Fun finds thread V3.0

[sirpercival]

Pandemonic Silver (CW):

...a thin, unearthly scream issues forth from a bladed weapon made of pandemonic silver whenever it's unsheathed in at least a light breeze. The scream is a sonic, mind-affecting compulsion (fear effect). Other than the wielder, those within 30 feet who hear it must succeed on a Will save or cower for 1d4 rounds.

The DC is dependent on ambient wind strength.

For 9k gp, put it on a gnomish quickrazor, which you can draw & stow as a free action.  For bonus points, use the Summon Elemental reserve feat for an air elemental to up your wind strength.

[ksbsnowowl]

It's also a nice way to let the sorcerer or UMD user have an extra spell for the battle. Wizard cycles through the shield until something nice comes up, hands the shield to the party member.

Learn Wish, scribe it into your spellbook.

Cast all the shield scrolls until you come up with Wish.  A scroll already has all XP factored into it; the user of the scroll spends no XP...

Wish for a candle of invocation... 

[Unbeliever]

@Shield of the Mage

Good thing Pathfinder helped correct all that caster imbalance in 3.5 ... 

[Nanshork]

It's also a nice way to let the sorcerer or UMD user have an extra spell for the battle. Wizard cycles through the shield until something nice comes up, hands the shield to the party member.

Learn Wish, scribe it into your spellbook.

Cast all the shield scrolls until you come up with Wish.  A scroll already has all XP factored into it; the user of the scroll spends no XP...

Wish for a candle of invocation... 

Pathfinder doesn't have XP costs anyway.   

[ksbsnowowl]

Pathfinder doesn't have XP costs anyway.   

Ok, well, it still saves you a 25,000 gp diamond.

[zook1shoe]

Pandemonic Silver (CW):

...a thin, unearthly scream issues forth from a bladed weapon made of pandemonic silver whenever it's unsheathed in at least a light breeze. The scream is a sonic, mind-affecting compulsion (fear effect). Other than the wielder, those within 30 feet who hear it must succeed on a Will save or cower for 1d4 rounds.

The DC is dependent on ambient wind strength.

For 9k gp, put it on a gnomish quickrazor, which you can draw & stow as a free action.  For bonus points, use the Summon Elemental reserve feat for an air elemental to up your wind strength.

Very nice!
Would dread witch help some of the immunities?

[sirpercival]

Doubtful.  It's not an effect that you create, it's an effect of the material.  Has its own save DC, for example.

[FireInTheSky]

It's also a nice way to let the sorcerer or UMD user have an extra spell for the battle. Wizard cycles through the shield until something nice comes up, hands the shield to the party member.

Learn Wish, scribe it into your spellbook.

You forgot the last step:  Tear out all other spells from your spellbook.

[sirpercival]

It's also a nice way to let the sorcerer or UMD user have an extra spell for the battle. Wizard cycles through the shield until something nice comes up, hands the shield to the party member.

Learn Wish, scribe it into your spellbook.

You forgot the last step:  Tear out all other spells from your spellbook.

Better yet sell them to pay for the shield! 

[zook1shoe]

Haha nice!


This combo would suck for a sha'ir

[phaedrusxy]

It's also a nice way to let the sorcerer or UMD user have an extra spell for the battle. Wizard cycles through the shield until something nice comes up, hands the shield to the party member.

Learn Wish, scribe it into your spellbook.

You forgot the last step:  Tear out all other spells from your spellbook.

Better yet sell them to pay for the shield! 

Yeah, the first thing I thought when I first saw this was "It's the idiot crusader, with spells!" 

Pandemonic Silver (CW):

...a thin, unearthly scream issues forth from a bladed weapon made of pandemonic silver whenever it's unsheathed in at least a light breeze. The scream is a sonic, mind-affecting compulsion (fear effect). Other than the wielder, those within 30 feet who hear it must succeed on a Will save or cower for 1d4 rounds.

The DC is dependent on ambient wind strength.

