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I would assume so. Dominate him, Thought Bottle yourself, and psyreform him repeatedly.

Psychic Reformation doesn't have a "willing" tag. So you can force an opponent to lose 25xp (also costs you 25xp)... I don't know why you'd want to, but it's true.

The text of PsyReform shuts that down.

The subject can undo decisions of these sorts that were made at lower levels, if both the subject and the manifester agree to pay the necessary XP before this power is manifested

So it has an implied willing tag.

Huh, somehow I missed that.

OP: Here's what you do. You set it up like Shadowrun. Ask the players to have their characters all be illicit sorts who do illegal things for money. Have them contacted by someone known to the PCs, who sets up a meeting between them and an employer. Have them offer money, rather than threats. Make it a big pile of money. Let them get half up front if they can make the Diplomacy check - make the DC low, because these guys are planning to betray, they don't really care if they get half the money now, they'll get it back later off their corpses. When Act 2 comes around, the players, if they are familiar with Shadowrun, will expect the Johnson to stab them in the back. Much fun is had by all rather than making it "Screw you, you're working for these assholes now".

Question: Why are you robbing all of your players of 2 CON? That's a bit of text on Raise Dead/Resurrection most people seem to miss: If you kill your players and they're level 1, they don't have a level to lose. Therefore, they lose 2 points of Constitution in its place.

If the subject is 1st level, it loses 2 points of Constitution instead (if this would reduce its Con to 0 or less, it can’t be raised). This level/HD loss or Constitution loss cannot be repaired by any means.

However, the subject loses one level, or 2 points of Constitution if the subject was 1st level. (If this reduction would bring its Con to 0 or lower, it can’t be resurrected). This level loss or Constitution loss cannot be repaired by any means.

Mind you, I'm tempted to remove most Dragon items from the guide, because Paizo. Cerebremetamagic is an interesting feat, though. Not appropriate for the guide, since it's a Metapsionic feat. Would be a great addition to a Theurge guide, however.

Quote from: SolEiji on November 28, 2011, 03:31:48 AM

Quote from: TC X0 Lt 0X on November 28, 2011, 03:29:22 AM

Quote from: StreamOfTheSky on November 28, 2011, 03:23:32 AM

What if it was also a defending halberd, though? 

And Parrying on top of that?

And shields can be used as a martial weapon....

...I'm not helping.   

We are all Monsters.

We're all in the Monster Manual somewhere, are we not? No. Our entry should be between the Howler and Hydra.

Well, I'm an SA member, so I get my LP fix straight from the motherlode...

^ What veekie said. I enjoy SS LPs more than video LPs because with video LPs you wind up having people whose voices you can't stand (the currently on-going Thousand Year Door LP springs to mind, though they get bearable after a few videos). It's kind of hard to fuck up a screenshot LP unless all you're doing is taking the piss out of the game, but it's so easy to screw up a video LP just by talking at the wrong moments or having a horrible voice.

That said, I also enjoy TotalBiscuit and Jesse Cox Play Terraria, which is pretty much an LP despite the game being pretty unLPable.

