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« Reply #740 on: February 09, 2021, 12:13:33 PM »
Quote from: Races of the Wild, page 132
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Stormtalons traditionally wield spears in combat, and the
organization has accumulated quite an arsenal of magic spears
over the years. PCs who want a magic spear can get one for
80% of its normal cost if they contact the stormtalons and
request one. Acquiring a spear this way takes one week per
point of enhancement bonus (or equivalent if the spear has
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« Reply #741 on: June 17, 2021, 04:59:11 PM »
I hadn't seen anyone specifically note this

For an Abyssal Specialist Wizard, who then goes on to adopt a method to add [evil] to their spells

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Benefit: You are considered specialized, but not in a specific school. Rather, you gain all the benefits of specialization with a group of spells that includes all those of the following subschools and/or descriptors: chaotic, compulsion, darkness, evil, and fear. You gain all the standard benefits of specialization as applied to this group of spells, as though it were a school unto itself.

Abyssal is now a school for them, they can presumably then stack up DC/CL as such

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Spell Focus (Abyssal)
Greater Spell Focus (Abyssal)
Tattoo Focus (Abyssal)
Spell Focus (Evil)
Malign Spell Focus
Fiendish Heritage + Fiendish Power
Nocturnal Caster (Abyssal)

Trait
Spellgifted (Abyssal)

As well as the school for Metamagic School Focus

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« Reply #742 on: June 17, 2021, 09:29:48 PM »
Ghostwalk has cheaper paper
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[...] Tereppekian Paper: The people of Tereppek have developed a method of making paper from vegetable pulp, which is cheaper and faster than the cloth-fiber paper created elsewhere. A single piece of paper is about four times the size of a single page from a spellbook
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Tereppekian paper (sheet) 1 sp *
Tereppekian blank book 3 gp 3 lb.
Tereppekian spellbook 10 gp 3 lb.

Normally this wouldn't be of note since it's explicitly tied to a single obscure and unpopular campaign setting, but it's actually usable in a far more popular setting due to one quasi-rule.

Quote from: Eberron Campaign Setting page 8
1. If it exists in D&D, then it has a place in Eberron

So yes, your Eberron characters can now save a significant amount of starting cash.

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« Reply #743 on: June 18, 2021, 06:53:06 AM »
I hadn't seen anyone specifically note this

For an Abyssal Specialist Wizard, who then goes on to adopt a method to add [evil] to their spells

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Benefit: You are considered specialized, but not in a specific school. Rather, you gain all the benefits of specialization with a group of spells that includes all those of the following subschools and/or descriptors: chaotic, compulsion, darkness, evil, and fear. You gain all the standard benefits of specialization as applied to this group of spells, as though it were a school unto itself.

Abyssal is now a school for them, they can presumably then stack up DC/CL as such

Feat
Spell Focus (Abyssal)
Greater Spell Focus (Abyssal)
Tattoo Focus (Abyssal)
Spell Focus (Evil)
Malign Spell Focus
Fiendish Heritage + Fiendish Power
Nocturnal Caster (Abyssal)

Trait
Spellgifted (Abyssal)

As well as the school for Metamagic School Focus

I'm not sure this works. The ability says it functions as if it were a school, not turning it into a school. It's a real stretch to see that changing the way that the rest of game approaches spell schools.

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« Reply #744 on: December 01, 2021, 03:17:45 AM »
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Though it's less hardy than a wight (2HD instead of 4, +1 BAB instead of +2, 13hp instead of 26, +2 NAC instead of +4), it's a 3rd level spell (rather than 5th for summon undead V), not a summon, stays under control (caster readies an action to call it off if it's about to get too many attacks against a target), doesn't create spawn, and gets at least 2 claw attacks on a full attack instead of 1 slam, and the damage per attack is the same. In fact, it's been suggested that the caster could choose any 2HD Humanoid as the skeleton... with phaerlock (Und, 97) a strong contender with 15 Str, and 12 Dex (after adjusting for skel), plus a secondary bite attack, for 2 claws at +3, and a bite at -2, each causing neg levels...

