Fun Finds v4.0

[sirpercival]

This is more a hilarious find than a "fun" one. Another example of the D&D designers being very poor at their job.

The template should grant two special abilities in addition to divine endurance. You can add a third if that ability has little direct effect on combat. The Vecna-blooded template provides a good example of such an ability with its cloak of mystery. The cloak adds some interesting story elements to the creature, but it has little effect during a fight.

Emphasis mine.  So... one of the most powerful abilities in the game has little effect on a fight? You mean... the fact that (a) you can get it for free by gaining and then losing the template; (b) it is essential for long-term survival in high-level play; and especially (c) it can give you nigh-unbeatable invisibility, negating true seeing completely... means it's mostly flavorful story elements?

I just really don't know what to say. I read that and started laughing.

True sight isn't attempting to divine information about a specific being. You can see an Vecno-blooded creature with it even if you can't figure out who it is.

A creature's position and what it looks like are certainly pieces of information about that creature. Nothing in Cloak of Mystery says anything about requiring the effect to be specific to the VB creature.

[zook1shoe]

Summon Giants + Ambient Tempest = Eternal Wand of Summon Giants

[ksbsnowowl]

Summon Giants + Ambient Tempest = Eternal Wand of Summon Giants

[zook1shoe]

Its a PrC in Bestiary of Krynn that, at 3rd level, you can reverse an Enlarge, Extend, or Widen Spell to decrease the spell level by 1. Only can be -1 per spell.

[Maat Mons]

Necklace of soul switching (Dragon 294, p77) is interesting. 

You'd be right to point out that the function of this item, putting you into a new body permanently, can already be accomplished by true mind switch or by a combination of mind switch and astral seed (I think that's how that goes).  Those methods, though, don't work if the body you want to get into has more hit dice than you manifester level, and they don't give you the supernatural abilities of the new body. 

The necklace has its own limitations.  The soul to be transferred can only be up to 20th level.  The price tag comes in at a hefty 326,000 gp.  It's actually dangerous for you if the target isn't willing or under your control, so it will forfeit its save.  But, and I can't stress this enough, there's no hit die cap for the body, and you gain its supernatural abilities, both attacks and qualities. 

One application is getting yourself into the tarrasque's body without needing any shenanigans to reduce its hit dice or massively boost your manifester level.  Chronotyryn (Fiend Folio, p33) is already an option for shapechange, but this way you can walk around as a chronotyryn all day without finding a way to squeeze in persistent spell, and you don't have to worry about dispel. 

[zook1shoe]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equal
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

[Maat Mons]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

Now that you mention it, since a necklace of soul switching isn't used up in any way when you transfer a soul with it, someone with mercantile background could buy it for 75% of market price, use it, then sell it for 75% market price. 

[zook1shoe]

NICE

[brujon]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equal
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Wow... That's so broken it's not even funny. The spell explicitly states that there is NO LIMIT. You can continue the madness forever. Just... Just no. The way this spell is worded, you can create Undead-Pun, you just need an arbitrarily large number of actions and a sure-fire way of getting an arbitrarily large caster level for at least one round, in which you cast animate dead.

[Bastian]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equal
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Wow... That's so broken it's not even funny. The spell explicitly states that there is NO LIMIT. You can continue the madness forever. Just... Just no. The way this spell is worded, you can create Undead-Pun, you just need an arbitrarily large number of actions and a sure-fire way of getting an arbitrarily large caster level for at least one round, in which you cast animate dead.

It does have an explicit limit: "Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence modifier into one composite body". So without infinite stats, you can't make Un-Pun.

[brujon]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equalAround Wikia's network
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Wow... That's so broken it's not even funny. The spell explicitly states that there is NO LIMIT. You can continue the madness forever. Just... Just no. The way this spell is worded, you can create Undead-Pun, you just need an arbitrarily large number of actions and a sure-fire way of getting an arbitrarily large caster level for at least one round, in which you cast animate dead.

It does have an explicit limit: "Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence modifier into one composite body". So without infinite stats, you can't make Un-Pun.

