flurry.
Grappling is not always the best idea. Grappling a monk is one such example. I think folks need to remember that the grappled condition is not as severe as it once was. You are no longer draped all over the target. It is more like you got a hold on them, typically an arm (hence the restriction). The pinned condition is more of your greco-roman wrestling hold.
Hope that clears it up..
Jason Bulmahn
Lead Designer
Paizo Publishing
Having read through the available evidence, this quote stuck out at me:
The two is not an accident or arbitrary number; it corresponds to the total number of arms a typical humanoid-shaped creature has. So you need to adjust for creatures with more than two arms not by appending "or more" but by adjusting the number itself; for a four-armed creature, it changes to "(four-armed) grappled creatures can take no action that requires four hands to perform." For the octopus, it goes to "...eight (hand-equivalents) to perform." And this reading covers all the bases; it works in the case of a standard two-armed character as well as any number of arms you can think of. It results in no absurdities and addresses all previously brought up absurdities. Therefore, it is the most reasonable way in which to interpret the passage.
Text block or no, this makes the most sense to me. The Ebon Aspect gets two claw attacks in a grapple.
If you're going to do something that depends on it failing a save I think grease would be better. If it landed, it'd break up its full attack for next turn.
I'm willing to give it a go. The only thing is that as an 'action bard', my spell DCs aren't awesome. I can blow my last AP to emulate spell focus and bump the DC up by 1, but are there any more efficient uses for that point? (Obscure feats I'm missing, etc...)
Well, you could Heighten it, but that'd still only be a +1. You could also use this:
You can spend 1 action point to double the increase to save DCs granted by the feat, from +1 to +2.
But that would require two APs, so no go.
It's a big creature so it's dex might not be that hot and it could always roll low. Give it a shot.
I have to say, it's a really hard call what my next Versatile Performance choice should be. Diplomacy & Sense Motive would both be nice things to be maxed out on, but situations like this make me long for Acrobatics. (Although Fly is less essential at this, or possibly any, stage.)