I realized I never wrote non lethal damage there, but Lord Fyre was correct.
Book 4 has the Mi-Go, while not exactly dangerous, they are obnoxious to fight. Immune or resistant to most energy types the party uses, flight, and darkness spells mixed with superior vision makes them truly difficult to hurt. It made my players completely skip the Fungal caves sections. Tonight starts the broken annihilator fight, I suspect this could be dangerous.
Wendigos freak me out, they drive you crazy with nightmares then kidnap you into the woods and force you to either eat someone of your race or starve.
Alright, I can post on my PC now so hopefully formatting will look nicer.
This is my version of the Dark Lord Voldemort. He is highly focused on the spell Finger of death and tends to scream out the verb component "Avada Kedabra" when casting. I used the fey (Sylvan) bloodline to gain Nagini the snake and increase his dominate DC, the flight is reskinned to be his black mist he uses. The tactics of the Dark Lord are that he will always preplan his attack and never be afraid to go full power right from the start and he will leave with a teleport if the fight is going poorly but that often never happens due to his careful preparation with the contingency spell on him, should he ever be damaged too greatly (less than half his health) it will activate a Harm spell on his body to heal the wounds. His bracers make sure any would be attackers are drained of life and used to fuel his own. The main key to his success is that he avoids conflict with those who could pose a challenge, casting counter spells and hit and run tactics to be sure he stays safe. Often times he spends his days striking terror into the mortals of the world by going on mass murder sprees then leaving without a trace. He greatly wishes to kill all non-spellcasters and anyone not of a magical bloodline such as wizards and clerics as they are taking magic that rightfully belongs to the pure blood sorcerers of the world. He keeps his human looks through his ring of Gentle Repose and a spare ring in a secure location. As Nagini holds part of his soul, he does not use her in dangerous combat, preferring to have her kill helpless foes such as townsfolk and other non magical beings who pose no real threat to the Dark Lord. His full Stat Block is in the spoiler because it will take up half the page otherwise.
Lord Voldemort: Tom Marvolo Riddle Align: NE HD: 20D6+280 (352) Speed: 30 Class: Sorcerer Race: Human Senses: DV: 60 Initiative: 18 AC: 32 (10+5 +5 +5 +1 +7) STR: 8 (-1) ------TOUCH: 16 FF: 33 CON: 0 (0) ------FORT: 20 DEX: 12 (1) ------REF: 7 INT: 14 (2) ------WILL: 13 WIS: 12 (1) ------BAB: 10 CHA: 38 (14) ------CMB: 9 ------CMD: 20 ATTACK: (Ray) +11 SPECIAL: Touch ATTACK: (Wand of Enervate) +11 (1D4 Negative Levels) SPECIAL: Touch • Feats: 10 +4
Spells: CL 20, Concentration: 34, DC: 10+14+SL (+2 Necro, +4 Finger of Death)
A few that I have not seen exact stats for, I could be wrong however, six bestiaries and adventure paths have hundreds of monsters. Entering ramble mode: on mobile so forgive formatting and spelling please. Blast end skrewts stand out to me as an odd one.
Hope this helps, if you can make any other creatures I will see what I can do.
While I do not think that Razmir is a real god, I should bring up this.
Iron Gods: Hellion and Unity can both be slain, Hellion can die to a group of level 7 players. While they are Mythic and grant spells as such, it's a creature with a diety write up who can easily die.
The Apostate devil would be a good choice as a planar binding at 18 HD for out of combat abilities. It has some very useful social skills with a 28 charisma and huge diplomacy/bluff. It has a host of mind control spell like abilities as well as a wisdom drain on its claws (which have 100 ft reach, sort of) 1D6 wisdom drain twice a round is a scary thought to most creatures. Plus, they claim to be gods and are supposed to be very very old. The big issue you will run into binding things 6 hit dice over the normal limit is that they are often quite a bit stronger than you. That apostate devil if summoned at level 11 is a major threat if it breaks out. 46 AC and 27 SR means you will have a tough time hitting him if things go poorly. That to say he does not just talk to you for 5 minutes and increase the dC of his effects by 50 (that means you lose)
We were playing a 20th level Mythic game, assaulting the infernal realms. One player wanted to build the "tank" he invested everything into AC, I think he was somewhere in the mid 60s and could boost it to about 80. The downside was his Max damage was 1D6-1. All the Devils had DR 10. While his AC and saves were so incredibly high that nothing could hurt him,'he was useless in combat to the point where every enemy just pretended he did not exist. We allowed him to remake so that he was actually effective, the difference between a 50 AC and a 60 is not a whole lot because nothing can hit you anyway and an 80 AC is just unneeded.
Sorry, I was referring to the druid archetype Goliath Druid for the Pathfinder Druid. The character itself will be a dwarf who turns into Giants to fight them better.
