Construct Death Magic

[Belzbet]

THe Eberron Campaign has the class "Artificer." It has many spells (infusions really but they function like and many are model off of spells) that affect just constructs, it has the equivelent of harm that affects constructs and many others (but like has been said disintegrate is awesome). To see samples of spells designed to affect constructs look there.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

I don't understand why people think Disintegrate is a Save or Die spell. It just does a lot of damage. A monster with loads of HP just calls it 'the bigger plink'. Nobody calls Empowered Fireball a SoD spell.

Don't a lot of spells meant to target objects have specific caveats for constructs?




What are the orb spells?

Because in 3.0 and iirc older editions, it was save or die. It was only with 3.5 that it was changed to massive damage. A lot of people still get mixed up over that, I think. Also, it does have the unique property of destroying the body if it does kill (even if the person saved!), rendering raise dead useless for restoring the poor victim. In that regard it is like instant death abilities of many monsters that similarly destroy the body and/or require ressurection or even true res to undo, so people also likely unconsciously lump it in with those.

The orb spells are a bunch of Conjuration [creation] spells (IMNSHO, they SHOULD be Evocation spells!) that use a ranged touch attack, but are not rays. They allow no SR, and their fort saves don't reduce damage at all, merely resist the carrier effect each has (orb of fire dazes for 1 round on a failed save, while as Orb of Electricity entangles for 1 round, for example). They are all 4th level. There are also "lesser" versions at level 1 that do less damage and have no carrier effect. Because they allow no SR, do high damage, and basically only fail to hit on a 1, they're quite popular "golem busters."

 

[Xakk]

Ah. Interesting.

But neither of those are SOD spells. We can zap an undead and have it turn to dust but I can't turn a golem back into a statue? I mean an inannimate statue.

 

[Empirate]

Dhulak's Glass Strike is the spell of choice for this. Works almost exactly like Flesh to Stone, except it turns stuff to glass, and works on everything, not only flesh. Make your own eerily beautiful glass statues! Doesn't work on Golems, obviously, due to magic immunity, but will crystallize every other construct. It's 3.0 though (Magic of Faerûn).

 

[Michael Silverbane]

Dhulak's Glass Strike is the spell of choice for this. Works almost exactly like Flesh to Stone, except it turns stuff to glass, and works on everything, not only flesh. Make your own eerily beautiful glass statues! Doesn't work on Golems, obviously, due to magic immunity, but will crystallize every other construct. It's 3.0 though (Magic of Faerûn).

It was update to 3.5 as Glass Strike in the Spell Compendium.