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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #40 on: May 25, 2010, 01:39:44 PM »
What he meant is that Fireball isn't a spell that these boards really use.  Shapechange, on the other hand, is.
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #41 on: May 25, 2010, 03:09:53 PM »
Shapechange does depend on HD, alter self, however, depends on CL.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #42 on: May 25, 2010, 03:12:05 PM »
Shapechange is much more epic an win than fireball.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #43 on: May 26, 2010, 08:31:23 AM »
I cannot agree more to this statement.
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #44 on: May 26, 2010, 01:55:48 PM »
Shapechange is much more epic an win than fireball.

It is indeed, but what about Polymorph Any Object?  If you can lift the cap on it from a max of 15 to HD=CL straight up, what kinds of creatures become available?  I say this only because of the clause in PAO that allows you to have the Int score of the target creature/object.  Then, all you have to do (especially if you're a wizard) is use Reserves of Strength on PAO and then have a big CL and pick some creature that has the highest Int score you can find, use PAO twice to make it permanent, and then use Shapechange for all your other needs (offense and defense).

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #45 on: May 28, 2010, 11:52:33 AM »
River's Ravages
Epic freaking pwnage.

A 2 year old Loredrake Steel Dragon Sorcerer 1 (5hd/2la/cl4) is ECL 6 after LA Buyoff.
1. If it were to cast River's Ravages(rr) using Reserves of Strength's(ros) it ages 14 years.
2. At age 16 it is Young, thus giving it an additional +4 levels of spellcasting for 8 in total.
3. Using it's new spell access it casts Bestow Curse aging it to Juvenile (26yrs) and again, +2 levels of casting for a total of +6.
4. It recasts RR, caster level is (4 base + 6 age + 3 ros) so the spell is now giving +26 years rather than +14.
5. It chooses to apply Bestow Curse's penalty after RR as it is stacked favorably that way making it a Young Adult (51yrs).
6. Again, +2 levels of casting. It has in total access to 6th level spells now.
It has the same +6 spellcaster level mod the illegal Loredrake Dragonwought Kobold would have if it were a White Dragonspawn Abomination that some how rolled out a double roll and then triple spellcasting. Only it's legal and doesn't require borked rolling.

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Do the trick two levels later in the game(or at least find a +2cl booster somewhere) and buy a Runestaff with Hasten The End. This time around use your bonus HD to nab the Swift Concentration skill trick and Versatile Spellcaster which you'll use to combine two 7th level spell slots to cast the 8th level Hasten spell. Concentrate until you are a Great Wyrm, then at this point either make up an Epic Spell with a spellcraft check of 0 to keep your old age or cast an Extended River's Ravages for +52 years of age, apply Bestow curse and a Greater Bestow Curse mimicing but stacking with the first curse to have 52 rounds of being a Mature Adult. Which is really nice since you have 22 racial HD so you can still snag Epic Spellcasting and can open up to the use of the casting delay mitigation to create some forced age effect in case you are having trouble with mitigation using Hasten.

ECL8 before casting, epic pwnage afterwards. That is the power of a True Dragon.
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #46 on: May 28, 2010, 12:09:31 PM »
River's Ravages
Epic freaking pwnage.

A 2 year old Loredrake Steel Dragon Sorcerer 1 (5hd/2la/cl4) is ECL 6 after LA Buyoff.
1. If it were to cast River's Ravages(rr) using Reserves of Strength's(ros) it ages 14 years.
2. At age 16 it is Young, thus giving it an additional +4 levels of spellcasting for 8 in total.
3. Using it's new spell access it casts Bestow Curse aging it to Juvenile (26yrs) and again, +2 levels of casting for a total of +6.
4. It recasts RR, caster level is (4 base + 6 age + 3 ros) so the spell is now giving +26 years rather than +14.
5. It chooses to apply Bestow Curse's penalty after RR as it is stacked favorably that way making it a Young Adult (51yrs).
6. Again, +2 levels of casting. It has in total access to 6th level spells now.
It has the same +6 spellcaster level mod the illegal Loredrake Dragonwought Kobold would have if it were a White Dragonspawn Abomination that some how rolled out a double roll and then triple spellcasting. Only it's legal and doesn't require borked rolling.

Not broken enough? I can do one better.
Do the trick two levels later in the game(or at least find a +2cl booster somewhere) and buy a Runestaff with Hasten The End. This time around use your bonus HD to nab the Swift Concentration skill trick and Versatile Spellcaster which you'll use to combine two 7th level spell slots to cast the 8th level Hasten spell. Concentrate until you are a Great Wyrm, then at this point either make up an Epic Spell with a spellcraft check of 0 to keep your old age or cast an Extended River's Ravages for +52 years of age, apply Bestow curse and a Greater Bestow Curse mimicing but stacking with the first curse to have 52 rounds of being a Mature Adult. Which is really nice since you have 22 racial HD so you can still snag Epic Spellcasting and can open up to the use of the casting delay mitigation to create some forced age effect in case you are having trouble with mitigation using Hasten.

ECL8 before casting, epic pwnage afterwards. That is the power of a True Dragon.


Technically, you end up LA - , and thus turn into an NPC  :P

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #47 on: May 28, 2010, 01:48:25 PM »
Well there are abilities in the game that give the benefits of templates that are normally not allowed for characters, like Zceryll which gives the pseudonatural template, this does not make your character an NPC.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2010, 02:03:07 PM »
Well there are abilities in the game that give the benefits of templates that are normally not allowed for characters, like Zceryll which gives the pseudonatural template, this does not make your character an NPC.

