What would you be if you could be anything?

[Vod Canockers]

20th Level Halfling Druid. Weather Domain instead of an animal companion.

[Create Mr. Pitt]

I would just sit and troll the real world Paladins on facebook until they fall.

[Cap. Darling]

Umbranus wrote:

thaX wrote:

A girl.

I prayed to be one when I was a kid. Everything seemed to be easier for them. Looking at it now, the perspective hasn't really changed. If I was a woman, I would be married, have at least three kids and write for a living. Right now, I am alone, work for a roofing company, and my writing stalls as I get busy doing other things...

I would be a girl.

Not wanting to contradict you. But I know a couple of girls/women who claim the opposite and would like to be guys because then all would be better. No hormones making your moods run amok once a month, lesser wages for your work and stuff like that.

Ever seen the movie, "Regretters"?

[Timebomb]

Wood Wizard/archmage

• Contact the Da Beers Corporation offering them magic items in return for warehouses of diamonds (two can play the monopoly game).
  
• Start taking over diamond mines around the world with skeletons (after using speak with dead to get their permission, I'm not evil after all) and my Crysmal familiar who can smell gemstones.
  
• While that is getting up and running I hire the best PR/HR person money/magic can buy.
  
• While the the PR person is making me massively popular I build an Embassy on an uninhabited island in the pacific.
  
• Destroy all magical items made for Da Beers
  
• Build a identical embassy, and small city to go with it, on Mars.
  
• Inform the UN that I claim Mars. All of it. As well as Phobos and Deimos. Visitors and scientific expeditions are welcome but they must respect my sovereignty. All others will be disintegrated.
  
• Open up applications to live on Mars. Transportation will be taken care of, as will food and water. Simply get to the earth side embassy after you've been accepted. First visits back to earth are at 5 years of martian living, unless they can get off world without magic. Earth-Mars communication will be provided via ring gates with fiber optic cable running through it.
  
• Proceed to attempt to create Martian Atlantis.
  
• Do not teach anyone but direct decedents how to use magic.
  

In my free time go around to educational places and enchant all their lights with continual flame (with the False Focus feat).

Wood wizard is so I can get plant growth and liveoak. Magic fertilizer is awesome.

After Mars is colonized we start working on Venus, then to another star.

[sunbeam]

Geez all these world domination posts.

Back on the WOTC boards, before 4e, there was a thread about how a LeShay (a "super" elf, suitable for epic encounters) could take over our world.

If memory serves it was disgusting easy. The best technique was to hang around a day or two, to give your Knowledge:Local some plausible deniability.

Then use Greater Teleport and visit whichever head of state and corporate head you desire (or all of them, really doesn't matter). Make a diplomacy check to make who you visit your fanatical follower. Or you could charm him, but if your skill is that high it's better anyway.

Or go on tv and make a diplomacy check to millions.

There were tons of other things it was suggested he do. But most of them boiled down to Greater Teleport and his diplomacy skill. LeShay had lots of other spell like abilities, but that was all he needed.

[Ashtathlon]

sunbeam wrote:

Geez all these world domination posts.

Back on the WOTC boards, before 4e, there was a thread about how a LeShay (a "super" elf, suitable for epic encounters) could take over our world.

If memory serves it was disgusting easy. The best technique was to hang around a day or two, to give your Knowledge:Local some plausible deniability.

Then use Greater Teleport and visit whichever head of state and corporate head you desire (or all of them, really doesn't matter). Make a diplomacy check to make who you visit your fanatical follower. Or you could charm him, but if your skill is that high it's better anyway.

Or go on tv and make a diplomacy check to millions.

There were tons of other things it was suggested he do. But most of them boiled down to Greater Teleport and his diplomacy skill. LeShay had lots of other spell like abilities, but that was all he needed.

