Sorcerers, polymorph, and spells oh my!

[jgsugden]

IIRC the best spell for area affect used to be Sunburst. Although it is "only" an 80ft radius burst now for 6d6 damage + blinding, it used to be 10ft/level radius albeit only for a miserable 3d6 damage.

Bah. You want a great army killer? Try SNA spells. Air elementals can take out an army of peons at an incredible pace ... and keep doing it round after round after round. Their whirlwind ability is only limited by their volume and they can toss stiffs out freely. All they have to do is mow over foes and watch them fail their saving throws and die. As I was designing one large scale battle for a campaign, I realized that one greater air elemental could kill all 2,000 enemies (basic goblins) with little chance of being killed.

80' radius? Try an entire army spread out over a quarter mile.

 

[James McMurray]

I once played in a group that allowed it. We had a feral half-ogre in our group. It was insane.

IIRC you can't be a feral half-ogre, because half-ogres are giants and feral only applies to humanoids and monstrous humanoids.

 

[Olive]

Ignore me, I was wrong...

 

[Stalker0]

bah, druids got the market cornered and aerial surprise attacks.

Druid with natural spell as a bird, casts call lightning (somewhere away). Flies onto a branch near target, and suddenly bolts of lightning start striking the target with no indication the bird is doing it. Target dies, and bird flies away, and no ones the wiser.

 

[heggland]

Can someone please tell me where the "X, Y, Z, oh my" idiom comes from?

 

[TwoSix]

Can someone please tell me where the "X, Y, Z, oh my" idiom comes from?

The movie "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).

 

[PaulGreystoke]

The movie "The Wizard of Oz" (1939).

Specifically with the line "Lions & Tigers & Bears! Oh my!"

 

[DonaldRumsfeldsTofu]

Can someone please tell me where the "X, Y, Z, oh my" idiom comes from?

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No offense, but were you raised Amish or something?

 

[shilsen]

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No offense, but were you raised Amish or something?

No offense, but did you consider that people might exist in the little section of the world beyond US borders, and not have seen "The Wizard of Oz" ?

 

[Plane Sailing]

I've even seen the wizard of Oz and had no idea that the idiom arose from there