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7 months ago ::
Dec 06, 2012 - 3:44AM
#31
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Does Tools of War (x2 craft xp) only apply to your craft reserve, not when you use your normal XP? That would suck and make Retain Essence a must  I wanted to take Weapon Familiar... btw is its bonus untyped or competence or something? Seems untyped and I'd really like another +3 to UMD ^.^
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7 months ago ::
Dec 06, 2012 - 5:16AM
#32
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Does Tools of War (x2 craft xp) only apply to your craft reserve, not when you use your normal XP? That would suck and make Retain Essence a must
I wanted to take Weapon Familiar... btw is its bonus untyped or competence or something? Seems untyped and I'd really like another +3 to UMD ^.^
For future reference, it tends to be easier to respond when you tell us what book to find them in (Races of Eberron, in this case). 
Tools of War only applies when you use your craft reserve. The wording is a bit shoddy, but it looks to me as if, by RAW, it doesn't apply to only the craft reserve points used. For the Weapon Familiar, it's untyped, so it stacks with every other kind of bonus.
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7 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2012 - 7:30AM
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Sorry about not saying book names. I assumed you guys would know :p Your wording is a bit shoddy too (  ), do you mean to say that you spend 1 xp from your craft reserve and 99 xp from your normal xp and it all gets doubled to 200 xp for a 5k gold item? I don't think that's RAI (only craft reserve xp is meant to be doubled), but personally I would just rule that all xp was doubled anyway (is that ruling OK? doesn't seem like it will have very bad repercussions, Retain Essence makes it far easier to use Tools of War). Otherwise you make Retain Essence the only way to play and Weapon Familiar the poor underdog for lvl 5. Speaking of which, I got a few more vague stuff to rule on as shown on this page: community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/758...Weapon Familiar just seems like a botched-up job. Thanks for the advice btw.
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7 months ago ::
Dec 07, 2012 - 8:42AM
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Your wording is a bit shoddy too (), do you mean to say that you spend 1 xp from your craft reserve and 99 xp from your normal xp and it all gets doubled to 200 xp for a 5k gold item? I don't think that's RAI (only craft reserve xp is meant to be doubled), but personally I would just rule that all xp was doubled anyway (is that ruling OK? doesn't seem like it will have very bad repercussions, Retain Essence makes it far easier to use Tools of War).
I think you're right about RAI, but the way I read the ability, if you use any XP from your craft reserve then all of the XP usage gets doubled.
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7 months ago ::
Dec 09, 2012 - 6:40AM
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That's not a too unbalancing interpratation considering I felt Tools of War should double all xp you spend, otherwise it forces you to take Retain Essence too much and Weapon Familiar never sees the light of day.
So how did you feel about the questions on Weapon Familiar on that other thread I linked mate?
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7 months ago ::
Dec 09, 2012 - 10:30AM
#36
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There is a way to use Inteligence to use UMD, a Wizard with high inteligence could Dominate Mind a high charisma victim who has UMD and make him use the items 
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7 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 2:53PM
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Was my other post on the wrong forum or something cause it was ignored >.<
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7 months ago ::
Dec 13, 2012 - 3:22PM
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Was my other post on the wrong forum or something cause it was ignored >.<
What post?
Ok, I looked in your profile and found you necroposted to an ancient thread in the Eberron section of the boards. I could probably find that section but it was never anything I looked at before and now days it is probably more 4e stuff if the settings even get any traffic. To put it another way you may have asked a 3.5 question in a dead forum that isn't even connected to the previous editions section.
I'd tell you that the setting specific boards should be more about "fluff" then actual game mechanics but with the last big reoganization who knows what may have been put where.
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7 months ago ::
Dec 14, 2012 - 7:38AM
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Thanks, I figured it was something like that. I linked to that post in this thread in post #33 btw :p
I wasn't expecting anyone to know about a vague post or look in my profile to find it.
Should I repost my questions from it here or in another thread in this forum?
EDIT: I went ahead and made a new thread.
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