Hello Mr. Jacobs, If it were up to you, would you allow a Goliath Druid, who can only wild shape into Giants, Dinosaurs, and Megafauna to also include flying prehistoric animals such as Pterosaurs? I feel that its fits the flavor of the Goliath druid and am looking for your opinion on it, not an official response, though if one exists that would also help. Thank you
I do not think that a familiar can end the bond, the wizard may have ended it when he went evil though. I do not believe there are rules about if you are no longer the correct alignment for an improved familiar. Just a side note: how did the rogue sarcastically almost kill someone? I feel like the wizard may have been in the right to attack the rogue for almost murdering an ally. Unless this cohort was an undead of course.
One option is to make him a mythic vampire, those get some pretty cool abilities over the normal vampire. They can ignore many weaknesses they have as Well as gain some other interesting powers like flight, better summoned creatures, and an area effect blood drain.
Puna'chong, I disagree there. A paladin is LG yes and benevolence is good, that does not mean he is a pushover. He can forgive the wizard if he admits to his crimes. Second chances are a great thing, but if the paladin forgives and then the next night the wizard steals again the paladin should be less nice. Lawful good is not nice or a pushover.
Well the first suggestion I have would be to talk to the player out of the game and ask them to stop.
I may be mistaken on this but I think that a handy haversack would not be able to be opened in a rope trick spell. Otherwise try these methods: Bell on the bag
9) Infinite Power: Build a crank powered generator and command the zombie/Skeleton to turn the crack forever. Stop by every week or so to cast mending on the generator to fix general wear and tear. 10) Coat Rack: Have a skeleton stand by the door with his arms out to the sides. Bonus points for animating a multi armed critter such as a Marilith for extra coats. 8) Beast of Burden Animate the farm animal when it dies, most tasks these animals do (other than food related ones) can be done. A horse can pull a plow or a dog can (maybe?) herd sheep. 11) Remove rats: Animate a dead rat or twenty as skeletons, send them into a rat plagues areas to kill off fellow rats. The undead ones are immune to the basic rats attacks (1D3-4 is 1 point of non lethal) Turn them into burning skeletons to deal with swarms with the aura or Bloody skeletons to never die (Last i checked Dire rats could not cast cleric spells)
I see mention of elemental slavery but could undead not work well if not better? A mindless undead will never tire or question orders. It follows simple commands (turn this crank forever) at this point the only spell needed is mending every so often to fix the machine.
Paladin/antipaladin are powerful fighters that make excellent use of a high charisma as it boosts their saves, smite damage and armor class, it gives extra uses of lay on hands/touch of corruption, and his spells. I think that would be the best charisma fighter out there. Mysterious stranger gunslinger uses charisma for some things but that's a gun user which is often not allowed. There is also the synthesis summoner which is extremely powerful from the start and can be a tad broken but that's a different story.
Reactionary is a pretty good one just because going first can mean winning.
Generally when you have more than one multiple such as a critical with a lance while mounted you add the multiples together then (X2 +X2 is X3) so the Paladin smite and litany would likely be triple damage not quadruple.
I have run into this as well and we generally rule that it stays as a vampire body while in the field and its timer of two hours keeps running. If he two hours are up and it is still in the field it dies but if it escapes (the field is removed) it can assume gaseous form and flee to its coffin hoping it has enough time. I do not think it would instantly kill it because that seems a bit strong but I am not fully sure. It may though as the ability is SU and anti magic field stops that fro activating.
Full Orc fighter/ranger/paladin on a mount with spirited charge, weapon spec, and power attack against the favored enemy of an evil undead while Smiting 1D8+2 WS+6 PA +9 (1.5 STR) +2 FE +4 Smite =31 X 3 =93 and it ignored all DR. This also has very high chance to hit with a 7 BAB weapon focus, charge, favored enemy and smite (if positive charisma) giving a 12+ charisma bonus. That's about all I have right now, I'm sure there are others that hurt more but this is a strange character that can really hurt. Or swap out fighter for paladin 6 ranger 1 to get
In a 3.5 campaign I played a Gnomish sorcerer who took the vastly overpowered prestige class master transmogrifist (Now a banned class in my group) I was captured and chained up to a wall by a few Drow, I just started laughing at them as they threatened me, one ran to attack me as i used an immediate action to transform into a purple worm. bursting from my chains and devouring the attackers. I tunneled my way to the surface after that. In a later version of that campaign now well into epic levels and any sense of balance is long gone, I can cast 25th level spells and our barbarian has a 60+ strength, we were fighting a powerful creature and needed back up so I calmly said to the DM I cast a maximized empowered energy drain on him, then maximize empower time stop to, I cast gate six times summoning Solars for free because of ignore material components epic feat, quicken a shape change into my hydra purple worm mix along with five other buffing spells. My Solars them massacred the creature and healed us after the fight. My DM was a bit shocked and scared that i cast that much in a single round. Fear the mages in 3.5 they don't play fair.