What caught my attention is that it's the lowest level spell that gives negative levels that I've found/seen; it can give reasonably controllable negative levels to remove pesky RHD and such... at 5th level. And a scroll of it is reasonably cheap at 375GP...
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« Reply #745 on: December 05, 2021, 02:01:28 PM »
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/all-spells/w/wicker-horse/

It's an improved version of mount with lesser duration, longer casting time and mild environmental requirements, but note these bits
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A wicker horse has the statistics of a light horse or a pony, except it gains construct traits and counts as both an animal and a construct for the purposes of spells and effects. It gains a number of extra hit points equal to your caster level. It has no skills or feats except as noted below.
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A horse made of grasses gains the Run feat and a number of Acrobatics ranks equal to your caster level

A grass horse can run indefinitely thanks to being a construct, and runs at 5x speed thanks to the run feat. It's a pretty nice option for overland movement at this level.

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« Reply #746 on: December 19, 2021, 01:48:30 PM »
Hello, didn't fancy opening a topic for just a quick question. Is there an enchant or an item that grant an extra readied maneuver (for a warblade) from the tome of battle?
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« Reply #747 on: December 19, 2021, 02:24:31 PM »
My son's running a game for me, and I decided to play a mad goblin bomber... and look what I found!!
https://www.d20pfsrd.com/races/other-races/featured-races/arg-goblin/winged-marauder-goblin-alchemist/
The lost class skills sucks... but hey... it's PF. It's just a +3 bonus. Trading out Mr. Hyde to get a giant bat/buzzard totally seems worth it, though.
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« Reply #748 on: January 11, 2022, 01:12:50 PM »
This is probably not that awe-inspiring, but I was rummaging through some things and wound up at the Exalted Arcanist and looked at the wording of the class abilities.

First, their access to the Exalted spell list. It is written for sorcerers, so the spells are added to their list, but they do not get "access" to them, they can only select them. As warmages, beguilers, and the like did not yet exist, it was not written with them in mind, so it contradicts itself for them.
But let us say they get the whole spell list outright the way they should.

Second, and better, is the other 1st level class ability they get. They lose a caster level advancement, but they add 2 spells to their list of known spells. For warmages and such, this is 2 free advanced learnings, with no limits.

So yes, the prestige class requires two less than spectacular metamagic feats, but for certain peculiar builds coming online at 7th level, like a beguiler with back-up blasting, it would work.

Oh, and as a bonus, just to get books thrown at you and you thrown out a window, I checked dread necromancer. They do not have an "ex-dread necromancer" section. So with some extreme chicanery, one could "give up their evil ways", become an exalted arcanist, get all the extra spells, and consecrate and purify his vampiric touch spells all day long. Just to be warped and twisted!

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« Reply #749 on: January 11, 2022, 01:23:49 PM »
Oh, and as a bonus, just to get books thrown at you and you thrown out a window, I checked dread necromancer. They do not have an "ex-dread necromancer" section. So with some extreme chicanery, one could "give up their evil ways", become an exalted arcanist, get all the extra spells, and consecrate and purify his vampiric touch spells all day long. Just to be warped and twisted!
An exalted character with Rebuke/Command Undead.  That does have some interesting implications.
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« Reply #750 on: January 29, 2022, 12:19:53 AM »
Here is an interesting one...

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Uncanny Accuracy [Epic]
Prerequisites: Dex 21, base attack bonus +11, Point Blank Shot, Precise Shot, Improved Precise Shot, Spot 20 ranks.
Benefit: The character’s ranged attacks ignore the miss chance granted to targets by total concealment.  The character must aim his or her attacks at the correct square to gain advantage of this feat.
Normal: Without this feat, characters suffer a 50% miss chance when making a ranged attack against a target with total concealment.
Special: A character with at least 11 levels of ranger can qualify for this feat even if he or she does not have the prerequisites for it, but can only use it when wearing light or no armor.

