Fun Finds the 2nd Party Edition

[Jackinthegreen]

It's also referenced in my ACF index, so that ought to aid memory for anyone who has gone through it.

[Cannotthink]

I like fun things. I like Kalamar. I shall share some fun things in Kalamar.

Some feats

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Child of the Earth               KoK Player's Guide
Luck bonus to saves equal to your Con bonus

Commanding Presence/Eyes of Fury   KoK Player's Guide
Get a fear inducing "gaze attack". Stare to scare.

Expert Timing                  KoK Player's Guide
gets rid of that nasty side effect of losing your initiative when you delay. Also explicitly lets you take your turn in the middle of another's action. Heck, the example is basicly "wizard casts spell, actually you run up and smack. no spell for you"

Final Breath                  KoK Player's Guide
Get an AoO when you drop to 0hp or less. I'm sure somebody can set up something to keep dropping below 0hp.

Knock Prone                  KoK Player's Guide
On a crit, knock prone your target. They get a fort save, but it scales with damage.

Push                        KoK Player's Guide
attempt to shove an opponent back 5ft with every attack. there is a fort save, a pitiful flat DC, but this will trigger on EVERY attack

Tough as Nails                  KoK Player's Guide
weapons that strike you take damage. I know, breaking loot is bad; but this is cool. And a DM could be a jerk and throw this on things.

Unerring Strike                  KoK Player's Guide
Inverse Power Attack. Increase your attack roll by decreasing damage.

Extract Information               Villian Design Handbook
Let's call it a mundane zone of truth, a sort of enhanced interrogation.

Lust for Glory                  Villian Design Handbook
Free attack on a crit at your LOWEST attack bonus. Why, just why.

Parry                     Villian Design Handbook
as mentioned before, bears repeating. still kinda cool

Prey on Fears                  Villian Design Handbook
The DCs are weird, but it is fear. Fear is good.

Strike the Innocent               Villian Design Handbook
Coup de Grace anyone "untrained in combat" even if they aren't helpless.

Iron Legs                     Stealth and Style
some varied bonuses, but the most important is adding double your strength bonus to unarmed attacks made with legs.

Trained Basiran               Stealth and Style
free gold, free skill ranks, and the following is the most important benefit: the maximum number of ranks for Perform (dance) is increased by one (to four ranks over current level)

Other things

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Familiar Feats            Villian Design Handbook and KoK Player's Handbook
feats to make your familiar into a greater death machine (explicit feat intent be damned)

Anti-Feats                  Villian Design Handbook
they're like randomly generated flaws, but you get a feat for every two anti-feats.

Darklight Wizard               Villian Design Handbook
Okay, this is a prestige class that has a whole "process" to get in to. It provides a full BAB and 9th level casting over 10 levels and a set of decent abilities. Also, upon entry you lose all of your previous class levels and start of as a level 1 darklight wizard and nothing else. Have fun.

Berserker                     Fury in the Wastelands
this class is for the barbarians. Rage harder, yell at things to make them suck, jump good. You jump real good. Double long jump distance and smack everyone you can reach while jumping good.

[Argent Fatalis]

The World of Warcraft supplement by Sword and Sorcery for 3.0 has some interesting finds.

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Night Elf Race
- +2 Wis, -2 Cha
- Weapon Familiarity: Moonglaives, moon swords and warglaives. (All exotic weapons.)
- +2 Knowledge (Nature) and Survival checks. (Also makes them class skills.)
Notes: So a decently useful elf race with no Constitution penalty and some unique weapon skills.

Gnome Race
- +2 Int, +2 Cha, -2 Str
- +2 to all Craft checks
- +1 to all saves
- Bonus Feat: 1 bonus feat from Tinker class bonus feat list.
Notes: These gnomes make pretty decent spellcasters and crafters, with a nice bonus to saves.

Human Race
- All normal human racial traits.
- +2 racial bonus to saves vs fear
- +2 to Diplomacy, Gather Information, and Knowledge (Nobility and Royalty) checks. (Also makes them class skills.)
- +2 to Craft checks working with mithril
- +1 to attack rolls vs orcs
Notes: As if humans needed to be any better.

