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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Fun Finds v7.0 - Now with +15% more reposts!
« on: April 26, 2024, 11:32:25 PM »
Quote from: Theaitetos on April 24, 2024, 10:10:10 PM
Not sure if anyone has mentioned it before, but I think I found a new exploit that opens up a ton of possibilities: Alter Summoned Monster!

The spell is already famous for its exploits with stuff like using it on Heightened Mount, but today I noticed that it is a very rare summoning spell in that it is not based on Summon Monster/Summon Nature's Ally. These latter two spells contain a well-known limiting rule for any creature summoned with these spells (or their derivatives):


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Creatures summoned using this spell cannot use spells or spell-like abilities that duplicate spells with expensive material components (such as wish).
Alter Summoned Monster does not contain this limitation, thus you are able to summon creatures and have them use their (expensive) spell-like abilities as you want (except innate summoning spells).


For example, with Summon Evil Monster you can use Alter Summoned Monster on a 6th-level summon spell and summon an Efreeti to fulfill your Wish without paying any material costs, a full spell-level lower than Limited Wish.

The limitation on summoned creatures not being able to use their own summoning abilities is actually built in to the Conjuration (Summoning) subschool, not part of any particular spell.  Altered Summoned Monster is still Conjuration (Summoning), and so "A summoned creature cannot use any innate summoning abilities it may have, and it refuses to cast any spells that would cost it XP, or to use any spell-like abilities that would cost XP if they were spells."

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Fun Finds v7.0 - Now with +15% more reposts!
« on: April 17, 2024, 10:51:13 PM »
I would expect a "clasp" to be slotless, but apparently it's neck slot.  Still very good though!

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Fun Finds v7.0 - Now with +15% more reposts!
« on: April 27, 2023, 01:20:16 AM »
Quote from: kitep on April 27, 2023, 12:31:23 AM
Sounds interesting, but plants are a type of creature.

PHB, p306
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creature type: One of several broad categories of creatures. The
creature types are aberration, animal, construct, dragon, elemental,
fey, giant, humanoid, magical beast, monstrous humanoid, ooze,
outsider, plant, undead, and vermin. (See the Monster Manual for full
descriptions.)

Plant is a type of creature, but not all plants are creatures.

Quote from: https://www.d20srd.org/srd/typesSubtypes.htm
Plant Type

This type comprises vegetable creatures. Note that regular plants, such as one finds growing in gardens and fields, lack Wisdom and Charisma scores (see Nonabilities) and are not creatures, but objects, even though they are alive.

Emphasis mine

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Min/Max 3.x / Spheres of Might Scholar Pet
« on: April 25, 2022, 06:34:50 PM »
For those unaware, Spheres of Power is a 3rd party system for Pathfinder published by Drop Dead Studios.

Their Scholar class has a pair of Knacks called "Animal Training, (Small/Large)", which give you a pet that scales on class level and counts as both a familiar and an animal companion, granting the abilities of both (a la Fochlucan Lyricist). It explicitly can take familiar and animal companion archetypes.

What's the craziest build you can think of to take advantage of this?

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Homebrew and House Rules (D&D) / Re: Warmage ACF: The Timmy/Tammy (fwakoom spells as pseudo-ToB-maneuvers)
« on: June 10, 2020, 12:42:55 AM »
Having it as an SLA definitely has less potential for abuse, but remember that there are still meta-SLA feats that exist. 

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Homebrew and House Rules (D&D) / Re: Warmage ACF: The Timmy/Tammy (fwakoom spells as pseudo-ToB-maneuvers)
« on: June 09, 2020, 01:00:23 AM »
The spell level scaling for Signature Spell is a little awkward. 

"3rd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th and 18th level, with a maximum spell level of 1/5 your Warmage level"

That means a 0th level spell at level 1, 1st at level 6, still 1st at 9, 2nd at 12, 3rd at 15, and 3rd again at 18. 
Maybe have it be 1/4th level, scaling at 4/8/12/16/18?  At 4th level you have a second level spell and probably a bonus from Cha.  So you'd do 2 rounds of your highest level spell, then refresh on the 3rd with a 1st level spell.  At 8th level you have 4th level spells, but probably only 1 unless you have a super high Cha (and you probably don't with this ACF - better to pump Int for more Warmage Edge), so 1 round at your highest spell slot, one at your second highest, then refresh on the 3rd round with a 2nd level spell. 

I'd also specify that Signature Spell counts as an SLA, and you're not casting it out of a spell slot.

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D&D 5e / Re: 5E build - The Lost Lord
« on: December 10, 2019, 06:23:42 PM »
Could probably eek a little bit more damage out of the build by using the Variant Monk Weapons rule from one of the recent Unearthed Arcana.

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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: Psychokinetic Weapon: 1 Attack or More?
« on: August 20, 2019, 10:56:00 PM »
It explicitly uses your base attack bonus. 

Quote from: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/combatStatistics.htm
Base Attack Bonus

A base attack bonus is an attack roll bonus derived from character class and level or creature type and Hit Dice (or combinations thereof). Base attack bonuses increase at different rates for different character classes and creature types. A second attack is gained when a base attack bonus reaches +6, a third with a base attack bonus of +11 or higher, and a fourth with a base attack bonus of +16 or higher. Base attack bonuses gained from different sources, such as when a character is a multiclass character, stack.