I'm just countering shenanigans with more shenanigans.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #49 on: May 28, 2010, 02:13:26 PM »
Well there are abilities in the game that give the benefits of templates that are normally not allowed for characters, like Zceryll which gives the pseudonatural template, this does not make your character an NPC.

I'm just countering shenanigans with more shenanigans.

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Still a magically aged wyrmling dragon would be a neat villain to have in a game, they would have all the power of an old dragon with all of the maturity of what likely amounts to a human 6 year old. And if you defeat him by breaking the curses he is under after a long and arduous quest to figure out how, the PCs could just squash him, that would be very satisfying.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #50 on: May 29, 2010, 10:21:44 AM »
Still a magically aged wyrmling dragon would be a neat villain to have in a game, they would have all the power of an old dragon with all of the maturity of what likely amounts to a human 6 year old. And if you defeat him by breaking the curses he is under after a long and arduous quest to figure out how, the PCs could just squash him, that would be very satisfying.
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #51 on: May 29, 2010, 03:14:16 PM »
Still a magically aged wyrmling dragon would be a neat villain to have in a game, they would have all the power of an old dragon with all of the maturity of what likely amounts to a human 6 year old. And if you defeat him by breaking the curses he is under after a long and arduous quest to figure out how, the PCs could just squash him, that would be very satisfying.
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #52 on: May 29, 2010, 09:07:11 PM »
Still a magically aged wyrmling dragon would be a neat villain to have in a game, they would have all the power of an old dragon with all of the maturity of what likely amounts to a human 6 year old. And if you defeat him by breaking the curses he is under after a long and arduous quest to figure out how, the PCs could just squash him, that would be very satisfying.
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Yeah it is really. The 12th~13th level PCs need receive a kill the evil dragon overlord quest. They learn in town that the evil 'Old' dragon came from the wizard's tower and the wizard had been experimenting with it. Contact Dead reveals the dragon used to be the wizard's familiar, which meant it was less than Young and in player who puts two and two together realizes those experiments meant to make it more powerful and ended up forcibly aging it. Little Divination later they learn they need...
Remove Curse: Removes Bestow Curse's +1 Age Category.
A picture of the dragon's true form: Removes Greater Bestow Curse's +2 Age Category, the effect is like Dorian Grey's thing, one look undoes it.
Greater Dispel Magic: Removes River's Ravages, which as the BBEG always has the opportunity to cast it before the fight.
Which puts two casters to use and a 3rd PC holding a picture screaming look at me to use in the first round massively debuffing the dragon down from Old (say red dragon for cr20) to a less than decent BBEG level. It leaves some room for them to skip some but not all of the debuffing.

Be sure to say the red dragon has Mantle Of The Icy Spirit(fb) to avoid Shivering Touch overkill.
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6: Skill based. Commoner, Expert, Samurai.
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4: Partial casters. Adapt, Hexblade, Paladin, Ranger, Spelltheif.
3: Focused casters. Bard, Beguiler, Dread Necromancer, Martial Adapts, Warmage.
2: Full casters. Favored Soul, Psion, Sorcerer, Wu Jen.
1: Elitists. Artificer, Cleric, Druid, Wizard.
0: Gods. StP Erudite, Illthid Savant, Pun-Pun, Rocks fall & you die.
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #53 on: May 30, 2010, 12:00:36 AM »
Well there are abilities in the game that give the benefits of templates that are normally not allowed for characters, like Zceryll which gives the pseudonatural template, this does not make your character an NPC.
This is like the freaking missing link of templates. Why? Check out the type change

I'm seriously considering a type change thread (not the "master"  :lol template thread) to mirror that old chaining ACF thread
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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #54 on: May 30, 2010, 01:44:38 AM »
Well there are abilities in the game that give the benefits of templates that are normally not allowed for characters, like Zceryll which gives the pseudonatural template, this does not make your character an NPC.
This is like the freaking missing link of templates. Why? Check out the type change

I'm seriously considering a type change thread (not the "master"  :lol template thread) to mirror that old chaining ACF thread

That is one of the nicer applications of that particular vestige, combined with Karsus lets you use magic items as a wizard you could easily do various alter self and polymorph abuses.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #55 on: May 30, 2010, 04:41:35 AM »
Can someone tell me the requirements for obtaining this feat? I don't have the book its from, and my internet resource failed me.
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Sounds fine to me.
probably over on "Off-topic".
might want to put a little disclaimer in the first post.

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #56 on: May 30, 2010, 05:50:20 AM »
Iron Will and Caster Level 1

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Re: Reserves of Strength
« Reply #57 on: May 30, 2010, 04:13:32 PM »
Thanks, I'm now off to build this into an e6 character.  :lmao
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Cleric: "I can kill a guy in half a turn."
Wizard: "I can kill a guy before my turn."
Bard: "I can get three idiots to kill guys for me."

On a strange note, would anyone be put out if we had a post about people or events we can spare a thought for, or if its within their creed, a prayer for? Just a random thought, but ... hells I wouldn't have known about either Archangels daughter or Saeomons niece if I didn't happen to be on these threads.
Sounds fine to me.
probably over on "Off-topic".
might want to put a little disclaimer in the first post.

This is the Min/Max board. We should be able to figure out a way to optimize the POWER OF PRAYER(TM) that doesn't involve "Pazuzu, Pazuzu, Pazuzu".
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