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A few question about flanking.

A barbarian armed with a great axe wants to flank an enemy with a ranger using only a bow and his bare hands. The barbarian wants to gain flanking from the ranger with the bow (ranger is in melee) saying that using the bow as an improvised melee weapon, the ranger with the bow threatens the square the enemy is in.

1.Because the ranger is in melee with a bow, does using the bow as an improvised melee weapon allow the barbarian a +2 flanking bonus?

2.The ranger is human, so kicking, punching, head bunting etc. is not considered armed. The ranger cannot use am unarmed strike to threaten the square and grant flanking to the barbarian. Is this correct?

3.Can the ranger as a free action hold the bow in one hand, draw an arrow as a free action and use the arrow as a improvised melee weapon instead to threaten the square?

4.Would a spiked gauntlet allow the bow to be held one handed as a free action and threaten the square with the spiked gauntlet for the barbarian to gain flanking as the ranger is now armed with a melee weapon?

The barbarian really wanted to gain flanking and had some great questions. lol

Hello James

A few question about flanking. A barbarian armed with a great axe wants to flank an enemy with a ranger using only a bow and his bare hands. The barbarian wants to gain flanking from the ranger with the bow (ranger is in melee) saying that using the bow as an improvised melee weapon, the ranger with the bow threatens the square the enemy is in.

1.Because the ranger is in melee with a bow, does using the bow as an improvised melee allow the barbarian a +2 flanking bonus?

2.The ranger is human, so kicking, punching, head bunting etc. is not considered armed. The ranger cannot use am unarmed strike to threaten the square and grant flanking to the barbarian. Is this correct?

3.Can the ranger as a free action hold the bow in one hand, draw an arrow as a free action and use the arrow as a improvised melee weapon instead to threaten the square?

4.Would a spiked gauntlet allow the bow to be held one handed as a free action and threaten the square with the spiked gauntlet for the barbarian to gain flanking as the ranger is now armed with a melee weapon?

The barbarian really wanted to gain flanking and had some great questions.
Thanks for any help you can give in this matter.

I have a few questions about Mythic abilities

1. I have an Oracle with the Domain Immunity path ability. If i have the Divine Source Universal Path ability that allows me to pick two domains, does Domain Immunity apply to those Domains?

2. Domain Immunity (su) states: You don't take damage or suffer harmful effects from spells on your domain spell list, even ones you aren't of a high enough level to cast. If our cleric has Meteor Swarm from the stars subdomain and is hit with the Tier 10 augmented ability from Meteor Swarm: "Augmented (10th): If you expend two uses of mythic power, creatures in the path of a meteor also take 4d10 points of fire damage and the damage from the exploding meteors increases to 10d10 points of fire damage; this fire damage bypasses fire resistance and fire immunity."
Even though It says bypasses fire immunity does Domain Immunity apply and the meteor swarm spell has no effect?

3. If the cleric also has Time stop on his Domain list and the enemy wizard casts timestop does Domain immunity make the time spot not effect the cleric? How does that work for combat? Time stop states "This spell seems to make time cease to flow for everyone but you" and "While the time stop is in effect, other creatures are invulnerable to your attacks and spells; you cannot target such creatures with any attack or spell." The caster of time stop cannot attack or effect anyone with spells in timespot but the cleric is not in time stop if immune. Does this become a 1v1 battle? Can the cleric use attack spells to effect the wizard? Does the wizard have the ability to effect the cleric because he is immune and not under the effect? Or does time stop prevent the cleric from being effected by the wizards attacks because of restrictions of "While the time stop is in effect, other creatures are invulnerable to your attacks and spells" as the wizard is being effected by timestop?

Thank you

Hello James

I have a few questions about Mythic abilities

1. I have an Oracle with the Domain Immunity path ability. If i have the Divine Source Universal Path ability that allows me to pick two domains, does Domain Immunity apply to those Domains?

2. Domain Immunity (su) states: You don't take damage or suffer harmful effects from spells on your domain spell list, even ones you aren't of a high enough level to cast. If our cleric has Meteor Swarm from the stars subdomain and is hit with the Tier 10 augmented ability from Meteor Swarm: "Augmented (10th): If you expend two uses of mythic power, creatures in the path of a meteor also take 4d10 points of fire damage and the damage from the exploding meteors increases to 10d10 points of fire damage; this fire damage bypasses fire resistance and fire immunity."
Even though It says bypasses fire immunity does Domain Immunity apply and the meteor swarm spell has no effect?

3. If the cleric also has Time stop on his Domain list and the enemy wizard casts timestop does Domain immunity make the time spot not effect the cleric? How does that work for combat? Time stop states "This spell seems to make time cease to flow for everyone but you" and "While the time stop is in effect, other creatures are invulnerable to your attacks and spells; you cannot target such creatures with any attack or spell." The caster of time stop cannot attack or effect anyone with spells in timespot but the cleric is not in time stop if immune. Does this become a 1v1 battle? Can the cleric use attack spells to effect the wizard? Does the wizard have the ability to effect the cleric because he is immune and not under the effect or does time stop prevent that because of restricts while the wizard is being effected by timestop?

Thank you

Hello James

A quick question about energy drain. Does the level dependent variables part of negatives levels affect access to feats, access to mysteries and other class features that are gained at a specific level? If I lose 8 negatives levels would I lose 4 feats, BAB drop from level 17 to level 9 thus losing 2 attacks per round as a full BAB class?

Hello James

I have a question about rays.

If under Magic rules "You aim a ray as if using a ranged weapon" then under non lethal damage rules does "You can use a weapon that deals nonlethal damage, including an unarmed strike, to deal lethal damage instead, but you take a –4 penalty on your attack roll." apply to rays?

So if i cast Admonishing Ray to do 4d6 non lethal damage, can I instead (at a -4 penalty to hit) do 4d6 lethal damage?

Thanks.