Min/Max Boards

Quote from: Rebel7284 on February 10, 2013, 07:21:08 PM

Bardic music gives a morale bonus.  DFI never specifically overrides that. 

I disagree.  The part about "Instead of the standard morale bonus..." definitely implies that the extra fire damage is not a morale bonus.  Besides, I've never heard of extra damage dice that have a typed bonus.  How would you even say that?  'A morale bonus of Xd6 fire damage?'
Not to say that you couldn't read it the other way, but it seems more contrived to me. 

Regardless, presumably he's taken the feat that lets undead be affected by his music, or else why bother?

Yes, I picked it. Sorry for not bringing it up. The whole undead thing is because I want immunity to the Words of creation nonlethal damage so it is a must to be:
a) immune
b) able to heal that in a swift action (or a free action if possible)

If you know of a cheaper (feat-wise) way to heal a few d4's of nonlethal damage quickly, please tell. It should be doable 1/day

It's nice to see the boards came back to life after a month 

I wanted to ask what was the PrC that gave the option to have 2 bardic musics at once and if this could be used to have 2 different Dragonfire Inspirations at once (sonic + fire in my case) and the very minimum level at which I could achieve it. I couldn't find it in the DF Inspiration thread.

I'm building a necropolitan Duelist bardblade or something so my group gets buffs. It's optimization friendly as long as I don't get all the goodies

Quote from: Braininthejar on June 15, 2012, 07:56:59 PM

I am not a big fan of Tome of Battle but that's only because I consider it out of genre ( I love anime, but not in my D&D)

http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=10832

Great link, I have marked it

@Libertad: DMM: Persist can be a great way to alleviate differences between the non minmaxing rogue who doesn't want advice and the rest of the party. We don't ban it unless it's the cleric going godmode over everything.

We don't ban anything except Wish loops, Pun-Pun and Leadership (because it's too much effort to track it. Leadership is OK only to build a business in the background and have your cohort take care of it, and banned for everything else)

This is my doubt. Healing blast allows an eldritch blast to heal damage by spending 1 turn attempt.

Use Eldritch Glaive, tell a teammate "stand still, I'm going to heal you" while wielding the menacing glaive towards them.  Full-attack him.
Is he healed by all the iterative attacks? It can be an awesome view (and a weird way of healing)

The doubt is since an Eldritch glaive is affected by essence invocations on all attacks

Check out grafts, fiendish ones are some of the best for the price

Ok, I checked both Fiendish codexes and couldn't find them... where are these, please? I recall there was a pair of wings which did 1d3 Wis damage each day for a mere 10k, these would be great to have

I might have to use another concept for my character, or tone down the natural weapon amount as it's too high right now.

I'm using:
2 Enlarged Claws from Feral +Warshaper size increase (the Girallon in these doesn't apply as the base is better) (this pair of claws is the main attack)
2 Claws from Girallon Arms
Enlarged horns from Half-Mino + Warshaper
Tail swipe from Warshaper (or Manticore belt bound in the Totem, as it's specifically a tail I don't think I can get two of them)
2 Tentacle attacks from Warshaper
1 Bite attack from Warshaper

Am I doing this wrong? I think I can go around with these many natural weapons (Changeling) all the time

@awaken: I just finished today's studies, so yes, I'm really really studying  anyways, I have all my exams this upcoming week so I think I'm going to die

I have had my crime against nature of a character tested versus a mature adult red dragon and a couple other monsters and it didn't end well for the poor thing (cough, grafted wings  ) I like the idea of face-raping everything into oblivion instead of playing chess with BFC. Doing over 600 damage on a full attack is nice. I'll tweak the sheet tomorrow and post it for advice

I am going to use the Fanged Ring to skip INA as a feat, then Otyugh Hole -> Psychic Reformation for another feat, get an amulet of natural attacks +2 (since I have too many claws/tentacles/horns for a cheap necklace of natural attacks) and:
-Belt of battle with +2 Strength included in it
-Amulet of IDK what yet with +2 CON in it
-An Initiative Adamantine Greatsword (we also houseruled the required +1 before applying various enhancements)
-Utility items (here will go like 2-3k gold in random items of annoyance and spell components from BoVD and BoED and all I can find)7
-Custom items of +5 Concentration and Boots of +4 Inititative with Jumping added at 150% -no striding-
-I accept and welcome all ideas here, I have already checked Bunko's and the Utility Belt handbooks for random gems of equipment

Basically, if the group would be OK with a Dragonwrought Loredrake Kobold with the Greater Draconic Rite of Passage, then they should be fine with this.  If they wouldn't be OK with koboldery, then don't be a minotaur.   

Yes, we have one of these. He went Incantatrix after all that combo and also used Magic-blooded.
Also, one Shadowcraft Mage, one DMM Persist Cleric, one Charger mineral warrior Warblade/Barb/Fighter/whatever weird thing and another one unknown

I have this problem, guys...

I'm studying for finals for uni, but every time I decide to rest for a bit I end up with MoI open and reading about Totemists. I have also read every post about it I could find -Handbook included- and this summer I'll be playing a campaign while DMing Tomb of Horrors for the same group, as it's a short module...

The thing is, I had in mind a Feral Changeling Warshaper for a character, but a Totemist 2 dip is... very tempting. As the character would begin at 9th level, I had this in mind (LA bought off from the beginning because it's not a Tier 1 class. House rules...): Totemist 2/Warblade 3/Warshaper 3/Warblade 1

At Warblade 4 swap a move for WR Tactics and get IHS with the new maneuver. Use Punishing stance to buff all nat attacks,
Get 2 tentacles plus horns and bite, bind Girallon Arms to Totem and Manticore belt for spam-shooting (Double Chakra feat used)
The ruling is, if it's bound to your body, you can Warshape it up, so it's 2 Large claws. I'd get the bonus essentia feat and put everything in the belt if shooting was needed or other places if not

Before anything else, yes, I fell in love with warshaper after I found it for another of my players. No, I won't be using 500 tentacles at once.
Feral is ruled out as "HD-based abilities", not RHD, because the book is like that. At least the one we have is. So at level 9 it has pounce and fast healing 4. A bit overpowered if you ask me but to keep with ScM and Incantatrixes and Psions and whatnot...

Edit: Forgot the question. Any ideas to make this work? Any other soulmeld? I have one unused as of now
All ideas are welcome

Is Mind Rape + Love's Pain in the table?

My old group loved to blanket our charger in magical protection and drop him near the dragon while the rest of us watched the show

Another question from me! This group is taking such a pain to be built... 

One of my characters wanted to know if he could get Alternate form via any feat/ritual/template (like the Dragon ones, you get a humanoid shape to use as long as you wish, to conceal your nature) while avoiding magic items, because of VoP.

(I fear this is to get a DWK Warshaper with permanent warshaper abilities, but whatever. The group is really high-end OP as it is, it wouldn't be that much)