Hey All,
I've been playing D&D for many years and now just started Pathfinder. In that time, I've had my characters swinging swords and casting spells. Sometimes however, there have been some spectacular combination attacks and I thought it would be fun to see which are some of your favorites.
My personal favorite in my experience was my goliath who had the Throw Enemy feat. We were facing the boss and I asked the mage in the party cast Prismatic Wall. One thrown boss through the wall and the fight was over. I look forward to reading your crazy combos both ones that worked and ones that were epic fails.
Chears All.
In 3.5, we were once fighting a golem way above our pay grade without any adamantite weapons or supernatural abilities, but we did have a cliff--and a wizard foolhardy enough to be bait.
The gnome cleric/rogue cast stoneshape beneath the golem to make a ramp.
The aristocrat/bard cast grease under the golem and on the ramp.
The paladin bull rushed the golem.
My scout lassoed the golem, drank a potion of enlarge person, and jumped off the cliff, using a 1 time trinket to featherfall.
The wizard spiderclimbed out of the way.
Ta-Da!!!!
1 golem disposed of.
Wizard duo.
1. Rock to mud on cavern floor, or better yet, ceiling.
2. Mud to rock on said mud.
It's a simple combo but very effective. I've become a huge fan of the inquisitor and his ability to intimidate. I enjoy using dazzling display and shatter defense.
My scout lassoed the golem, drank a potion of enlarge person, and jumped off the cliff, using a 1 time trinket to featherfall.
Black Tentacles + Cloudkill
create pit and summon swarm (or if you are feeling really mean.... putting a lid on the pit with wall of stone.
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Smite x (chaos in my case) + cavalier's challenge = 3x level (17) to damage vs a demon + 5 successful attacks with a power-attacking 3d6 falchion = over 500 damage in one routine with (surprisingly) not a single crit in sight.
Smite + challenge means I'm horribly multiclassed (it's true), but that attack made it all worth it.
In 3.5, we were once fighting a golem way above our pay grade without any adamantite weapons or supernatural abilities, but we did have a cliff--and a wizard foolhardy enough to be bait.
The gnome cleric/rogue cast stoneshape beneath the golem to make a ramp.
The aristocrat/bard cast grease under the golem and on the ramp.
The paladin bull rushed the golem.
My scout lassoed the golem, drank a potion of enlarge person, and jumped off the cliff, using a 1 time trinket to featherfall.
The wizard spiderclimbed out of the way.Ta-Da!!!!
1 golem disposed of.
Amazing man. Quite the team effort and a way of thinking outside the box in an encounter.
Party inquisitor had a long spear braced against the charge of a dire boar (should be one good hit, though probably his last). My monk ki throws an enemy mook into the square right in front of said inquisitor.
End result: enemy mook gored by charging dire boar, inquisitor unharmed, and braced attack still goes off for massive damage. Rest of party unleashes hell on dire boar and they take it down without getting a scratch.
Repose domain 1st level ability (melee touch) delivered twice, immediate coup de grace = near-instant loot and XP. Be afraid, be very afraid.
My friend and I played a one-shot at a convention where the six player-characters were pregen, 1st-level halfings. I had the wizard. It might a Green Regent intro or something. Sorry pre-Pathfinder days.
The end of the adventure had the big evil werewolf "escape" by riding down a deep well shaft on a rope with a pulley and a net of rocks to act as the counter-weight.
The GM started wrapping up the adventure when the werewolf started going down the well on its turn... like he had done during the previous sessions. A party of 1st-level characters without silver! And the werewolf was running, right?
Anyway, I asked "are we still in combat? I'd like to act."
"Huh?" the GM replies looking up from his paperwork. Incredulous he asks, "what would you like to do?" to humor me.
"Is the rope still moving through the pulley? I mean is the well deep enough that he hasn't reached the bottom?" I ask.
"Um, yes, I guess. It's 100-feet down, so I guess it's still moving. You can't target him, because the well shaft isn't lit where he is." He answers after checking the mod.
"I cast Magic Missile on the rope." I act. "That should cut the rope and drop him down the shaft, right?" There was some rule checking of the hardness and hit points of a normal hemp rope.
"Um, yes. Maybe 60-feet of falling damage." He responds flipping the DMG for the falling damage table.
"Wouldn't the counter-weight fall on him, too?" I ask having thought of this action when the GM described the net filled with rocks.
"Um, yes." The GM stops looking and puts the DMG down.
"I move up to the well. Do I hear any noise?" I finish my action.
"Not anymore." he replies with a smile.
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3.5
Wizard casts improved invisibility on rogue.
Rogue uses ring of telekinesis to throw 9 flawless for lots and lots of d6s of damage.
Druid shapes into roc (or other big flyer) with ant haul, muleback cords, and bulls strength. Carries party in a giant basket, delivering paratrooper assault like a C5 Hercules.
Summons + Sorcerer with Haste + Bard = lots of highly buffer disposable killing machines.
Witch + SoD Caster + Demoralizing Bard + Shatter Defenses/Dazzling Display Fighter = Bbeg sadness.
C5 Hercules
I apologize, but the Air Force brat inside me can't let this slide.
The C-5 is the Galaxy, the C-130 is the Hercules.
I'm eager to go for the Butterfly Sting combo with my next character. One character plays a high crit range combatant, with a rapier or scimitar and Improved Critical or Keen. This guy takes the Butterfly Sting feat. That way, he can pass his criticals to the brute with a Scythe or other nasty x4 weapon.
I'm not sure which character I would prefer.
I'm eager to go for the Butterfly Sting combo with my next character. One character plays a high crit range combatant, with a rapier or scimitar and Improved Critical or Keen. This guy takes the Butterfly Sting feat. That way, he can pass his criticals to the brute with a Scythe or other nasty x4 weapon.
I'm not sure which character I would prefer.
A friend and I did this with a TWFing, kukri-wielding, order-of-the-cockatrice cavalier and a scythe-wielding barbarian. The cavalier would threaten criticals (big range with Improved Critical) and pass them off to the barbarian. The barbarian would critical, which would activate the cavalier's steal glory ability to get an AoO, who then often criticaled again and passed it off to the barbarian once more in the same round (sometimes even more due to Combat Reflexes). The GM decided we should make new characters since my cockatrice cavalier was working too well with others or some nonesense.