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Battle Blessing (Complete Champion, page 55): Effectively free quicken spell on paladin spells.
Divine Metamagic (Complete Divine, page 80): Spend Turn or Rebuke Undead (arguably, any Turning) uses to apply any specific metamagic feat (chosen when the feat is chosen) without adjusting spell level or casting time on divine spells only. Uses 1+Metamagic Adjustment Turn uses. Becomes Purple if Nightsticks stack.
Eldritch Corruption (Heroes of Horror, page 122): Not exactly free; Enlarge, Extend, Heighten or Widen a spell, taxing an ally 2 points of Constitution damage per metamagic adjustment. As funny as killing your allies with Con damage is, not very sporting of you.
Mastery of Azure Sky (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 125): Automatically extend any spell that gives or improves a fly speed.
Mastery of the Battleground (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 125): Automatically extend any spell that creates, emulates, or enhances a weapon, or any spell that excites hostile emotions.
Mastery of Day and Night (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 125): Automatically maximize any cure or inflict spell.
Mastery of Faerie Enchantment (Player's Guide to Eberron, pages 125-126): Automatically extend any spell of the enchantment school.
Mastery of Ice and Fire (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 126): Automatically enlarge any spell with the [cold] or [fire] descriptors.
Mastery of the Silver Void (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 126): Automatically quicken any conjuration (teleportation) spell at -9 caster level.
Mastery of Twilight Denizens (Player's Guide to Eberron, page 126): Automatically extend any spell that summons a denizen of Lammania (Eberron Campaign Setting, page 97).
Metamagic Song (Races of Stone, page 142): Spend Bardic Music uses in place of metamagic adjustment. Like Divine Metamagic but without as many ways to get extra Bardic Music as there are Turn Undead attempts. Worse than DMM because it explicity cannot be used to Metamagic past your highest spell level.
Metanode Spell (Underdark, page 26): Reduce a metamagic feat's cost by a Node's class. Can only use the feat while in a Node.
Residual Magic (Complete Mage, page 46): Cast a spell modified by metamagic feats as normal one round, cast the same spell in the next round with its normal level, but get one of the metamagics applied for free.
Prophecy's Shaper (Magic of Eberron, page 50): Requires Dragon Prophesier (MoE page 46). While in a state of Prophetic Favor, freely empower one spell per round. For the cost of a full-round action each combat, not bad.
Sudden Empower, Extend, Maximize, Quicken, Silent, Still, Widen (Complete Arcane, page 83): Exactly what they say on the tin. Once per day, apply that metamagic feat for free. Quicken is miserable because it requires most of the other Suddens to take, making it a gargantuan feat tax.

