Questions tagged [powers]
For questions about powers, which generally refer to discrete abilities of a character, typically but not always associated with combat.
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How would I calculate this Power for a homebrew monster?
I'm working on a homebrew GURPS 4e fantasy campaign (intended to be played online, though I don't think that matters for this question). One of my monster concepts has an ability that's easy to ...
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If you manifest Fission, kill yourself on the last round, and revive yourself with psionic revivify next round, is your Fission duplicate permanent?
"If you die, your duplicate remains in existence, and is for all intents you, but with two negative levels. (Once the duration expires, one of the negative levels immediately converts to one lost ...
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Do follow-up attacks granted by daily powers count as daily powers for feats?
Some feats affect daily powers, and some daily powers grant extra attacks. For example, Dazing Fist (Psionic Power) is a feat that says:
When you hit an enemy with a daily attack power, you also daze ...
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Legendary items pool of power
When a magical item became a Legendary Item and then became a major Artifact, gains
it gains the suite of base legendary abilities and can have up to three additional legendary abilities. By ...
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Does Draji Palatial Practice require a hit?
Does Draji Palatial Practice (4e) apply regardless of whether the attack hits or misses? The phrasing is "when you use", not "when you hit".
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How to buy Impervious Toughness?
Impervious Toughness seems to be a common case in M&Ms to represent characters with great resistance to damage. But how do you buy Impervious for Toughness? Impervious is an Extra with +1/rank ...
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Does the feat Unnatural Mantle keep this servitor in the fight?
The cleric prayer Servitude in Death has as its effect
The first time the target dies before the end of the encounter, it rises at the start of its next turn as an undead creature allied with you and ...
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Could Touchsight be used to feel the presence of the microscopic or nanoscopic?
Touchsight allows you to feel your surroundings, and ignore invisibility and darkness and other visually obscuring effects. It also allows you to detect and pinpoint all creatures within range. And it ...
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What method can be used to renew a psionic power on a schedule, even if the character sleeping or unconscious?
If a character wants to have a psionic power renew on a once or twice per day schedule (no more than twice per day at max) regardless of external circumstances or personal status conditions up to and ...
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What's the order of operations when multiple game elements check that a monster's dropped to 0 hp?
I'm considering for my PC the epic destiny Keeper of the Everflow, in part, because of the level 30 epic destiny feature turning the wheel that, among others, grants the following ability:
When you ...
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Polymorph/Wildshaping and gaining Animal Powers
When using Wildshape, or the spells Beastshape #, polymorph or any similar spells, is there any way to gain some or any of the abilities listed in the creature entry that are not listed under the ...
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Can a random passerby enter a Rope Trick or Psychoportive Shelter?
Both effects have similar natures, end results, and wording. However, nothing in the wording of either power or spell seems to indicate that someone can't come in wherever, assuming that they can ...
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For areas of effect, what is the difference between "each creature in blast" and "each creature in area"?
What is the difference between "each creature in blast" and "each creature in area"?
I noticed that the dragon breath power said "all creatures in area", and was curious ...
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Can I pick a power from my multiclass with Reserve Maneuver?
Reserve Maneuver (PHB2, p191):
Benefit: Choose an encounter attack power from your class. The power must be your level or lower and one that you don't already have. When you regain the use of your ...
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Can a hybrid character replace his only encounter attack power belonging to one of his classes?
Assume a Paladin|Swordmage with Cha and Con dumping Int, or a Driud|Runepriest with Wis and Con dumping Str.
As the relevant ability is very low, it would make sense not to pick any power from the ...
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