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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #120 on: October 13, 2010, 06:23:29 PM »
illusory script is a really nice one.  Unlimited uses of suggestion for ~50 gp that lasts days/level.
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #121 on: October 13, 2010, 06:29:01 PM »
illusory script is a really nice one.  Unlimited uses of suggestion for ~50 gp that lasts days/level.
Yeah... what happens if I make a big flag with this on it, and wave it around in a battle?  :lmao As long as I designate my allies as the intended recipients, it's like an area of effect Suggestion spell (with a basically unlimited area) that excludes anyone I want. That's nuts. It would be utterly hilarious to do something insane like write one of these on the moon that Suggests that everyone who reads it should strip naked and start having sex with the nearest creature. Gogo world-wide orgy!  :lol

We need to optimize this... maybe we should start a separate thread. :D
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #122 on: October 13, 2010, 07:31:26 PM »
illusory script is a really nice one.  Unlimited uses of suggestion for ~50 gp that lasts days/level.
Yeah... what happens if I make a big flag with this on it, and wave it around in a battle?  :lmao As long as I designate my allies as the intended recipients, it's like an area of effect Suggestion spell (with a basically unlimited area) that excludes anyone I want. That's nuts. It would be utterly hilarious to do something insane like write one of these on the moon that Suggests that everyone who reads it should strip naked and start having sex with the nearest creature. Gogo world-wide orgy!  :lol

We need to optimize this... maybe we should start a separate thread. :D

That's awesome. And here I was only using it as a high DC save or don't attack me.
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #123 on: October 13, 2010, 07:52:48 PM »
illusory script is a really nice one.  Unlimited uses of suggestion for ~50 gp that lasts days/level.
Yeah... what happens if I make a big flag with this on it, and wave it around in a battle?  :lmao As long as I designate my allies as the intended recipients, it's like an area of effect Suggestion spell (with a basically unlimited area) that excludes anyone I want. That's nuts. It would be utterly hilarious to do something insane like write one of these on the moon that Suggests that everyone who reads it should strip naked and start having sex with the nearest creature. Gogo world-wide orgy!  :lol

We need to optimize this... maybe we should start a separate thread. :D
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #124 on: October 13, 2010, 07:56:44 PM »
illusory script is a really nice one.  Unlimited uses of suggestion for ~50 gp that lasts days/level.
Yeah... what happens if I make a big flag with this on it, and wave it around in a battle?  :lmao As long as I designate my allies as the intended recipients, it's like an area of effect Suggestion spell (with a basically unlimited area) that excludes anyone I want. That's nuts. It would be utterly hilarious to do something insane like write one of these on the moon that Suggests that everyone who reads it should strip naked and start having sex with the nearest creature. Gogo world-wide orgy!  :lol

We need to optimize this... maybe we should start a separate thread. :D
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #125 on: October 13, 2010, 09:08:16 PM »
Wizard's are now officially the best advertisers ever. Just stick an illusory script on your store's sign that plants the suggestion "Enter the store and buy something you would like". Although this might get you in trouble with the local government.

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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #126 on: October 13, 2010, 09:25:54 PM »
Havok4: Not necessarily.  The government is sponsoring this message, either because they're in on it (paid off, etc.), or because said Wizard is powerful enough to do what he wants.
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Don't even need TO for this.  Any decent Hood build, especially one with Celerity, one-rounds [Azathoth, the most powerful greater deity from d20 Cthulu].
Does it bug anyone else that we've reached the point where characters who can obliterate a greater deity in one round are considered "decent?"

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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #127 on: October 13, 2010, 09:51:33 PM »
Havok4: Not necessarily.  The government is sponsoring this message, either because they're in on it (paid off, etc.), or because said Wizard is powerful enough to do what he wants.

E.g. eventually said wizard IS the government, whether they realize it or not :P
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #128 on: October 13, 2010, 09:57:48 PM »
Havok4: Not necessarily.  The government is sponsoring this message, either because they're in on it (paid off, etc.), or because said Wizard is powerful enough to do what he wants.

E.g. eventually said wizard IS the government, whether they realize it or not :P
That's what sims writing hundreds of letters can accomplish.

Another group of sims runs the shop down the street collecting funds via billboards.
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #129 on: October 14, 2010, 04:15:27 AM »
We should have a thread like this for other casting classes, too.

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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #130 on: October 14, 2010, 07:49:51 AM »
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #132 on: November 07, 2010, 05:50:03 AM »
The intro text of 1 lance/4CL and the text of 1 lance initially, 2 lances at CL10, and 3 lances at CL15 are compatible.  I think they left out "4 lances at CL20, and so on."  It's arguable.
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Don't even need TO for this.  Any decent Hood build, especially one with Celerity, one-rounds [Azathoth, the most powerful greater deity from d20 Cthulu].
Does it bug anyone else that we've reached the point where characters who can obliterate a greater deity in one round are considered "decent?"

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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #133 on: November 07, 2010, 05:59:23 AM »
You mean one lance /5 cl, right?
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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #134 on: November 07, 2010, 10:33:41 AM »
And yet, it has the single most powerful blasty spell ever.

Stored Lightning Bolt (Secrets of Sarlona). RAW, it's 2d6 per CL (40d6 Max), with NO SAVE to a single target, if that's what you use it for. Well worth a 7th level slot, and my last blaster would have dealt 60d6+360 casting it, all of which was HOLY DAMAGE.

I don't think that Spell Turning works on it, either, as it affects an object, not the creature itself, so other than SR, nothing saves your hide, and we can get around that easy. Spell Immunity works, though, of course.

I was looking in the book for this spell (after reading your comment) and found it being a bit different: Max 20d6, Reflex Half. Where's the 40d6, no save, version?

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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #135 on: November 07, 2010, 10:50:03 AM »
wow no one mentioned Great Thunderclap (SpC) for third level debuffs.  no SR targets all three saves and has a good size area of effect.

its one of my favorites personaly. 
other spells i like are Fuse arms as a buff/debuff -its great to see what happens to an ogre that cant wield its weapon anymore because it only has 1 arm.

anti-intellegence the anticipate teleportation line is nice.  even more so when you have a DM that likes to have guys dimension door in during combat or teleporting pouncing NPC in the fight

and enlarge person greater isnt bad either at 1 hour/level


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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #136 on: November 07, 2010, 01:36:22 PM »
And yet, it has the single most powerful blasty spell ever.

Stored Lightning Bolt (Secrets of Sarlona). RAW, it's 2d6 per CL (40d6 Max), with NO SAVE to a single target, if that's what you use it for. Well worth a 7th level slot, and my last blaster would have dealt 60d6+360 casting it, all of which was HOLY DAMAGE.

I don't think that Spell Turning works on it, either, as it affects an object, not the creature itself, so other than SR, nothing saves your hide, and we can get around that easy. Spell Immunity works, though, of course.

I was looking in the book for this spell (after reading your comment) and found it being a bit different: Max 20d6, Reflex Half. Where's the 40d6, no save, version?
If you cast it on the square where the target's standing, it discharges instantly and they take double damage with no save.

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Re: The A-List: The Wizard's Best Spells For Every Situation
« Reply #137 on: November 07, 2010, 03:51:37 PM »
If you cast it on the square where the target's standing, it discharges instantly and they take double damage with no save.

Got it, thanks for the clarification! Too bad it's 7th...