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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mortaneus" data-source="post: 550159" data-attributes="member: 485">Hmm....let's try this one:  Rogue 1832 point buy:STR 8DEX 18 (28)CON 8INT 8WIS 8CHA 18 (24)Feats:  Imp Initiative, Skill Focus (Use Magic Device)Skills:Use Magic Device 21 ranksRogue Special Ability:  Skill Mastery (UMD)With all of these, that means that  you can automatically hit a DC40 on your UMD roll (10 (skill mastery)+21 ranks+7 CHA+2 skill focus = 40).According to the description of UMD, that means that you can use a scroll as if you had a caster lvl of 20.Now, the fun:Items (440,000 gp):Cloak of Cha +6Gloves of Dex +6368k GP left....A scroll of Time Stop costs: 17 (clvl)*9(slvl)*25 = 3825 gpA scroll of horrid wilting at 20th clvl costs:  20 (clvl) * 8 (slvl) * 25 = 4000 gpNow, just stock up on these with all the remaining money.  You can use them automatically.  Heck, put them all on one big long sheet of paper.  Since, on average, you'll get 3.5 rounds from a time stop, and one of those rounds should be spent casting a time stop, that means you should have 2.5 HWs for every time stop.  With your remaining money, that equates to:2.5 HWs (4k*2.5=10k) + TS (3825gp) = 13,825 GP per 2.5 horrid wiltings.Meaning, you should pick up 27 time stops and 66 horrid wiltings. You should be able to throw all of the horrid wiltings with that, in a single round.Now, 20th clvl HW vs. dragon's SR33 (assuming GW gold).  40% chance of success each.Dragon will make all fort saves.That's 20d8 each...avg damage 90, half damage 45.45 dmg*66 spells = 2970 * 40% = 1188 damage on average.So, rogue goes on +13 init, dragon on +4 at best.If rogue goes first, which is quite likely, on average the dragon is quite toast.</blockquote>

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