For 9k gp, put it on a gnomish quickrazor, which you can draw & stow as a free action.  For bonus points, use the Summon Elemental reserve feat for an air elemental to up your wind strength.

So... how do I get Zeus' Mindblades to be made of this?  (or maybe I should just get a damned dagger or something )

[Bauglir]

Probably common knowledge, but Warforged Composite Plating doesn't have a maximum Dexterity bonus. Neither does Ironwood Body, but the ones that actually provide a decent armor bonus do. Still, this could conceivably serve a niche, since it'll save about 40000 gp compared to +8 Bracers of Armor on a high-dex build at the cost of being a Warforged and thus setting back your Dexterity by 2, and spending a feat. Generally it's a losing trade, but there may be more advanced stuff I haven't thought of.

[zaxter]

Probably common knowledge, but Warforged Composite Plating doesn't have a maximum Dexterity bonus. Neither does Ironwood Body, but the ones that actually provide a decent armor bonus do. Still, this could conceivably serve a niche, since it'll save about 40000 gp compared to +8 Bracers of Armor on a high-dex build at the cost of being a Warforged and thus setting back your Dexterity by 2, and spending a feat. Generally it's a losing trade, but there may be more advanced stuff I haven't thought of.

I think the Gnome Twist Cloth (RoS) is usually used by characters looking for an armor bonus without hindering their dex. It's the only armor (at least that I know of) with a max dex of --.

[zook1shoe]

Its awesome for using without proficiency too

[PsyBomb]

Thistledown Padded Armor is in the same boat as well, I think. +1 armor, Max Dex WAY higher than typically reachable, no armor check, and the only thing yet printed that I know of with 0% spell failure. Every arcane caster I make uses it, and same goes to anything with no armor proficiencies. A bit spendy, but worth it.

[Kethrian]

Light mithral shields have 0% ASF, as does a mithral shirt or heavy mithral shield enchanted with Twilight.  And they have no ACP, too, so no non-proficiency penalties.

[linklord231]

Light mithral shields have 0% ASF, as does a mithral shirt or heavy mithral shield enchanted with Twilight.  And they have no ACP, too, so no non-proficiency penalties.

Twilight mithral feycraft Chain Shirt

[Amechra]

Jungle's Rapture is nasty. Not just because it's a bitch to dispel, and it deals 1d6 Dexterity Drain each day that it is in effect, and that it turns you into a plant (which is generally less curable than death.)

Nope, it isn't nasty because of any of those; it's nasty because it renders you unable to digest food. Hope you've grabbed some means of surviving without food!

[Garryl]

Jungle's Rapture is nasty. Not just because it's a bitch to dispel, and it deals 1d6 Dexterity Drain each day that it is in effect, and that it turns you into a plant (which is generally less curable than death.)

Nope, it isn't nasty because of any of those; it's nasty because it renders you unable to digest food. Hope you've grabbed some means of surviving without food!

Didn't you hear? D&D characters never die of starvation, they just fall asleep forever and ever.

But seriously, though, you've got 3 days before anything happens, then it's a ~50% chance of 1d6 nonlethal (unhealable) per day. The Dex drain will get you before you notice the lack of food.

[ksbsnowowl]

Nope, it isn't nasty because of any of those; it's nasty because it renders you unable to digest food. Hope you've grabbed some means of surviving without food!

Note that once you reach the levels that this spell would be seen in game, it takes a LOOOOONG time to starve to death (and you can only die from starvation if you use Rules Compendium; you can't die from it in Core).

I have a 10th level barbarian NPC that will be getting rescued from the Faerie Realm.  When he is rescued and returned to the Material Plane, he will instantly age 2 months, and effectively will not have eaten for two months.  Just yesterday I ran the Con checks and the nonlethal damage (and eventual lethal damage) for this 118 hp barbarian, and after two months of not eating, he had taken 118 points of nonlethal, then taken about 40 points of lethal damage.  He's still got a good 20 days before he would likely die (with average rolls).