D&D 5E 20th level Sorcerer vs the world

[Earth2Carnifex]

This is really a final evil boss.
Now things are getting more and more intense.

So now we are pretending you actually took over the world. Cool, now the Foggy Bottom Illusionist Guild, whom for some odd reason, you never found a single one, starts its economic and social order disruption campaign against you. In a year, your economy will crash and the common people will not be happy with you at all. In 5 years, 80% of your population will be starving and no amount of dominating and suggesting will help, by the time 10 years rolls around, your empire has collapsed and everyone thinks you are raving lunatic. During this time, not a single spell has been cast directly against you, by any member of Foggy Bottom Illusionist Guild, nor have you even come within 660 feet of one, at least not as far as you know.

 

[Hohige]

Bastion sends Wizard's Simulacrum to cast Meteor Swarm against a powerful city with many Innocentes and say "Wizards will destroy your city and turn you into Undeads!"

The Plan to pit the world against Wizards is being made.

If the Wizards fail to defeat the Bastion. The world will quickly end the Wizards and the Bastion plan will be completed.

 

[prabe]

Bastion sends Wizard's Simulacrum to cast Meteor Swarm against a powerful city with many Innocentes and say "Wizards will destroy your world!"

The Plan to pit the world against Wizards is being made.

If the Wizards fail to defeat the Bastion. The world will quickly end the Wizards and the Bastion plan will be completed.

Sorry, how is the sorcerer managing to have a sim of the wizard? I believe it requires a willing creature.

 

[Hohige]

Sorry, how is the sorcerer managing to have a sim of the wizard? I believe it requires a willing creature.

A petrified Wizard. It's now a Sorcerer's Pet. No, It doesn't require a willing creature.

 

[prabe]

And you're just deciding the Sim has meteor swarm prepared, how? DM Fiat, perhaps?

 

[Hohige]

And you're just deciding the Sim has meteor swarm prepared, how? DM Fiat, perhaps?

The Sorcerer can Extended Dominate person for 16 hours and force The Wizard to prepare the right spells.
The petrified Wizard is now a Sorcerer's Minion.

 

[Earth2Carnifex]

By the time you get there all the wizards Illusionists are gone, now members of the underground. All you find is empty houses and few notes mocking you.

Edit: The remaining wizards cover Foggy Bottom in the worlds largest plated Wall of Force, the Meteors bounce harmlessly off, the Lazy One then retreats to his Moms basement to rest for 2 days.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

"(In Which the Flaw of the Stone Chicken Strategy, while Nice to Prevent any Clone or Resurrection Attempt, and Visually Fun, Is Exposed)."

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"Unknown wizard (UW): "most of my friends have been disappearing. I am truely wondering what's happening... Let's find out!"
Wizards casts Gate, naming their friend."


Unfortunately, His plan failed to save the Stone Wizards failed. Forbbidance blocks Gate, Private Sanctum blocks Planar Travel.
"Gate Spell"

You didn't mention casting Forbiddance permanently on your Demiplane before... now? Same with Private Sanctum, that was mentionned being cast once when the Lazy One tried to trap his first victim.

Deities and other planar rulers can prevent Portals created by this spell from opening in their presence or anywhere within their domains.
The Bastion rules his own Demiplane.

No. Self-styling oneself as a demigod doesn't make you a "deity or other planar ruler". The fact that you can access a Demiplane through the spell Demiplane doesn't make you its ruler nor does it make it a plane, barring DM fiat.

His entire plan failed here and the Stone Chicken Wizard remains as a decoration.


"UW proceeds to cast Scrying repeatedly at the Stealthy Wizard. It can take some time.

Possibility 1 : at some point, the Sorcerer drops Mind Blank and is scryed upon successfully. Totally unaware of the fact the spell is being cast on him, he has no possibility to react as initiative was never rolled."

It also failed, who are you Mind Blank or Nondetection prevent your scrying, but who you are trying Scry, you don't know. And inside your home, divination doesn't work there.
You will never hit him with Divination, he will always be protected by Mind Blank or Nondetection. Bastion is undetectable.

OK, so you confirm that Mind Blank is always up on the Lazy One. AT LAST! Please explain how you he achieves this 24 hours a day for him, his simulacrum and his DMM. This is a key point of your build, you have to explain us how does he do it.

 

[Jfdlsjfd]

The Sorcerer can Extended Dominate person for 16 hours and force The Wizard to prepare the right spells.
The petrified Wizard is now a Sorcerer's Minion.

1. Creating a Simulacrum gives you another chicken. "You shape an illusory duplicate of one beast or Humanoid that is within range for the entire Casting Time of the spell." All you have is a Chicken, unless you Dispel your Polymorph beforehand.

2. Once you have a statue of a former wizard, you'd need to invoke DM fiat again so that the reading of the Flesh to Stone saying that "If you maintain your concentration on this spell for the entire possible duration, the creature is turned to stone until the effect is removed." is no different than the one described above, mechanically. Because if it is read literally, the victim is turned to stone until dispelled. In which case, Simulacrum fails by virtue of needing to be cast at a beast or an Humanoid, not a piece of stone.

4. Being unable to learn something new, the Simulacrum would be unable to memorize new spells.

5. You'd need a spellbook with Meteor Swarn even if it could, which you don't.

A good idea, a copy of one of Alfred's success against a demigod wannabe where he Simulacred the DMM, but you still need to work a little on the execution.


Edit: I'll now have to integrate into Foggy Bottom's Chronicle the fact that the landscape is modified nearly daily, as a resident Master Illusionist expands his 10-days allotment of 7+ slots to create Mirage Arcane over 40 square miles (that's a 10km around Foggy Bottom, roughly) within which Malleable Illusion makes him pop structures and landscape...

 

[Earth2Carnifex]

Edit: I'll now have to integrate into Foggy Bottom's Chronicle the fact that the landscape is modified nearly daily, as a resident Master Illusionist expands his 10-days allotment of 7+ slots to create Mirage Arcane over 40 square miles (that's a 10km around Foggy Bottom, roughly) within which Malleable Illusion makes him pop structures and landscape...

I think it is easy to say at least one of the Level 20 Illusionists will stay in Foggy Bottom to help defend it. While the others escape into the underground. Even so, the Lazy One will never figure out which of the denizens within Foggy Bottom is actually the Illusionist.