FR - FAQ.pdf - Forgotten Realms - losvin

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® Campaign Setting

Frequently Asked Questions

Last Updated 3/6/03

About the FAQ

If you have a question about the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting or Magic of Faerûn , chances are that you’ll find them within

this FAQ. Any new additions or major corrections in a version are provided in red text for your convenience. Red text changes to

black text in the next version. If you have a question that isn’t answered here, please contact custserv@wizards.com and ask away!

You can also contact the Sage, Skip Williams, by writing to him at these handy locations:

Email: tsrsage@aol.com

Mail: “Sage Advice”

Paizo Publishing

3245 146th PL SE, Suite 110

Bellevue, WA 98007

We will be updating this FAQ over time, and each version will have a date stamp on it so that you know which version you have.

U.S. CANADA, ASIA

EUROPEAN HEADQUARTERS

PACIFIC & LATIN AMERICA

Wizards of the Coast, Belgium

Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

P.B. 2031

P.O. Box 707

2600 Berchem

Renton, WA 98057-0707

Belgium

(Questions?) 1-800-324-6496

+32-70-23-32-77

Based on the original D UNGEONS & D RAGONS ® game by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson and on the new edition of the D UNGEONS & D RAGONS game designed by

Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison.

D&D, D UNGEONS & D RAGONS , F ORGOTTEN R EALMS , P LANESCAPE , and D UNGEON M ASTER are registered trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

The d20 System logo is a trademark owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

All Wizards characters, character names, and the distinctive likenesses thereof are trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

This material is protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America. Any reproduction or unauthorized use of the material or artwork contained herein is

prohibited without the express written permission of Wizards of the Coast, Inc.

This product is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual people, organizations, places, or events is purely coincidental.

This Wizards of the Coast game product contains no Open Game Content. No portion of this work may be reproduced in any form without written permission. To learn

more about the Open Gaming License and the d20 System License, please visit www.wizards.com/d20.

Visit our website at www.wizards.com/dnd

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® Campaign Setting FAQ 1

3/6/03

Suppose I have an archmage or hierophant who chooses the

spell-like ability power. What is my caster level for this

ability? Do feats like Spell Focus and Spell Penetration still

apply?

The caster level for the spell-like ability is the same as for

any other spell the character casts. A 15th-level wizard/5-level

archmage, for example, casts spells as a 20th-level caster.

A feat such as Spell Penetration, which affects any spell the

user casts, also affects the spell-like ability. The Spell Focus

feat also affects the spell-like ability, provided the spell-like

ability is from the correct school. For example, if you have

Spell Focus (Evocation) the feat applies to your fireball spell-

like ability. Note that you can make a spell that has been

modified with a metamagic feat by devoting the appropriate

spell slot to the spell-like ability. (See page 42 of the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book.)

Bloodline of Fire feat increases the DC of sorcerer spells

with the fire descriptor by +2. Can wizards also benefit

from the Bloodline of Fire feat when they cast

sorcerer/wizard spells with the fire descriptor? Is this feat

open to both wizards and sorcerers?

Wizards do not get the increase to spell save DCs. Neither do

bards, clerics, druids, rangers, or paladins.

The feat is open to any 1st-level character, but only sorcerers

get the spell DC benefit. Spellcasting is literally in a sorcerer’s

blood; other spellcasting classes learn how to cast spells. Any

character who has the feat gets the +4 bonus on saving throws

against fire that the feat provides.

The description for the Thunder Twin feat in the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book says the

character receives a +2 bonus on every Charisma-based

check! Does this mean that the character would get +2 on

every Charisma-based skill check and on turning checks,

too? What does having a twin have to do with conducting

diplomacy, performing, or turning undead?

The text means exactly what it says: A character with the

feat gains +2 on any check involving the character’s Charisma

score, including Charisma checks, Charisma-based skill checks,

turning checks, and turning damage rolls. Having a twin has

absolutely nothing to do with any of these tasks, but having the

blessing of Moradin (which is why you have the twin), does.

Several characters in the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign

Setting seem to have access to spells of 10th-level or higher,

but there are no spells of those levels included anywhere in

the book. Where can I find these spells?

Some spellcasters of level 21 or higher have access to spell

slots of level 10 or more, not to spells of level 10 or more.

These spell slots can be used for spells that have been modified

with metamagic feats, or simply for spells of lower level. For

example, a quickened meteor swarm would require a 13th-level

spell slot. See the sidebar on page 289 of the F ORGOTTEN

R EALMS Campaign Setting book.

