Do we have a dirty trick handbook?

[Tshern]

Making it nonlethal and doing the old Zombie Waverider trick works too.

[Operation Shoestring]

I have this hilarious image of someone shaping Phoenix Belt and then setting himself on fire for fast healing 1.  The last game i was in had a few NPCs who would tottaly do it, too.

[Prime32]

I have this hilarious image of someone shaping Phoenix Belt and then setting himself on fire for fast healing 1.  The last game i was in had a few NPCs who would tottaly do it, too.

Remember, they can't catch you if you're on fire.

[Bozwevial]

I have this hilarious image of someone shaping Phoenix Belt and then setting himself on fire for fast healing 1.  The last game i was in had a few NPCs who would tottaly do it, too.

Remember, they can't catch you if you're on fire.

How long have you been on fire?!

[BowenSilverclaw]

Okay, that's it, my PCs are so going to encounter NPCs that are on fire now

[Bozwevial]

Bowen, I need you to go here. Right now.

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[Lycanthromancer]

You can use metamorphosis (or a psychoactive skin of proteus) to turn your psicrystal into adamantine or obdurium objects of various kinds. Just think how useful it would be to have your psicrystal enter a monster's space, then use metamorphosis to turn it into an obdurium cage surrounding it.

Note that your psicrystal keeps its psicrystal granted abilities while in object-shape, including natural armor, the sighted ability, and the ability to fly.

Having a flying cage at your beck and call would be awesome.

Reflex saves are optional.

[Agita]

A thought: Why not cast Dweomer of Transference on yourself in order to avoid your Locate City Bomb? In this case, it couldn't even be argued that it doesn't work because you're not the one casting the spell.

[Bozwevial]

A thought: Why not cast Dweomer of Transference on yourself in order to avoid your Locate City Bomb? In this case, it couldn't even be argued that it doesn't work because you're not the one casting the spell.

"I deal several thousand d6 damage. Oh, and I gain nine power points."

[PhaedrusXY]

A thought: Why not cast Dweomer of Transference on yourself in order to avoid your Locate City Bomb? In this case, it couldn't even be argued that it doesn't work because you're not the one casting the spell.

It would absorb the spell entirely, wouldn't it?

Funny idea, though.

[Bozwevial]

Ahh, right. Still, it was worth a shot. Wait, I thought we normally used Globe of Invulnerability?

[Agita]

A thought: Why not cast Dweomer of Transference on yourself in order to avoid your Locate City Bomb? In this case, it couldn't even be argued that it doesn't work because you're not the one casting the spell.

It would absorb the spell entirely, wouldn't it?

Funny idea, though.

Darn, you're right. Would've been hilarious, though.

[veekie]

What other nice metamagics fit on it? I think Fell Animate has some good times going for it there.

[Operation Shoestring]

Improving on my previous iteration of the trick.

Play a wu-jen, or (better) a wizard with one of those PrC's that lets you steal off of other classes lists.

get the Fire Shuriken Spell.

Now add Energy Sub: Electric, Energy Admixture: Electric, Born of the Three Thunders, and Fell Drain.  make sure you have Heighten Spell to go with.

A few castings per day over two weeks should get you about 50 of these.  now take them to a Psychic warrior with the dissolving touch power.  Read with glee the rules that magics applied to ammo apply to 50 unit and that shuriken count as ammo for this purpose.  3 pp and you have +4d6 acid on all of these.

Then, when you go out to adventure, GMW 50 of them at the start of the day.

The result?

+5 Shuriken that deal 3d6 Electricity, 3d6 Sonic, 4d6 Acid, a negative level, and a DC 18+ your INT reflex (or was it fort) save or stun for 1 round.

And you expended no XP or gold for this (unless you paid that psywar).

The question now is... What type of damage is the +5 enhacement?

[CannibalSmith]

The question now is... What type of damage is the +5 enhacement?

Same as shuriken, which is piercing.

[veekie]

The question now is... What type of damage is the +5 enhacement?

Same as shuriken, which is piercing.

The Fire Shuriken's base damage is fire, I think.

[BowenSilverclaw]

Yeah, gonna have to agree on Fire

[Optimator]

And you expended no XP or gold for this (unless you paid that psywar).

Well, taking all those feats would cost you Exp for the Psychic Reformations. 

Cool trick though.

[CannibalSmith]

Coat Hanger - vectorized and enlarged to wallpaper size.

[PlzBreakMyCampaign]

Any reason why this won't work?

1) be Xth level (just barely)
2) Get level drained to (X-1)th, and fail the save on purpose.
3) Craft a bunch of stuff
4) Get hit with a Restoration

The Restoration returns you to exactly Xth level again, regardless of how much XP you spent in the meantime. Right? So is this a way to craft stuff for free, as long as you do it as soon as you've barely leveled? Is this old news? I knew you could do this with a Thought Bottle, but this is entirely core.

very nice work phaedrus. This one works! You get added to the dirt handbook fixes!

By the way, what's that I hear about dragonwrought kobolds qualifying for epic feats?

Great Wyrm dragons automatically qualify as epic for purposes of taking epic feats.  Venerable dragonwrought kobolds are dragons, and great wyrms, so they count.

Which is why I go along the more shaky-interpretation that HD-advancing age categories are first and foremost brought on by HD and not age. After all its assumed that these dragons get bigger and tougher as they age because they are eating properly, adventuring, etc, not simply because they age.

I would assume an old but poorly fed, barely allowed to sleep, caged dragon would simply not be as buff as its 'age' should categorize it as. Basically it is the getting bigger and buffer that advances the age category, not the otherway around.

With dragon supermounts this interpretation leads to some interesting outcomes (but not broken if you ignore everything epic, for which this interpretation is used)