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You want that Permanent duration that you could not get with one PAO. You want the first PAO to affect the duration of the second one, thereby changing the second spell's effect from short-ish to "permanent." You want to ignore the rules on combining magical effects. [br][br]He's not igno...

I think we may be getting too caught up in the programming metaphor...[br][br]K, like I stated before, I can understand the motivation, but this really is an open-and-shut case. All the overlapping effects rules in the world don't render poly-stacking illegal, because when it comes to it, the more s...

K, the problem is, neither one of those explanations actually supports your argument. [br][br]So, the "Same effect with differing results" spell puts the earlier Polymorph on into the background until the later effect ends (if it ever does). That doesn't tell us anything about what happens...

Haven't read it, but it sounds like you could kill it with bottles of alchemist fire, or for that matter shadow creations of gallons and gallons of acid. [br][br]Doesn't that apply to...just about everything, though?[br][br]In any case, the assessment is correct. Nothing special here, unless you're...

That is clever. Kind of makes me wonder why they haven't done it already. [br][br]I actually like this idea, too, but I can see where there might be some difficulties. One such difficulty might be establishing a minimum CR for some creature abilities, since of course there are some abilities that a...

Those two examples have been pointedly removed from the 3.5 SRD, with the sentence in question ending in a period after the word "position". [br][br]That's...extremely odd. The addition of those two examples in the 3.5 DMG makes it extremely clear regarding the meaning of "shifting p...

So apparently, the literal meaning of the Defensive Stance is that you can't leave the plane you are on in order to keep the defensive bonuses. You can still run around and stab people if you want. [br][br]As the two examples given for "abilities that would require him (the Dwarven Defender) t...

I got an NPC into Holy Knight through Arcane Weaponmaster with a quck stop-off through Urban Warrior for flavor purpouses. It's not that hard [br][br]It's a little harder to make a really effective one, though, due to the mad MAD that a good HK will suffer from. He's got to have a 12 or higher in C...

I'm tending to agree with Psifon, here... In the last few days, I've come to the conclusion that the whole Alter Self/Polymorph/Wild Shape inheritance chain is so fundamentally screwed up that -- quite obviously at this point -- there's simply no way to completely prove one side or the other of the ...

Draco: your "interpretation" cannot consistently interpret the rules as presented, nor can it consistently interpret new rules as they arise.[br][br]What good is it? And why are you wasting my time by arguing for its inclusion?[br] [br][br]Nor can your interpretation accurately interpret ...

So I'm going to pull the razor - the argument that really ends discussion. Your argument is simply too grounded in subjective emotional desire and complexity to be correct. [br][br]Utter nonsense -- your razor is obviously dull, since you can't even show how you're justified in using this line of a...

Mass Bear's Endurance says it has a range of close, but it doesn't say that it is no longer able to be held as a charge. [br][br]It doesn't have to. If Bear's Endurance can be held as a charge, and Mass Bear's Endurance inherits from it and doesn't specifically state that it can't be held, then Mas...

And here I thought we were done... Should have known better.[br][br] Or that Polymorph carried with it an inheritance rstriction that the new form could only be within one size category of the caster? [br][br]It may be that the designers forgot this. There should have been something mentioned, regar...

Polymorph says "The assumed form can’t have more Hit Dice than your caster level (or the subject’s HD, whichever is lower), to a maximum of 15 HD at 15th level."[br][br]Wild Shape says "The new form’s Hit Dice can’t exceed the character’s druid level."[br][br]Those are two rules...

But maximum hit dice is not addressed in Wildshape. And elsewhere in the chain, Polymorph Any Object does not address Size or Hit Dice. And yet these issues are in fact overridden at those stages. [br][br]Wrong. The only evidence you've presented for this is the "can't turn a shrew into a mant...

Not at all - the only way we would have to agree that the rules were unclear is if indeed Template Restrictions were somehow suposed to carry over into Polymorph despite the fact that size restrictions and type allowances don't.[br] [br][br]That's simply not true, and I spent numerous posts on the ...

In which case, we're pretty much stuck with one conclusion -- 3.5 is a logistical nightmare, for which it is entirely possible for just about any conclusion to be argued logically from the rules, since the rules themselves are so completely vague (if they weren't, the whole elemental Wild Shape argu...

Unless your premise[br][br]C -> ~B[br][br]is actually[br][br]C <-> ~B [br][br]You're right on this one. One of the primary principles of the implication (the "=>" symbol) is that, if the item before the symbol is true, the item after must also be true. There's nothing in the implication t...

One could say that the counter argument lacks specificity.[br][br]Perhaps it should have read:[br][br]"At 16th level, a druid becomes able to use wild shape to change into a Small, Medium, or Large elemental (air, earth, fire, or water) once per day. While allowing wildshaping into creatures o...

So, I would go out on a limb and say the exact opposite. If you aren't min-maxing, you aren't roleplaying, regardless of the effort you put into the character, because why would this person become a wizard, or cleric, or whatever if he just wasn't good at it? [br][br]Here I'd agree...and in general...

Specificity is defined as the primary source. The primary source is the rule most pertaining to the ability in question, which in this case is the ability in question. [br][br]No, it isn't. If that's the case, then inheritance clauses don't work at all. They're fundamentally useless, basically stat...

This is not quite accurate. The ignore template portion is conditional upon the resulting template having the "elemental type". So to follow your argument through In the plant version, applying similar logic, you could ignore templates resulting in the plant type, and in the animal versio...