I’m wondering about rune magic presented in the new

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book. How long, or

what kind of action, does it take to trigger a rune?

A standard action.

The description of Szass Tam on page 208 of the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting shows that he has up

to 16th-level spells. But his Intelligence is only 22, meaning

he should be able to cast up to 12th-level spells only, right?

Is there some sort of exception to the rule governing what

level spells you can cast when you’re taking epic levels to

gain spell slots? Or is this just a typo?

Actually, Szass Tam’s description says he has 16th-level

spell slots available. This is not an error. You can have a spell

slot available without being able to cast spells of that level. As

noted in the previous question, you can put a lower level spell

in the slot or use a lower-level spell and a metamagic feat to fill

the slot, except for Heighten Spell, which actually raises the

modified spell’s level.

Is the layout of the planes in the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS

Campaign Setting book the new norm for the D&D game?

Or will the old planar layout from the P LANESCAPE setting

be used again? Is this new planar layout the correct layout?

Or is it just the interpretation of the planes that the

Faerûnians have?

The planar layout in F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting

book is correct (the residents of Toril are pretty savvy about

planar matters), but it applies only to the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS

setting. The standard D&D cosmology is the Great Wheel,

which was used in the old P LANESCAPE ® setting . The new D&D

game allows for a variety of cosmologies, and this is further

detailed in the Manual of the Plane s book.

Can old reference books for older versions of the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting still be used in the new version.

Can we use, for example, the list of battles and legends from

Fall of Myth Drannor boxed set or the maps from the City of

Waterdeep boxed set?

The vast majority of background material from older

products (such as maps and historical details) is still valid with

the new setting; if you find a conflict, the new book is the

definitive source.

I’m looking at the maps and I’m wondering where the

equator is?

Look at the world map on page 231. The equator lies roughly

north of Zhakhara and south of Chult. (Chult is the peninsula

that lies immediately to the south of the Shining Sea.)

When you’ve selected a region for your character in the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting, do you get all the equipment

listed for that region, or just one of the items?

Look for your character’s region on Table 4–1 and choose

one item (A, B, or C) from the region’s listing. If the letter you

select includes two or more items separated by commas or the

word “and,” you get all the items. If the listing has two or more

items separated by the word “or,” you must choose between

them. For example, item A from the Deep Gnome region reads:

“Dagger* or light pick* or heavy pick.” If you choose item A,

you get one of the three weapons listed. Item B from the Deep

What feats given in the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign

Setting book can a fighter take for his bonus feats? Same

question for wizards and their bonus feats.

For fighters, use any feat marked [Fighter, General]—see

page 33 of the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book.

Wizards can choose any metamagic feat or item creation feat

as a bonus feat. (See page 54 of the Player’s Handbook .)

In the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book, the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® Campaign Setting FAQ 2

3/6/03

Gnome region reads: “Chain shirt* and 20 bolts*.” If you

choose item B you get both the armor and the ammunition.

*Indicates a masterwork item.

character’s effective character level (ECL) for determining

how much money and experience the character has when

starting play. But what about other level-dependent

features, such as ability increases and feats? What level is

important for these? Character level or ECL?

Use ECL for awarding the character experience and for

determining how much experience the character needs to gain a

new level. Use character level for everything else.

For example, an aasimar character has an ECL of +1; a 1st-

level aasimar sorcerer is effectively a 2nd-level character, so

that character starts play with 1,000 experience points and 900

gp for equipment. (See Table 3–2 in the Player’s Handbook

and Table 2–24 in the D UNGEON M ASTER ’s Guide. ) This

character has the skills, feats, saving throws, and spells of a 1st-

level sorcerer. The character needs 3,000 experience points to

add her next character level. When the character adds two more

character levels (3rd level, but effectively 4th) she gains a feat,

just as a regular 3rd-level character does. When she adds a 4th

character level (4th-level, effectively 5th), she can add a point

to an ability score, just as a regular 4th-level character does.

What are the rules regarding divine spellcasters in the

new F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting? Can a human become a

cleric of a nonhuman deity? Can a human become a

paladin, druid, or ranger of a nonhuman deity?

If you’re a divine spellcaster of any kind in the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting, you must choose a patron deity.

When choosing a patron deity, you follow the “one-step” rule

described in the Alignment subsection of the Cleric section of

Chapter 3: Classes in the Player’s Handbook. Your alignment

can be up to one “step” away from your patron’s. For example,

a chaotic neutral ranger can choose Malar (a chaotic evil deity)

as his patron, but could not choose Mielikki (a neutral good

deity). Note that the one-step rule applies to anyone choosing a

patron, not just divine spellcasters. (See page 39 of the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book.)