Orc Race
- +2 Con, -2 Int
- Rage 1/Day (Adds to any class with rage.)
- +2 to Handle Animal and Intimidate (Also makes Intimidate a class skill.)
- Weapon Familiarity: Orc claws. (Exotic Weapon)
- +1 to attack rolls vs humans
Notes: Barbarian Rage 1/Day? Awesome. Also, access to the Berserker class is amusing and helpful, and no penalties to anything you care about or could use.

Forsaken Race
- +2 Str, -2 Dex
- Undead Type
Note: Amusing for the fact it's an LA +0 race that's undead, with all the associated benefits and essentially no penalties.

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Berserker Prestige Class
- Ogre's Strength: Treat weapons as one size smaller; large are treated as medium, medium as light, etc while raging.

Gladiator Prestige Class
- Supreme Cleave
- Two-Handed Mastery (Wielding a two-hand weapon with both hands uses 2x Str instead of 1.5x Str.)
- Maximize Blow (Calculates maximum damage for that particular weapon attack, using that value instead on success.)
- Tons of bonus feats.

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Careful Strike
- Req: Wis 13
- +4 to attack and damage rolls against a target in 30ft as a move action until start of next turn.
Notes: Psychic Warrior and Hustle, anyone?

Reckless Attack
- Req: Str 13
- May subtract up to BAB from AC and add that value to damage instead. Double damage with two-handed weapons.
Note: Prerequisite-less Shock Trooper that doesn't require a charge, easier to use, and doesn't require a 5 or greater penalty!?!

I'm sure there's a lot more gems in here, but Reckless Attack is absolutely incredible.

[Jackinthegreen]

From Dragonlance: Holy Orders of the Stars page 31.

Exotic weapon:  Emmide.  1d6/1d6 double bludgeoning weapon with reach and can also strike adjacent foes.  It can also trip.  It's also a special monk weapon, for what that's worth.  The only thing that would make it better is if it said a character could treat it as a quarterstaff for all other purposes.

Yeah, there's the line about it counting as just a quarterstaff if the wielder doesn't have EWP for it, but if it only counts as a quarterstaff if the wielder isn't proficient in it then being proficient with it would seem to imply it's no longer treated as a quarterstaff.  I'll still make a build around this thing because it's one of the truly exotic weapons that is worth a feat.

Thanks to Shadowhunter for having better Google-fu than me in this thread.

[Jackinthegreen]

Dragon 322 page 44 has template class levels a la savage progressions for the shadow creature, shade, and umbral creature templates.

[Amechra]

Lady's Gambit from Dragon 317 is an... interesting feat.

You need +6 BAB, Iron Will, and Power Attack to take it, and it lets you sacrifice HP for attack and damage.

You can take damage up to your character level; for every 2 damage you take, you get a +1 bonus to attack and damage for a round.

It synergizes really well with Stone Power, Fast Healing, or other methods of rapidly recovering HP; Lady's Gambit talks about "sacrificing" HP, so it probably won't work with a Crusader's damage pool... more's the pity.

[SorO_Lost]

Great for someone with Masochism and Divine Sacrifice (the paladin spell, -10hp for +5d6 dmg)

[Maat Mons]

I've found a way to make one use of rage last forever.  I haven't worked out any particularly good reason to do so, but I'm sure someone can come up with one. 

The firestorm berserker prestige class (Dragon 314, p60) gets an ability at 6th level that lets him maintain his rage after it would normally expire at a cost of one point of con damage per round.  That's a gross oversimplification, actually.  I've put the full details in this spoiler:

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Inner Inferno (Ex): This ability allows the firestorm berserker to increase the duration of his rages by using his own body to fuel his inner inferno. On his turn in the round that his rage would normally end, he may opt to take 1d4+1 points of Constitution damage as a free action to gain an equal number of additional rounds of rage. Thus, if he “burned” 2 points of Constitution with this ability, his rage would last for 2 extra rounds. Once these bonus rounds are over, however, he must make a DC 15 Fortitude save (using the modified save bonus for rage) to prevent his inner inferno from continuing to consume him. If he succeeds, the rage ends normally; otherwise, he takes another 1d4+1 points of Constitution damage and continues to rage for an equal number of rounds. Immediately after those bonus rounds end, he must attempt another Fortitude save at the same DC, with the same results for success or failure. This process continues until the firestorm berserker succeeds on a saving throw or dies. In the latter case, his body is incinerated into ash on the spot.

