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Offline Kethrian

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Poison Ring
« on: April 13, 2012, 03:01:44 PM »
The poison ring from Dragon Compendium is a light simple weapon that deals a mere 1 damage, but does so with a touch attack!  While PA abuse is unavailable, sneak attack is an obvious bonus for lots of added damage, as are duskblade channeled spells.

Challenge: come up with truly devastating uses/abuses for this weapon!
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2012, 04:23:24 PM »
Use the Diamond Mind maneuvers that deal damage based on a Concentration check?

Throw the ring, through enchantments/Throw Anything (master thrower?)/bloodstorm blade/telekinesis (use Colossal rings).
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2012, 04:39:00 PM »
Quote from: Prime32 on April 13, 2012, 04:23:24 PM
Use the Diamond Mind maneuvers that deal damage based on a Concentration check?

Throw the ring, through enchantments/Throw Anything (master thrower?)/bloodstorm blade/telekinesis (use Colossal rings).

Chakrams?
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 07:18:23 PM »
Quote from: Kethrian on April 13, 2012, 03:01:44 PM
The poison ring from Dragon Compendium is a light simple weapon that deals a mere 1 damage, but does so with a touch attack!  While PA abuse is unavailable, sneak attack is an obvious bonus for lots of added damage, as are duskblade channeled spells.

Challenge: come up with truly devastating uses/abuses for this weapon!
I got none. Waithstrike let's me use touch attacks with any melee weapon. For example, a Quickrazor lets me use Iaijitsu Focus repeatedly.

Hey, for once Dragon isn't publishing some super powerful item. Unless of course it was published before Waithstrike...
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2012, 11:10:28 AM »
Quote from: SorO_Lost on April 13, 2012, 07:18:23 PM
Hey, for once Dragon isn't publishing some super powerful item. Unless of course it was published before Waithstrike...
I liked the last person who challenged me on Drag Mag's utter brokenness. I pulled out a random item and explained why it was utterly worthless (the sword had to be in the ground to have blindsight). I then said they were allowed to do the same thing ten times and find something more than normally useful.
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2012, 11:22:14 AM »
Quote from: PlzBreakMyCampaign on April 14, 2012, 11:10:28 AM
Quote from: SorO_Lost on April 13, 2012, 07:18:23 PM
Hey, for once Dragon isn't publishing some super powerful item. Unless of course it was published before Waithstrike...
I liked the last person who challenged me on Drag Mag's utter brokenness. I pulled out a random item and explained why it was utterly worthless (the sword had to be in the ground to have blindsight). I then said they were allowed to do the same thing ten times and find something more than normally useful.

I have to say that most of the dragon stuff seems to border on the unusably bad side of broken if at all.
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2012, 06:50:06 PM »
Wasn't the thespian's mask more expensive than a hat of disguise, despite being a single-appearance version of it?
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2012, 07:38:01 PM »
Quote from: Prime32 on April 14, 2012, 06:50:06 PM
Wasn't the thespian's mask more expensive than a hat of disguise, despite being a single-appearance version of it?

It did have the advantage of not requiring you to speak a command word as a standard action every 10 minutes to maintain the disguise. 
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Re: Poison Ring
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2012, 06:49:26 PM »
Quote from: Maat Mons on April 14, 2012, 07:38:01 PM
Quote from: Prime32 on April 14, 2012, 06:50:06 PM
Wasn't the thespian's mask more expensive than a hat of disguise, despite being a single-appearance version of it?

It did have the advantage of not requiring you to speak a command word as a standard action every 10 minutes to maintain the disguise.
Command Words: "Please don't let them catch me" muttered under your breath :)
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