The Easy Exploit Compendium

[Drako_Beoulve]

I saw someone that put a trap with cure light wounds in his sword:

"Resetting Touch Trigger Trap in handle, when handle is grabbed, a Cure Light Wounds spell is activated. Trap then Immidiatly Resets."

Is this posible?

Also, there is a feat that let you recover hp after a Maneuver successfuly strikes, can you start a fight with a tree or a door, etc and do maneuver until you are at full hp?

[Necroticplague]

Also, there is a feat that let you recover hp after a Maneuver successfuly strikes, can you start a fight with a tree or a door, etc and do maneuver until you are at full hp?

Most of the time, no, because the maneuvers/stances involved specify something about the enemy being an actual threat, but a few of them forgot this wording, so some of them can. I can't remember the offenders off the top of my head.

[Flame of Anor]

I saw someone that put a trap with cure light wounds in his sword:

"Resetting Touch Trigger Trap in handle, when handle is grabbed, a Cure Light Wounds spell is activated. Trap then Immidiatly Resets."

Is this posible?

Yes, until the DM hears about it.

Most of the time, no, because the maneuvers/stances involved specify something about the enemy being an actual threat, but a few of them forgot this wording, so some of them can. I can't remember the offenders off the top of my head.

Well, pick a fight with your team members!

[Evil the Cat]

Here's an interesting question that might fit this thread. Can you use Polymorph any Object to turn a deal ally into a live ally?

It would be same kingdom, class, size, and related, so the duration would be permanent.

[Ksheep]

Here's an interesting question that might fit this thread. Can you use Polymorph any Object to turn a deal ally into a live ally?

It would be same kingdom, class, size, and related, so the duration would be permanent.

Except for the fact that Polymorph has no provision for returning the soul to the body, so it can't raise the dead, nor would it animate a polymorphed object, so you couldn't use it to make undead.

[Douglas]

I think PaO could return a dead body to life, but the result would be a default average member of the chosen race rather than the deceased person with all his class levels.

[faceroll]

Ring Gate Motorboat

ಠ_ಠ

Seal off one side of the first ring and drop and tie the second to a rope. then drop the second off the side of the boat. The water pressure shoots the water out propelling the boat forward.

Oh, and here I was thinking you were suggesting ways to make long distance relationships work.

Check the weight limit on ring gates. Your... outboard motor wouldn't last long.

[Necroticplague]

Step1:Be a water elemental warblade.
Step2:Walk onto land.
Step3:Iron heart surge.
Step4:???
Step5:laugh

And the sequel:
Step1:Vampire Warblade.
Step2:Belt of battle.
Step3:Take a step into the sun.
Step4:Activate belt of battle (2 charges for standard action).
Step5:Iron heart surge.
Step6:???
Step5:Laugh

[NNescio]

Next sequel:

Step 1: Be a living organic Warblade.
Step 2: Get a Wizard buddy.
Step 3: Teleport into space. (No, things don't just go kablooey in space, and suffocation takes some time.)
Step 4: Iron Heart Surge
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Laugh

[Shadowknight12]

Not nihilistic enough.

Step 1: Be an incorporeal warblade.
Step 2: Iron Heart Surge the Material Plane.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Laugh.

[Necroticplague]

Not nihilistic enough.

Step 1: Be an incorporeal warblade.
Step 2: Iron Heart Surge the Material Plane.
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Laugh.

I'll one up this one

Step1:Be a ghost warblade
Step2:Iron Heart Surge
Step3:Manifest
Step4:Iron Heart Surge
Step5:????
Step6:Laugh

[Ksheep]

One problem I'm seeing with all these Iron Heart Surges… it says that the range is personal. Most DM's would probably say that it wouldn't effect the surrounding environment, so… yeah.

[Evil the Cat]

The SRD examples under PAO include turning a twig into a tree, and a wolf pelt into a wolf. The implication is that they are alive. It also states that it gains the mental abilities of the new form, so you wont wind up with a wolf that doesn't know how to be a wolf. The text says object or creature to object or creature. Undead may not work, as I'm not certain if they count as creatures, objects, or both. However, turning Bob's body into Bob seems reasonable. In theory, this may just give you a perfect copy of Bob, while the original Bob's soul is still off in the afterlife. Kill the new bob and enjoy the celestials' confusion!

Under the interpretation that it is a whole new Bob, he might only be level 1 though, so that could suck.

[No brains]

This is only an exploit in that it can slow a session to a halot while you think of a way to get out of a sticky situation.

Use a reach weapon and attack a large creature. One of the creature's squares is 10 feet away from you, the other is adjacent. Can you attack this creature? What if you attack into the square the creature occupies without expressly aiming for it? Is it a 50% miss chance?

[Lorolar]

Premise: Undead you command can follow basic commands such as "Kill anyone who enters this room but me" or similar.

This means that undead can follow commands like, if anyone enters this room kill them. This can be stated as "If X, then Y", hey presto we have ourselves a logic gate.

Next we take another zombie, actualy another couple hundred zombies (or wight, or whatever method you have used to produce arbitrary amounts of controlled undead) and we have them base their "if X, then Y" on each others actions. With enough Zombies we just built ourselves a computer.

The next step is to move this to our own private demiplane where time runs super fast. When you have a problem just planeshift there and punch it in to the "keyboard" (read, talk to your specially trained lich operator), so your computer can start solving.

So now we have created our undead supercomputer what to call it? I think Deep Rot.