Yeah..alot of Napoleon wannabes here :)

I had another thought/plot...
Upon returning to this world with all my great wyrm/druid/mythic craziness, I may just shapechange into a older bearded, slightly overweight fellow, and use a small portion of my hoard to buy several of my favorite game related companies..
And using my vast knowledge and memories of growing from wyrmling to great wyrm in the other reality, produce the most detailed and realistic fantasy game setting and product support , with movie and multi-media tie-ins...subtly implement instructions and methods of functional magic (and along with several well worded wishes) make enchanted printing presses, and miniature making processes that will slowly re-introduce the ancient mythic world to this one...

Then open some stable gates to some extra-planar places.

and enjoy the results..:)

[Liam Warner]

Ashtathlon wrote:

sunbeam wrote:

Geez all these world domination posts.

Back on the WOTC boards, before 4e, there was a thread about how a LeShay (a "super" elf, suitable for epic encounters) could take over our world.

If memory serves it was disgusting easy. The best technique was to hang around a day or two, to give your Knowledge:Local some plausible deniability.

Then use Greater Teleport and visit whichever head of state and corporate head you desire (or all of them, really doesn't matter). Make a diplomacy check to make who you visit your fanatical follower. Or you could charm him, but if your skill is that high it's better anyway.

Or go on tv and make a diplomacy check to millions.

There were tons of other things it was suggested he do. But most of them boiled down to Greater Teleport and his diplomacy skill. LeShay had lots of other spell like abilities, but that was all he needed.

Yeah..alot of Napoleon wannabes here :)

I had another thought/plot...
Upon returning to this world with all my great wyrm/druid/mythic craziness, I may just shapechange into a older bearded, slightly overweight fellow, and use a small portion of my hoard to buy several of my favorite game related companies..
And using my vast knowledge and memories of growing from wyrmling to great wyrm in the other reality, produce the most detailed and realistic fantasy game setting and product support , with movie and multi-media tie-ins...subtly implement instructions and methods of functional magic (and along with several well worded wishes) make enchanted printing presses, and miniature making processes that will slowly re-introduce the ancient mythic world to this one...

Then open some stable gates to some extra-planar places.

and enjoy the results..:)

That could be interesting and imagine the lawsuits . . .

"I Played this game and now I'm a cat-girl and my best friends a kitten."
"Madam if you and your son had read the disclaimer in the instructions its stated quite clearly in point 4 that we are not to be held liable for unexpected transformations, manifestatins, alterations or appearances of large piles of tresure."
"Mraow!"
"Errrr yeah what was that last one again? Wait what do you mean son?!"
"Well from what I can see your friend has been turned into your son, you do realize cat-girls only have breasts when lactating and that they're kittens when younger and grow up into humanoid cat people?"
"NO I wasn't!"

I imagine in real life diplomacy wouldn't be as overpowered as it is in the game world but introducing rules like that would avert the goal of this thread which is to get an idea of what people are after. It seems inside most pathfinder players is a desire to rule the world.
"

[Anzyr]

There is only one proper optimizer response to the above.

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization."

Shamelessly taken from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Shamelessly.

[Tels]

Anzyr wrote:

There is only one proper optimizer response to the above.

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization."

Shamelessly taken from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Shamelessly.

That's a great fanfic, no shame involved. Although, I think he crammed way too much stuff happening into one year of school.

[Tels]

Ashtathlon wrote:

sunbeam wrote:

Geez all these world domination posts.

Back on the WOTC boards, before 4e, there was a thread about how a LeShay (a "super" elf, suitable for epic encounters) could take over our world.

If memory serves it was disgusting easy. The best technique was to hang around a day or two, to give your Knowledge:Local some plausible deniability.

Then use Greater Teleport and visit whichever head of state and corporate head you desire (or all of them, really doesn't matter). Make a diplomacy check to make who you visit your fanatical follower. Or you could charm him, but if your skill is that high it's better anyway.

Or go on tv and make a diplomacy check to millions.

There were tons of other things it was suggested he do. But most of them boiled down to Greater Teleport and his diplomacy skill. LeShay had lots of other spell like abilities, but that was all he needed.

Yeah..alot of Napoleon wannabes here :)

I had another thought/plot...
Upon returning to this world with all my great wyrm/druid/mythic craziness, I may just shapechange into a older bearded, slightly overweight fellow, and use a small portion of my hoard to buy several of my favorite game related companies..
And using my vast knowledge and memories of growing from wyrmling to great wyrm in the other reality, produce the most detailed and realistic fantasy game setting and product support , with movie and multi-media tie-ins...subtly implement instructions and methods of functional magic (and along with several well worded wishes) make enchanted printing presses, and miniature making processes that will slowly re-introduce the ancient mythic world to this one...

Then open some stable gates to some extra-planar places.

and enjoy the results..:)

I would never want to be Napoleon... He failed.

[Anzyr]

Tels wrote:

Anzyr wrote:

There is only one proper optimizer response to the above.

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization."

Shamelessly taken from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Shamelessly.

That's a great fanfic, no shame involved. Although, I think he crammed way too much stuff happening into one year of school.

Ya, it started good then just kinda kept cramming stuff into such a small period of time. I enjoy Harry Potter and the Natural 20's pacing much more, though the sideplot of book 2 is getting somewhat annoying (though we'll see where he goes with it.)

[jhpace1]

jhpace1 wrote:

Oh, I'll ditto that, Anzyr. Elan Psion Nomad6/Elocator10/Metamind1/Psicrystal Imprinter3. Teleport, teleport, teleport. And walk on air.

About as all-talented as a True Atlantean Techno-Wizard in RIFTS Earth. With heritage tattoos.

I don't want to take over the world. Just give me my own growing demiplane, the ability to make permanent astral constructs, as well as a few Simulacrums, and I'll be very happy forever. I'll visit various Earths from time to time to pick up new books and movies, but as long as I'm left alone, no world conquests.

[Tholomyes]

See, I don't think I'd want to be a conquerer. Too much work. I'd be satisfied just using my Unlimited use/day Prestidigitation to become a 5-star chef, and make enough money to not have to worry about much else*. Then I'd make use of the rest of my magical talents as I saw fit.

*alternatively do something similar with fabricate/blood money and, well, anything really. Fabricate will probably net you more money, but over a longer period, and dependent on buyers, and more importantly, I don't think I'd go with the self-harming option over the quick and easy one. With Prestidigitation on food, I'll make less money, but I'll be able to do it continually and I won't have to worry about finding a buyer, as there are always people willing to spend money on a fancy dinner. I could also run a skeleton crew, since I'll also be able to clean things with prestidigitation, and Simulacrum up some waiters. Or it might be cheaper just to hire them, due to the tax reasons.

[Tels]

Tholomyes wrote:

See, I don't think I'd want to be a conquerer. Too much work. I'd be satisfied just using my Unlimited use/day Prestidigitation to become a 5-star chef, and make enough money to not have to worry about much else*. Then I'd make use of the rest of my magical talents as I saw fit.

*alternatively do something similar with fabricate/blood money and, well, anything really. Fabricate will probably net you more money, but over a longer period, and dependent on buyers, and more importantly, I don't think I'd go with the self-harming option over the quick and easy one. With Prestidigitation on food, I'll make less money, but I'll be able to do it continually and I won't have to worry about finding a buyer, as there are always people willing to spend money on a fancy dinner. I could also run a skeleton crew, since I'll also be able to clean things with prestidigitation, and Simulacrum up some waiters. Or it might be cheaper just to hire them, due to the tax reasons.

Go with Simulacrum. Pay your Simulacrums, but then have them deposit the paychecks into an account you have access to.

[Vod Canockers]

Ashtathlon wrote:

sunbeam wrote:

Geez all these world domination posts.

Back on the WOTC boards, before 4e, there was a thread about how a LeShay (a "super" elf, suitable for epic encounters) could take over our world.

If memory serves it was disgusting easy. The best technique was to hang around a day or two, to give your Knowledge:Local some plausible deniability.

Then use Greater Teleport and visit whichever head of state and corporate head you desire (or all of them, really doesn't matter). Make a diplomacy check to make who you visit your fanatical follower. Or you could charm him, but if your skill is that high it's better anyway.

Or go on tv and make a diplomacy check to millions.

