Special Conversion Thread: Microscopic Monsters

[Cleon]

Oy vey, where's Shade when you need him?



More seriously, sure, let's do Auto Still and Auto Silent at least tentatively. But I don't think Disguise is the right place to put skill ranks unless we really run out of other ideas.

I was thinking Hide rather than Disguise.

 

[freyar]

Yeah, Hide would be better.

Let's see. So far we have


Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Weapon Focus, Improved Crit, Overwhelming Crit*, Devastating Crit*, Power Crit, Quicken Spell, Automatic Quicken Spell*, Silent Spell, Automatic Silent Spell*, Still Spell, Automatic Still Spell*, Epic Fort*, Epic Ref*, Epic Will*

That's so far 18 feats with 8 epic. Seems like we need 8 more. Could go with multiple uses of the Automatic metamagic spells, I guess, or some more normal metamagic.

 

[Cleon]

Yeah, Hide would be better.

Let's see. So far we have

Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Weapon Focus, Improved Crit, Overwhelming Crit*, Devastating Crit*, Power Crit, Quicken Spell, Automatic Quicken Spell*, Silent Spell, Automatic Silent Spell*, Still Spell, Automatic Still Spell*, Epic Fort*, Epic Ref*, Epic Will*

That's so far 18 feats with 8 epic. Seems like we need 8 more. Could go with multiple uses of the Automatic metamagic spells, I guess, or some more normal metamagic.

What, like Permanent Emanation? That rather depends on it having an emanation spell that's of much use to it.

Also, if we're giving it one Automatic Quicken Spell we should consider giving it a couple more, so it can do all its spells Auto-Quick.

Hmm, I suppose we could give them the +2 regular feat versions of the save-boosters, but those aren't very interesting. Plus, they'd only really be of interest if it uses them as prereqs for some other feats.

Great Fortitude and Perfect Health, maybe?

 

[freyar]

Well, I did mean something like Maximize Spell or whatever.

3xAuto Quicken seems reasonable. I guess I could also do Great Fort and Perfect Health, but I don't think Permanent Emanation probably helps Protistron too much.

Any more ideas?

 

[Cleon]

Well, I did mean something like Maximize Spell or whatever.

3xAuto Quicken seems reasonable. I guess I could also do Great Fort and Perfect Health, but I don't think Permanent Emanation probably helps Protistron too much.

Maximize Spell is OK.

Any more ideas?

How about some of the non-psionic feats from the Psionic SRD?

Reckless Offence? Chaotic Mind and its prereqs?

 

[freyar]

I'll go with Reckless Offense, but I'm not sure I like Chaotic Mind. Like we talked about above, it doesn't seem right for someone who doesn't recognize sentience in others.

Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Weapon Focus, Improved Crit, Overwhelming Crit*, Devastating Crit*, Power Crit, Quicken Spell, 3xAutomatic Quicken Spell*, Silent Spell, Automatic Silent Spell*, Still Spell, Automatic Still Spell*, Epic Fort*, Epic Ref*, Epic Will*, Maximize Spell, Great Fortitude, Perfect Health*, Reckless Offense.

That puts us at 23 feats.

 

[Cleon]

I'll go with Reckless Offense, but I'm not sure I like Chaotic Mind. Like we talked about above, it doesn't seem right for someone who doesn't recognize sentience in others.

Why would it need to recognize sentience to prevent other creatures having an insight into its actions? Wouldn't other creatures find it harder to predict its behavior if its thoughts were so alien that it doesn't even realize they're intelligent?

Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Weapon Focus, Improved Crit, Overwhelming Crit*, Devastating Crit*, Power Crit, Quicken Spell, 3xAutomatic Quicken Spell*, Silent Spell, Automatic Silent Spell*, Still Spell, Automatic Still Spell*, Epic Fort*, Epic Ref*, Epic Will*, Maximize Spell, Great Fortitude, Perfect Health*, Reckless Offense.

That puts us at 23 feats.

That's OK I think. It needs a few (slams) to go after some of the weapon feats.

We're only short by three feats. Any ideas?

 

[freyar]

I can see your second justification much more than your first for Chaotic Mind. We'll hold that in reserve.

The Ref save is still going to be relatively poor even with Epic Ref. What about Lightning Reflexes also?

Enlarge Spell and something generally useful, like Imp Init?

 

[Cleon]

I can see your second justification much more than your first for Chaotic Mind. We'll hold that in reserve.

The Ref save is still going to be relatively poor even with Epic Ref. What about Lightning Reflexes also?

Enlarge Spell and something generally useful, like Imp Init?

Those work OK for me.

Hmm, since its low initiative is a major combat problem, how about Superior Initiative as well?

Swap it for Reckless Offense or one of its other feats?

 

[freyar]

I'd be fine with swapping out Epic Fort. Its Fort save is going to be pretty good anyway.

Power Attack, Cleave, Great Cleave, Weapon Focus (slam), Improved Critical (slam), Overwhelming Critical (slam), Devastating Critical (slam), Power Critical (slam), Quicken Spell, 3xAutomatic Quicken Spell, Silent Spell, Automatic Silent Spell, Still Spell, Automatic Still Spell, Epic Ref, Epic Will, Maximize Spell, Great Fortitude, Perfect Health, Reckless Offense, Lightning Reflexes, Enlarge Spell, Improved Initiative, Superior Initiative.

Alphabetizing...
Automatic Quicken Spell (x3), Automatic Silent Spell, Automatic Still Spell, Cleave, Devastating Critical (slam), Enlarge Spell, Epic Reflexes, Epic Will, Great Cleave, Great Fortitude, Improved Critical (slam), Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes, Maximize Spell, Overwhelming Critical (slam), Perfect Health, Power Attack, Power Critical (slam), Quicken Spell, Reckless Offense, Silent Spell, Still Spell, Superior Initiative, Weapon Focus (slam).

I think that does it.