Random DM nagging.

[Anastasia]

Minor update: A new 0 level spell has been added to the spell collection. It's called misteyes and it's from an old thing of mine.

[Anastasia]

A new monster posted to characters and monsters. Read the notes and fluff tabs first, they aren't really serious. They're as close to a joke monster as I'd ever do in a serious campaign, even one I intend never to use.

Backstory: I promised myself I'd make them years ago on a whim. I forget the exact details, but my DM room on IRC is named cowwoods. That inspired some jokes about that and the idea to make infiltration cows came up. I'd had a note in that room's topic for years to do it and I finally felt the urge to do so.

[Anastasia]

Came up in chat, but is Heward's Fortifying Bedroll still viable, or do you not want me to use it? If not, can I get the gold back for it?

How memorizing spells works for a wizard is this.

1. A wizard has to rest 8 hours (or however many in case something altering that, such as the bedroll).
2. They can spend an hour to prepare spells.
3. However, wizards get a daily allotment of spell slots to memorize spells in. The PHB pages 177 and 178 go into this. It's possible to leave some slots open and memorize again, though you can't go over your daily allotment of spells.
4. A wizard can fill empty slots as many times as they like per day, so long as they spend the minimum 15 minutes of preparing. Past the first time of the day (fresh off rest), they can't switch prepared spells around.
5. Heward's fortifying bedroll doesn't mention overcoming the daily limit.

Ergo, while you can rememorize if you had let blank slots open, you can't use it to rest mid day and recover expended spell slots. It's a daily limit of them.

If that's not what you want out of the item, you're welcome to get a refund.

[Iron Dragoon]

Is Sakkratar's Triple Strike a legal spell for the game and for astral?

[Anastasia]

Yes and yes. The Astral only really impedes teleportation and plane shifting.

[Iron Dragoon]

More question, does the +4 bonus from Greater Spell Focus: Abjuration also apply to dispel/counterspelling attempts?

[Anastasia]

More question, does the +4 bonus from Greater Spell Focus: Abjuration also apply to dispel/counterspelling attempts?

The bonus from greater spell focus is +1, or +2 total since it stacks with spell focus. That being said, it doesn't. It's a bonus to the DC of saving throws from spells from that school, which isn't connected to your dispel checks.

I don't think master specialist or your PrCs/abilities have anything that changes this, but correct me if I'm wrong.

[Iron Dragoon]

Don't think they do. Just wanted to double check since I'm pre-mathing the bonuses.

[Anastasia]

Sure thing. What do your dispel checks end up at?

[Iron Dragoon]

Sure thing. What do your dispel checks end up at?

Well, once all spells are in effect, I'll wind up with a +11 bonus in addition to CL bonuses. I'll also auto-pass the Spellcraft ID checks, automatically know the CL of the spell, and I'll be able to sense all SLAs within 100 ft., so I think that means I'll be able to counterspell those, too.

Note that those auto-pass stuff only last for a single dispel attempt, which I didn't fully realize, so I'd like either approval to buy wands of those spells for the upcoming combat, or I'll need to snag them after this encounter. Spells are Spellcaster's Bane and Battlemagic Perception. The third spell I'm getting bonuses from is Duelward, but that's tapestry legal, so I'll need to cast that myself.

[Anastasia]

It's a bit too late to buy things, so that'll have to wait until after this adventure.

[Anastasia]

Since Cor asked for this. This is really tentative and may change before being officially posted, so bear that in mind.

Star Defender
Transmutation (Polymorph) [Good]
Level: Sor/Wiz 12
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round/level

You take the form of a solar (MM 12), including the greatsword and bow and arrow normally used by such creatures. You gain 140 temporary hit points, which expire at the end of the spell. You do not gain the normal spellcasting ability of your new form. You may use any of the solar's at will or three times per day spell-like abilities once per casting of the spell, you cannot use its once per day spell-like abilities or its resurrection spell-like ability. The solar's always active spell-like abilities function as normal. See the polymorph subschool sidebar (CM 91) for more information.

[Yuthirin]

Since Cor asked for this. This is really tentative and may change before being officially posted, so bear that in mind.

Star Defender
Transmutation (Polymorph) [Good]
Level: Sor/Wiz 12
Components: V, S
Casting Time: 1 swift action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round/level

You take the form of a solar (MM 12), including the greatsword and bow and arrow normally used by such creatures. You gain 140 temporary hit points, which expire at the end of the spell. You do not gain the normal spellcasting ability of your new form. You may use any of the solar's at will or three times per day spell-like abilities once per casting of the spell, you cannot use its once per day spell-like abilities or its resurrection spell-like ability. The solar's always active spell-like abilities function as normal. See the polymorph subschool sidebar (CM 91) for more information.

Does this not also give the ability bonuses that a Solar receives?

[Anastasia]

You gain the stats of a baseline solar (which should link to the revised one I used and not the SRD/MM one, by the way). So your ability scores become that of the solar's. To quote myself from a few pages back?

You basically trade in your abilities and powers (including class abilities) and gain the stat block of the creature you transform into (except for alignment, hit points, hit dice for the sake of effects and languages understood/spoken). If you aren't up on how that works, read the sidebar on page 91 of Complete Mage.

So you take on the ability scores of the creature you morph into. You take on everything except what's noted there. So if you transformed into a tortle that had a Strength score of 15, you'd have that Strength score while you were in that form. Conversely, you wouldn't have access to any of your class features, racial features or pretty much anything else.

[Yuthirin]

Ok!