Best Spell to Maximize

[kreynolds]

Flame flame everywhere....

My bad. But it's not entirely my fault, so I can't take all the blame. I mean, hey, if you came upon some guy on the street coated in gasoline, how could you not throw the match? A guy like that is just asking for it.

 

[Gromm]

My bad. But it's not entirely my fault, so I can't take all the blame. I mean, hey, if you came upon some guy on the street coated in gasoline, how could you not throw the match? A guy like that is just asking for it.

Remind me to be really careful when putting gas in a lawnmower when your around.
"Hey let me help you there." *throws match, gets out marshmellows*

 

[hong]

My bad. But it's not entirely my fault, so I can't take all the blame. I mean, hey, if you came upon some guy on the street coated in gasoline, how could you not throw the match? A guy like that is just asking for it.

In this case, I think Jeremy was talking about me, not you. You've been very reasonable since I took the angry hat off you.

Apologies to everyone, I'll stop now.

 

[kreynolds]

Remind me to be really careful when putting gas in a lawnmower when your around.

LOL

 

[kreynolds]

You've been very reasonable since I took the angry hat off you.

When was I wearing an angry hat?

 

[hong]

When was I wearing an angry hat?

Well, you're not, since I took it off you. Sheesh, do I have to spell everything out?


Hong "surrounded by eeeediots" Ooi

 

[kreynolds]

Well, you're not, since I took it off you. Sheesh, do I have to spell everything out?

Note that I didn't ask you if I was wearing an angry hat, but in fact, I asked when was I wearing an angry hat. Sheesh, do I have to spell everything out?

 

[(Psi)SeveredHead]

I picked Poison.

Better save DC (it goes up with my level), whereas a 12th-level wizard throwing a maximimzed Fireball will watch, in agony, as his opponent makes the Reflex save (which is based on a 3rd level spell).

Maximized d10 is better than maximized d6.

Con damage is frightening, and can last days. The repeat is just icing on the cake (especially since their Fort save just fell by 5). And if they make the first save, don't they still have to make the second save?

A cleric/wizard could have their bat familiar carry this spell to the enemy (LOL!)

 

[S'mon]

... so if Cleave can only be used during FRA, has anyone with a BAB of less than 6+ taken this Feat?


Why does Great Cleave have a BAB of 4+ as a prerequisite since it'd only be useful in FRAs... and characters with a BAB of less than 6+ almost never use FRAs.

Weird. I just can't even see this interpretation at all.

Greg

Since a FRA merely requires you not to move more than 5' in a tound, I generally take the Cleave feat between 1st-3rd level for my fighters and combat clerics and use it all the time, in conjunction with 5' steps, nearly doubling the PC's combat ability vs weak foes. It's actually _more_ useful at low levels where most opponents are short on hp. Great Cleave has to wait until after Specialisation is taken, so usually not until 6th.

 

[S'mon]

Maximize

The only way I know of that allowing stacking Empowers (at +2 spell levels/time) is unbalancing, is that it makes Maximize (being once only at +3 SLs for a smaller increase) a useless feat - you get more oomph out of a x2 Empower than a Maximize + Empower, and it doesn't take an extra feat to do. There's no point I can think of in the (non-stackable) Maximize feat existing, if you can get a better result from stacking Empower.

Anyone have an explanation why this isn't so?
BTW, how many of you are GMs?