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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DeedlitElf" data-source="post: 3598029" data-attributes="member: 46436">Hi Krusty!I just thought that I'd share an interesting discovery.  A nexus dragon can beat the crap out of a neutronium golem.  Even a nexus wyrmling!How does the wyrmling deal enough damage?  Simple: Virtual size increase every round!  This leads to exponentially increasing damage, so after thirty-some rounds the wyrmling can kill the golem in a single round;  in few rounds later, in a  single attack.The simplest way to get there is time stop.  Cast a maximized 3 x extended time stop gets you there with Krust's rules for magic;  or maximized 7 x extended with the old doubling rules. Then ready an attack action as time resumes, and kill the golem in one blow.Suppose the dragon doesn't want to be so cheap, and wants to let the golem have his 30 or so cracks at him.  The dragon can easily heal himself to full every round with a metamagicked lightning bolt.  So the golem must deal sufficient damage in a single round.  Even a nexus wyrmling requires two hits, with at least one being a critical to kill it.  Since the golem needs 20 both to hit and to crit, the chances of doing so are next to nil.  Or, if the dragon didn't want even a double crit to kill him, it can cast a few epic spells up to DC 419 to raise his Con.  Or cast Delay Death, and heal any damage with his super lightning bolt.So the golem is totally helpless against the wyrmling, and we've barely begun to examine what's possible with unlimited use of all spells and epic spells!In other words, the nexus dragon needs to have higher CR than the neutronium golem.  Much higher.By the way, are 1.5 and 2.4 the latest versions of your books?</blockquote>

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