I'm fairly certain we've established that you can voluntarily fail saving throws instead of rolling.  I don't recall where the rule is located though. 

As I'm sure we all know by now, binding Naberius (Tome of Magic, p41) causes you to heal a point of damage to each ability score every round.  I have some quibbles that I'll put in another spoiler:

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Even though you take one point of damage per round, it comes in clumps of up to five, followed by an equal number of rounds with no damage.  So you'll often be down by several points of constitution. 

The reminder probably isn't necessary, but you need a level of binder to get the ability healing, since the feats don't grant that particular benefit for Naberius. 

You probably can't negate the damage and still gain the benefits.  The number of rounds added is only ever called "an equal number" and is always immediately after a description of how much constitution damage is taken.  You could argue that the phrase sets it equal to the result of the die roll discussed instead of the amount of damage taken, but that's a fiddly issue that each DM would have to rule on. 

[Jackinthegreen]

Wendle Centaur in Bestiary of Krynn pg. 37 is a 2HD +1LA medium-sized centaur.  +4 str, +4 dex, +2 wis, -2 cha and +5 natural armor.

[SorO_Lost]

Out of the ashes it comes back, because people are posting 2nd party finds on the main thread >.<

But all is not lost, behold the my find of then Shen from Dragon Mag #319.
What is it? A monk PrC that lets you half-turn into other animals.
Like a bear warrior barbarian? Sort of, Dragon operates in extremes of weak or uber-strong.
So what's uber-power? At the 4th level, snake path, the Monk can turn any unarmed attack into an auto-critical hit once per day per class level which is a really nice way to control triggering various burst-style bonuses not to mention the double (or more) aspect to it. You still have to roll your attack, but if that roll crits they stack. It also alters a few things like Stunning Fist uses your Int modifier instead of Wisdom and the Hybrid form gets +2 Dex/Int which is a great synergy with Kung Fu Genius. Improved Critical, and a natural Bite attack that deals your Unarmed Damage (aka free extra 'unarmed' attack at -5 penalty).
That sounds cool, got any more? Hecks yeah, at the 1st level the Tiger path gives you a paralyzing Touch Attack. Full-Round Action & 1/day per Monk level & only 1 round, but the DC is 10 + Shen level + your Strength modifier which can easily be pumped to astronomical levels, like using it's Hybrid Form and Frenzy for +8 Str. Coup De Grace ftw!

[Keldar]

I like Shen, its a Monk without the drawback of actually taking a level of Monk.

[SorO_Lost]

Dragon 359, page 112 Sage: an assassin death attack can be any attack, from one of the swings in a full attack to an AoO.

[Arz]

Take Master @ ECL 4 to gain a cohort through faithful aide knack.

Faithful Aide: The master professional has acquired a talented apprentice, student, bodyguard, or servant. This knack functions like the Leadership feat, but it applies only to a cohort, and the master professional's Leadership score is equal to his ranks in a chosen Profession skill plus his Charisma bonus. The aide can be a character of any class, although usually another master, and is treated exactly as any other cohort.
Prerequisite: Profession 7 ranks.

Also Obstinate Soul from Darksun. Add your focus to variable spells like awaken.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Yeah should'a posted over here ... so

The Master is a DL semi-npc class.  I've googled very few references to it (and missed this one above what the) http://guilesworld.com/role-playing-games-stuff/dragonlance/master/

The Profession knacks can gets you :
Faithful Aide ... cohort equivalent at level 4  {already covered by Arz}
Skilled Team ... leadership army composed of Experts  !!!!!!  also works with Thrallherd HA !!

