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<blockquote data-quote="Wish" data-source="post: 3480516" data-attributes="member: 13404"><p>I've played with it extensively. It doesn't work all that well, in practice. It's certainly worth a feat, but several conditions must be met for it to work:</p><p></p><p>1) You must successfully sneak attack.</p><p>2) The target must fail a fortitude save.</p><p>3) The target must give a hoot that it failed a fortitude save.</p><p></p><p>#1 is harder to get than you might think (uncanny dodge, concealment, fortification, constructs, undead, elementals, etc.)</p><p>#2 is also harder to accomplish than you might think. The DC isn't likely to be more than 35 or 40, and often considerably lower. At the levels where that damage is happening, excellent to absurdly good fort saves are also happening.</p><p>#3 also doesn't happen as often as you might like. If the BBEG was just going to take a 5' step back and fire a sudden maximized energy admixed scorching ray into your face, he's still going to be able to do exactly that.</p><p></p><p>All that said...</p><p></p><p>When it works, it's an absolute thing of beauty. When you charge, and power attack, and crit the marilith and you get to say something like, "And make a DC 104 fort save or be staggered for a round," that's just poetry. When the marilith looks at you and your pitiful little charging AC and your questionable hp total, and her six magic weapons and can only use one of them to retaliate against you... makes it worth it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wish, post: 3480516, member: 13404"] I've played with it extensively. It doesn't work all that well, in practice. It's certainly worth a feat, but several conditions must be met for it to work: 1) You must successfully sneak attack. 2) The target must fail a fortitude save. 3) The target must give a hoot that it failed a fortitude save. #1 is harder to get than you might think (uncanny dodge, concealment, fortification, constructs, undead, elementals, etc.) #2 is also harder to accomplish than you might think. The DC isn't likely to be more than 35 or 40, and often considerably lower. At the levels where that damage is happening, excellent to absurdly good fort saves are also happening. #3 also doesn't happen as often as you might like. If the BBEG was just going to take a 5' step back and fire a sudden maximized energy admixed scorching ray into your face, he's still going to be able to do exactly that. All that said... When it works, it's an absolute thing of beauty. When you charge, and power attack, and crit the marilith and you get to say something like, "And make a DC 104 fort save or be staggered for a round," that's just poetry. When the marilith looks at you and your pitiful little charging AC and your questionable hp total, and her six magic weapons and can only use one of them to retaliate against you... makes it worth it. [/QUOTE]
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