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Creating army of treants?
« on: July 31, 2011, 04:38:19 PM »
Liveoak - a spell that creates a treant (from a tree) under your command.
Animate Trees - a treant spell-like ability that animates trees. By RAW it allows for creating treants ("The ability is otherwise similar to liveoak (caster level 12th)"). That's one interpretation.
My intepretation is that it just animates trees (as the name would suggest) like Animate Object or Animate Plants spells. It even specifically points out that the animated trees fight like a treant and have fire vulnerability like a treant. So they aren't actually treants.

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Re: Creating army of treants?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2011, 05:19:23 PM »
Well I have always wanted a party of treants - they have +16 racial to hide in a forested area. So how many do you need to make an area "forested"?

In the middel of the city - well there's a forest... *spot check* yeah that's all I see...

But seriously - liveoak or animate trees - fight like treants - but isn't treants.

A party of treants could animate a forest - hide in it - and go to town!

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Re: Creating army of treants?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2011, 06:23:52 PM »
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The text could be better worded, but there's nothing to indicate that the animated trees lack any of the Treant's abilities

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Re: Creating army of treants?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2011, 08:43:28 PM »
I think you make the trees into treants who uproot and start killing things.
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