What is the maximum number of attacks possible in a single round?

[Karlgamer]

A round being from the start of your turn till just before your next turn.

This includes AoO, TWF and whatever

Highest level 20.

Weather or not those attack actually hit or not should not be factored in.

Lets get ridiculous people.

The person with the highest correct answer wins a cookie.

[Hevyyd]

Err, 23?

A TWF Fighter with a Dex score of 36, using speed on both weapons (don't remember if they play nice with each other or not), gets 9 attacks using a full attack action, and can AoO 14 times per round via Combat Reflexes.

[FallingIcicle]

A Thri-Kreen with Greater Multi-Weapon Fighting. They have four arms, and each arm is getting 4 attacks, plus a bite, for a total of 17 attacks per round.

[TOZ]

Add in natural weapons and you can get more.

[Bryan Stiltz]

Hevyyd wrote:

Err, 23?

A TWF Fighter with a Dex score of 36, using speed on both weapons (don't remember if they play nice with each other or not), gets 9 attacks using a full attack action, and can AoO 14 times per round via Combat Reflexes.

You forget the free attack(s) for Cleave.

[Karlgamer]

Bryan Stiltz wrote:

You forget the free attack(s) for Cleave.

Cleave is a standard action

[OgeXam]

A flying guy with whirl wind with a ton of flying tiny creatures all around will give you a ton.

Let's go with just 10' reach and flying so 24 10X10 cubes are within reach. With 4 tiny creatures per 5' square gives 32 creatures per cube which then yields 24*32 = 768 tiny flying creatures all around. So 768 attacks in one round.

The number goes crazy with a greater reach.

[Hevyyd]

Oh, I'm allowed to use Thri-Kreen?

One sec, napkin math.

Okay. So we're going Thri-Kreen Alchemist 4/Fighter 14. 4 levels of Alchemist gets us two vestigial arms for more yummy natural attacks, add that two multiattack and multiweapon fighting and I think we just hit 34 potential attacks per round.

19 on a full attack, and 15 AoO's on account of a Dex score of 38.

[Bryan Stiltz]

Karlgamer wrote:

Bryan Stiltz wrote:

You forget the free attack(s) for Cleave.

Cleave is a standard action

You're right. My bad

[OgeXam]

Without using a thousand creatures your best bet is with a monk.

20th level
tripping monk: Greater Trip, Vicious Stomp, Combat Reflexes, Medusa's wrath
Dex 40 ( can get there is base dex at 1st level was naturally 24)

monk has 8 creatures around him.
He ki flurries getting 8 attacks.

Trips each one, gets AoO for the trip and another for the Vicious Stomp.

He successfully stuns one of them for an extra 2 attacks.

8 trips
16 AoO
2 extra attacks
26 total attack rolls (if you count trip as an attack roll)

Only requires 8 creatures too.

[Karlgamer]

Hevyyd wrote:

Oh, I'm allowed to use Thri-Kreen?

Well, I was thinking Pathfinder only but I didn't state it in the first post so...

Is Thri-Kreen in pathfinder.

I also think you must be able to squeese more attacks in.

Oh, you forgot hast.

[Fozbek]

Eidolon. You can have up to 32 arms (2 base for bipedal Eidolon, 26 from default 26 evolution points, 4 from half-elf favored class bonus extra evolution points) all the time. Take Multi-Weapon Fighting. That's 32 attacks right there. You still have one evolution point left over, so let's give him a bite. That's 33 attacks. Now, its Dex is 20, so that's another 6 attacks through AoOs with Combat Reflexes, for 39 attacks. Now add in a haste attack and you have 40. If you allow speed weapons to stack, which I wouldn't, you instead have 71 attacks (and way more than WBL in weapons, but eh, whatever).

That can actually still be improved on, but I leave that as an exercise to others.

[TOZ]

This.

[Irulesmost]

Firearms. Double-barrel pistol. Rapid-shot, Many-shot, Haste/Speed, possibly TWF? Win more. (Statistically, misfire every time unless you're a Pistolero Gunslinger, though)

Edit: Obviously, if TWF/MWF work with ranged attacks, then you apply that to a many-armed race/eidolon.