Abjurant Champion 1 (Complete Mage, pages 50-53): Auto-extend all abjurations.
Abjurant Champion 2 (Complete Mage, pages 50-53): Auto-quickens any abjuration spell up to 1/2 class level (rounded up).
Anima Mage 5 (Tome of Magic, pages 50-53): Apply a single metamagic feat to any spell for free by suppressing your access to a bound vestige for 5 rounds. Usable 1/2/3 times a day. (Text says you gain it at 4th level, but don't get a use of it til 5th.)
Anima Mage 10 (Tome of Magic, pages 50-53): 1/day, cast a spell as an immediate action, auto-silent and auto-still.
Archmage (Dungeon Master's Guide, pages 178-180): Archmage's High Arcana: Arcane Reach is basically Reach Spell for free. High Arcana: Mastery of Elements is Energy Substitution with no limits.
Citadel Mystic 3/5/7/9 (Dragonlance: Age of Mortals, pages 30-32): Alters a spell permanently, granting it extend or empower for free.
Dark Scholar (Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde): Gets a Book Mastery that lets them cast all spells 2 levels lower than their highest as auto-silent.
Escalation Mage (Faiths of Eberron, pages 52-55): Caster Level checks for free metamagic; heighten +1 at 2nd, empower at 3rd, widen at 4th, quicken at 5th. These are solid CL checks, and failing means you take damage of some sort and get some kind of bad mojo status effect.
Geometer 1 (Complete Arcane, pages 39-41): Can prepare a spell as a spellglyph, which replaces verbal and material components. Costs 25gp per spell level.
Geometer 5 (Complete Arcane, pages 39-41): When preparing a spell as a spellglyph, it's treated as if affected by heighten (+1) for free.
Gnome Illusionist Substitution Level 5 (Races of Stone, pages 148-149): Trade a Wizard bonus feat and your two "free" spells for an auto-extend (stackable) on illusions, plus 1d4 rounds of duration after concentration ceases.
Hierophant (Dungeon Master's Guide, pages 188-189): Special Ability: Divine Reach is Reach Spell for free.
Incantatrix 2 (Player's Guide to Faerun, page 61-63); Apply a metamagic effect to a spell an ally is casting with a standard action and a Spellcraft check (18+[3*Adjusted Spell Level]).
Incantatrix 3 (Player's Guide to Faerun, page 61-63); Apply a metamagic effect to an ongoing spell effect with a Spellcraft check (18+[3*Adjusted Spell Level])
Incantatrix 5 (Player's Guide to Faerun, page 61-63); Apply a metamagic effect to a spell cast from a wand with additional charges equal to the metamagic adjustment
Incantatrix 7 (Player's Guide to Faerun, page 61-63); Spontaneously apply one metamagic feat for free once per day, twice per day at 9th.
Master Specialist 10 (Complete Mage, pages 70-73): Major School Esoterica for Illusion lets you cast any Illusion spell as stilled, silent and eschewed for free.
Master Transmogrifist 1 (Complete Arcane, pages 51-54): Extend any transmutation spell when changing into a favored form.
Master Transmogrifist 4 (Complete Arcane, pages 51-54): Still and silent on any transmutation spell when changing into a favored form.
Master Transmogrifist 7 (Complete Arcane, pages 51-54): Cast any transmutation spell as an immediate action to change into a favored form.
Metaphysical Spell Shaper 1 (Book of Erotic Fantasy, pages 81-83): Takes ability score damage equal to the metamagic adjustment rather than raising the spell's level. Can modify spells past 9th level in this way. Becomes Purple if also a Binder binding Naberius.
Radiant Servant of Pelor 1 (Complete Divine pages 52-53): Widen and Heighten (+1) any spell with the [light] descriptor for free.
Radiant Servant of Pelor 2/10 (Complete Divine, pages 52-53): Empower any healing spell for free. At 10th level, becomes maximize and empower for free.
Runesmith 1 (Races of Stone, pages 118-120): Able to prepare a spell in Rune form, which removes Somatic components in exchange for adding a material component (the rune). So auto-still.
Runesmith 5 (Races of Stone, pages 118-120): Able to change a spell into a permanent Spell-Like Ability 2/day, removing Somatic, Verbal and Material components, and arguably, pays the XP cost once for the ability to cast it 2/day forever for free.
Mystic (Dragon 274): Every odd level, gain a Spell Secret that permanently modifies a spell known with Empower, Enlarge, Extend, Silent or Still spell.
Recaster 1 (Races of Eberron, pages 157-161): Eschew for free, 1/day per class level Still and Silent for free.
Recaster 3 (Races of Eberron, pages 157-161): Free quicken 3/day.
Recaster 5 (Races of Eberron, pages 157-161): Reach, sculpt, and unique effects 5/day.
Shadowcraft Mage 2 (Races of Stone pages 120-122): Auto-silent on illusion spells at 2nd.
Shadowcraft Mage 4 (Races of Stone, pages 120-122): Auto-extend (stackable) on illusions at 4th.
Spelldancer (Magic of Faerun, pages 37-38): 1 full round of Spelldancing per level of adjustment (safe maximum of Spelldancing = Con mod + Spelldancer level, afterwards escalating Fort save), then Perform check (DC 10+modified spell level). Simply put: Way too easy. Becomes Purple if undead, since you can dance forever, as you are immune to any Fort saves that don't affect objects.
Suel Arcanamach 3 (Complete Arcane, pages 63-65): Auto-extends any Suel Arcanamach spells cast by the Suel Aracanamach that targets the Suel Arcanamach.
Tainted Sorcerer (Unearthed Arcana, pages 191-193): Takes Constitution damage in place of metamagic adjustments on a 1:1 basis. Becomes Purple if a Binder binding Naberius or undead or have reliable means of restoring stat damage. Usually, though, losing Constitution is bad.
Ultimate Magus 3 (Complete Mage, pages 77-81): Apply a metamagic feat equal to a sacrificed spell or spell slot's level, up to 1/2 Ultimate Magus level (maximum +5 adjustment). Usable 3+1/2 Ultimate Magus level times per day. This would be higher if it didn't have a daily limit.
War Wizard of Cormyr 3 (Magic of Faerun, pages 40-41): Spontaneously apply Widen Spell 1+cha mod/day.
Wu Jen (Complete Arcane, pages 14-16): 1/3 levels, gain a Spell Secret that permanently modifies a spell known with Enlarge, Extend, Silent or Still Spell.

