Lycanthromancer
2009-03-04, 01:22 AM
I'd like to hear some stories about times when you used your character's abilities (even just smarts) to unusual and clever effect. Especially when the ability in question wasn't meant to work that way, but it was totally within the rules.
(By the way, if the abilities in question aren't widely known, or available in the SRD, make sure to give a brief description, if you please.)
For example, I had a CE male blue goblin shaper 6/constructor 10 (a psion focused on metacreation powers with a PrC focused on astral constructs - psionic summoning, basically) named Terval that used his constructs for almost everything. And he did so in rather interesting ways.
Our party got ambushed by a (CR 23) black dragon dracolich because Terval pissed off its epic level master with an off-hand comment, and the undead beastie was commanded to capture Terval and bring him back for torture, etc. Terval may have been CE, but he was a team player (seeing the others as useful for standing between him and the inevitable victims of his temper, ire, and kleptomaniacal (and megalomaniacal) tendencies). And so he attempted to prevent his 'friends' from becoming casualties by creating a domed wall of ectoplasm to encase it (the fact that it would be delayed from grabbing him for another round was a happy side-effect, and had nothing to do with anything :smalltongue: ).
It barreled through the wall as if there was nothing there, and ended its movement near Terval (he made his Will save to avoid being hit with dragon fear - if barely). He pre-empted it next round by placing a Huge astral construct between them, and tried to run. Didn't work. On the dragon's next action it merely jumped over (flew?) the construct, and paralyzed Terval with a touch (bad Fort save! play dead!), intending to grab him and fly away the next round. Instead, Terval mentally directed the construct to pick him up and run like hell into the surrounding forest.
Luckily, one of the other members of the party managed to blind the dracolich that round (I'm thinking a heightened glitterdust). The rest of the party swarmed it, and slowed it down on the next round, so Terval instructed the construct to hide him in the leaf-litter. He then created a whole bunch of constructs of his exact size (and the same shape, thanks to a good Craft check), and had them 'Hide' (but very badly) in the surrounding trees.
When the dragon arrived, it swooped in, and couldn't decide which of the Tervals was the real one (since it couldn't actually see), so it had to spend several rounds grabbing at the Terval-clones while more popped in every round to confuse matters. Thankfully, it had a poor Spot modifier, and hadn't seen the real one, before the rest of the Superfriends arrived. They beat it down from afar while it continued trying to snatch at the constructs, until it attempted to flee at low HP.
A couple of AoOs later, and the undead beast was just a dead beast.
So, what's your story?
(By the way, if the abilities in question aren't widely known, or available in the SRD, make sure to give a brief description, if you please.)
For example, I had a CE male blue goblin shaper 6/constructor 10 (a psion focused on metacreation powers with a PrC focused on astral constructs - psionic summoning, basically) named Terval that used his constructs for almost everything. And he did so in rather interesting ways.
Our party got ambushed by a (CR 23) black dragon dracolich because Terval pissed off its epic level master with an off-hand comment, and the undead beastie was commanded to capture Terval and bring him back for torture, etc. Terval may have been CE, but he was a team player (seeing the others as useful for standing between him and the inevitable victims of his temper, ire, and kleptomaniacal (and megalomaniacal) tendencies). And so he attempted to prevent his 'friends' from becoming casualties by creating a domed wall of ectoplasm to encase it (the fact that it would be delayed from grabbing him for another round was a happy side-effect, and had nothing to do with anything :smalltongue: ).
It barreled through the wall as if there was nothing there, and ended its movement near Terval (he made his Will save to avoid being hit with dragon fear - if barely). He pre-empted it next round by placing a Huge astral construct between them, and tried to run. Didn't work. On the dragon's next action it merely jumped over (flew?) the construct, and paralyzed Terval with a touch (bad Fort save! play dead!), intending to grab him and fly away the next round. Instead, Terval mentally directed the construct to pick him up and run like hell into the surrounding forest.
Luckily, one of the other members of the party managed to blind the dracolich that round (I'm thinking a heightened glitterdust). The rest of the party swarmed it, and slowed it down on the next round, so Terval instructed the construct to hide him in the leaf-litter. He then created a whole bunch of constructs of his exact size (and the same shape, thanks to a good Craft check), and had them 'Hide' (but very badly) in the surrounding trees.
When the dragon arrived, it swooped in, and couldn't decide which of the Tervals was the real one (since it couldn't actually see), so it had to spend several rounds grabbing at the Terval-clones while more popped in every round to confuse matters. Thankfully, it had a poor Spot modifier, and hadn't seen the real one, before the rest of the Superfriends arrived. They beat it down from afar while it continued trying to snatch at the constructs, until it attempted to flee at low HP.
A couple of AoOs later, and the undead beast was just a dead beast.
So, what's your story?