Well, what do I say? An epic feat that any 11th level ranger can take, any time after level 11 as there appears to be no limitation on which prerequisites you do not have to have, including epic itself. What is this, return of 2nd edition rangers or something?  :lmao
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« Reply #751 on: April 07, 2022, 06:51:48 PM »
Spelljam from Kyrnn to Toril and you could try to stop Karsus from tearing the Weave using Time Reaver (High Sorcery Dragonlance book).

Imagine dropping that bomb on a GM
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« Reply #752 on: April 21, 2022, 08:11:59 PM »
RAW (but certainly not RAI), high level Swordsages are slightly better than we thought.
- Improved Evasion (17th level) lacks any clauses about requiring light or no armor, unlike their Evasion ability. Arguably, its half damage on a failed save applies on any Reflex save not just one for half damage. Unlike the Rogue's Improved Evasion ability, which specifies that it works like Evasion except for the reduced damage on a failed save, and the Monk's Improved Evasion, which specifies that it improves the existing evasion, the Swordsage version does not specify any connection to the basic Evasion ability (although it's definitely implied).
- Dual Boost (20th level) lets you initiate a boost as a free action whenever you initiate a boost, and doesn't specify that it can't trigger off of a free action boost from Dual Boost, letting you go nova with all 3 of its daily uses at once for 4 boosts in a single turn.

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« Reply #753 on: May 25, 2022, 08:30:23 PM »
Ecalypse (Manual of the Planes p.170f):
You'll need to catch one in the wild, grapple it (or make it helplessthrough magic) and then break it with a Ride check DC30.  From then on, you can use it to turn incorporeal at will (plus a few other choice abilities like a daily plane-shift and several daily shadow walks).
CR9, travels in herds of 4d6 creatures and is randomly encountered in the Plane of Shadows with a chance of 2%, so with the Track feat and a suitable environment in the Plane of Shadows you should be a able to track one down eventually.

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« Reply #754 on: June 30, 2022, 02:50:44 PM »
Cave dinosaurs from Minatures Handbook are interesting, especially for Druids.  For example, the Cave Tyrannosaurus gives you Swallow Whole as a 9HD large animal and can swallow anything 2 sizes smaller than itself.

But where things get really interesting is the mutations.  While Wild Shape can't normally let you take on a templated version of an animal, these mutations are not templates, but rather natural variations.

Notable ones include poison, wings (50ft, poor maneuverability), +6 Str, +6 Con, +6 Dex, and Resistance 20 to two of cold, electricity, or fire.  You only get one of these options, but it's still some significant flexibility added by just a couple of forms.
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« Reply #755 on: July 01, 2022, 12:37:00 PM »
cave anky has a solid natural armor for the HD and being an animal
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« Reply #756 on: July 24, 2022, 02:51:45 PM »
It's a decent investment to get there, but a character with 6 levels in the Elocutor prestige class gets Teleport and Plane Shift as 3rd level powers.  Normally these are 5th level powers.  Definitely some ways to abuse this between cheaper items and methods of sharing powers.
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« Reply #757 on: July 28, 2022, 02:03:51 PM »
It's a decent investment to get there, but a character with 6 levels in the Elocutor prestige class gets Teleport and Plane Shift as 3rd level powers.  Normally these are 5th level powers.  Definitely some ways to abuse this between cheaper items and methods of sharing powers.
Yes. Monk (variant that gets the prereqs as bonus feats... was that Cobra Strike?)/Ardent multiclass with a liberal interpretation of Practiced Spellcaster interaction with Ardent is a great way to build towards this.
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« Reply #758 on: September 15, 2022, 02:58:26 PM »
not sure if this ever came up...

there's a ton of Time spells in Tower of High Sorcery and Legend of the Twins, several repeats copies.

Timereaver is a true time walking spell, but the price is pretty high (unless you buy an expensive ass scroll). only certain races can actually change things.

Arcane Staff spells are pretty neat from Tower of High Sorcery

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This spell was missing from my Spell list, and reminded me of the Time Reaver spell.... Teleport Through Time
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« Reply #759 on: December 24, 2022, 12:33:10 AM »


This spell was missing from my Spell list, and reminded me of the Time Reaver spell.... Teleport Through Time

Well done!