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<blockquote data-quote="jabberwocky" data-source="post: 1191306" data-attributes="member: 2929"><p>Suicidal Demon Bombing </p><p></p><p>Character: NE Lich Cleric 13/hierophant 3 (ECL 20) with the travel and evil domains, and spell power x3. </p><p></p><p>Staff of Gate: 364,750 gp </p><p>20 Beads of Karma(15 self-created): 250,000 gp</p><p>Lich's Phylactery: 120,000</p><p>Total : 734,750 (and 16,800 xp spent)</p><p></p><p>Activate all 20 Beads of Karma - this takes two minutes and gives you a caster level of 100 for evil spells. In the time you have left before the beads of karma start wearing off, use up all the charges in the staff, calling 5 Balors every time. This gives you a tidy little army of 250 Balors.</p><p></p><p>You still have almost three minutes before the beads start wearing off, so you can take your time choosing a target. Once you have chosen a victim, you and all the balors greater teleport to whatever/whoever your target is, keeping all of the balors within 50 ft of you. Once you have appeared at your destination, you delay your action until after the balors, and command all the balors to summon more balors. This doubles the size of your balor army to 500. Once all the demons are there, you use your delayed action to cast Dictum - automatically killing all the balors within 40 ft of you, who promptly explode for 100 points of damage, causing a chain reaction where all the other Balors explode as well. </p><p>You should be able to fit 500 balors within a 50ft radius sphere [volume of a sphere that size is 523,598 cubic feet, and if you consider a balor to be occupying a space with a radius of 6' (as they're 12 ft tall) you can fit 578 balor-volumes into that sphere]. This means that you have a blast area of a 100' diameter sphere where anything in that sphere takes 50,000 points of damage, or 25,000 if it makes 500 separate DC 30 Reflex Saves. There's wildly varying amounts of damage as you move outward from that sphere, but anything within 150' of you is still taking some balor blast damage. The fun part is that the damage is all non-magical energy (death throes is an extroadinary ability), so spell resistance/magic immunity/antimagic field all won't help.</p><p> </p><p>Of course, you take this damage as well, but you don't care - you're a lich and you'll just reform in 1d10 days. Alternately, you can spread your balors out in a disc with greater distance between them, so that the chain reaction of balor-bombs spreads the damage over a vastly wider area. I havent bothered working it out, but you could probably get at least several hundred damage to everything within a few thousand feet of you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jabberwocky, post: 1191306, member: 2929"] Suicidal Demon Bombing Character: NE Lich Cleric 13/hierophant 3 (ECL 20) with the travel and evil domains, and spell power x3. Staff of Gate: 364,750 gp 20 Beads of Karma(15 self-created): 250,000 gp Lich's Phylactery: 120,000 Total : 734,750 (and 16,800 xp spent) Activate all 20 Beads of Karma - this takes two minutes and gives you a caster level of 100 for evil spells. In the time you have left before the beads of karma start wearing off, use up all the charges in the staff, calling 5 Balors every time. This gives you a tidy little army of 250 Balors. You still have almost three minutes before the beads start wearing off, so you can take your time choosing a target. Once you have chosen a victim, you and all the balors greater teleport to whatever/whoever your target is, keeping all of the balors within 50 ft of you. Once you have appeared at your destination, you delay your action until after the balors, and command all the balors to summon more balors. This doubles the size of your balor army to 500. Once all the demons are there, you use your delayed action to cast Dictum - automatically killing all the balors within 40 ft of you, who promptly explode for 100 points of damage, causing a chain reaction where all the other Balors explode as well. You should be able to fit 500 balors within a 50ft radius sphere [volume of a sphere that size is 523,598 cubic feet, and if you consider a balor to be occupying a space with a radius of 6' (as they're 12 ft tall) you can fit 578 balor-volumes into that sphere]. This means that you have a blast area of a 100' diameter sphere where anything in that sphere takes 50,000 points of damage, or 25,000 if it makes 500 separate DC 30 Reflex Saves. There's wildly varying amounts of damage as you move outward from that sphere, but anything within 150' of you is still taking some balor blast damage. The fun part is that the damage is all non-magical energy (death throes is an extroadinary ability), so spell resistance/magic immunity/antimagic field all won't help. Of course, you take this damage as well, but you don't care - you're a lich and you'll just reform in 1d10 days. Alternately, you can spread your balors out in a disc with greater distance between them, so that the chain reaction of balor-bombs spreads the damage over a vastly wider area. I havent bothered working it out, but you could probably get at least several hundred damage to everything within a few thousand feet of you. [/QUOTE]
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