[Shadowknight12]

I'll one up this one

Step1:Be a ghost warblade
Step2:Iron Heart Surge
Step3:Manifest
Step4:Iron Heart Surge
Step5:????
Step6:Laugh

You can't Manifest if you've Iron Heart Surged the Material Plane away.

[RedWarrior0]

Premise: Undead you command can follow basic commands such as "Kill anyone who enters this room but me" or similar.

This means that undead can follow commands like, if anyone enters this room kill them. This can be stated as "If X, then Y", hey presto we have ourselves a logic gate.

Next we take another zombie, actualy another couple hundred zombies (or wight, or whatever method you have used to produce arbitrary amounts of controlled undead) and we have them base their "if X, then Y" on each others actions. With enough Zombies we just built ourselves a computer.

The next step is to move this to our own private demiplane where time runs super fast. When you have a problem just planeshift there and punch it in to the "keyboard" (read, talk to your specially trained lich operator), so your computer can start solving.

So now we have created our undead supercomputer what to call it? I think Deep Rot.

Supercomputer? Not quite, though I suppose if you rig the initiative count so that it always goes in order, you can have infinite * 6 flops.

You also can make a profit off it. Capitalism, ho!

[Popertop]

I know what Vow of Poverty is. What is "Embrace the Dark Chaos" and "Shun the Dark Chaos". Also, where are they from? What does that combo accomplish?

angst

and lots of it

[Flame of Anor]

The next step is to move this to our own private demiplane where time runs super fast. When you have a problem just planeshift there and punch it in to the "keyboard" (read, talk to your specially trained lich operator), so your computer can start solving.

So now we have created our undead supercomputer what to call it? I think Deep Rot.

No, I think the lich would be the creator of the computer. They don't tend to take orders very often.

angst

and lots of it

also, free feat reassignment.

[Jack_Simth]

also, free feat reassignment.

Do note that both Embrace the Dark Chaos and Shun the Dark Chaos have an XP component....

[Ksheep]

XP Farm

1. Use Genesis to create a small demiplane with a greatly accelerated time frame.
2. Populate this demiplane with a low-HD, fast-spawning creature (kobold or goblin come to mind).
3. Leave the plane for a few hours so they can spawn.
4. Visit the plane, drop a couple AoE spells, kill off a fair number of them (leaving enough to continue spawning).
5. Rinse and repeat

Only problem is that the DM may deem it a low enough CR that you wont get jack squat for killing them… However, you could use this in an adventurers school, as training/grinding for new initiates. Just charge admittance.

[Jack_Simth]

Only problem is that the DM may deem it a low enough CR that you wont get jack squat for killing them… However, you could use this in an adventurers school, as training/grinding for new initiates. Just charge admittance.

Not the only problem. NOT AT ALL.

After you've done this once or twice, the goblins get wise to it, and start XP farming each other. The next time you come back, you get blasted with a Fireball, a Flame Strike, a Baelful Polymorph, a Dominate Person, a Stone to Flesh, and a Dimensional Anchor from six casters of your level from the population you've been oppressing. And then the ubercharger melee brutes have at you.

[Ksheep]

Not the only problem. NOT AT ALL.

After you've done this once or twice, the goblins get wise to it, and start XP farming each other. The next time you come back, you get blasted with a Fireball, a Flame Strike, a Baelful Polymorph, a Dominate Person, a Stone to Flesh, and a Dimensional Anchor from six casters of your level from the population you've been oppressing. And then the ubercharger melee brutes have at you.

That's why you send in the low-level wannabe adventurers in first. If they don't come out in a matter of seconds, then you know that either A) the new guys were really week, or B) that you have a serious problem on your hands.

[Flame of Anor]

Not the only problem. NOT AT ALL.

After you've done this once or twice, the goblins get wise to it, and start XP farming each other. The next time you come back, you get blasted with a Fireball, a Flame Strike, a Baelful Polymorph, a Dominate Person, a Stone to Flesh, and a Dimensional Anchor from six casters of your level from the population you've been oppressing. And then the ubercharger melee brutes have at you.

And you'd deserve it, because keeping an imprisoned population of sentient beings to kill for your amusement would be an incredibly evil thing to do.

[Jack_Simth]

That's why you send in the low-level wannabe adventurers in first. If they don't come out in a matter of seconds, then you know that either A) the new guys were really week, or B) that you have a serious problem on your hands.

Won't always work. A few of them come out, and seem fine.

When you go in, you find out the hard way that they were suggested, dominated, simulacrum'd, mindraped, or just killed and replaced with Disguise / Illusion checks....

And you'd deserve it, because keeping an imprisoned population of sentient beings to kill for your amusement would be an incredibly evil thing to do.

Yeah, mass slavery and slaughter of intelligent critters for personal gain in knowledge of what you're doing is on the "evil" list by almost anyone's standards.

[WinWin]

Better off using the sacrifice rules from BoVD. Then use the harvested XP to make yourself a Thought Bottle.

[MammonAzrael]

Presenting "The Easy Exploit"

Play a druid. Take Natural spell.

[Necroticplague]

We can solve both the problems of the creatures you farm gaining levels to beat you and the ethical issues by using mindless creatures. Since the ability to reproduce would be preferred, we should use oozes.

[byaku rai]

Swarms could also potentially work, especially if you are using AoE spells. The trick is to find some with high enough CR to actually give you xp.

[RedWarrior0]

Presenting "The Easy Exploit"

Play a druid, wizard, or other T1 class.

Fixed that for you