WOW with edit 2nd WOW.
Otherwise it's closer to Expert than a bad Rogue.


Extra idea from a few days rummaging ... you can dip Master 1 for Knack and take Skilled Team at 7th level with the pre-reqs.  That's going onto my Money Bags build pronto.   And it seems like a good idea in general to dip it at or near there, with some of the other Knacks too.

[SorO_Lost]

Dragon #348, page 35, variant curses.
You can change your alignment for the purposes of Detect Spells & Divination, it's a more permanent solution to hiding your alignment. For funsies, you can impose a -5 penalty to Saves unless the target carries a designated, none-harmful, item. You can use this to make people carry around signs like, "I'm delicious once fried!". You also can become a carrier for Blinding Sickness and/or Crackle Fever, inflecting it on anyone that you hit or are hit by a Natural Weapon or Touch Attack which has the side effect of making you immune to the selected disease which is nice too.

I think we've all heard about the loss of a Class Feature from the Greater side to remove a Wilder's Psychic Enervation, bu have another reminder. You can also totally negate any three Skill Checks, sort of like picking Spot to make them blind but more fun since you can choose Jump or Concentration.

The same issue also has Strahd's Baneful Attractor.  It's a Saveless effect that diverts all damage dealing Spells within 15ft to the target even if it'd break the Spell's original range. Interestingly, this means it can turn a Touch Spell into a 15ft-er. You can cast it on your enemies to prevent them from casting certain Spells or on a summoned ally to help protect the part. It's a very nice effect.

Done in Class Acts you can choose to pick up a Transmutation Focus instead of a Familiar, at the 15th level it can once per day double a Spell's Ability Bonuses. So like, a Persisted Bite of the Wearbear gives +32 Str & +16 Con as a set of Enhancement Bonuses.

[SorO_Lost]

Dragon 349's turn.

There is an often forgotten about True Dragon in here, the Dzalmus which has multiple heads (sweet). The real find through is the Psionic/Magic Feats, Psiomancer lets you convert PP into Spell Slots during preparation and Cerebremancer lets you burn PP to pay for Metamagic costs allowing a Psion dipped Wizard to convert PP tricks to Spell Slots. And Psiotheurgist combines your CL & ML for the purposes of determining your ML in a single discipline. Use the actual Cerebremancer Class in conjunction with this for a double gain on your PP limits for Augmentation/Metapsionic.

[SorO_Lost]

Dragon 350 has some new time travel Spells which is cool.

#351 offers up Oerthblood, a new metal-based Material to tinker with. It's actually some kind of alloy because it can be mixed with Mithral for calculating Hardness/HP, the unique benefit for mixing is it provides a +100% increase to Hardness & +50% increase to HP. Costs to Magical Enhance it are reduced by 25% which is pretty freaking nice, a +10 Weapon drops from 200,000gp to 156,000gp. In addition the Material provides it's own properties.
Weapons: +6k or 150gp ammo, +1 luck to attack/damage, creatures struck gain a stacking -1 unnamed to saves for 1 round.
Light Armor: +10k, dr 1/-, +1 luck to saves vs magic.
Medium Armor: +20k, dr 2/-, +2 luck to saves vs magic.
Heavy Armor: +30k, dr 3/-, +3 luck to saves vs magic.
Yeah, stuff like this is why Dragon is seen as OP and poorly written.

The Monkey Head Talisman for 128k gives you combat Reflexes & Stunning Fist even if you lack the prerequisites. They offer a bunch of Wisdom-To-X Feats for Ninjas & Arcane Spellcasters, Potent Dweomercraft's Damaging Spell is a two Feat investment for basically a once per Encounter +25% damage bonus to a Spell.

There is a section on Technomagical Implants. Quickdisk, a necklace, provides +2 unnamed to Initiative for 1,000gp. I like the vest through, Greater Shocking Field costs 42k and deals 1d4 electricity damage to anyone that hits you in melee, then they need to make a Fort Save against DC 10 + 1/2 your level + ConMod to be Stunned for one round breaking their Full-Attack and rending them helpless.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

I've found a way to make one use of rage last forever.  I haven't worked out any particularly good reason to do so, but I'm sure someone can come up with one. 

