Making a BBEG without problems with the action economy


Advice


It's a pain having multiple Monsters in combat as a DM, but you also have to contend with the action economy when you have only a few monsters at once.

This Wizard solves your problem.

You can pull this off at level 13. You need these five spells:

Contagious Flame
Fire Sneeze
Cold Ice Strike
Fireball (or similar blast spell)
Ball Lightning

First round, you want to cast Fire Sneeze on your Familiar, and then use Cold Ice strike as a swift action. If you can, use a Quickened Rod to get your Ball lightning out.

Second round, Ball Lightning (Standard), Cold Ice Strike (Swift), Fire Sneeze (Familiar).

Third Round, Contagious Flame (Standard), Ball Lightning (Move), Cold Ice Strike (Swift), Fire Sneeze (Familiar).

Fourth Round, Fire Ball (Standard), Ball Lightning (Move), Cold Ice Strike (Swift), Fire Sneeze (Familiar), Contagious Flame (Free Action).

As you can see, for the fourth and fifth rounds the Wizard is doing 5 actions on his turn. At that point just pump him full of HP and defense buffs and you have yourself an awesome boss who can still take on a large group of players.

This is especially potent at higher levels when you can apply dazing spell to every single one of these spells you've cast.


interesting

Liberty's Edge

Quickened spells are swift actions, so you couldn't use Cold Ice Strike (swift) and cast a quickened spell (another swift) in the same turn.


Axebeard wrote:
Quickened spells are swift actions, so you couldn't use Cold Ice Strike (swift) and cast a quickened spell (another swift) in the same turn.

I misstated. The point of this wizard is that he does these 5 actions a round without rods or metamagic. If you have a rod, get your ball lightning out and your burning gaze instead of cold ice strike.

Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder First Edition / Advice / Making a BBEG without problems with the action economy All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.