can this strategy be stopped?

[Cartigan Mrryl]

Summon a sacrificial lackey to grapple him into submission, then encase both of them in solid rock with a stone shape spell.

-Samir Asad

EXACTLY! Also, Arcane Archer with PLane Shift to the Elemental Place of Water or Fire... he'd get damaged JUST FOR BEING THERE... see if he runs outta PP before he can find a gate.

 

[glass]

IMO, Dispel should work. Banning it's interaction with Extend Power could also work.

I think its interaction with Extend Power is just fine. All Extend Power changes is the duration. Even if the duraction is 2 round instead of 1, it will still stop making you invulnerable 'at the end of your next turn'. If it is extended, it'll then hang around doing nothing much for a round.


glass.

 

[EricNoah]

Not sure if it was mentioned, but apparently you also have to expend your psionic focus to extend a power. If he wants to do it again, he's going to have to spend an action (or a move equiv if he's got the right feat) to regain his focus.

 

[superkurt13]

OK, so we have determined that the psion in question cannot recast this power when it is already in effect since it lasts until the end of his turn. Could the psion ready an action to recast the power when the original casting expired? Would that keep him covered continuously?

 

[Kae'Yoss]

I wounder if you could just put something over his face to suffocate him?

Who would have thought? A Mind of Power, Master if the Very Thought, taken out by a wet towel!

 

[werk]

If you read the OP, he's 20th level, not 19th.

I like that he can't be the subject of a new timeless body while the old one is ticking, that's good.

I voted for grappling before, and I'll stick by it...it could work, just not very well, and it'll give you something to do in the round that he is invulnerable and wanting to manifest death and detruction on your party. While grappling or pinned, even though he will not/can not take damage, he'll have to make a concentration check at DC 20+spell level to not lose the power. Assuming a psion would max that out, that's 23 ranks plus his con bonus, which should be low. He will lose any buffs or 'helpful effects' (items), so he should be fairly easy to grapple/pin, and there is a slim chance of pulling this off..like a 30% chance.

 

[superkurt13]

What about this twist:

The psion is not able to remainfest the power on himself while the current power is active, but what if he readies an action to remanifest once the power ends. So for his turn he readies the power, his turn ends, he remanifests the power, continuous coverage.

Would this work? Also, you could say that his opponent could ready an action to attack once he recasts, but how could he tell when it is being recast since it's a purely mental action. There is some type of display associated but this can be easily suppressed with a successful concentration check.

 

[werk]

What about this twist:

The psion is not able to remainfest the power on himself while the current power is active, but what if he readies an action to remanifest once the power ends. So for his turn he readies the power, his turn ends, he remanifests the power, continuous coverage.

Would this work? Also, you could say that his opponent could ready an action to attack once he recasts, but how could he tell when it is being recast since it's a purely mental action. There is some type of display associated but this can be easily suppressed with a successful concentration check.

I don't know how you could ready til the effect ends if the effect ends after your turn...readying delays your turn. It may be possible for him to ready for the adventurers to leave him be and then just wait forever, protected

The other problem is that a ready action is resolved before the action that triggered the ready. If the power going down is the trigger, you would technically manifest the new power just before the previous one went down.

Would it be possible for him to use schizm to alternate castings back and forth? (Away from my books and haven't read schizm in years.)

 

[superkurt13]

According to the definition of a readied action in the SRD: "The action occurs just before the action that triggers it". How is that possible if the trigger is the ending of the power? Doesn't the power have to end before I can react to it ending? It's like saying "I ready an action to runn through that door as soon as I see it open". Well if the door being opened is the trigger then how can your action (running through it) take place before it actually opens?

 

[werk]

According to the definition of a readied action in the SRD: "The action occurs just before the action that triggers it". How is that possible if the trigger is the ending of the power? Doesn't the power have to end before I can react to it ending? It's like saying "I ready an action to runn through that door as soon as I see it open". Well if the door being opened is the trigger then how can your action (running through it) take place before it actually opens?

It was explained to me once that they happen in the right order, but are resolved as noted in the RAW. I don't quite get it either.

EDIT: maybe that's fodder for another thread?