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Kineticist (Necrotech Master, Elemental Purist, Dread Soul, Elemental Annihilator, or Elemental Ascetic) and Summoner (Synthesist) is as broken as it gets. With Necrotech Master, Cha is your primary stat and you can just dump your physical stats altogether. With Elemental Ascetic, Elemental Purist, and Dread Soul, choosing Aether, Light, Mind, or Wood allows you to choose Life After Undeath to have Cha as your primary stat. If that's not your cup of tea, tack Overwhelming Soul onany archetype it applies to.

Elemental Ascetic in particular gets Elemental Flurry allows you to do a Flurry of Blows with your Kinetic Fist and the Eidolon’s natural attacks.

In either case, the plan is to see if I can kill them. I suspect that I can. We've established that they are going to start in their connected divine realms while I start on the Material Plane. I can't get into their divine realms without one of them giving permission. They are each going to start with 20 divine ranks. Their divine ranks are tied to their followers. A given number of worshippers equal a divine rank.

Since I have to get their permission to enter their divine realms, I intend to ransom their worshippers. With this, they'll play horror one-shots from the perspective of their worshippers. Once they have had their fun and want to move on, they'll be given the choice of letting me into their divine realm or play as their high priests and command armies of their worshippers. But their losses will add up and cost them divine ranks. I'm just not sure how to employ mass combat rules against a single character. Any ideas?

The gods can assist their followers by pouring some of their divine ranks into avatars. Whatever they give it, it will carry to the Material Plane. If their avatar dies, the divine ranks are lost. Well, if I kill them, the divine ranks are lost...but if one of them kills one of the others, they gain the divine ranks. While it's possible they will have a "kill me before he does" agreement, I expect it to turn into a Highlander situation. All the better, I say. I want them to be all amped up on God Juice when I fight them.

Whether they kill me or I kill them, I feel it serves as a worthwhile introduction to their next campaign.

While I appreciate the well wish, you have me curious. What do you see that's not technically allowed?

So for context, I have been prepping for a bizarre campaign where I have given the party members Elohim stat blocks. Then I made them mega-kaiju (I applied the kaiju template like they were Fine. So they're 128 times larger than Colossal. I then gave them 20 levels of a Lesser God class, 23 levels of a God class, and 10 levels of a Greater God class. I guess that makes them all CR 95+ creatures.

That's where my utterly absurd character comes into play. The character had been an orphan who was raised by their grandmother and developed kineticist abilities. By what should have been the slimmest of circumstances, they found a party of Kineticists who had been fighting a party of Summoners. The summoners were led by a Sorcerer and their conflict brought them to the Dimension of Time.

Beyond time, an entity appeared and cast Restoration on both parties. This revealed both parties were the same person who was going back and forth through time, transforming into each other, erasing each other's memories and creating false memories of identity. I didn't stack any of the stats but gave it 20 levels of Kineticist, Summoner, and Sorcerer, 10 Mythic ranks, and a ton of archetypes.

Beyond the classes, their adventures saw one of them become a lich, another an apostle kyton, and still another became a half-succubus. On top of these, I min-maxed the hell out of the Charisma score using material from Paizo and Legendary Games. Then I found ways to apply it across the board.

It's important that everything about it is rules legal. I wanted to do something a player can TECHNICALLY do a cording to the rules but no GM would normally allow. The only fudge factor considering is to say that the transformation into what would normally be a fungal creature is consolidated with possession and induction into the hivemind.

So I'm going have this entity appear on the Material Plane to challenge them. I have no idea what our Titanomachy is going to be like but it's why I'm being so specific about a number of weird circumstances.

Rules interpretation question. A fungal creature becomes a ghost.

"A ghost retains all the special attacks of the base creature, but any relying on physical contact do not function."

Does the ghost of the fungal creature produce incorporeal spore or does the spore cloud cease to function?

Epic fantasy physics question 1. If said fungal creature has the soul of a charnel colossus, will the ghost look like the original creature, the fungal creature, the charnel colossus, a fungal charnel colossus, or a humanoid composed of amorphous fungal corpse stuff?

Epic fantasy physics question 2. If a ghost possesses someone and becomes a lich, is the ghost able to depossess the host or are they now a singular entity?

More specifically, are you able to cast Create Greater Demiplane multiple times to create areas that are timeless while other areas made from different castings that have slow or fast time?

https://paizo.com/threads/rzs43ut2?Fungal-Creature-template-and-creature-ty pes

Thank you so, so much, Azothath! I'm definitely incorporating that into my campaign. But, yeah. I'm stacking the crap out of this thing because my nephews challenged me to make a campaign that was like a cross between Dragon Ball Z, The Infinity Gauntlet, and Dead Space. They wanted a final fight to end all final fights.

So I've given them each gems that give them Kineticist class features to control facets of reality. They are min-maxing to the extreme and tearing across the multiverse. The BBEG has a completely absurd stat block where I have been exploring the limits of what a player can become if given the storyline. It can one-shot anything I've seen a stat block for and traverse the Dimension of Time on a whim but uses its power just to manipulate them into creating it.

So they die and become ghosts, have psychic duels with enhanced Vault Giants to possess them and use their bodies to become Kinetic Liches, get dragged into the Plane of Shadow and become Apostle Kytons, and escape to the Abyss and perform quests for Demon Lords to become half-fiends. With a few magic items in the mix, they'll have Charisma scores that are over 100 and use it for Str/Dex/Int checks, Fort/Will saves, attack and damage rolls, and a ridiculous number of abilities.