The F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting has no rule restricting the

race of noncleric divine spellcasters (consider the notable

example of Drizzt as a ranger of Mielikki), and neither does the

D&D game. The D&D game, however, requires that clerics of

racial deities be the correct race (see page 31 in the Player’s

Handbook ), and the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting has no rule

contravening that. So, you could have a human paladin of a

dwarf deity or a human druid of an elf deity, but you could not

have a human cleric of a dwarf or elf deity. (Such characters

should be fairly rare, however, and it’s entirely appropriate for

DMs to demand some sort of explanation for the character’s

rather odd choice of a deity.)

A human cleric in the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS setting should

choose a deity from either the Faerûnian or Mulhorandi

pantheon depending upon where the character lives or grew up.

Note that your choice of deity affects whether you’re favored in

your region, which in turn will affect your starting equipment

and what feats are initially available to you. (See Character

Region on pages 8 and 28 of the F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign

Setting book.)

How does a bladesinger prepare and cast spells? What

ability score determines the DC for saving throws against a

bladesinger’s spells? What about bonus spells?

A bladesinger prepares and casts spells just as a wizard does.

Intelligence governs a bladesinger’s bonus spells and the DC

for those spells’ saving throws. See the web enhancement

covering the material in Tome and Blood

<http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/we/we20010713a> for an

update to the bladesinger. The material in the web enhancement

supersedes the bladesinger entry in Tome and Blood.

At 8th level, the runecaster prestige class from the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting gains the ability to

make a rune permanent until dispelled, at the same cost as

making a use-activated magic item (spell level × caster level

× 2,000 gp). Does this permanency provide infinite uses of a

spell with an instantaneous duration, such as cure light

wounds or flame strike? How does this permanency affect

spells that have a duration? Does it extend the effect or just

make the duration permanent? For example, if you used a

permanent rune to create a stoneskin or barkskin effect,

would that effect become permanent?

Only the rune is permanent—that is, it remains after it has

been triggered instead of disappearing. Just like a magic item

activated by command word, the rune produces its effect each

time it is triggered. Thus, it does provide potentially infinite

uses of a spell with an instantaneous duration. For a spell with a

variable duration, the duration of the rune’s effect depends on

its caster level, just as it would if the same effect had been

produced by any other magic item.

At 1st level, the red wizard prestige class from the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book receives the

enhanced specialization ability. The description of this

ability says a red wizard must choose more prohibited

schools but does not say what gaining this ability actually

does. Does enhanced specialization work something like

wizard’s specialization as outlined in the Player’s Handbook

so that a red wizard gets to cast an extra spell per spell level

in her specialized school? Or does gaining this ability

simply open the door to all the later abilities the red wizard

will get?

Enhanced specialization is something you must do upon

becoming a red wizard; there is no benefit except, as you point

out, that it opens the door for the rest of the class’s abilities.

Magic of Faerûn

The Reactive Counterspell feat from Magic of Faerûn lets

you use the counterspell action without a readied action.

Does that mean I have to use the delay action instead? If my

character takes no action in the round, can he take a

counterspell action prior to his original initiative score?

What happens to my initiative score if I use a counterspell

before it’s my turn? Can I use a Reactive Counterspell

when I’m flat-footed?

If you have the Reactive Counterspell feat, you can use a

If a character has levels in the wizard, sorcerer, and

archmage classes (as the Symbul from F ORGOTTEN R EALMS

setting does), can she use the high arcana abilities she gets

from the archmage class with any arcane spell?

Yes. Simply indicate which kind of spell slot you’re

sacrificing for each high arcana power.

The Powerful Races sidebar on page 21 of the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS Campaign Setting book says you use the

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® Campaign Setting FAQ 3

3/6/03

counterspell almost anytime. You cannot use Reactive

Counterspell when flat-footed. You can use the feat before your

turn in the initiative order (when you have not yet acted for the

turn) or after your turn (when you have already acted during the

turn). In either case, you lose your next action.

Can I use the spellfire ability (from Magic of Faerûn ) as a

counterspell?

No, you cannot use spellfire as counterspell, and

counterspells are not effective against spellfire.

F ORGOTTEN R EALMS ® Campaign Setting FAQ 4

3/6/03

FR - FAQ.pdf

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: