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Just for fun pick between 3 and 5 abilities found in pathfinder that you would like to have in your real life right now. You can say Spellcasting if you want, but that's really too easy. Try to limit it to Spell like abilities.
1) A Devil's Greater Teleport at will. - Can you say Jumper?
2) Immortality as a wizards/alchemists/Certain Monk 20th level discovery/ability. - This assumes agelessness. Also it would be nice if I had some minor ability to regenerate. I don't want to spend eternity with a bum leg because I broke it 1000 years ago.
3) Regeneration - In adition to the reason listed above I'd like to try dangerous thing and not have to worry about permanently maiming myself.
4) Immunity to disease per Paladin ability. - Because I would probably sleep around a lot if I didn't have to worry about such things.
5) Druidic shapeshifting or Shapechange as an @ will SLA. -
Naturally all 5 would be awesome, but I'd trade it all for High level spellcasting. ;-)
1. Blindsense and/or Tremorsense.
2. Tongue of the Sun and Moon.
3. The Reincarnated Druid ability that brings you back every time you die. Same benefits as immortality, but you get to experience life a different way each time.
4. I forget where I saw it, but there was a monster with an ability to learn any spell effect it saw. That would be cool.
5. Teleport at will here too.
1. Blindsense and/or Tremorsense.
2. Tongue of the Sun and Moon.
3. The Reincarnated Druid ability that brings you back every time you die. Same benefits as immortality, but you get to experience life a different way each time.
4. I forget where I saw it, but there was a monster with an ability to learn any spell effect it saw. That would be cool.
5. Teleport at will here too.
I'm curious. Why specifically would you want blindsense and/or trermorsense in your real life?
I wish I had though of Tongue of Sun and Moon or the Polyglot feat from 3.5 Epic handbook.
Reincarnated druid ability is better than base immortality. It gives a regeneration-like ability that I was looking for Plus a new identity every time. It'd be like having a clean slate. That's rather brilliant. I'd like to change my answer. ;-)
Frankly If I could just be a level 20 reincarnated druid I'd be good with that.
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I'm curious. Why specifically would you want blindsense and/or trermorsense in your real life?
I have terrible perception. Part of it is my vision and hearing are bad. Part of it is my eyes are set further back in their sockets than normal, so my peripheral vision is extremely, extremely limited. And part of it is that I'm just plain bad at paying attention.
I've had a lot of near-misses of walking out in front of cars and the like, and I bump into people with surprising regularity. Knowing things are coming without having to see or hear them would come in extremely handy.
Besides, who wouldn't want to be a little like Toph Bei Fong? ;)
1. The casting ability of a 20th level wizard.
Done.
Edit: Damn, you said no spellcasting. Can I just go with wish?
Correction, I said you CAN choose spellcasting, but it was WAY too easy.
Wish @ will as a SLA would be useful. SLA means no material components. Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)
Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)
"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
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I would settle for Create Demiplane, Greater with Permanency and Teleport.
Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
6 stats X 5 wishes each. = 30. ;-)
I would settle for Create Demiplane, Greater with Permanency and Teleport.
What specificlly would make your demiplane the super-awesome place for your real-life self?
6 stats X 5 wishes each. = 30. ;-)Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
I just couldn't resist the opportunity for the quote ;)
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1. The casting ability of a 20th level wizard.
Done.
Edit: Damn, you said no spellcasting. Can I just go with wish?
Correction, I said you CAN choose spellcasting, but it was WAY too easy.
Wish @ will as a SLA would be useful. SLA means no material components. Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)
I was also trying to game it like this:
*Duplicate any sorcerer/wizard spell of 8th level or lower, provided the spell does not belong to one of your opposition schools.
*Duplicate any non-sorcerer/wizard spell of 7th level or lower, provided the spell does not belong to one of your opposition schools.
*Duplicate any sorcerer/wizard spell of 7th level or lower, even if it belongs to one of your opposition schools.
*Duplicate any non-sorcerer/wizard spell of 6th level or lower, even if it belongs to one of your opposition schools.
That one SLA would give incredible power over life and death.
Channel Energy
Leadership feat
Eidolon
Tongue of Sun and Moon
Bardic Knowledge
Channel Energy
Leadership feat
Eidolon
Tongue of Sun and Moon
Bardic Knowledge
The leadership feat does exist. You just have to work at it in the real world. Start a cult or what not.
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immortality
DRuids shapeshifting
Cure disease. Alright africa, line up to give me high fives.
In order of preference:
1. Teleport at will. Yeah, no contest.
2.-3. Regeneration and immunity to disease sure would be nice.
4. Tongue of sun and moon. I can already understand the rocks, but it takes work, and would be nice to do it verbally.
5. Wealth by level!
1. Have a homebrewed Half-Dragon template applied to me (as in, I can turn into a Dragon as well)
2. Ageless/Immortal body (I kind of want to see how the future will be like.)
3. Spellcasting of a Level 20 wizard (well... Go figures, it was going to happen.)
4. Similar abilities to that of devils (Yes bad, but face it, Greater Teleport at will, Fast Healing, DR/Good or Magic, what's not to like.)
5. The fact that I wanted to eventually multi-class into Cleric... I'm a sucker for magic.
"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
My solution: I wish the rule preventing you from wishing for more wishes was null and void... for me :P
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1. Prestidigitation at will.
2. Greater teleport at will.
3. Bardic knowledge.
4. Sythesist eidolon.
5. Blindsight.
Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
I wish for more genies.
I'll settle for the Blood of Amber.
I'm not familiar with that one. Can you explain or link?
I wish for more genies.Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
"Often imitated but never duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplicated....!"
Start hereI'll settle for the Blood of Amber.I'm not familiar with that one. Can you explain or link?
Is there a Pathfinder Amber setting? Pretty sure TCG specified PF... ;)
I would settle for Create Demiplane, Greater with Permanency and Teleport.What specificlly would make your demiplane the super-awesome place for your real-life self?
Flowing Time (1 day in the plane = 1 hour real time), Minor Positive-aligned, Bountiful, Portal, and Structure.
I would live there and not feel all that guilty about spending some time there doing whatever I felt like doing.
Also, jujitsu dojo.
"Often imitated but never duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplica-duplicated....!"O rly?
Foiled!
"Way to go, Al."
Prestidigitation at will.
Wildshape at will.
Bardic Knowledge.
Posion and Disease Immunity.
Regeneration that can't be turned off by fire/acid/etc.
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Bardic knowledge
Stern gaze
Tongue of Sun and Moon
Tremorsense
Mage hand
Just try and pull stuff in my classroom.
Guess what my first 30 wishes are? ;-)"And IX-NAY on the wishing for more wishes!
That's it: THREE!!! Uno, dos, tres!
No substitutions, extensions, or refunds."
EDIT: Ninja'd again!
My experience with Amber is limited to stumbling across some group's session quotes somewhere online about ten years ago, heh.
I am pretty much an exact copy of TCG's list. Although Wish as a SLA would just be awesome. Create Demiplane as a SLA would be pretty cool. Creating whole universes would be fun.
I am pretty much an exact copy of TCG's list. Although Wish as a SLA would just be awesome. Create Demiplane as a SLA would be pretty cool. Creating whole universes would be fun.
Create demiplane would definitely be a nice perk, but it's not really in my top ten of things I'd want. Being a 20th level caster is definitely in my top ten and if I could do that I would definitely make a demiplane.
Being a 20th level caster is definitely in my top ten and if I could do that I would definitely make a demiplane.A 20th level caster could duplicate most of the other items mentioned in this thread.
After all, immortality is just a side-benefit for a level 20 wizard.
True. As I said originally you CAN choose caster as one of your 5, but it's too easy. Basically it means you want to be able to do everything, but franklyl, who wouldn't?
I won't be original with picking greater teleport as primary ability. Regeneration (but rather the kind penetrated by evil weapons and spells, assuming regeneration of lost organs accompanies it). Wish, even once per week, month or year would be fine as long as it would be spell-like ability (i.e. no material components). Heal is tempting, suggestion at will would be good as well ("You want to accept my job application... My lack of work experience means I don't have bad habits") but I would to think about exact package beyond the first three picks. Druidic thousand faces is also very promising.
True lycanthropy
magic jar
detect thoughts
all around vision
hide in plain sight
True lycanthropy
magic jar
detect thoughts
all around vision
hide in plain sight
Oooh! HIPS is a good one.
Detect thoughts has its benefits too. At least I would known which women are actually interested in me and when I am just imagining things.
Detect thoughts has its benefits too. At least I would known which women are actually interested in me and when I am just imagining things.
Practice watching people's faces and body language when they talk to each other -- then apply what you learn when they talk to you. Most people are pretty terrible liars, and a lot of people use the same nonverbal cues.
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Spell-Like Ability: Wish, at will
Spell-Like Ability: Miracle, at will
Spell Resistance 50
Immortality (Su): At 20th level, a monk of the four winds no longer ages. He remains in his current age category forever. Even if the monk comes to a violent end, he spontaneously reincarnates (as the spell) 24 hours later in a place of his choosing within 20 miles of the place he died. The monk must have visited the place in which he returns back to life at least once. This ability replaces perfect self.
Hit Points
Spell-Like Ability: Wish, at will
Spell-Like Ability: Miracle, at will
Spell Resistance 50
Immortality (Su): At 20th level, a monk of the four winds no longer ages. He remains in his current age category forever. Even if the monk comes to a violent end, he spontaneously reincarnates (as the spell) 24 hours later in a place of his choosing within 20 miles of the place he died. The monk must have visited the place in which he returns back to life at least once. This ability replaces perfect self.
Hit Points
Even though it was sort of the first immortally power I always forget about the monk of the four winds. It's by far the best immortality. You don't age, but if you screw up and get killed anyway you still reincarnate. Nice.
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I think picking things like Regeneration is a really bad idea. You would end up tortured in some kind of government vivisection program, but at the end of it you wouldn't get adamantine bones - just emotional scars.
Hah, that's why I wanted hit points instead of regeneration. Damage me all you want, I'm at full strength until I'm unconscious. And any damage short of unconsciousness/death could then be miracled back to full. :P
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I think picking things like Regeneration is a really bad idea. You would end up tortured in some kind of government vivisection program, but at the end of it you wouldn't get adamantine bones - just emotional scars.
Good luck catching me. I am invincible and immortal-they aren't. Any attempt by the government or private industry to capture me would be met with lethal force and swift regime change.
On the other hand, I would probably donate a lot of vital organs to the hospital. Timmy gets a new heart after all, and it didn't even require a teenager dying in a drunk driving accident.
I won't say spells as a wizard, but I will say spell like abilities at will:
Improved Age Resistance
Greater Teleport
Fly
Invisibility
Dominate Person
I figure there's not a whole lot I couldn't get done with those abilities.