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[snakeman830]

Q 50: Is there a way for a swift hunter ranger/scout with no other class levels to get some or all of his skirmish damage past immunity to criticals?

Favored enemies on Undead, Constructs, Plants, Elementals, and Oozes goes a long way.  Alternatively, you can swap Undead or Constructs out of Aberrations (get a few more crit-immune foes in there as Aberrations are they type that have the most crit-immune foes that aren't all crit-immune) and get a Greater Truedeath/Demolition crystal on the weapons used.  Swift Hunter will apply skirmish damage on Favored Enemies wether or not they're crit-immune.

[weenog]

Hmmm... maybe I put that misleadingly, I'll try again.

Q 50a: How is a wildshape ranger/scout, mainly dependent on delivering skirmish damage via unarmed strikes, natural weapons, and pounce, supposed to deal with crit-immune crap?

[PhaedrusXY]

Hmmm... maybe I put that misleadingly, I'll try again.

Q 50a: How is a wildshape ranger/scout, mainly dependent on delivering skirmish damage via unarmed strikes, natural weapons, and pounce, supposed to deal with crit-immune crap?

I think he answered your question... unless you don't have Swift Hunter...

Q 50: Is there a way for a swift hunter ranger/scout with no other class levels to get some or all of his skirmish damage past immunity to criticals?

Favored enemies on Undead, Constructs, Plants, Elementals, and Oozes goes a long way.  Alternatively, you can swap Undead or Constructs out of Aberrations (get a few more crit-immune foes in there as Aberrations are they type that have the most crit-immune foes that aren't all crit-immune) and get a Greater Truedeath/Demolition crystal on the weapons used.  Swift Hunter will apply skirmish damage on Favored Enemies wether or not they're crit-immune.

[weenog]

Huh, I could've sworn that post ended a line before it did.  Reading comprehension failure, I guess.  Thank you.

[Kuroimaken]

Q51: Does anyone have a good list of sites for looking up character portraits? I already know of Deviantart but I'm afraid of stepping on people's toes about it.

[CantripN]

Q 50: Is there a way for a swift hunter ranger/scout with no other class levels to get some or all of his skirmish damage past immunity to criticals?

Other than Swift Hunter itself? Get more Favored Enemies. Especially Favored Enemy (Evil) from BoED.

[Sohala]

Q52
When a crusader regains his maneuvers:
Does he loes already granted maneuvers?
Does he gain two granted maneuvers regardless of how many he has already?
Does that mean I could use, WRT and Mountain Hammer every turn?

[Garryl]

Q52
When a crusader regains his maneuvers:
Does he loes already granted maneuvers?
Does he gain two granted maneuvers regardless of how many he has already?
Does that mean I could use, WRT and Mountain Hammer every turn?

Crusaders get two maneuvers granted whenever their maneuvers are refreshed. This is independent of the amount of maneuvers used since the last time they were refreshed. As the Crusader gains more maneuvers readied (even from PrCs like Master of Nine), he gets more maneuvers granted to start with. The Crusader will lose all of his other, unused granted maneuvers when he recovers them.

Note that Crusaders regain their maneuvers randomly and only once all readied maneuvers are granted. This is usually a 4 round cycle (3 rounds with Extra Granted Maneuver). Without other methods of recovering maneuvers, you could only use WRT and Mountain Hammer once per cycle each, and only once they've been granted again.

[Sohala]

The Crusader will lose all of his other, unused granted maneuvers when he recovers them.

Hmm...Thank you, by chance can you point me to the page with that, all I can seem to find is where it says I gain two granted.

[Madwand]

Q53: Does Solid Fog reduce maximum movement in a round to 5' or 10'? That is, can a creature take 2 move actions to move 10'? The RAI would seem to indicate not, I have no idea what RAW on this is.

[Rhatahema]

Q54: Does anyone know if a character benefiting from the feat Stone Form (Races of Stone) is wild shaping, or simply expending a use of wild shape to gain those particular benefits?  The feat entry is pretty ambiguous on the matter.

[Phaenix]

Q53: Does Solid Fog reduce maximum movement in a round to 5' or 10'? That is, can a creature take 2 move actions to move 10'? The RAI would seem to indicate not, I have no idea what RAW on this is.

the solid fog is so thick that any creature attempting to move through it progresses at a speed of 5 feet

It looks like RAW, each move attempt gets you 5', so a double move would allow you to move 10'.

[LunaticsLament]

Q55  Has anyone put up a functional build focusing on the Aerial Avenger PrC from Dragon Compendium?  We're playing a campaign where all the PC's are escapees from a mad wizard's lab, thus I'm playing an awakened duck based around Aerial Avenger.  His name will be Howard. 

[Lunaramblings]

Okay, my math skills are too rusty to deal with this question. If you buyoff the LA from say a Goliath, at what level, if ever, would you catch up to the rest of the party?

[duncandun]

Okay, my math skills are too rusty to deal with this question. If you buyoff the LA from say a Goliath, at what level, if ever, would you catch up to the rest of the party?

Uhh, depends really. Lower level characters get more XP. So If you're dm is awarer of this fact than it shouldn't take too long.

[Shigure]

Q55: Where would I find the Executioners Mace? I know its in Dragon somewhere...i just don't where.

[Vicerious]

The Crusader will lose all of his other, unused granted maneuvers when he recovers them.

Hmm...Thank you, by chance can you point me to the page with that, all I can seem to find is where it says I gain two granted.

Page 38 of the ToB has a sidebar called Keeping Track of Readied And Expended Maneuvers.  It explains the mechanic fairly directly using cards.

[Sohala]

The Crusader will lose all of his other, unused granted maneuvers when he recovers them.

Hmm...Thank you, by chance can you point me to the page with that, all I can seem to find is where it says I gain two granted.

Page 38 of the ToB has a sidebar called Keeping Track of Readied And Expended Maneuvers.  It explains the mechanic fairly directly using cards.

Ah, I had missed that part, all is clear now.

[Runestar]

Okay, my math skills are too rusty to deal with this question. If you buyoff the LA from say a Goliath, at what level, if ever, would you catch up to the rest of the party?

Check out this article here, but be warned that it can be fairly hard to read.
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872242/Experience_is_a_River

To cut a long story short (and assuming I am interpreting the chart correctly), you will catch up in about 10 lvs, or ~lv14. By lv13, you should be around 30xp behind.

[wotmaniac]

Okay, my math skills are too rusty to deal with this question. If you buyoff the LA from say a Goliath, at what level, if ever, would you catch up to the rest of the party?

Check out this article here, but be warned that it can be fairly hard to read.
http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/19872242/Experience_is_a_River

To cut a long story short (and assuming I am interpreting the chart correctly), you will catch up in about 10 lvs, or ~lv14. By lv13, you should be around 30xp behind.

it'll also depend on how often xp is handed out.  if it is handed after every encounter, etc., then it can take a while.  if it is handed out in large chunks after several encounters (i.e., much more than would be needed to make the next level), then you can catch-up in only a few levels (at least by my experience).

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