Min/Max Boards

Melee builds that play like AoE spells. I.e: Whirlwind Attack. Except are there any other similar kinds of options? Like hitting everything you move past or whatever.




Or is there any methods of gaining a full attack action without using a fullround action?
Because I just noticed Whirlwind Attack doesn't actually require a fullround action, simply activating in place of a fullattack action.

Fun fact of the day.

Has anyone ever heard of Aether Gloves? They're supposedly a pair of gloves that can be enchanted as a normal weapon; for unarmed fighting builds and whatnot.

I have a player who had them on his sheet and supposedly found them at one point in time in some source somewhere, but has never been able to find them again and never labeled the source. I know there's plenty of items that do this same thing but I'm rather curious myself if these are something that exist between D&D or PF.

Unless they were accidentally pulled from a non-d&d source without even noticing 

What are they?

The question is in regards to a build I've been thinking about today. It's pretty stupid, but I got really interested in making a Ray specialized caster but by not using Ray spells, but Touch spells enhanced with the Reach Spell Metamagic and a MM reduction or two to make it free to apply. Maybe some help with the actual build could be helpful too? If there is room enough to get a bit more Gishy with it, the 30ft range of Reach Spell could open up a little Sneak Attack abuse too if we're just casually mixing these things.

Does the free AoO from this feat trigger when somebody already Grappling you tries to make a Grapple check to break free from the Grapple?

Stupid question, I know 
But a Grapple check is an attempt to Grapple you regardless of going in or out, no?

I've been mulling over a Bard Necromancer idea for the longest time, but in all my time I haven't really come across anything that would do it...

How can I make a Bard into a Necromancer without just being a Bard with levels in some other [real] arcane casting base class?

Bonus points is getting Bardic Music effects to work on mindless undead!

Does the bonus from Osyluth Guile (+Cha as Dodge bonus to AC when Fighting Defensively) stack with the Dodge bonus Fighting Defensively normally grants for a total of 2+Cha Dodge bonus to AC when Fighting Defensively (against 1 opponent's melee attacks at least for the feat's restrictions) ?

Has anyone made some and posted them around on the internet already?

Any ideas if not?

Got some of your own?

I need some for an epic artificer with literally no other options worth taking. Because an artificer can already do everything

Most of my ideas revolve around spells related to Constructs (Like a Summon Construct to backlog into already available spell levels and run thru 9th like Summon Monster, Mass repair spells, superior versions of the Wall spells to construct largescale barricades or even small fortresses to emulate some battlefield control, maybe something for bringing about the big guns i.e. siege weaponry, a spell to actually revive constructs or at least revive them if cast within a certain amount of time after being dropped to 0 or less HP like Revivify or w/e, ect ect)

That's right, Him. The one so sinister, so evil, so scary, so horribly vile that his real name can never be said, thus striking fear into the hearts of men.

I've had Him stuck in my head all day and now I want to be terrible and gather opinions on what kind of build Him would have as a D&D character. I'm also fairly sleep deprived at the moment and thus never really got past thinking about what race Him might be and I kept coming back to Tiefling but I've no doubt there has to be something more appropriate. Any published book, Dragon Magazine, homebrew shtick or whatever. Please avoid Pathfinder like the plague that it is, that is my only caveat.

Him is quite prone to screwing with people's minds and seems to have a heavy focus in enchantments, but more often than not these merely play out as an appetizer far from the main course. He also seems to dabble in some decent summoning of giant monsters. When provoked he is easily capable of going heavy melee mode and vastly increasing his size and overall power. Also capable of altering his form and/or polymorphing at will into any many of creature. Pretty much a somewhat amazing enchanter/evocation(evoker?) with a casual interest in summoning, capable of flipping the switch to hard mode and jumping right into the midst of melee with little effort. Um, and clearly lesser diety at worst. And can we throw in some Gestalt rules in the off chance I want to use this in a super heavily themed demon infested apocalyptic world? Because that suddenly just became a serious idea for me with actual plausibility in late game which would probably be near epic if not low epic.


For those not caught on yet, I'm talking about Him.

Please & Thank you!
And again, I'm pretty sleep deprived so either I'm posting this in the wrong place or I'm lacking information, please tell me