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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wyvernhand" data-source="post: 6040664" data-attributes="member: 97681">There is a little spell called <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/wn/20011205a" target="_blank">Awaken from Afar</a>.  It is a...not a nice spell.  Very not a nice spell.Awaken from AfarEvocationLevel: Sor/Wiz 5, Clr 6, Drd 6Components: VCasting Time: 1 actionRange: Medium (100 ft. + 10 ft./level)Target: One spell trigger activation itemDuration: InstantaneousSaving Throw: NoneSpell Resistance: NoAn awaken from afar spell allows you to use a spell trigger item without  actually touching the item. The item to be activated must be within the  range of the awaken from afar spell, and it functions as though you  yourself were triggering it from its current position. All other  conditions, such as the requirement that you have the spell on your  spell list or if the item's enchantment restricts its use to a  particular race or individual, still apply. Both you and the item to be  activated have to be on the same plane. The item cannot be in the  possession of another creature at the time of activation, and it must be  an item that you have previously triggered normally (in other words,  without the aid of an awaken from afar spell.Don't use Awaken from Afar on a wand...thats a waste.  Use it on a Rod  of Many Wands loaded with 3 wands each.  Sure, he'll burn through charges  like mad, but who cares?  Just grab some duct tape, put the rods in a  huge bundle, and duct tape them all into place.  Carry it over your  shoulder like a bazooka.So, assuming you cast a Chained Awaken from Afar at CL20 and target 20 Rods of  Many Wands, that's 60 wands you are activating.  If they were all simple  CL1 Wands of Magic Missile, and you rolled MINIMUM damage, thats 120  damage minimum, or 150 damage average.  No save, no attack roll, no  nothing.  60 wands x 3 charges each x 25 gp per charge = 4500g per  salvo.Now, lets load for something a little bigger...Make them all Wands of Seeking Ray (4d6 electric damage at CL3).  Now  we've upped our average damage to 14 per wand.  60 wands results in 840  damage per activation with a net price of 27,000g per salvo, and with  the slight drawback that what you are shooting at has to be relatively  easy to hit and you don't roll too many 1s on your attack rolls, and  that its not immune or resistant to electricity.Ok, now lets load for BEAR!Make them all Wands of Enervation.  We've got 60d4 negative levels  coming, averaging out at 150 negative levels per salvo, assuming all  hit.  That also results in a loss of 150 x5 = 750 HP due to the level  loss, assuming you are shooting at something that has more than 150 HD.   Net cost per salvo is 126,000g.  You know...when it REALLY REALLY  REALLY has to die.  Also note that each Enervate doesn't have to strike  the same target.  Take that puppy to a busy town square, mount it up on  the roof of an inn overlooking a busy market place, and let er rip.   You'll clear half the square in your initial salvo, and then just wait  till midnight and you'll have begun a large scale wightocolypse!  Its  the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!</blockquote>

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