Seems pretty inarguable. 

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Small Rants Thread XII: The Folly of Life
« on: June 29, 2019, 02:09:42 AM »
Got new tires a week ago.  Today coming home from the girlfriend's house I hit a nail or something and got a flat.  In the rain.  On the highway. 
But I set a new record for fuel economy coming home, so that was neat. 

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Fun Finds v7.0 - Now with +15% more reposts!
« on: June 21, 2019, 10:20:08 PM »
Quote from: Nanashi on June 21, 2019, 10:00:02 PM
A fun find for answering an annoying question RAW more than any mechanical value, but Sharn: City of Towers actually has a section on page 192 about how PCs pay their taxes. It says caster PCs can pay their taxes by casting spells for the government, with the given example being Wall of Stone for construction.

Wage mage

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Off Topic Fun / Re: Awesome stuff you have to share, V4
« on: May 28, 2019, 12:59:51 AM »
Quote from: bhu on May 27, 2019, 06:21:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXwRgnZ990I  y'all gotta see this

Is that one of your coworkers?  Seems like he'd fit right in.

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Fun Finds v7.0 - Now with +15% more reposts!
« on: May 08, 2019, 01:19:47 AM »
You don't need to worry about nuking the holder's saving throws, because the ability specifically targets the item

Quote from: http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/magicItemBasics.htm
Damaging Magic Items

A magic item doesn’t need to make a saving throw unless it is unattended, it is specifically targeted by the effect, or its wielder rolls a natural 1 on his save. Magic items should always get a saving throw against spells that might deal damage to them— even against attacks from which a nonmagical item would normally get no chance to save. Magic items use the same saving throw bonus for all saves, no matter what the type (Fortitude, Reflex, or Will). A magic item’s saving throw bonus equals 2 + one-half its caster level (round down). The only exceptions to this are intelligent magic items, which make Will saves based on their own Wisdom scores.

The Caster Level for items is notoriously low.

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Fun Finds v7.0 - Now with +15% more reposts!
« on: March 29, 2019, 09:12:32 AM »
Could you advance it with other Prestige Classes as normal? 

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Creations & Ephemera / Re: Who wants a free test copy of Venture, my tabletop RPG?
« on: January 27, 2019, 03:24:07 AM »
I like games.

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Creations & Ephemera / Re: Coming full circle: A new podcast for the MinMax community.
« on: January 26, 2019, 03:14:59 AM »
Let me know when the first episode drops, and I'll totally subscribe. 

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Small Rants Thread XII: The Folly of Life
« on: January 26, 2019, 03:13:41 AM »
Quote from: oslecamo on January 25, 2019, 05:12:20 PM
Or would you rather we become the forum where one guy stands above every rule and drives away anybody wanting to join the community?

I'd rather be the forum that takes in people even if they got banned elsewhere.  That's how BrilliantGameologists started in the first place.
There's plenty of places where any given newbie would be welcome, but not very many where people like SorO would be. 

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Small Rants Thread XII: The Folly of Life
« on: January 24, 2019, 03:10:49 AM »
Quote from: oslecamo on January 24, 2019, 12:31:47 AM
Quote from: Kuroimaken on January 23, 2019, 11:04:20 PM
Quote from: linklord231 on January 23, 2019, 10:48:11 PM
Can we like, take a vote on this?   :blush
SorO may be a dick, but he's our dick.  And you shouldn't cut your dick off.
And that's kind of one of those lines you never expect to read.

Though in a way, I suppose I can back this up. I mean, I used to be a huge dick in these forums myself. SorO is pretty tactless, but I don't think he's actively malicious.

Thing is, you greatly improved. Soro didn't. He actually kept getting worst. And consider yourself lucky you didn't end in his direct line of fire, because he did actively start to get extremely malicious.

As the mods pointed out, it wasn't a sudden thing, it was the piling up of years of ignoring multiple warning from the people he directly attacked.

And if his ban is revoked, he'll only become worst. He'll consider that there was absolutely nothing with his behavior after all and only keep escalating it even faster.

Fair.  Still, it feels somehow wrong. Like we're betraying our principles.

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Off Topic Fun / Re: The Small Rants Thread XII: The Folly of Life
« on: January 23, 2019, 10:48:11 PM »
Can we like, take a vote on this?   :blush
SorO may be a dick, but he's our dick.  And you shouldn't cut your dick off. 

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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: What was this item called? Vaguely remembered delevel + restore XP exploit
« on: January 19, 2019, 03:57:39 AM »
Wait so according to the FAQ, if you get level drained and then kill monsters to gain XP, you could level up in any class, but if you use Restoration you must make the same choices you did before?  That doesn't make a lot of sense. 
What's supposed to happen if you get level drained, gain a level by XP, and then get a Restoration? 

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Other Games / Re: Videogame Discussion III - Snake Eater
« on: December 01, 2018, 01:07:00 AM »
Smash Ultimate leaked early. 
It's pretty fun.

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