Wizard given a greatclub


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If you're a level 7 conjurationist wizard, and you're given a +3 large greatclub, what would you do?

I honestly want to do something with this rather than simply sell it. Any suggestions?

No, this is not for optimization purposes. This is purely for fun and flavor.


Hm. Really great base for a staff?


Or a rod. Guardian weapon enchantment.


Hand it to a summoned Hound Archon.


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-Dancing enchantment.
-Create, and then hand it to a construct or Undead follower.
-Permanent Shrink item, then flying familiar drop it on an enemies head.
-Bulls Strength and weild it dressed as a barbarian (Complete with AM BARBARIAN stupidity effects). Then surprise everyone with your INT and spellcasting.


Learn hold person and when you can hold monster, and use the greatclub to execute your paralyzed enemies.


Tie it to your parties barbarians fist.


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Cast Tensor's Transformation and go at it.


Summon earth elemental, hand over club. Collect club for next summons.

Get a ring of Telekinesis. Collect more weapons.

Get Leadership, have the happiest cohort in the party.

Just use the club. The bonus off sets most of your penalties.


That's got to be a great bonus for a disguise check to pose as a barbarian.


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I honestly want to do something with this rather than simply sell it. Any suggestions?

Se--er, um, barter it?


* Loan it to a Cohort/Summoned Creature/Improved Familiar* with Martial Weapon Proficiency.
* Talk to it when the Party ignores you, draw a face on it as everyone else laughs, create a shoebox house for it to live in whilst stored in your bag, wave it around when your Party holds an intervention and finally Cast [8] Polymorph Any Object to repeatedly make it into your "bestest friend ever", (once you have "dealt with" those pesky, nay-saying former companions).
* Slowly cover it with the hides of defeated enemies as a frightening warning to antagonists that get into close range - Bluffing is the friend of squishies!
* Carefully word a [2/3] Suggestion to convince someone that it is actually an advanced restorative tool for internally clearing out afflictions of the body and that they should really take up your ever so kind offer to borrow it for said use right now.
* Use it as a hardy torch with [0] Light.
* Whilst you are overseeing your Summons on the battlefield, why not take a moment to drop a really big present on an enemy's head? (Bonus points for your Summons then picking up the Greatclub to continue the bashing.)

Later on :
* Cast [6] Animate Objects on it to act as a makeshift Spiritual Weapon.


Honestly? I would just become proficient with it the next time I got a feat. Nice backup for if I ran out of spells. A Wizard should always have a weapon just in case, and a greatclub would be an unexpected choice. Or I would give it to a follower, if you have the Leadership feat.


As a wizard, taking a feat to get be able to use a melee weapon would be crazy ...
While some people have given some original advices, i still think the best thing to do with it is to sell it ...
You'll get 9K+ out of it, and you can then craft a broom of flying with that money, and still have 500 gold remaining.
You can hit people with a broom you know ? about as good as you'd do with a +3 club ... if you don't have semi-permanent flight like the broom would give you, you can't imagine how life will be better with it. You're basically immuned to melee, travel hazards, climbing checks, and well you can now play quidditch


Taking the feat to use the great club won't work since it is still 1 size category higher than the wizard in question and they won't be able to wield it anyway.


Aye, its a large greatclub. So unless you, or what you summon, is large, its pretty much of no use as a melee weapon.


My dm let me spend some downtime to gain proficiency in it for free. I've since spent a bit of my gold on +4 armor bracers, and some other defensive spells. When going up against trash, I just squash it with monstrous physique. Otherwise, it's a nice back ornament.

Edit: thank you for your suggestions, btw. There was one above about marking it with pelts. I'm going to mark some runes into it to make my log look pretty. :>


Dodge, because the 7 int fighter didn't realize that you would get crushed with your 7 str.

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You can't use it in combat, as it's a large two-handed weapon. Monstrous Physique II would work, I guess, if you'd drop the Greatclub and pick it up again.

... Have you considered retraining to a universalist, so you can use your large greatclub from a distance?

Also, how much does such a weapon weigh? If a large weapon is twice as big as a medium weapon wouldn't it weigh 8 times as much? You know, square cube law... That's 64 lbs. I mean, I could be wrong. A large weapon might not be 2 as big as a medium one. It might be one and a half times as big.


the David wrote:
Also, how much does such a weapon weigh? If a large weapon is twice as big as a medium weapon wouldn't it weigh 8 times as much? You know, square cube law... That's 64 lbs. I mean, I could be wrong. A large weapon might not be 2 as big as a medium one. It might be one and a half times as big.

I think the rule might be only a x2 difference for each size category (not sure if that is how it is with weapons, but that is how armor works at least).

Admittedly, each size category actually includes a rather wide range of sizes- large goes from 8 ft (or the height of a really tall basketball player; but even smaller large creatures are more bulky, obviously) to 16 feet. So a creature at the top of the size category might be twice the size of the ones at the bottom.

The awkwardness from that means that weapons might not be directly 2 times as long. It might only be a bit thicker, and with a longer grip that makes it impractical for medium characters.


Blue_Sky wrote:

My dm let me spend some downtime to gain proficiency in it for free. I've since spent a bit of my gold on +4 armor bracers, and some other defensive spells. When going up against trash, I just squash it with monstrous physique. Otherwise, it's a nice back ornament.

Edit: thank you for your suggestions, btw. There was one above about marking it with pelts. I'm going to mark some runes into it to make my log look pretty. :>

Just leaving this here. It's a fun thing, not an extremely useful thing. Using the greatclub is for flavor and fun. That's all.

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