Empowered Spellshard (Magic Item Compendium, page 96): Free Empowering of a spell attuned to that Spellshard; one spell per shard, any spell up to 3rd level.
Metamagic Rods, lesser (Various): Apply a specific feat (determined by rod) to a spell of 1st-3rd level as it's being cast for free, 3/day.
Metamagic Rods (Various): Apply a specific feat (determined by rod) to a spell of 1st-6th level as it's being cast for free, 3/day.
Metamagic Rods, greater (Various): Apply a specific feat (determined by rod) to a spell of 1st-9th level as it's being cast for free, 3/day.
On metamagic rods: Their ranking depends on which feat it is and what class you are. However, you can consider all of these to be Awesome because it's free freaking metamagic.

Arcane Spellsurge (Dragon Magic, page 64): Sor/Wiz 7, Wu Jen 7. Effectively applies quicken spell to a spell as you cast it. Best used as a Sorcerer, allowing you to quicken a spell for free, then cast a metamagicked-spell as a standard action. This Sorcerous gnome prefers invisible spell for this purpose.

Action Points (UA Variant, Eberron): 1 action point can be spent to apply a metamagic feat for free.
Circle Magic (Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, page 59): Available to Hathrans (Player's Guide to Faerun, pages 59-61), Red Wizards (Dungeon Master's Guide, pages 193-194), and Haalruan Elders (Shining South, pages 27-29), this allows free empower, heighten or maximize at the cost of spell slots from other participants.
Clerics of Mystra: Free metamagic when spell cast within a Temple dedicated to Mystra.
Naenhoon Sigil (Illumians, Races of Destiny pages 54-55): Similar to Divine Metamagic (except any metamagic feat you possess, and any spell, not just divine), apply any metamagic by expending Turn or Rebuke Undead uses equal to the metamagic's adjustment as a swift action twice per day. Becomes Green if you don't want to play a freak with glowing sigils around their head.
Slaymate (Libris Mortis, page 122): Any Necromancy spell cast within a Slaymate's Pale Aura effect has any metamagic applied cost -1.
Soul Tick (Fiend Folio, pages 220-221): By letting a Fine Outsider attach itself to you, you get to empower any spell with the [death] or [evil] descriptors, or any spell that utilizes negative energy, for free. While this doesn't adjust the spell level or cast time, it does carry its own costs.
Versatile Spellcaster (Races of the Dragon, page 101): Kind of. Use two lower-level spell slots to cast a spell of one higher level. Can specifically exceed your max spell level.
Metamagic Components: Use metamagic with special components dependent on spell. Variant rule.


Power Components (Complete Champion, pages 132-133): Some of these alter divine spells with a metamagic feat.

• Aurial Sapphire: Any spell from the Air domain or with the [air] descriptor is affected by quicken spell.
• Doppelganger Bile: Extends any spell that grants invisibility or a bonus to Disguise checks.
• Dragon Ruby: Widens any spell with the [fire] descriptor.
• Game of Fate: Can extend any spell that grants a bonus on attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, or checks on a roll of 46-90.
• Obaddis Leaf: Extends and widens any spell from the Plant domain or any spell that specifically targets plants.
• Pearl of the Waves: Quickens spells from the Water domain and spells with the [water] descriptor.
• Scholar's Dreams: Extends and widens any spell from the Knowledge domain.

• Soil of Stone: Extends spells from the Earth domain and spells with the [earth] descriptor.
• Sunflower of Pelor: Widens spells from the Sun domain and spells with the [light] descriptor.
• Unicorn Horn: Adds reach to a touch spell with the [healing] descriptor.

Earth Spell (Races of Stone, page 138): This has been mentioned by many of my colleagues, but bears repeating. Heightens a spell to one level higher than its adjusted level.
Sharn (Anauroch, the Empire of Shade) and Phaerimm (Player's Guide to Faerun Web Enhancement/Lost Empires of Faerun page 187): Cast all their spells as Spell-Like Abilities, removing Verbal, Somatic, and Material components.