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UMD 1/day spike , useful ?
« on: November 29, 2016, 04:28:01 PM »
This feat has been noticed before, but largely ignored.

Magic Device Attunement
Prerequisite Use Magic Device 1 ranks
If you successfully activate an item with the Use Magic Device skill, you can take a free action to attune yourself to the item. For the next 24 hours, you can activate that item without making further Use Magic Device checks. You can attune yourself to only one item at a time. If you attune yourself to a second item, the previous attunement ends.

Warlock Info guide says Warlocks don't need it.
2 threads at BG vaguely discuss, with my-old-school weenie filter triggers.
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=993
http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=12205

Version 1 --- you do it once, you get a free pass.  No big deal, let's move on.
Version 2 ... what happens to the UMD check # itself?  Is that the number that's carried forward (so to speak)?  In which case, it's possibly near T.O.-ish.  If the check # is not carried forward, you're back to Version 1 with an uncomfortably large handwave necessary for whatever it does, to work.


** For purposes of this thread, I'm going with Version 2 = the check number is carried forward.


So there's 2 separate questions :

1) ... what to use it for, like The Word
Caster Level substitute is obvious, as is Augmentation.
Linked metapsi + PsyChiurgery + exp is a river = abusive fun.

2) ... how to get that 1/day spike number, when that sort of thing has never been Opt before (except Omni or Nanobots)
iirc the UMD build record was around 230 ; provided someone has a copy saved from multiple board-pocalypses.
The casually easy focused UMD number is :  Take 10 + 23 ranks + 13 stat mod + 23 item familiar + 15 bard 1 spell + 20 cleric 2 spell = 107
Both of these are not 1/day spikes, rather more often usable consistent numbers.

Any ideas for the build, and for using it  :???
Your codpiece is a mimic.

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Re: UMD 1/day spike , useful ?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2016, 05:16:34 PM »
the Yak Folk UMD trick is different.
Use Staff (Ex): A yak folk can use any magic staff.  This ability is similar to the Use Magic Device skill except that it applies only to magic staffs and the yak folk does not require a skill check.

There is no UMD check made at all, and no need for 1 or more than 1.

Compare to the MDA feat, where there is an actual check, and then you don't need to make more checks, even though normally you would.

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UMD record https://web.archive.org/web/20080214234227/http://forums.gleemax.com/showthread.php?t=541165

Solo (trolling but quite tastefully) http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=8270.0

recent overlapping thread http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=17728.msg317825#msg317825
« Last Edit: December 04, 2016, 01:42:23 PM by awaken_D_M_golem »
Your codpiece is a mimic.