The firestorm berserker prestige class (Dragon 314, p60) gets an ability at 6th level that lets him maintain his rage after it would normally expire at a cost of one point of con damage per round.  That's a gross oversimplification, actually.  I've put the full details in this spoiler:

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Inner Inferno (Ex): This ability allows the firestorm berserker to increase the duration of his rages by using his own body to fuel his inner inferno. On his turn in the round that his rage would normally end, he may opt to take 1d4+1 points of Constitution damage as a free action to gain an equal number of additional rounds of rage. Thus, if he “burned” 2 points of Constitution with this ability, his rage would last for 2 extra rounds. Once these bonus rounds are over, however, he must make a DC 15 Fortitude save (using the modified save bonus for rage) to prevent his inner inferno from continuing to consume him. If he succeeds, the rage ends normally; otherwise, he takes another 1d4+1 points of Constitution damage and continues to rage for an equal number of rounds. Immediately after those bonus rounds end, he must attempt another Fortitude save at the same DC, with the same results for success or failure. This process continues until the firestorm berserker succeeds on a saving throw or dies. In the latter case, his body is incinerated into ash on the spot.

I'm fairly certain we've established that you can voluntarily fail saving throws instead of rolling.  I don't recall where the rule is located though. 

As I'm sure we all know by now, binding Naberius (Tome of Magic, p41) causes you to heal a point of damage to each ability score every round.  I have some quibbles that I'll put in another spoiler:

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Even though you take one point of damage per round, it comes in clumps of up to five, followed by an equal number of rounds with no damage.  So you'll often be down by several points of constitution. 

The reminder probably isn't necessary, but you need a level of binder to get the ability healing, since the feats don't grant that particular benefit for Naberius. 

You probably can't negate the damage and still gain the benefits.  The number of rounds added is only ever called "an equal number" and is always immediately after a description of how much constitution damage is taken.  You could argue that the phrase sets it equal to the result of the die roll discussed instead of the amount of damage taken, but that's a fiddly issue that each DM would have to rule on. 

Huh ... very late response on my part.
Rage was part of the earliest Infinite spells trick
using action points and stuff I've forgotten ;  iirc
it was one of the Lord Of Procrastination's dirty tricks.

Rage Mage gives CL = character level, but only while raging.

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Dragon 349's turn.
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The real find through is the Psionic/Magic Feats, Psiomancer lets you convert PP into Spell Slots during preparation and Cerebremancer lets you burn PP to pay for Metamagic costs allowing a Psion dipped Wizard to convert PP tricks to Spell Slots. And Psiotheurgist combines your CL & ML for the purposes of determining your ML in a single discipline. Use the actual Cerebremancer Class in conjunction with this for a double gain on your PP limits for Augmentation/Metapsionic.

Love these.

I think now-a-days there's some early entry for a
Wilder + Sorceror combo, which would make the
Psiomancer worthwhile ;  especially with recharge.

Cerebremetamagic is ridiculous fun, even without recharge.
  ---> http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=13478.0

Psiotheurgist yep, combo's well with the Mind Mage PrC.
Favorite of mine, for some early qualifying Ardent tricks,
like the Power Of The Duergar thread (round here somewhere).
Possibly salvages the PsyWar Soulbound acf with Jaunter.

[SorO_Lost]

Cerebremetamagic is ridiculous fun, even without recharge.
  ---> http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=13478.0

Speaking of, you're capped at the highest Spell Level you can cast so no Heightening to lv9 at the 1st level. And your virtual ML/CL to PR/SR Checks (and augmentation) isn't the same as your Spellcasting/Manifesting Level for determining your Power/Spells per day no matter how confused you get.

What it does abuse is something like Wizard 3 / Psion 3 / Cerebremancer 10 / Greater Bloodline 3 has a 35PP cap on Psychometabolism Powers for Augmenting and a +35 to overcome Power Resistance which is pretty damn nice, specially when you consider the Spell side of that build probably has far too many Prepared Spells than it should.