Make other composite bodies, a composite body is still a body that can be added to another composite body. It's semantics, but if we're doing TO, it's par for course.

[Captnq]

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equal
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Undead Human CENTIPEDE!

[ksbsnowowl]

Necklace of soul switching (Dragon 294, p77) is interesting. 

You'd be right to point out that the function of this item, putting you into a new body permanently, can already be accomplished by true mind switch or by a combination of mind switch and astral seed (I think that's how that goes).  Those methods, though, don't work if the body you want to get into has more hit dice than you manifester level, and they don't give you the supernatural abilities of the new body. 

The necklace has its own limitations.  The soul to be transferred can only be up to 20th level.  The price tag comes in at a hefty 326,000 gp.  It's actually dangerous for you if the target isn't willing or under your control, so it will forfeit its save.  But, and I can't stress this enough, there's no hit die cap for the body, and you gain its supernatural abilities, both attacks and qualities. 

One application is getting yourself into the tarrasque's body without needing any shenanigans to reduce its hit dice or massively boost your manifester level.  Chronotyryn (Fiend Folio, p33) is already an option for shapechange, but this way you can walk around as a chronotyryn all day without finding a way to squeeze in persistent spell, and you don't have to worry about dispel.

for those looking for a more official* source than Dragon, Expedition to Castle Ravenloft has an item that makes Magic Jar permanent.  Just an FYI.

[Tohron]

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equal
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Impressive.  Wonder whether the current wording about adding natural attacks of the base creature means that if you merge five creatures with natural attacks, the composite can make ALL of those natural attacks.  At any rate, the uncapped scaling of this spell can get pretty crazy - Improved Movement could theoretically make one of these things faster than Chuck E. Cheese (pre errata), and just adding Improved Toughness a bunch of times to a high HD composite could create a ludicrous mountain of HP.

Getting the spell could be problematic, but I think that as long as you know it exists, you could use Wish to get a scroll of it.

Also, I think this might give Pun Pun a few more true infinities.

Wonder if there's a way to throw this into an Affinity Field loop via a dead symbiont or something...

[Kethrian]

Improved Toughness isn't one of those feats that can be taken multiple times, unfortunately.

Also, does a single round boost to CL help at all when a spell's casting time is 4+ hours?

[zook1shoe]

More...
Moment of Travesty... Drop a bunch of creatures into no-time. Only freedom can end it, which deals 3d6 Int/Wis/Cha damage

Obfuscate... Really powerful anti-divination shield

Spirit Guard... Bind a ghost based on a dead body to any object or room. You can choose to bind it forever and it cannot attack you and any creatures you specify.

yeah? I'll have a little baggie of ghost marbles

[altpersona]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equal
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Wow... That's so broken it's not even funny. The spell explicitly states that there is NO LIMIT. You can continue the madness forever. Just... Just no. The way this spell is worded, you can create Undead-Pun, you just need an arbitrarily large number of actions and a sure-fire way of getting an arbitrarily large caster level for at least one round, in which you cast animate dead.

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I'll repost it here, since i figured it is awesome for abuse.

Feral Rearing, feat from Champions of Darkness (Ravenloft supplement). It overrides your type, changing to animal. Has absolutely no pre-reqs. Taken at level 1 (doesn't actually requires you to, but it makes a lot of sense.). Let me say that again: it overrides whatever type you were before? Undead, Aberration, Living Construct, Construct, Fey... Doesn't matter, changes to animal, period. Have you ever thought about making a Tauric Creature using another Tauric Creature as a basis? Now you can. Apply the Tauric Template ad-infinitum, by combining a creature that has the feat with one that doesn't, until satisfaction. Magebred and Warbeast? Ding! Now available to PC's. I don't even want to talk about the fact that you can have, say, outsider RHD, and still be animal type. It's insane.

just sayin...

[Bastian]

Mercantile Background saves you like 80k

edit:

make your own customized undead!

