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Iron Siege Q&A
« on: November 25, 2011, 06:53:01 PM »
Here is where you may post questions about allowed content or rules interpretation. Rulings will be archived below.

Primary note: You may NOT make use of any obviously broken tactics like infinite loops, infinite CL, etc. as well as prestige classes like Beholder Mage, Incantatrix, Planar Shepard.

Also, Disjunction does not destroy major artifacts.

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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #1 on: November 25, 2011, 06:53:07 PM »
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #2 on: November 25, 2011, 09:14:58 PM »
Does the Control Creatures Salient Divine Ability work as written?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2011, 10:15:59 AM »
Would knowledge affiliation's capstone ability negate an Immunity from Dispater?

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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #4 on: November 26, 2011, 01:02:14 PM »
Does the Control Creatures Salient Divine Ability work as written?

One of my predecessors ruled that only one deity may have the ability per race, and Asmodeus beat you to it.

Would knowledge affiliation's capstone ability negate an Immunity from Dispater?

Remind me where this is from and what it does?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #5 on: November 26, 2011, 02:02:38 PM »
Complete Champion. It allows a character to remove any one ability from an opponent for, I think, a minute. No save, no nothing.
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2011, 01:31:35 PM »
Quote from: Fiendish Codex II on Hellbreds
Alignment: Hellbred are almost always lawful good. A feware chaotic good or neutral good. Hellbred are fully dedicated to eradicating evil.
So Hellbreds do not necessarily have to be good? So, theoretically, I could make use of a Lawful Neutral Hellbred, right?

Edit: Another question: Once upon a time it was ruled that Innate spell cannot be used for epic spells, but it can be used for metamagicked spells even if they go beyond 9th level. Is this still true?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2011, 02:50:42 PM »
Quote from: Fiendish Codex II on Hellbreds
Alignment: Hellbred are almost always lawful good. A feware chaotic good or neutral good. Hellbred are fully dedicated to eradicating evil.
So Hellbreds do not necessarily have to be good? So, theoretically, I could make use of a Lawful Neutral Hellbred, right?
The text seems to imply they need to be of at least some good alignment since it says they are fully dedicated to fighting evil, which would not be the case with a neutral alignment. There is also no mention of any non-good alignment.
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2011, 02:52:15 PM »
Quote from: Fiendish Codex II on Hellbreds
Alignment: Hellbred are almost always lawful good. A feware chaotic good or neutral good. Hellbred are fully dedicated to eradicating evil.
So Hellbreds do not necessarily have to be good? So, theoretically, I could make use of a Lawful Neutral Hellbred, right?
The text seems to imply they need to be of at least some good alignment since it says they are fully dedicated to fighting evil, which would not be the case with a neutral alignment. There is also no mention of any non-good alignment.

It's theoretically possible though, I suppose, though iffy.
No matter, I'll just change the race. I just loved the thought of Dispater being fought by a Hellbred.

Also, edited this to my last post, but here it comes again for clarity's sake.
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Edit: Another question: Once upon a time it was ruled that Innate spell cannot be used for epic spells, but it can be used for metamagicked spells even if they go beyond 9th level. Is this still true?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2011, 03:40:32 PM »
If that was then previous ruling then yes. What did you have in mind?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #10 on: November 27, 2011, 06:34:51 PM »
Were the affiliations from Complete Champion allowed?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #11 on: November 27, 2011, 07:52:13 PM »
Were the affiliations from Complete Champion allowed?

Just looked them over. Sorry for the delay. Not allowed, mainly because affiliations are easy for player's to just put into their background and max out.
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #12 on: November 27, 2011, 08:05:22 PM »
If that was then previous ruling then yes. What did you have in mind?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #13 on: November 27, 2011, 08:40:32 PM »
If the epic spell Strengthen The Sphere(epic spell made from the old BG board challenge) is used on the Sphere of Annihilation summoned by an Epic Binder, does the Sphere retain the effect?

How does the Avatar ability of Deities interact with the 4 party limit?

Can a Deity declare itself as it's own proxy?

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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #14 on: November 27, 2011, 08:44:37 PM »
If the epic spell Strengthen The Sphere(epic spell made from the old BG board challenge) is used on the Sphere of Annihilation summoned by an Epic Binder, does the Sphere retain the effect?
Could you link me to this? I am curious.

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How does the Avatar ability of Deities interact with the 4 party limit?
Originally it was four characters, period.

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Can a Deity declare itself as it's own proxy?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #15 on: November 27, 2011, 08:58:19 PM »
If the epic spell Strengthen The Sphere(epic spell made from the old BG board challenge) is used on the Sphere of Annihilation summoned by an Epic Binder, does the Sphere retain the effect?
Could you link me to this? I am curious.

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=4417.0, 4th post.

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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #16 on: November 27, 2011, 09:02:46 PM »
Hmmm... I would make slight adjustments. If I allowed that I must have been insane. Gate and Rod of Cancellation +20, not +10 should do it in my mind now. No major adjustments to be honest. Assuming I would have continued with my challengers, custom epic spells would have mostly been out of my strategy. They are not needed for the most part.
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2011, 01:42:23 AM »
If the epic spell Strengthen The Sphere(epic spell made from the old BG board challenge) is used on the Sphere of Annihilation summoned by an Epic Binder, does the Sphere retain the effect?
Could you link me to this? I am curious.

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=4417.0, 4th post.

Yeah.......

I'm going to agree with Tshern on this one that this is an example of overkill. Some alteration would be necessary for this to be considered.

Re: Deity's declaring themselves their own proxy
No. Of such stuff, infinite exploitation is made.
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2011, 05:22:36 AM »
So, can we get a complete list of disallowed epic spells/epic spell seeds?
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Re: Iron Siege Q&A
« Reply #19 on: November 30, 2011, 02:46:35 PM »
Does Trollbane(Dungeonscape) count as a poison for the purpose of poison immunity?