[Hevyyd]

Karlgamer wrote:

Hevyyd wrote:

Oh, I'm allowed to use Thri-Kreen?

Well, I was thinking Pathfinder only but I didn't state it in the first post so...

Is Thri-Kreen in pathfinder.

I also think you must be able to squeese more attacks in.

Oh, you forgot hast.

I figured Speed weapons into my second build, since they don't play nice with haste and all. I'll leave this challenge to my betters, I've exhausted everything I can think of.

Fun challenge though. :D

[carn]

Karlgamer wrote:

A round being from the start of your turn till just before your next turn.

This includes AoO, TWF and whatever

Highest level 20.

Weather or not those attack actually hit or not should not be factored in.

Lets get ridiculous people.

The person with the highest correct answer wins a cookie.

You did not specify, if the char himself should attack or if companions, familiars, summons and so on count.

As you just say char level and everything is allowed, i assume you count all attacks originating from char actions and happening more or less reliably in a single round.

My bid:

Master Summoner Cha 30 or so. 6 from useless two wepaon fighting of summoner + 22*4.5 summoned vrocks * 5 attacks ~ 501 attacks in 1 round. (He could maybe have more CHA or cast some summon monster 8 spells before the summon 9 spells not from class ability expire. And its dice dependent, how many vrocks you summon.)

[KaeYoss]

Is this an angels-on-a-pin thing?

I'd say the answer is the same for both questions!

[Dragonamedrake]

Well if you count Warblade they have a manuever that allowed them to attack until they missed.

So a true strike coupled with a helpless foe and he probably wins.

O and if you add in the Thicket of Blades stance and imp combat reflexes he gets to make AoO pretty often too.

[Malignor]

An 11th level Human Commoner affected by Enlarge Person and Fly/Levitate, wielding a Spiked Chain, using Whirlwind Attack, surrounded by tiny enemies (pixies), 8 to a square (also flying).
Reach is 20', and can thus attack a number of squares equal to...
Lesse here... Occupies 10'x10', x15'high for squares.
Feats are Combat Expertise (Human), Dodge (1), Mobility (3), Combat Reflexes (5), W.P. Spiked Chain (7), Spring Attack (9), Whirlwind Attack (11)
Stats are Str10+, Dex33 (20+2levels+5wishes+6item), Int 13, and the rest don't matter.

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That's 488 squares, x8 Pixies, equals 3904 attack rolls.
Then add 12 from AoOs.
Total is 3916 attacks.

I could raise a couple more levels, increase Dex a bit more and get more AoOs... but who really cares.

[carn]

Malignor wrote:

An 11th level Human Commoner affected by Enlarge Person and Fly/Levitate, wielding a Spiked Chain, using Whirlwind Attack, surrounded by tiny enemies (pixies), 8 to a square (also flying).

Spiked chain was that cool in 3.5. In pathfinder it cannot attack adjacent enemies.

But a whip would do.

[Karlgamer]

carn wrote:

Malignor wrote:

An 11th level Human Commoner affected by Enlarge Person and Fly/Levitate, wielding a Spiked Chain, using Whirlwind Attack, surrounded by tiny enemies (pixies), 8 to a square (also flying).

Spiked chain was that cool in 3.5. In pathfinder it cannot attack adjacent enemies.

But a whip would do.

So the answer is 3916 if you use a whip? Can I get this confirmed?

Really only 3,916?

Come on people I'm counting on you to beat Malignor/carn and get a higher number.

[carn]

Karlgamer wrote:

carn wrote:

Malignor wrote:

An 11th level Human Commoner affected by Enlarge Person and Fly/Levitate, wielding a Spiked Chain, using Whirlwind Attack, surrounded by tiny enemies (pixies), 8 to a square (also flying).

Spiked chain was that cool in 3.5. In pathfinder it cannot attack adjacent enemies.

But a whip would do.

So the answer is 3916 if you use a whip? Can I get this confirmed?

Really only 3,916?

