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2007-03-12, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Now comes the Warblade. One maneuver is all he needs: Mountain Tombstone Strike (Stone Dragon 9). His main hand holds... you know what, let's say it holds nothing. He'll punch the turtle. His off-hand, on the other hand, holds a wand of Wraithstrike (4500 gp, Complete Adventurer; might be reprinted in Spell Compendium). He activates the wand as a swift action, meaning his attacks resolve as touch attacks; he should have no trouble hitting an AC of -4 million. With his standard action, he uses Mountain Tombstone Strike, dealing 2d6 Con damage, no save. His next turn, he uses a swift action to initiate recovery and spends a standard action posing like a badass to finish recovery. Rinse and repeat.
He can launch a MTS every other round, meaning he deals about 3.5 Con damage per round. The turtle has 107 Con. Thus, he needs 31 turns to reach 0 Con, slaying the creature. This amounts to about 16 strikes, meaning he can roll a natural one 34 times without running out of wand power.
Alternatively, the Warblade could be Wiz 3/Clr 1/Any Martial Adept 16 and just use DMM: Persist to have a 24 hour Wraithstrike, avoiding the need for the wand altogether.
So yeah, there you go, a means to elbow drop a CR 84k creature to death in under 5 minutes. Enjoy.
Edit: Whoops, just saw the errata on DMM; divine spells only. Can Anyspell nonsense dodge that? That would make Cleric/Crusader/Ruby Knight Vindicator work, I think. Alternatively, there's apparently a DMG 2 item that splits a spell's effects between the caster and another character while cutting the duration in half. A Wiz 3/Clr 1 could DMM: Persist that and split it with the Warblade, as well.Last edited by Merlin the Tuna; 2007-03-12 at 11:47 PM.
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2007-03-12, 10:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, Wish doesn't work like that, at least not without a save. Which this thing happens to happens to have in the millions.
And I suppose taking 20 is really supposed to get past its saves? Oh, and you can't take 20 on a spell.
See, these two actually work, and prove that the turtle, being just a massive mound of HP, is actually severely underpowed for its level. I've seen a number of different examples of Epic creatures like this. One of the problems with Epic warriors is that once you get to a certain point, hitting stuff with metal becomes pretty futile, whereas a mage can just flick you off and you'll spontaneously combust.Awesome avatar by potatocubed.
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And I suppose taking 20 is really supposed to get past its saves? Oh, and you can't take 20 on a spell.
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2007-03-12, 11:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ah, good catch. Luckily, since the thing doesn't actually have SR, we don't need a Beguiler. Swap the Beguiler out for a basic gish; Spellsword 4 will take care of that with Channel Spell, and he can supply his own Wraithstrike to connect. Spell Storing weapons would also work, but they specifically state that the creature must take damage for the spell to discharge. This could be bypassed by making the weapon a Wounding weapon, which incidentally would speed up this process quite a bit anyway, especially if we add a few more Warblade levels and snag Time Stands Still. Wounding gets stopped by immunity to crits, but I don't see that on the turtle's sheet.
Edit: New toy! New toy! We don't need Ray of Stupidity (and thus Spell Compendium) at all! Otto's Irresistible Dance will do the job better. Since it causes the target to draw AoOs on its turn, we can get more Wounding swipes in!
Man, I might end up putting together a 4 man party to see how quickly I can do this.Last edited by Merlin the Tuna; 2007-03-13 at 12:02 AM.
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2007-03-13, 02:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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It doesn't require an action, but it does say you have to be aware of the attack and not flat-footed.
Easily fixed, though, by giving it uncanny dodge and maybe Supreme Initiative. It snatches meteors and comets, so it makes sense.Avatar by GryffonDurime. Thanks!
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2007-03-13, 02:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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That still wouldn't stop the Spellsword channeling Ray of Stupidity, though. What it really needs is immunity, or at least a lot of resistance, to ability damage and drain because those bypass its hit dice. Energy drain isn't really an issue because it has millions upon millions of hit dice to just absorb it with. I'd say make up some epic feats that reduce ability damage/drain in general, rather than just from radiation poisoning, and change some of the twenty million Epic Toughness feats to those. The requirements can be outlandishly high and still be easily satisfied by the liberal application of Great X or other epic feats, which this turtle certainly has enough feat slots to spare to spend on. Something to remove auto-fail on 1 for saves should also be added.
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2007-03-13, 02:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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What it really needs is some divine rank. That solves a lot of its problems, right there.
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Where'd the Ikea Tarrasque go when you need him?
What was the minimum CR that they ever got the Ikea Tarrasque down to? Like 4, wasn't it?
(A creature that actually doesn't have to have anything in common with the tarrasque except fire immunity. By adding a few clever templates (including Swarm, I think), it becomes completely invulnerable. Immune to everything. Yeah.
Good thing its offensive capabilities don't get boosted much. So unless you started with a high-CR something, like the Tarrasque, you probably just have a stalemate encounter.)You can call me Draz.
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I didn't even have to restrict a search to these boards, the very first hit on an unrestricted google search for "Ikea Tarrasque", even without the quotes, is the correct thread. For just +7 CR, this combination of templates grants pretty damn close to total invulnerability, and the strength boost plus berserk, Haste, and wounding attacks keep its offensive punch at least within shouting distance of typical for its supposed CR.
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The most powerful monster?
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2007-03-13, 05:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Meh, just saw how easily you guys killed it. How about you add the paragon and psuedonatural templates onto it and then see how easily you can kill it.
Thats a SR of 1,006,632,960.
A TON of tentacles too... 50,331,648 to be exact
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2007-03-13, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Again, a Beguiler 20 can bypass SR.
Problem solved.
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2007-03-13, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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What about tossing the half golem template on it then? Doesn't that grant you the magic immunity of whatever golem you are half of? I don't have the books with me at the moment so I can't check myself.
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2007-03-13, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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The golem's "magic immunity" is actually just infinite SR.
When you can bypass SR...
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2007-03-13, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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No, RAW, a golem's spell immunity is NOT just "SR infinity."
A clay golem is immune to any spell or spell-like ability that allows spell resistance.
Of course, he could rule the other way just as legally. It seems both interperetations have equal merit to me.
This is all assuming that the Beguiler ability doesn't clarify the issue explicitly.You can call me Draz.
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2007-03-13, 06:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hmm, I seem to recall the phrase "unbeatable SR" from somewhere...
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For a real challenge, try building a character that can kill an Ikea Tarrasque version of it. Does anyone want to calculate just how many Disintigrates, Move Earths, etc. would be needed to pull it off?
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A well prepared Prismatic Dragon is invincible. Sure, he goes down with a spell to drain Dex or something like that, but that's only if you catch him unpreprared. If he knows your'e coming, which will be the most probable option, he will buff himself before engaging with the party.
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2007-03-14, 07:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I've been toying with the idea of a phrenic Hive Mother. I realized that a beholder's eye rays are free actions so anything that adds spell-like or psionic-like abilities doesn't run into problems with running out of actions:
Round 1: 6 eye rays at a single target (could be more than one), fission
Round 2: 12 eye rays at a single target (could be more than one), two ultrablasts
And I'm pretty sure this only increases its CR by 3 from 16 to 19. You should NOT be able to use that many save or die abilities of DC 29 in a round at CR 19. Ever.Last edited by Thrawn183; 2007-03-14 at 07:50 AM.
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So Batman is a Prismatic Dragon?
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