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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: Is a powerful top-crust of playable options depriving the game of variability?
« on: March 26, 2012, 07:51:47 PM »
Maybe sometimes you can go so far in absolute power with non-optimal options, that it doesn't matter?

I've built a ridiculously overpowered Psion, so many actions per round he can't even fill them all with manifesting because he doesn't have enough pp to manifest 80 powers at full augments.  It's not anywhere near as powerful as my previous Incantatrix, but still has so many IWIN options it's a good thing I don't try to break the campaign.

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D&D 3.5 and Pathfinder / Re: How much "Tier 1 Awesome" do you get to use in your games?
« on: March 26, 2012, 05:31:31 PM »
The most ridiculously broken things I've done were more plot-level background events than actually noticeable, really.

In an Epic campaign, I had a Grey Elf Wizard/Incantatrix/Spellguard/Archmage/IotSFV, who once took a few clerics and Paladins and prepared a zone of buffing for a half-million strong army.  Pulled it off by spamming Persistent Time Stops.

Then I re-used the combo when the character was promoted to Death's little helper, basically getting to be the judge of the dead with a backlog of centuries. So I said she'd "cast Time Stop, maximize Time Stop, persist it, extend it, then quicken it from the inside so that it expires before it's finished being cast,  so that I can do it more times per round of real time", thereby accelerating time by about 86400 times, so that she could judge all the dead in under the decade she was given to do it. When the DM did the math, she was about a hundred times faster than she'd need to really take the time to do it well.  So in that case, well, anything less would not have been enough, but it was ridiculously too much all the same.


An other character, last night, pulled off a moment of nano-bot'ing, too. My Psion manifested Fission, then both clones manifested Metamorphosis, sharing with their Psicrystals (of which both have two), so all four psicrystals shapechanged into clones of my character. Then two psicrystals manifested Astral Construct. Then both Psions did the same. Then we were ten ... to search a room. (Well it was a really big room...)

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Cloistered Cleric Optimization
« on: February 06, 2012, 07:32:47 AM »
One level of Commoner?

As for Versatile Spellcaster, that's exactly what it does. "You can use two spell slots of the same level to cast a spell you know that is one level higher."  Verbatim and straightforward.

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: Cloistered Cleric Optimization
« on: February 05, 2012, 09:57:15 PM »
Cloistered Cleric 1, ACF : Spontaneous Domain Casting (replaces cure/inflict), Domains : Knowledge (free), Planning (free Extend), Spells (Yay Anyspell), Feat 1 : Versatile Spellcaster (RotD), requires to be able to cast spells spontaneously, and you can cast any spell you know for slots of one level lower, Feat 2 : whatever
Wizard 1, any ACF you might want to trade for your familiar, scribe scroll, bonus wizard feats you won't have anyway, or one specialist slot (out of three if you take Focused Specialist).
You now qualify for Mystic Theurge.
Scribe spells in your spellbook (or take Eidetic Spellcaster for the cost of both the familiar and Scribe Scroll. Worth it as hell. "I can cast any spell in the PHB with only my mind."). You have both Anyspells. Take Transmutable Memory as a High Transmuter, too (for the cost of one specialist slot per spell level) - you can cast any spell in the game pretty much spontaneously.

This could be optimized a whole lot further. Any ideas?

As far as salad goes, Human, no Flaws, Cloistered Cleric 1 / Wizard 1 / Mystic Theurge 10 / any 1 is not very complicated IMO. I'd do Archmage next, to keep it simple, or find some way to go for Iot7V or Incantatrix or such.

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Min/Max 3.x / Re: What spells to persist with Incantatrix? Magic item suggestions? (cleaned up)
« on: November 21, 2011, 06:48:48 PM »
Correct me if I'm wrong, but you can chain the effects of your spells, too, with access to the necessary metamagic. So you can cast your list of buffs on yourself, then chain the spell effects on the party.

Now, an interesting feature of Initiate of the Sevenfold Veil is that the Veils are Spell-like. That means they count as spell effects, so you can chain your persisted personal "stop everything" effect on your whole party, and their cohorts, companions and such.

As for Dispelling that, yeah, no. Selective anti-magic field (Spellguard), Persisted, Chained : I win.

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Introduce Yourself / Corwin
« on: November 09, 2011, 10:58:10 AM »
Hello, I'm a player.

My favorite game is role-playing, favorite setting is WH40K, favorite system is White Wolf d10s.

Other hobbies?  Making sound (will graduate to "music" when good enough), reading.

Job : perpetual student in Computer Science.

Also part of : local game store RPG club, GiantITP.

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