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2015-04-20, 01:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Rhymes with "Protracted."
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2015-04-20, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
We're talking at character creation. You don't have a chance to be an ex-anything until you've actually qualified for a class level.
Originally Posted by TroacctidA smart character (one who had an Intelligence bonus at 1st level) speaks other languages as well, one extra language per point of Intelligence bonus as a starting character. Select your character’s bonus languages (if any) from the list found in his or her race’s description later in this chapter.
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2015-04-21, 08:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
A Spellwarped, Phrenic, Primordial Ogre Mage can have an Int of 32=18+4(Ogre Mage)+4(Primordial)+2(Phrenic)+4(Spellwarped). It will have 5RHD and LA+12. Ogre Mage only has 4 Bonus Language choices, and one of them (Infernal) overlaps with Cleric. So, that is 11 Bonus Languages and only 4 from Race and 2 from class. Are there any regions that provide 5 Bonus Language choices?
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2015-04-21, 10:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
That's an ECL 18 creature with 1 class level, which is below the Epic threshold; that's good.
Automatic Languages: Common, Giant. Bonus Languages: Dwarven, Goblin, Infernal, Orc.
A cleric’s bonus language options include Celestial, Abyssal, andInfernal.
The Ashane region (first one on the table @ Player's Guide to Faerűn, page 30) has
Bonus Languages: Aquan, Auran,Giant,Goblin, Mulhorandi, Rashemi, Shou, Tuigan.
So this Ogre Mage with all the templates still is a viable racial choice; INT doesn't force you to choose something else with Bonus Languages: Any. It doesn't even force you to choose Cleric; you could choose Druid instead, picking up Sylvan as another bonus language.
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2015-04-22, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Well, how many languages are there?
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2015-04-22, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
At least this many: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...t-of-Languages
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2015-04-22, 07:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
I still don't think forcing a region is legitimate. It might be legitimate for campaigns set in that world, but not all campaigns are set in Faerun.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.
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2015-04-22, 09:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Okay,
A Riddled, Spellhoarding, Half-Dragon, Half-Fiend, Half-Nymph, Spellwarped, Phrenic Wyrmling Mercury Dragon can have an Int of 40=18 Base + 2 Phrenic + 4 Spellwarped + 2 Half-Nymph + 4 Half-Fiend + 2 Half-Dragon +2 Spellhoarding +6 Riddled.
Nothing about the other templates changes Mercury Dragon's Age categories, so when Half-Dragon switches the type back to dragon, he is eligible for the Dragon only acquired templates: Riddled and Spellhoarding.
His ECL at Character level 1 is 20 = 3RHD+2LA+2 Phrenic+3 Spellwarped + 2 Half-Nymph + 4 Half-Fiend + 3 Half-Dragon + 1 Class Level.
Dragons have no Bonus languages from Race, so he would need to come up with 15 Bonus languages from a combination of class and region.Dex
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2015-04-22, 10:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
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2015-04-22, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Get a hold of a pair of metamagic rods: One of Empower Spell, one of Maximize Spell.
Cast Awaken.
3d6 Int becomes (18+50%=27)
Add whatever fancy stuff you people do.
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Prof- Wait, no. Go Psion until you get Control Body, and use another creature as your proxy body.
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Make a disguise check every time you encounter someone new.
If the d20 roll results in a 13 (without modifiers) that person automatically assumes you are Vecna in a very poor disguise, and cannot be convinced otherwise, short of a wish spell.
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2015-04-22, 11:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Not going to work.
Metamagic Rods
Metamagic rods hold the essence of a metamagic feat but do not change the spell slot of the altered spell. All the rods described here are use-activated (but casting spells in a threatened area still draws an attack of opportunity). A caster may only use one metamagic rod on any given spell, but it is permissible to combine a rod with metamagic feats possessed by the rod’s wielder. In this case, only the feats possessed by the wielder adjust the spell slot of the spell being cast.
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2015-04-23, 12:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
...Um, what does that have to do with anything? Awaken doesn't change the LA at all, why would you need to calculate a non-change?
EDIT- Also, yes, fudge. I always forget about the MM-Rod limitation. Whatever though, MM-Rod of Max and then use the Empower MM. Doesn't invalidate the idea, just makes it a touch harder to do.Last edited by Tohsaka Rin; 2015-04-23 at 12:14 AM.
"The trick with Psionics isn't looking for what's good, it's looking for what makes everything else better."
Spoiler: The False Nose of Vecna.
Make a disguise check every time you encounter someone new.
If the d20 roll results in a 13 (without modifiers) that person automatically assumes you are Vecna in a very poor disguise, and cannot be convinced otherwise, short of a wish spell.
Minor Artifact.
In memory of Monty Oum, 1981-2015.
The world is a little less bright, now that it lacks you.
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2015-04-23, 12:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Why not just use an Intensified Awaken for all stats at 36?
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2015-04-23, 12:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Handbooks: The Warlockopedia | The Warmagepedia (WIP) | Tier List (2019 Update)
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2015-04-23, 12:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
"The trick with Psionics isn't looking for what's good, it's looking for what makes everything else better."
Spoiler: The False Nose of Vecna.
Make a disguise check every time you encounter someone new.
If the d20 roll results in a 13 (without modifiers) that person automatically assumes you are Vecna in a very poor disguise, and cannot be convinced otherwise, short of a wish spell.
Minor Artifact.
In memory of Monty Oum, 1981-2015.
The world is a little less bright, now that it lacks you.
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2015-04-23, 07:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
If you read the order I gave the templates from right to left, you will see that I applied Riddled last. I even mentioned it in that post. You go from being a dragon to aberration to fey to outsider back to dragon. Since you still have your age categories (and any other dragon qualifying feature) from being a Mercury dragon, when you take Half-Dragon (your last inherited template), it brings you back to dragon type, and you qualify for the dragon psychosis.
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SpoilerRegarding my Necrotic Apprentice trick:
Regarding my Non-Epic Hidecarved Dragon:
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2015-04-23, 11:20 AM (ISO 8601)
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2015-04-23, 12:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Last edited by WhamBamSam; 2015-04-23 at 12:03 PM.
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SpoilerSir Driscoll Conia - Silver - IC L
Nick Snarespan - Gold - IC LIII
Lucy "Legs" Silvertail - Bronze - IC LXVIII
Bolfarg of Knoss - Gold - IC LXXVII
Ivarr Deathborn - Bronze - IC LXXVII
Ahmtel - Silver - IC LXXVIII
Tocke of Nessus - Gold - IC LXXIX
The Blessed Third - Silver - IC LXXXI
Galahad Galapagos - Gold - IC LXXXIV
Sai-don, Knight of the Tide - Bronze - IC LXXXIV
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2015-04-23, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
I don't think so. You select languages after race (including acquired templates, if desired). At the level of Rules Pedantry where your intelligence may be high enough to force a specific class choice or region, then we are not worried about organic character growth or common sense.
Presumably you are using Crystalkeep. They have the incorrect LA for that template. It is actually +3.Dex
SpoilerRegarding my Necrotic Apprentice trick:
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2015-05-02, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Optimisation Challenge: Highest Int at level 1
Sorry — I've been offline for a couple of weeks — time to pick this up again perhaps ?
Even if we dump the acquired templates from this build we still have 11 Bonus languages, which should be enough.
Also: I'm not happy about adding in constraints which relate to a specific region AND setting. At the very least this should be conditional on the question.π = 4
Consider a 5' radius blast: this affects 4 squares which have a circumference of 40' — Actually it's worse than that.
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