There were tons of other things it was suggested he do. But most of them boiled down to Greater Teleport and his diplomacy skill. LeShay had lots of other spell like abilities, but that was all he needed.

Yeah..alot of Napoleon wannabes here :)

I had another thought/plot...
Upon returning to this world with all my great wyrm/druid/mythic craziness, I may just shapechange into a older bearded, slightly overweight fellow, and use a small portion of my hoard to buy several of my favorite game related companies..
And using my vast knowledge and memories of growing from wyrmling to great wyrm in the other reality, produce the most detailed and realistic fantasy game setting and product support , with movie and multi-media tie-ins...subtly implement instructions and methods of functional magic (and along with several well worded wishes) make enchanted printing presses, and miniature making processes that will slowly re-introduce the ancient mythic world to this one...

Then open some stable gates to some extra-planar places.

and enjoy the results..:)

No desire to be a Napoleon. Too much work to run the world.

[Liam Warner]

Like I've said elsewhere I want my variant simulcrum that lets me use them as alternate bodies to be in more than one place at once. I thought Fabricate used up 5 times the value of the finished product in materials?

I agree conquering/ruling the world is too much work if you do it properly. I remember one novel where the villain took down and conquered an empire out of ego then found the effort of ruling it to be too much effort and had pretty much given up, only still fighting to make his enemies suffer even before the heroes beat him in a fight.

[Numerian]

Oracle of lore has a lot of potential

or an alchemist, and give elixir of life and eternal youth to all

[Tels]

Anzyr wrote:

Tels wrote:

Anzyr wrote:

There is only one proper optimizer response to the above.

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization."

Shamelessly taken from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Shamelessly.

That's a great fanfic, no shame involved. Although, I think he crammed way too much stuff happening into one year of school.

Ya, it started good then just kinda kept cramming stuff into such a small period of time. I enjoy Harry Potter and the Natural 20's pacing much more, though the sideplot of book 2 is getting somewhat annoying (though we'll see where he goes with it.)

I've just start HP and the Nat 20 and am now on Chapter 14 (Milo just proved he was a 'Wizard' to the Inquisition). I'm loving it so far, especially all of the clichés and hidden jokes from D&D.

[Vod Canockers]

Tels wrote:

Anzyr wrote:

There is only one proper optimizer response to the above.

"World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimization."

Shamelessly taken from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality. Shamelessly.

That's a great fanfic, no shame involved. Although, I think he crammed way too much stuff happening into one year of school.

Unfortunately there is a GIANT logic hole in the story. Harry's Aunt was transformed permanently into a much more beautiful woman. But Professor McGonagall states that permanent transformations are not possible.

[Jeffrey Swank]

I have a lot of "if's":

If I could be ANYTHING I'd be:
Gold Dragon 15/Fire Bender 5

A lot of house rules there with my Savage Species conversion and my Element Master Monk conversion for fire bending.

If that much house rules weren't allowed I'd go with a 3rd Party class:
Mighty Godling 20 Aasimar and be Thor

If 3rd party classes weren't allowed I'd go with:
Advanced Race build of -
Ranger10/Samurai5/Barbarian5 Human (Mutant) with Fast Healing, Scent, Fleshwrapped Adamantite Skeleton with Claws.

If that was a no go I'd go with:
Drow Weretiger Ninja/Fighter

If I had to do more core than:
Monk/Ninja//Sleepless Detective and try and be Batman

[Degoon Squad]

witch and ate 20 level I would use baleful polymorph on my enemies and turn them into yummy haflings and myself into a Red Dragon.
dinner is served.

[DrDew]

Astral Deva
Wizard

Wizards have a huge versatility in what they can do and can research new spells to do even more.

Astral Deva is immortal and has tons of useful innate abilities like alter self, discern lies, invisibility, plane shift, remove disease, remove fear, cure light wounds, see invisibility, heal.

Super charisma to top that off. I would have a lot of knowledge, diplomacy, and information gathering. I could use my powers to contribute to science and politics and make the world a better, more fair, place forever.