I need a list of Core Rule Book exploits.

[Tels]

I'm working on the idea for a game world in which some of the exploits casters can do, are actually part of the assumed normality of the world.

I got the idea from the Tippyverse style campaign setting.

However, I need a list of exploits that casters can use from the Core Rulebook. I will be operating under the idea that material from the Core Rule Book is, essentially, pretty common, relatively at least, anyway. For example, the spells available to Wizards in the Core Rule Book will be ones that nearly every caster has heard about, but ones from Ultimate Magic? Not so much.

This doesn't necessarily have to be only spells either, magical items can be on this list as well.

Some examples I'm thinking of are as follows:

Simulacrum of creatures for easy access to spells or powers (such as an Efreet for free wishes).

Using trap mechanics for different spells (trap that casts Create Food and Water, trap that casts Remove Disease, trap that casts Cure Light Wounds etc.)

Using a Candle of Invocation for easy access to powerful beings, especially at low level.

[KutuluKultist]

In this kind of economic situation one wonders what the common people do.

[Tels]

KutuluKultist wrote:

In this kind of economic situation one wonders what the common people do.

Indeed, I'm trying to get a list of exploits, and the figure out which ones I will use and the impact it has on the world.

[Arachnofiend]

There's casting Geas as a standard action through Limited Wish. Rulers without protection from mind-affecting wouldn't stay rulers very long since a caster could just waltz into their castle and spend six seconds to put them under long-term control.

[Oli Ironbar]

Permanent Telekinesis on a turbine creates free electricity forever. Good for steam punk/ cyber tech theme. I have the calculations somewhere, but I think 120ft*100lbs/6sec is about 12 horse power per casting. This to me is the most obvious way of breaking the world.

[Tels]

Oli Ironbar wrote:

Permanent Telekinesis on a turbine creates free electricity forever. Good for steam punk/ cyber tech theme. I have the calculations somewhere, but I think 120ft*100lbs/6sec is about 12 horse power per casting. This to me is the most obvious way of breaking the world.

Unfortunately, it's far more of a fantasy setting. However, I've been thinking of incorporating airships into it (and one friend wants me to make it a Spelljammer friendly world) so I could probably use this one, for airships if nothing else.

[Avoron]

I've taken a look at the energy implications of Pathfinder spells before, and it seems to me that by far the most exploitable is Summon Instrument used by swarms of hired low-level bards to create enormous piles of burning guitars. And the best part is that it's all pollutant free, because the remnants of the guitars disappear within minutes. Imagine an airship fueled by the power of music. More specifically, the power stored in the chemical bonds of summoned musical instruments.

[Oli Ironbar]

The idea of a cult of Hendrix worshipping, guitar burning bards come to mind.

Also fun,

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_airship

You just need some oversized bags of holding to displace enough air.

Then there is also the option of inverting a bag of holding filled with air inside a cannon or the bottom of a rocket.