They'll find the villain they've been fighting is one of many versions of them across parallel realities that's creating an army to fight a version of them that possessed a fungal charnel colossus. That version, Professor Sunshine, has created a timeless demiplane from which it launches fungal necrotech constructs across the multiverse to infect everyone and everything before having them merge into charnel colossi and plane shifting add to with the Blood Moon.

They'll have to fight the moon in starships, make their way to the surface and lead armies of themselves against armies of infected to destroy the Lich at the heart of the planet. I figure that is the biggest possible finale given the criteria they gave me.

Thank you, Azothath! While we're on the topic, what would happen if a fungal creature managed to become a ghost? Would it lose the Poison Spore Cloud ability or would it produce incorporeal spore?

I'm running a campaign where the BBEG is the ghost of a half-succubus Drow Noble Necrotech Master who possessed a fungal Vault Giant to become a Kinetic Lich. I want it find a way to make it a Kyton but it has to be as RAW as possible because the players are going on quests that end up changing them into the same thing. I'm using the Legendary Games Kineticist material and the Spheres of Power Mythic Kineticist options.

I hope this answers your question. Were you asking about these mechanics, the character backstory, the game backstory, the backstory of why I'd make such an absurd character in the first place?

Thank you all for your responses! Darigaaz the Igniter raises my next question. I'm using third party material in a campaign for my nephews. This is the particular ability in question.

https://libraryofmetzofitz.fandom.com/wiki/Kinetic_Lich?so=search

It doesn't specify the humanoid TYPE. It just says a living humanoid. So would this fall into that category? With the exception of select third party material, I'm trying to keep things as rules legal as possible because it will be applied to both them and the villain. I don't want any GM fudge factoring.

Weird question but say you have a venerable character who plays a Necrotech Master and takes the Demonic Obedience feat, selecting Mestama as their patron but they don't put it to use until they have hit Level 20. While they die of old age and become a ghost, they lose the Necrotech Master archetype.

Now say this character becomes afflicted with the Amnesia insanity, takes a level as a Kineticist again, and selects Life After Undeath as their new Level 1 ability. Would they qualify as a Humanoid for the purposes of regaining the Necrotech Master archetype again when their memories are restored?

If the ghost then possessed a humanoid, would they be able to use Omnikinesis to gain the Kinetic Lich wild talent and use the body as the source of the Constitution score?

Lastly, if the character wanted to become an Apostle Kyton, would they qualify as "any living creature of the humanoid or monstrous humanoid type?"

If a Nihilicist became a half-succubus and took the Improved Possession feat, would it be able to possess a Kineticist and use its elements? If not, could a Kineticist under the same circumstances possess a Nihilicist without them losing the archetype? The rules on the Nihilicist are as follows.

"A nihilicist can never be forced to gain any element, kinetic blast, or wild talent. If the nihilicist ever willingly gains a primary element or any non-universal wild talent (with the exception of those associated with empty blast or zero blast), they permanently lose this archetype, becoming a normal kineticist and gaining any kineticist class features this archetype replaced."

I saw that the Fungal Nymph has the Fey subtype and it raised a question. If a humanoid becomes a fungal creature, does it still count as a humanoid for meeting prerequisites for abilities that require a living humanoid?

Thank you, everybody! You've been very helpful.

no, it's not a valid target for the spell.

Would someone be able to use Instant Enemy to make it a valid target?

And what would doing that have to do with multiclassing even if it worked?

If the player retains control of the eidolon, wouldn't they be able to take class levels for their eidolon?

Can a Summoner with the Synthesist archetype cast Awaken on their eidolon to multiclass?

So I'm playing a three part campaign with a few friends. I'm playing an Unchained Synthesist because it struck my curiosity. The GM has let us know that we will be level 20 in the final session and fighting a clockwork Tarrasque and the spellcaster who made it. I hopped online and found some interesting ideas on fighting a regular Tarrasque. But this only gave me some weird ideas.

I have a Rod of Giant Summoning and the GM has given his blessing to be able to resummon my eidolon as large breed. Since the base creature is naturally Large, he's letting the Large and Huge evolutions bump it up to Huge and Gargantuan respectively. Since none of these are magical enlargement spells, casting Enlarge Person is going to bump me up to Colossal.

He didn't plan for any of us to try and take a nigh invulnerable monster on headon. We were supposed to focus on the caster and treat the Tarrasque as a hazard to keep us in panic mode. But he's a weeb and couldn't say no to letting one of the players get himself killed in a kaiju fight while the other players fight the spellcaster.

Since he's letting me play it a little with the size rules, I wanted any further craziness to be a bit more by the letter. Unfortunately, the situation raises questions I'm having trouble finding answers to.

1. Does being colossal change the size or damage of my eidolon's breath attack?
2. Can a colossal monster grapple a Tarrasque?

If this wasn't enough, I wanted to have a surprise for him. I was thinking that once things started looking too grim for me, I would cast Greater Teleport and appearing a few miles above the battle field and crash landing onto the Tarrasque. I read that the most damage one can take from objects falling on them is 20d6. But, given the novelty of the situation, it only raises more questions.

3. If I have a Scroll of Iron Body, does the ten-fold weight weight multiplier increase the damage such an impact will deal?
4. Does doubling my weight with a Scroll of Gravity Well increase my damage?
5. Is there some way to increase my fall speed?
6. In the event that he throws any fire damage at me to account for re-entry, is there some way to convert it to electricity damage?

I know it's a shot in the dark but is there anybody who might be able to help here?