Can you do inifinite damage?

[Relique du Madde]

I seem to recall a very unusual, and even more broken, pun-pun build that could be puled off at level 1. That would have an arbitrarily high strength score and could theoretically do infinite damage.

Wasn't that the infinite loop one which used artifacts that does damage to the character so that he could automatically damage a target then converted the damage the target recieved into hp so that he could redo the entire loop again?

 

[Tolen Mar]

Indeed, I believe Pun-Pun was the name that went through my mind when he started in.

Curiosity or no, I just was baffled by the sudden decision to enlighten me (I look like an ogre, and have been known to frighten small children and animals).

But then again, maybe you are right, maybe I should have taken the chance to enlighten the younger generation.

Of course, I'm teaching my son, so I guess I have that covered.

 

[Tolen Mar]

I just realised too, that if I'm going to continue in this hobby, I may very well end up having to look to the younger generation, since everyone of my age is moving away.

Prolly vandalize my walker...

 

[Victim]

Right, give a warlock one of those sustenance ioun stones and he's on his way to infinity, except he's mortal, hmmm... make him a lich warlock!

Elan is available at LA +0. And if you have infinite time, then just punching stuff is good enough damage - no need for warlock.

 

[Tolen Mar]

This is all well and good, but I certainly don't plan to allow anyone more than one round to take one round of actions.

Infinity? You run around in circles forever, I've got gaming to do.

 

[Slife]

Well, I know a fourth level character that does infinite damage. To itself. A combination of spells and the badly written drowning rules allows the character to survive, and even temporarily have a +infinity to several checks.

Thread is here, if you're interested. The perpetual damage machine is here .

Of course, the first level Pun-Pun can do infinite damage by virtue of being able to duplicate any other trick (and keep a permanent +infinity to just about everything). But that hardly counts.

 

[wingsandsword]

The only build I have ever heard of that might come close is a broken Hulking Hurler build where you can hurl rocks the size of mountain tops for something crazy like 400d6 damage. I definitely consider myself of the powergamer persuasion but a line has to be drawn somewhere and that build is just ridiculous.

One day out of curiosity I looked up the infamous hulking hurler builds on the WotC Character Optimization boards. . .

When I saw they were estimating damage output in the billions of HP for that build I had to look closer.

They were talking about taking a neutron star, using Polymorph Any Object to turn it into a boulder, throwing that boulder at a target, and have an antimagic field set up right in front of the target to negate the Polymorph, causing the target to be hit by a neutron star thrown by a Hulking Hurler and using the improvised thrown weapon rules and plugging in estimated masses of neutron stars to get a damage estimate.

At that point I realized I was on the wrong message boards.

 

[Alzrius]

Beyond the ridiculousness at the Optimization Boards, the only way to do infinite damage that I know of is to take the Infinite Strength omnific ability from The Immortal's Handbook: Ascension (due for public release in about a month).

That ability is exactly what it sounds like, giving you an infinite Strength score. However, such a character would have to to have an ECL of 533 to take it as an esoteric ability, and that'd be if he didn't have appropriate equipment, and spent all of his divine ability slots from the relevant divinity template (stage I demiurge) on purchasing that ability. More realistically, a character who takes Infinite Strength - with appropriate equipment for his level, and as a standard ability for his divine rank (which will be time lord) - will have a minimum ECL of at least 1,999.

So, does that make sense?

 

[PoeticJustice]

One day out of curiosity I looked up the infamous hulking hurler builds on the WotC Character Optimization boards. . .

When I saw they were estimating damage output in the billions of HP for that build I had to look closer.

They were talking about taking a neutron star, using Polymorph Any Object to turn it into a boulder, throwing that boulder at a target, and have an antimagic field set up right in front of the target to negate the Polymorph, causing the target to be hit by a neutron star thrown by a Hulking Hurler and using the improvised thrown weapon rules and plugging in estimated masses of neutron stars to get a damage estimate.

At that point I realized I was on the wrong message boards.

 

[Relique du Madde]

So what would infinite damage do to a person anyway? Would that attack be so strong that it instantaneously causes the target's molecular structure to collapse into a singularity or does it cause a rift in the time-space continuum which effectively obliterates the target from existance?