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Bone Craft (Planescape ch5)
Necromancy
Level: Sor/Wiz 6
Components: S, F, M
Casting Time: At least 4 hours; see text
Range: Touch
Target: Two large or smaller corpses; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: No
Though the Dustmen are hardly a martial order, they must often go to great lengths to defend
their strongholds from thieves and darker creatures seeking the bodies and souls that come into
their care. This spell was developed in order to help them create more powerful undead
guards. Bone craft grafts two corpses together into one, referred to as the composite body.
When animate dead is cast upon the composite body a skeleton or zombie more powerful than
normal is created. This procedure can be performed multiple times, adding more corpses to
the composite body to create a progressively more powerful undead minion. This spell is one of
the faction’s most guarded secrets and is only taught to its dedicated members; anyone that
leaves the Dustmen is expected to destroy any copies of it they may possess
This spell improves the animated creature in several ways. Its total number of Hit Dice is equalAround Wikia's network
to the highest of the two base creature’s Hit Dice plus half of the second’s (rounded up) plus 1.
Furthermore, after combining three corpses of the same size a composite body one size larger
is produced with the increased natural armor and natural attack damage appropriate to its
size. Thus, grafting three medium corpses with 1 HD each and using animate dead upon it
would create a large skeleton or zombie with 5 HD, and grafting three large corpses with 5 HD
each would create one huge skeleton or zombie with 13 HD. The two corpses that are to be
fused together do not have to be the same size; a medium corpse could be added to a large
composite body and its size would only increase once enough medium corpses had been added
to it.
The composite body automatically possesses all weapon proficiencies, feats, and subtypes that
the base bodies would have once animate dead was cast upon it. You may also choose to give it
any natural attacks of the base creatures, such as claw or bite attacks. More importantly, every
use of bone craft allows you to grant the composite body two abilities from the list below. This
is the true utility behind this spell, for with the proper grafting and stitching the undead creature created can threaten even skilled warriors. These abilities are cumulative over
multiple castings; using bone craft to add a third corpse to composite body would allow you to
add two more abilities in addition to whatever it possessed.
Additional Feat: The body gains a feat of your choosing that it meets the prerequisites for. It
cannot take any feats which require class abilities, Intelligence, or anything else inappropriate
at the DM’s discretion.
Extra Attack: By adding an extra arm, maw, or tail the creature may make an extra secondary
attack each round. It suffers penalties to its secondary attacks as normal, which can be
reduced by the Multiattack feat.
Improved Movement: By adding an extra leg you increase the creature’s base speed by 5 and
grant it a +2 bonus to Jump checks and to resist tripping.
Special Abilities: With the DM’s permission you may invent unusual abilities of your own. For
instance, a zombie may be able to fire its hand at a target as a projectile, or a huge skeleton
may be able to grapple medium or smaller creatures and trap them within its hallow chest. The
DM may decide that such special abilities constitute two or more choices in terms of this spell.
Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence
modifier into one composite body. Each use requires four hours of surgery plus an additional
two for each time the spell has been used on the bodies before. For instance, grafting four
skeletons together would require four hours for the first two, six to add the third, and eight to
add the last.
Material Component: A variety of tools, ointments, and other chemicals worth 500 gp.

Wow... That's so broken it's not even funny. The spell explicitly states that there is NO LIMIT. You can continue the madness forever. Just... Just no. The way this spell is worded, you can create Undead-Pun, you just need an arbitrarily large number of actions and a sure-fire way of getting an arbitrarily large caster level for at least one round, in which you cast animate dead.

It does have an explicit limit: "Bone craft can only be used to combine a number of corpses equal to the caster’s Intelligence modifier into one composite body". So without infinite stats, you can't make Un-Pun.

Make other composite bodies, a composite body is still a body that can be added to another composite body. It's semantics, but if we're doing TO, it's par for course.

No it doesn't work by the semantics. The restriction is based off corpses, not bodies and the spell explicitly defines composite bodies as collections of corpses.

[zook1shoe]

Check out the post above yours

make a Sharn Chronotyryn Chocker Phane

[Bastian]

Check out the post above yours

make a Sharn Chronotyryn Chocker Phane

The post above mine had pretty much nothing to do with the conversation I was having. We were discussion how many corpses could be added together. The post above mine was discussing type changing.

Also, note that the resulting undead does not get all the special qualities of the base bodies.