A random, equal chance, depending on how many images are up. So for three images and 1 Mage, roll a d4. 4 images and a Mage, roll half a d10.
1hp per character level (though I would house-rule 1hp per HD).
Yes.
No idea, personally. Someone else will chime in, I'm sure.
See "Cover" on p195 of the Core Rules. Essentially, Partial Cover is "has cover, more than half of creature is visible, GMs discretion", Cover is "draw lines from corner of attacker square to corners of target square, if line is blocked or passes along a wall, target has cover" (how many lines depends on the attack), and Total Cover is "has no line of effect".
A wizard (or Cleric, or Druid) can't prepare spells while asleep. All races need 8 hours of rest before preparing spells, and then they can prepare their spells. Most of my parties take 10 hour overnight stops, with the spellcasters who prepare spells taking the morning watch, during which they prepare spells.
Just a quick clarification on preparing spells. This is only for divine casters.
Time of Day: A divine spellcaster chooses and prepares spells ahead of time, but unlike a wizard, does not require a period of rest to prepare spells. Instead, the character chooses a particular time of day to pray and receive spells. The time is usually associated with some daily event. If some event prevents a character from praying at the proper time, she must do so as soon as possible. If the character does not stop to pray for spells at the first opportunity, she must wait until the next day to prepare spells.
I would advise against having an NPC stealing the wizards spell book, I once had a dm steal my book (when I wasn't even at the table mind you) and when we gave chase the thieves got away. I was gestalting cleric/wizard at the time so I wasn't completely screwed...until a tiger at one of my hands along with my holy symbol. So I may be a little biased.
Lots of questions there
1) any randomizer where every outcome has an equal chance, coin toss, names in a hat, dice roll. So long as every outcome has a fair chance of occurring.
2) You heal 1 HP per character level over night using the heal skill this would increase to 2 HP per level.
3) Yes.
4) I thinks its in the game master guide not sure where sorry :(
5) Page 195 of the core rule book will have your answers.
6) It's not wrong to do this so long as you are prepared for the character to not be at his best for future encounters until they retrieve it. It will ensure he makes a back up or protects his current one better. My wizards tend to use their spell books as pillows, very hard to move it without him knowing.
6.5) Everyone needs 8 hours rest, I play it 6 hours sleep 1 hour either side for making camp eating, relaxing etc. casters can use one of these hours for prep time
In addition, I'm planning on having one of my villains plant some poison in some food the PC's, one which has an onset time. The purpose of the onset time is so that they don't get afflicted immediately and try to kill him. Should I roll their initial fortitude saves secretly?On one small matter, would it be wrong to have an NPC steal my player's spellbook? I DO intend to make it easy for them to find him, I just want to stress how important it is for the group to safeguard their valuables (and on that note, so a person (not an elf) needs about 8 hours of sleep a day, right? How do they sleep AND memorize spells in those 8 hours?).
This depends on your players. Some people will cry foul if they aren't allowed to make saving throws and skill checks. Other players like the mystery associated with not knowing everything that is happening, I think most players are somewhere in the middle of these two so just ask your party if they don't mind you making the saving throws for them in certain cases.
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Also, I keep finding all these stat blocks for cities, but I don't understand how to read them. I looked through the game mastery guide and the core rulebook but can't find what I'm looking for. Which section is it under?
GMG Pg. 202-209
As a GM I have thought about having a PC's Spell book be stolen, but most if not all of the players I had that played wizards or others that needed spell books to recover spells would have been very very angry over it. However I do think that any wizard would have the intelagence to know that thier speel book is very valuable, and should think about protecting it from theift as part of the "reality" of the game system/ world.
A caster that uses a spell book to memarized their daily spells is likely to use the book as part of their bedding or slip it down inside their sleeping bag with them. This basic percution would make it more difficult for a theift to get the book, at a guess I would use a -4 or -6 to the slight of hand roll to get the book without waking the PC. Please note I am sticking with cheap ways to protect a spell casters book when they sleep as the OP said was thinking of doing this at low level for the party. Also they might use some twine or light leather cordage to tie it to them as well when they sleep, that would make a theifts job harder as well.
All answered already. About stealing the spellbook: as long as you play it fair and it will be recovered no problem. Please note however that's pretty difficult to steal if someone is guarding the camp: also get a believable reason to not kill the wizard while stealing the book.
Do not discuss this before, it will ruin the surprise. If you are unsure try to get a feeling of how the group sees this without asking directly.