Come on people I'm counting on you to beat Malignor/carn and get a higher number.

Master Summoner level 20, Cha 30, 10 extra summons from feats cast gate 25 times and - besides wasting 250000 GP of his money - summons 40 four armed mudra skels per gate for 40*25*4 = 4000 attacks. (500000 GP should be enough to pay the skels)

That number can still be upped.
(but i still do not know whether we count summons attacks as attacks in this contest - "GM" has to decide)

[Karlgamer]

carn wrote:

(but i still do not know whether we count summons attacks as attacks in this contest - "GM" has to decide)

Causing harm indirectly is not an attack.

Ie you could remain invisible if you summoned creatures.

[Malignor]

Actually, it's easy to 1-up myself.

Use a scroll of Magic Jar to possess a Titan before it all (then drink a potion of Fly and Enlarge Person), and then you're Gargantuan, providing 40' reach, which should roughly double the number of hits.

[carn]

Karlgamer wrote:

carn wrote:

(but i still do not know whether we count summons attacks as attacks in this contest - "GM" has to decide)

Causing harm indirectly is not an attack.

Ie you could remain invisible if you summoned creatures.

Then eidolon does not count. Synthesist?

He has eidolon as somehow outer hull and uses his attacks and pysical scores.

[Crimson Jester]

Eiπ+1=0

[Talynonyx]

Malignor wrote:

Actually, it's easy to 1-up myself.

Use a scroll of Magic Jar to possess a Titan before it all (then drink a potion of Fly and Enlarge Person), and then you're Gargantuan, providing 40' reach, which should roughly double the number of hits.

Sorry, Titans aren't people, can't be Enlarge Personed.

[Dragonchess Player]

Hmm. How about a half-orc (Toothy alternate racial trait) fighter (mobile fighter) 16/monk (master of many styles) 4 with 13+ Str, 19+ Dex, 15+ Wis, Combat Style Master, Greater Two-Weapon Fighting (Two-Weapon Fighting, Improved Two-Weapon Fighting), Improved Cleaving Finish (Power Attack, Cleave, Cleaving Finish, Great Cleave), Panther Parry (Panther Style, Panther Claw), and Snake Fang (Combat Reflexes, Snake Style, Snake Sidewind) wielding an orc double axe? Full attack BAB +17/+12/+7/+2//+17/+12/+7//+12 (double-axe//double-axe//bite), +12/+7/+2//+12/+7/+2//+7 on a move; add one more attack from a haste effect (boots of speed, speed weapon ability, etc.), add an unarmed retaliatory strike (kick, elbow smash) for all AoO against the character from moving (up to Wis modifier), add an unarmed AoO against any opponent that misses with an attack (plus an extra unarmed attack if the AoO hits), add an extra attack whenever you reduce an opponent to 0 hp.

This is more for practical use than setting a theoretical limit.

[Malignor]

Bah. Heck with it. I knew my math was wrong, as we're in 3 dimensions.
The side view is below.
I'm not doing all the top view slices this time.
I'll just add the values for each slice.
PS This is a STORM GIANT. My bad for saying titan. I even looked it up, switched it to Storm Giant, and then typed using the wrong "memory address" in my brain. Blech... I'm turning senile. Thanks for reminding me, Talynonyx.

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(2x32)+(2x112)+(2x148)+(2x192)+(6x224)+(2x284)+(8x316) = 5408 squares
Times 8 pixies per square = 43264
Plus AoOs (1base+2dex+2CatsGrace) = 43269 attacks

...IT'S OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!
(Is it just me, or are you also getting flashbacks switching from Vegeta yelling that, to Ichigo's Bankai vs. Byakuya's Senbonzakura?)

If you wanna go FURTHER, replace Cat's Grace with a +6 item, and make the giant an Elite, adding a total of 3 more AoOs... but seriously, who cares at this point, when you have over 43000 attacks already?

[Tandriniel]

Remember, there is no improved multiweapon attack (and that for a good reason). A creature with 4 arms with a weapon in each gets one attack per arm with multiweapon attack, no matter the BAB.