This was a 25 point build, 500,000 Gold wealth, two traits, level 20 master summoner. I think everything is correct but some numbers may be off. Please let me know if they are. Any of the shortened terms I use are hopefully easy to understand (LLV low light vision)
Gelgizit The Gateway:
Gelgizit The Gateway CE HD: 20D8+FC 11+280 (383) Speed: 30 Class: Master Summoner Race: Drow Lich Senses: Dark Vision 60, LLV Initiative: 14 AC: 38 (10+4 DEX +5 NA +9 Armor +5 Deflection +5 Bark skin) STR: 7 (-2) TOUCH: 10 FF: 10 CON: 0 (0) FORT: 25 DEX: 18 (4) REF: 15 (Evasion) INT: 12 (1) WILL: 17 WIS: 10 (0) BAB: 15 CHA: 38 (14) CMB: 19 CMD: 27 ATTACK: (Touch) +19 (1D8+10)
ATTACK: (Bite and Claws) +15/15/15 (3D6+8/1D6+8/1D6+8)
Sting: +20 (1D4-4) Poison DC: 20 Sickened 1 Round
Gelgizit was once a powerful summoner to the drow, though as his time grew long and his body frail he feared death. A few meeting with some demons later he knew he had to extend his life indefinitely though Lichdom. This was easy for him with his already arcane body and connections with outer realms he tore his soul out and placed it in the dagger he took his own life with. This dagger is now kept in a lead box covered in moon rock rock on the moon. This was placed there through a scroll of interplanetary teleport and he keeps three more scrolls near it.
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The magus is more focused on fighting in melee rather than battle field control. I am a crafter with Wand, Wondrous, and scroll. I have Arcane builder in wondrous. Ratling familiar (alignment did not matter) so he can use scrolls if i want we also have ranks in UMD Right now I plan to craft a wand of fireball to blanket the battle field in flames, that or a wand of Wall of fire (Samsuran race with the spells from another list as the summoner) we have about a week or more to prepare. Thanks for any help in this.
3.5 Unearthed Arcana had a system of Flaws These were more than a feet would give so the unreactive flaw gave a -6 penalty to initiative. Also the DM was the one who decided if it really was a flaw to you, the pure melee barbarian will not gain a bonus feat from shaky (a flaw that only affects ranged attack) This is if you are looking for serious ones, if you are looking for funny suggestions as mentioned in the first post I would like to offer this. Twisted Mind
Effect: When the player says something intended to be Out of Character" it has a 10% chance to be said in character.
Although this thread was from last year if you are interested I worked with Kazarath to make a Pathfinder Conversion to Elder Scrolls. This uses Morrowind as the base area but I have races, Birth signs, materials, artifacts, subtype alterations, and monsters including the Vampire Bloodlines. I have been playing this with my group for some time now and it seems to balance fairly well. Any advice is welcome though.
In the first campaign I ever DMed I had my players go through a sewer system to deal with a rat problem (there was a were-rat at the end who was anger about being shunned, very original I know) with them not having Darkvision and for some reason brought no torches they used the light cantrip throughout the whole thing casting it on the Paladin so he was the light source. Then there was a drop that was dark at the bottom and they thought the paladin should not jump to an uncertain high they wanted to throw something to the bottom with light cast on it so they can see it. But being stingy adventures they did not want to throw any valuables they had so they looked for something and what they thought of was a dead rat from the swarm they just killed. I found this a bit disturbing but the decision was made and they started chucking dead glowing rats down pit and even picked up a few ore for later use. This became a thing that any time they need a light they look for dead rats. I have tried using a druid to tell them the error of their ways but they are persistent bunch of killers. Another campaign after I learned the rules a bit more started with their town being attacked by undead lead by a vampire monk. The players reached the exit and a small showdown with the monk; he hit them once or twice but did not do that much once he was swarmed and forced into gaseous form. This was a smaller moment and expected them to look into the attack or something but instead it caused a personal vendetta against all vampires and they quickly all agreed that the new mission was to be vampire hunters. After a trip to the capitol city markets and a few crated of garlic, holy symbols, silver, and stakes the group began hunting them down. I wanted them to be scared of the vampires and talk to the temple about it, maybe do some missions then unravel a secret plot in the temple the vampire attack was more or less a push in the direction I was looking for but a new campaign has spawned and they are driven toward the common goal of vampiric genocide (while lighting their holy path with dead rodents.)
Find out the CR you want the creature to be, use the chart for how many HD that should be, then set the con modifier to the amount that brings it close to the suggested HP. or you have the option of not using it and name another creature what you want it to be (if you want a CR 7 wolf use a Dire bear and say it looks like a wolf, replace grab with trip if you want) its much easier than making a new creature if you are having trouble. Try any on the monster generators out there, they will tell you the CR of the monster. People are going to be less likely to give you good advice on something if you are rude and remember this is a game, if you are not having fun try something else.
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