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[Jon Miller]

I guess craft rod or staff or wonderous item would also be possible good feats, as would still spell or silent spell

JOn Miller

[Jamski]

Craft wonderous item, them make yourself a ring of Intellegence +6 for lots of extra spells and the +3 to the DC of your spells too

Now that ALONE is worth taking the feat for, as what GM gives out rings of INT +6 ???

-Jam

[Jon Miller]

hmm

decent idea

than I can make sure I am suited out well, BTW, where are the rules for characters younger than adult?

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

hmm, there is also forge ring

JOn Miller

[Jon Miller]

hmm

crrent list of wizardly feats

empower
maximise
quicken
chain spell
twin spell or repeat spell
skill focus: spellcraft
skill focus: knowledge (arcana)
craft wonderous item
forge ring

there is 9 here, not 8 and I am not sure which one to drop (actually I might have 9 instead of 8, hmm.....)

rods are less useful because of being an Incantrix, staffs are very expensive (but good), wands are equivlent (almost) to scrolls and are not as useful at higher levels

JOn Miller

[Jon Miller]

does anyone know?

what the effects of youth are...

if the bonuses from masterworked and magical stack?

Jpon miller

[SnowFire]

All magical weapons are masterwork, at least by default. The bonus does not stack; a +1 (masterwork) sword only gets +1 to hit and damage. I supose they do stack in some sense, but it's already taken into account; in the rare weird case where somebody has enchanted a non-masterwork weapon, I could see giving it one less a bonus to attack than normal (so a +1 standard sword would only give +1 to damage).

For characters younger than adult, there technically are none in D&D 3. Since human adulthood is 15 years old in the D&D world, you really have to wonder what you're doing playing such a character in a high-level campaign. The only class that would remotely make sense for a 12 year old to have 9 levels in would be Sorcerer, since that's inborn talent; anything else that requires some dedication and practice would be bizarre, to say the least.

However, the Star Wars RPG did offer rules for young un's (having to deal with Anakin Skywalker in EPisode I and all). Basically, they're the reverse of the normal aging process. Normally, for instance, you get -1 Physical stats, +1 Mental stats at Middle Age; an additional -2 Physicals, +1 Mentals at Old; and a -3P/+1M at Venerable. Just reverse that for younger, and make it all negative. So Young would be -1 Physicals, -1 Mentals; Child would be an additional -1 Physicals and -2 Mentals; Babies get a last -1 Physicals and -3 Mentals.

In other words, an 8 year old would have -2 Physicals, -3 Mentals; a 12 year old would "only" have -1 Physicals, -1 Mentals. Both would need a wonderful explanation for being 9th level.

[Jon Miller]

I thought I saw youth rules somewhere

the thing is that I am a 'young' elf.... (but I think that the GM thinks that 110 age for adulthood sort of rediculous)

so you pay a whole bunch of extra money and don't get that big of bonus for going from masterworked (+1 bonus) to +1 magical (also +1 bonused, but costs a lot more)

just to make certain of something, you can't have a head band of intelligence +2 and than a ring of intelligence +4 (and total ability modifier of +6), right?

I seemed to remember the rule in 3, but can't find it in 3.5

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

wait, so what is the difference between a masterworked bow and a +1 bow???

JOn Miller

[Jamski]

A Masterwork bow gives +1 to hit.

A +1 bow gives +1 to hit too.

In the case of bows, there's no advantage.

If it was a +1 SWORD then it would be +1 to hit and +1 to damage, and the attacks would count as magical for the sake of damage reduction (i.e. you can now hurt vampires, dragons etc...)

In 3.5 you CAN have both items, I think. I'm not sure, but I seem to remember they took it out, so you can add the bonuses from items...

You'd better ask your GM, eh?

-Jam

[Jon Miller]

I will, and he will ask me what the book says (generally)

mostly he just changes what the books says if it doesn't make sense (or isn't how he imagines them in the case of monsters)

so our goblins are dumb, our trolls have fewer hitpoints and aren't giants, we all have weapon finess and eschew materials, ...

Jon Miller

[Felch]

I thought a +1 bow rendered any arrow shot from it a +1 magical weapon for the purposes of damage reduction. However the bonuses would not stack so that +1 bow and +1 arrow could not penetrate +2 damage reduction.

[Jamski]

I thought the opposite, that +1 bows conferred no magical bonus on the arrows, and also I'm sure no magic bonus to damage, both of which are confered by the magical arrows.

-Jam

[duke o' york]

What's the point of a +1 bow then?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Jamski
I thought the opposite, that +1 bows conferred no magical bonus on the arrows, and also I'm sure no magic bonus to damage, both of which are confered by the magical arrows.

-Jam

this is correct I also beleived

but there is no longer +1 damage reduction and +2 damage reduction....

just Magic, Cold Iron, Epic, Adamantine, Good, Evil, Fire, Cold, .....

Jon Miller