| | Ref | Ouvrage | Question | | Reponse |
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| 131. | DR036 | Dragon #36 | Can a Paladin put someone to death if the victim
is severely scarred and doesn’t want to live? | | Absolutely not! The Paladin would try to find a reason for
the person to live, if not with the world, then shut away doing religious
work where those who benefit from the aid would not care what he
looks like. The Paladin would also do all that he could to see that the
character did not succeed in taking his own life. |
| 132. | DR062 | Dragon #62 | Can a person talk under the influence of a Hold Person spell? | | No, because talking or making vocal sounds of any sort
requires movement, even if only the vibration of a set of vocal
cords. Any character or creature under the influence of a Hold
Person or Hold Animal or Hold Monster spell literally can’t
move a muscle, and it takes muscles to form sounds and to
expel the breath that carries the sound forth from its source.
This would seem to hold true even for creatures that don’t
produce sounds the same way human vocal cords do. Sounds
are vibrations, and vibrations are created only when something
is set in motion. If a creature can make no motion or movement,
it can make no sound.
Interestingly enough, the only occasion when sound is mentioned
in the description of a Hold spell is for the Hold Plant
spell. That spell “prevents vegetable matter from making any
sound or movement which is not caused by wind,” according to
the Players Handbook. It stands to reason that this would apply
to other Hold spells and other types of living matter as well. |
| 133. | DR076 | Dragon #76 | Can a player character become a free-willed vampire and be
played like any other player character? | | No. A player character who becomes a vampire also becomes
an non-player character under the Dungeon Master’s control;
otherwise, the character is too powerful and the game balance
starts to disappear as the PC vampire vampirizes the countryside.
All undead creatures should be NPCs, to emphasize the humanocentric
nature of the AD&D™ game system. |
| 134. | DR078 | Dragon #78 | Can a psionic character cast a spell while employing any sort
of psionic power (attack, defense, or discipline)? | | A psionic character can maintain a thought shield defense
while fighting, casting a spell, or being involved in some other
strenuous activity. This won’t work for any other defense mode
or any attack mode, however; a psionic character cannot mount a
physical attack and a psionic attack at the same time (although
certain monsters, like the intellect devourer, can), and also cannot
employ both a spell and a psionic discipline simultaneously,
since it’s impossible to fully concentrate on both activities. |
| 135. | DR078 | Dragon #78 | Can a psionic character levitate himself by the use of the telekinesis
discipline? | | No. Like the spell of the same name, this power can only affect
things or beings external to the one employing the power, not
the user or caster himself. Note that live creatures can be affected
by telekinesis, and although the discipline allows for no saving
throw for its target(s), creatures and characters may use any
means at their disposal to negate the discipline or make its maintenance
more difficult — grabbing a heavy object to increase
one’s weight, or perhaps using a spell or other power to make
oneself larger and/or heavier. |
| 136. | DR056 | Dragon #56 | Can a ranger or a paladin become a bard? The Players Handbook
makes it sound as if only true fighters can become bards.
Is it possible for a bard-to-be who is neutral evil to become an
assassin instead of a thief? | | The answer to both questions is no. The bard description in
the Players Handbook makes this clear by using the words
“fighters” and “thieves” in italic type, for emphasis. A player
character who intends to become a bard is not allowed to have
the special skills and benefits of a fighter or thief sub-class
during the preliminary stages of the character’s development;
the special skills and benefits that the character receives when
achieving bard status are more than adequate to compensate
for this “disadvantage.”
Also, consider that the decision to become a paladin, ranger
or assassin involves making a commitment in alignment that
might prove uncomfortable later in a would-be bard’s career.
This is especially true of a paladin, who would automatically
have to undergo an alignment change (and suffer all the appropriate
penalities for doing so) when switching to the thief
class. |
| 137. | DR039 | Dragon #39 | Can a relatively weak magic item such as a
Potion of Gaseous Form be used to fulfill the function of a
Remove Curse? For instance, a character put a Ring of Weakness
on his finger and is now cursed. If he drinks the Potion of
Gaseous Form, would the ring slip off his finger when he
became gaseous, or would the curse be removed in some
way? | | Heavens, no! Each magic item was created to have a
special purpose to function; a Potion of Gaseous Form cannot be
used to substitute for a Remove Curse, and neither can any other
magic item. The above character would simply become a weak
character who is now in gaseous form. But the curse is still in effect,
and the ring would “return’’ to his finger once the effects of the
potion have worn off.
The only possible way to remove the effects of the curse without
a Remove Curse would be to kill the character. Then, if the DM will
permit it, the party can slip the ring off his finger. This method is more
costly than using a Remove Curse, however, since the character
would then have to be raised. |
| 138. | DR133 | Dragon #133 | Can a ring of spell turning turn a
wish spell? | | This depends upon how the wish is
used. If the wish is used so as to have a
personal effect (one not involving a broad
area) on the ring’s wearer, and the effect is
not delivered by touch, then the wish is
subject to turning, and the wearer and
wisher each get saves (unless the turning
fails or is total). See the ring’s description
in the DMG, page 131. |
| 139. | DR034 | Dragon #34 | Can a thief wear studded leather? | | No. He can’t move silently because the studs will click on
surfaces he touches, and they will add extra weight, making climbing
up walls extremely hard. |
| 140. | DR064 | Dragon #64 | Can a two-classed fighter-cleric use edged weapons and mix
the use of these with the use of clerical abilities (spells)? If this
is not allowable, does that mean a two-classed character must
follow the conditions of the more restricted class with regard to
the use of certain weapons, the wearing of certain armor, and
other particulars? | | In essence, being a character with two classes means you
can do different things at different times, which makes “double
duty” desirable for some players and their characters. But twoclassed
characters (always human) can’t legitimately mix the
abilities and benefits of different classes at the same time the
way multi-classed (always non-human or semi-human) characters
can.
Like it says on page 33 of the Players Handbook, “restrictions
regarding armor, shield, and/or weapon apply with regard to
operations particular to one or both classes.” From that statement,
and the example that follows it concerning a two-classed
fighter and magic-user, we can see that the intent of the rules is
to keep the class functions separate. The result is that a twoclassed
character must be played quite a bit differently than a
multi-classed character who is practicing the same professions.
A fighter-cleric wielding an edged weapon can’t successfully
cast a spell, turn an undead, or perform any other cleric-type
action. If the character wants to be able to hold a weapon and
act as a cleric at the same time, it must be a weapon clerics are
permitted to use. A fighter-MU can “carry (but not wear) armor
and weapons not normally usable by magic-users,” according
to the Players Handbook.
Thus, a two-classed fighter-cleric ought to be allowed to
carry (but not hold) an edged weapon and still use clerical
abilities: It would be okay for the two-classed fighter-cleric to
keep a sword at his belt and turn an undead, for instance— but
if he tries to do the same thing with a sword in one hand and a
holy symbol in the other, he’d better be ready to use that sword.
A fighter-cleric carrying more than one weapon but not holding
any particular one at a given time can perform as a cleric as long
as one of the weapons he carries is permitted to clerics, and as
long as that particular weapon is the one (if any) being drawn or
wielded. |
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