Min/Max Boards

We need homebrew feat called tastesight.

*lick*  "ok, there is a ninja right there. He tastes like chicken."

-K

Really, Kevin.  If you invoke "realism" this is what should be happening.

Realistic DM: "OK, you want bikini chainmail.  Wear it into combat.  With steel blades and arrows.  No, no one in right mind wear anything like that in realistic combat.  You don't get to have your character wear those.  At all.  Next."

As soon as you invoke "Bikini Chainmail", you are throwing out any semblance of realism and reason outta window.  Give it up.  It's all about campy-ness at that point.  It's just too silly to trying to have "reasonable" and "bikini chainmail" fit together.

-K

So, I had a wizard (Level 8) who has been carrying a runestaff, and looking at it.  Realized these things are also useful for wizards (I thought they were mostly Sorcerer thing).

One thing I realized, is that it can be used to "Burn left over spells" at the end of the day.  Much the same way Clerics can do so to turn them into Cure spells.

A couple of obvious ones were Rope Trick and Alarm...If those were on the Runestaff, the Glitterdust and Grease that didn't get used during the day can be turned into them.

Another one was Quick Potion.  Extend it, put Extended Darkvision or Mage Armor or whatnot that are Hours/CL, and when he wakes up, drink the potion to have those spells running next day.

Also, realized Mnemonic Enhancer, because the spell prepared with that particular spell lasts for 24 hours, can be pushed into *next* day.

Any other spell that's good to be put into runestaff?  I'd love:

Spells like Quick Potion and Mnemonic Enhancer (rather than spells Explosive Runes where we can just horde over time) that can be used to "Push spells for next day"
Level 3 spells

Thanks!

-K

I had suggested that it could mean Totally Overpowered, and have been told that's an acceptable meaning, too.

Well, another  reason why they are "Theoretical Optimization", is because there's also PO/"Practical Optimization", where, we build a character, say, a Swift Hunter build, who, simply, functions better than clumsily put together, and is perfectly reasonable (and most likely *actually* be played in real games).  So these terms together hand-in-hand.

-K

Meh, there used to be a thread back at old WotC CO board for a compilation of CO terms (CO = Character Optimization)...apparently they are long gone.

Searches on Brilliantgameologists.com also yields more than a thread, asking about "Dictionary" and such.  Maybe we should work on one?

-K

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Armor Spikes

You can have spikes added to your armor, which allow you to deal extra piercing damage (see Table: Weapons) on a successful grapple attack. The spikes count as a martial weapon. If you are not proficient with them, you take a -4 penalty on grapple checks when you try to use them. You can also make a regular melee attack (or off-hand attack) with the spikes, and they count as a light weapon in this case. (You can’t also make an attack with armor spikes if you have already made an attack with another off-hand weapon, and vice versa.) ...

Okay, so assume a 5th level Human fighter with Str 18.
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Presumably you could also decide to attack with the armor spikes, but at a -4 (because you are "attacking your opponent," so you'd attack at +5, for 1d6+4 lethal damage, correct?

Eh...why at +5?  If you are not proficient with them, you take -4.  But since it count as martial weapon, won't fighters (who are proficient with all martial weapons) attack at +9?

-K

Well, also, FoM let "enables you or a creature you touch to move and attack normally for the duration of the spell", so...whether you let the abishai "escape" from the rope bindings is up to you as a DM, I think, but abishai should be able to move and attack normally (Maybe taking the rope with him, or maybe escaping...)

-K

I looked in the sunder-chapter in the PHB, but it wasnt directly mentioned:
How does sundering change if I disarm a character first and then hit the weapon lying on the ground ?

I believe (Not explicitly written, I don't think) that sundering is used to an object that is "in control" of someone/some creature (Attended object).  When you try to damage/break an unattended object like that, on the ground, it should be covered under the rule "Smashing an Object"

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/exploration.htm#smashinganObject

-K

Just realized something else my players could have done to help one of them (and the DMPC/NPC) see the shadow creature.  The druid could have wildshaped in a dire bat.  I'm going to allow him a knowledge: nature check to think of it next session (which especially fits, because now they will have a ~10 round lull in combat, so they'll actually have time to think.)

Alas, that doesn't work.

[quote arthor=SRD]Wildshape (Su)...This ability functions like the alternate form special ability...[/quote]

And if you dig into here for the Alternate Form (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/specialAbilities.htm#alternateForm) there's a list of stuff that it gains, but it does not mention (Ex) that's *not* a special attack...in general, you don't get the sensory EX stuff with Wildshape.

-K

it doesn't do much. i wonder if the end it early bit is actually in the old shapeshifter class from masters of the wild. i seem to recall that clause from somewhere too, but i am not remembering exactly where. maybe the polymorph errata?

As I mentioned, in the case of "Polymorph Subschool" (Which, I guess, never made it to PHB Errata, but studded throughout the later splat books like PHB2, and maybe SpC? <- haven't checked), there is a specific rule about that entire subschool.

Maybe it's got updated on Rules Compendium too?  I don't have that book.

-K