Sure if you want to spend most of your cash on potions to nova every once in a while, quite an investment if you ask me. No other real comments as my group doesnt use traits
That doesn't really make a good BBEG because traits are for PCs only unless you want to take the additional traits feat. At that point, you are spending a lot to make a character able to drink a few potions at once.
disposables are much cheaper than other equipment and would allow me to boost the difficulty of an encounter without dropping serious extra wbl on the party.
Ranger with favored enemy toward your pcs with bane arrows is pretty mean too, thats why you should play npcs like people, who cant just spend consumables all day
Not sure what you are saying. How is using 4 or so potions in an encounter at lvl 14 an example of using too much wealth? bbeg also do not fight all the time anyway.disposables are much cheaper than other equipment and would allow me to boost the difficulty of an encounter without dropping serious extra wbl on the party.Ranger with favored enemy toward your pcs with bane arrows is pretty mean too, thats why you should play npcs like people, who cant just spend consumables all day
You dont become a bbeg by being a pacifist, you also dont research how to grow new arms and slam back magical concoctions to use it for 1 the 8 or 9 adventuring parties to show up that week. He was saving it for the pc party for some strange reason.
I miss the Good old 1st ed. days when they still had potion incompatibility.
But whatever. I do not care terribly much if you dislike it.
What are your players going to say?
"That was so cool."
"Yeah. I would never of thought of doing that."
"I'm gonna go home and roll up a new four-armed character so I can do that."
or
"Man, can you believe our GM."
"Yeah. How cheesy was that. A four-armed monk just so he could drink all of our treasue."
""
I'm in the second group. I like that you are trying to keep an eye on wealth-by-level but I think you might be trying too hard and that a lot of players will feel they are getting screwed.
You know the group, so you'll have to decide.
this is for a possible awesome bbeg so pay attention.
So with slow time you can spend a swift action to trade 1 regular standard action for three special standard actions.
Now as drinking potions is a natural ability, you normally cannot use the standard action to drink it. But if you have the accelerated drinker trait and if you had the potion in your hand at the start of the turn, you can drink it as a move action.
Slow time allows you to use the special standard actions for move actions.
Add in 2 vestigial arms and your monk bbeg can be walking around with 4 potions in hand if the party hasn't surprised him. Thus round 1 he knocks back 4 potions.
Now I just need to pick the potions.
plus if you are the DM just say he drinks all the potions! if they object
just say he has a magical item. or wave your hands at them and say "dm magic" untill they sit down and shut up
plus if you are the DM just say he drinks all the potions! if they object
just say he has a magical item. or wave your hands at them and say "dm magic" untill they sit down and shut up
Maybe I'm just old and ornery, but if I ever had a DM tell me, "sit down and shut up," I would get up and leave. Life is way too short.
If anyone was ever capable of even trying this in one of my games, I would have to dig out the potion mixology tables from previous editions.
Either that, or just have their head explode in a 14d6 fireball that dealt half fire / half acid damage!
Dude, I just convinced myself! I'm all for it.
Maybe I'm just old and ornery, but if I ever had a DM tell me, "sit down and shut up," I would get up and leave. Life is way too short.plus if you are the DM just say he drinks all the potions! if they object
just say he has a magical item. or wave your hands at them and say "dm magic" untill they sit down and shut up
was making a joke about dm magic! lol......
was making a joke about dm magic! lol......
I was hoping so, but unfortunately, I've seen too many (i.e. >0) DMs behave like that.
no worries guy, but has a dm you do get to make things work for you, i made a intelligent luchador mask, that could move and change shape so it mimics the hearts desire of hits holder, the wizard saw a stars and moons ext and the fighter saw a a sweet lion face. every day they had dreams to put the mask on and had to make a will save. and it could can cast a 6th level spell at will to complete its mission to "defeat or slay opponents"
ie wrestle undead. so the mask can cast geas on an enemy to wrestle who ever wears the mask.(it is a trap!)! i know you cant make a worn item intelligent but i can because it is sweet and i can do it. dm magic
in fact has we speak the half ling wizard is now engaged in a wrestling match with a vampire and now refers to himself as "el magico grande"