A favorite combo of mine is Stinking Cloud + Acid Pit (or Hungry Pit).
Much like your combo with Black Tentacles, all the spells involved are of the Conjuration school, so they all benefit from Spell Focus Conjuration for + to save DC, and none allow SR. The Acid/Hungry Pit stops enemies from moving out of the Stinking Cloud and deals damage every round. The Stinking Cloud keeps the enemy nauseated, or at least unable to see. Since Stinking Cloud is 3rd level, it can be enhanced with a Lesser Metamagic Rod, which is the kind I like to have around for Quicken Spell & Dazing Spell as soon as I can afford them.
Can someone explain magic jar +binding (minimus containment) to me?
You missed Tar Pool + Sirocco.
Sirocco knocks flying creatures out of the air, deals relatively significant ongoing damage, automatically debuffs everyone with fatigue (and then exhaustion on round 2), and can knock people prone...in the tar...the tar that keeps them from escaping the area, deals ongoing damage, and also debuffs everyone with entanglement. In short, the two spells have GREAT synergy and ensure that victims will be caught in and suffer the full effects of both spells for their entire durations.
Knocks creatures out of the air unless they make a fly check dc 15, which is absurdly trivial.
Not every spellcaster who flies invests in Fly ranks. It's also great on especially clumsy creatures (like certain dragons). It's also pretty much free, so it makes the spell better, even if only marginally so.
Wall of sound and grease in a long and narrow corridor with many enemies running through it towards you. Start with the wall, then start spamming the slip and slide.
A telekinetic charge + quickened telekinetic charge is a great method of launching two martials into flanking position. Each martial gets to make a free attack (as an immediate action) upon landing, and then, on their turn, they get to make their full attacks. A standard + swift that could potentially end fights vs many enemies.
Can someone explain magic jar +binding (minimus containment) to me?
The Binding spell puts your body safely inside a very small gemstone. And since Magic Jar requires no line of effect, you can now go possess others without ever aging.
Essentially, it's a way to live forever.
Blood Money + Ray of Enfeeblement on yourself.
Blood Money + Ray of Enfeeblement on yourself.
Because ray of enfeeblement means your Strength score can't drop below 1?
I don't think it works the way you think.
You missed Tar Pool + Sirocco.
Sirocco knocks flying creatures out of the air, deals relatively significant ongoing damage, automatically debuffs everyone with fatigue (and then exhaustion on round 2), and can knock people prone...in the tar...the tar that keeps them from escaping the area, deals ongoing damage, and also debuffs everyone with entanglement. In short, the two spells have GREAT synergy and ensure that victims will be caught in and suffer the full effects of both spells for their entire durations.
There's the additional issue that they both deal fire damage. Fire resistance/immunity is annoyingly common.
Blood Money + Ray of Enfeeblement on yourself.Because ray of enfeeblement means your Strength score can't drop below 1?
I don't think it works the way you think.
I would even hazard a guess that once you get to Strength Score 1, you can't use Blood Money anymore because 'creatures who are immune to strength damage can't use this spell'. Not RAW, of course, but if someone wanted to try that at my table, that's how I'd run it. I'm perfectly fine with letting people use Blood Money, because they are willingly weakening themselves for power. Having a Cleric use up his slots to heal you just makes all things better.
Yeah, if you don't/can't pay the full cost, you don't get the benefit. Pretty sure that combo has been discussed before.
Thread necro... because I can :)
Jotun's Grip (Deep Magic; 3rd) + Storm of Blades (People of the Sands; Paizo) = the ability to enlarge a Medium Greatsword to Colossal size, dealing 8d6 points of damage initially, followed by the ability to fling that size sword plus 4 duplicates into a hapless victim. The result? 8d6 x 5 = 40d6 of slashing damage.
If you want ammunition of this combo, take a bunch of Greatswords, shrink down to, say, Tiny, or dagger-sized, for easy carrying. If you cast Jotun's Grip, the shrunken Greatsword still goes to Colossal size, so...
Why carrying? Because Storm of Blades' drawback is the fact that it consumes the weapon after casting. If you used a +2 adamantine flaming burst greatsword... it gets vaporized right after. Yeah... a Masterwork Greatsword is relatively cheap, at the very least.
For my 4- lvl wizard i use web+ flaming sphere.
Defensive BBEG prep when alerted that the party is about to charge the main gate/entrance/corridor/whatever chokepoint you can identify: Any fog plus Blade Barrier followed by Shout. While Blade Barrier doesn't explicitly state that there's a noise component, this keeps the late initiative party members from hearing the screams as the early martials/members rush in.
The Shout trick also works well with any other concealment + trap combo above.
Eldritch Conduit + Anti Magic field.
You lay it on THEM, and control whether it can be dispelled. Send into your fighter (Or if you were a battle cleric/Eldritch knight, go in yourself.
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Reckless Infatuation on one target ... Unadulterated Loathing on the other.
That should play out like an old Pepe Le Pew cartoon!
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Confusion + Spiritual Weapon is one I heard about recently. You hit them with Confusion then your buddy hits them with Spiritual Weapon so they don't roll on the chart but instead attack something they can't kill for rounds/level.
Eldritch Conduit + Anti Magic field.
You lay it on THEM, and control whether it can be dispelled. Send into your fighter (Or if you were a battle cleric/Eldritch knight, go in yourself.
Doesn't work, sadly.
Only works on certain spell areas, but Emanation isnt one of them and antimagic field is an emanation.
Edit: However, Magic Jar + Anti magic field should work. I believe this will effectively kick the magic-jarer out of the body, but the antimagic field should stay.
---Eldritch Conduit---
School transmutation; Level sorcerer/wizard 2, witch 2
DESCRIPTION
If the target of this spell fails to resist its effects with a Will save, he becomes outlined in faint radiance, as if via faerie fire. At any time before the eldritch conduit expires, you may cast another spell with an area effect of cone, cylinder, line, or sphere and use the subject of the eldritch conduit as the point of origin for that spell. Doing so ends the spell immediately. The target must be within close range (25 feet + 5 feet/2 levels) in order for you to use the conduit—if the target moves out of range, the eldritch conduit effect persists but cannot be utilized by you until you get back within range.
---ANTIMAGIC FIELD---
School abjuration; Level cleric 8, sorcerer/wizard 6
Casting Time 1 standard action
Components V, S, M/DF (pinch of powdered iron or iron filings)
Range 10 ft.
Area 10-ft.-radius emanation, centered on you