Three feet of hewn stone, who can break it?

[reapersaurus]

Here's he is...

Half-Orc Brb1/Clr8/Mighty Contender10/Frenzied Berserker1

Strength of 73. That’s a +31 modifier.
(18 base + 2 race + 5 levels + 5 Tome + 2 MCoK + 4 Rage + 6 Frenzy + 27 Strength domain + 4 Righteous Might)

The Destructive Rage feat gives him an additional +8 to his check, resulting in a final +39 to his strength check.

He would now have to roll an 11 or better. So it still could be done.

Grasshopper, all you have to do is look in the Sultans of Smack thread....
people actually read that, don't they?
from my long-ago post in that thread (with a recent revision) :

22 STR orc
+8 Half-Dragon template (at cost of 3 levels)
+4 while raged
+4 Rage spell (DotF)
+2 Mighty Contender level ups
+4 level ups each 4 levels
+4 Righteous Might
+4 Two Arms of Nyr
+5 Manual of Gainful Exercise
+24 from the Surge of Power 10th level Contender ability: grant an enhancement bonus to STR equal to 1.5 times your combined cleric and contender levels for 1d4+1 rounds

= 81 STR (for 1d4+1 rounds)

revision: Change the template from Half-Dragon to Werebear (increasing the ECL by 1 and STR from 8 to 16)
Add Greater aspect of the Diety (+4)
Change 1 level of cleric for 1 level of Frenzied Berserker (+6)
Add Mantle of Egregious Might (from Book of Eldritch Might, +4 luck bonus to STR)
Swap Manual of Gainful Exercise +5 for Primal Release, a +10 inherent bonus (also from BoEM)

So....
Use the Mighty Contender of Kord PrC from Dragon 283 (Brb1/Cleric4/Mighty Contender 10/Frenzied Berserker1)
22 STR orc
+16 Werebear template (at cost of 4 levels)
+4 while raged
+4 Rage spell (DotF)
+6 when frenzied
+2 Mighty Contender level ups
+4 level ups each 4 levels
+4 Righteous Might
+4 Two Arms of Nyr
+4 Greater Aspect of the Deity
+4 luck from Mantle of Egregious Might
+10 inherent from Primal Release
+21 from the Surge of Power 10th level Contender ability: grant an enhancement bonus to STR equal to 1.5 times your combined cleric and contender levels for 1d4+1 rounds
= 105 STR (for 1d4+1 rounds)

Rogue JK - good work, but I've been doing this smack a loooong time.

If I added a +1 luck and competence bonus, and +8 from Destructive Rage, i wonder what that bonus to breaking a puny 3' wall would be?
Wonder how much he can carry?

edit: the Smack thread is here: http://www.enworld.org/messageboards/showthread.php?s=&postid=150519#post150519

 

[RogueJK]

Well, I purposely avoided going the extra-munchkiny routes like adding a template or cutting off both of his arms and replacing them with Arms of Nyr.

Not to mention the fact that your character can't cast Greater Aspect of the Deity (since he doesn't have the Mysticism Prestige Domain), and he can't cast Rage (since he doesn't have the Madness Prestige domain.) So your character actually has a Strength of 97.

Plus, my character uses only WotC sources.

While your character is stronger, mine's probably more practical.

 

[reapersaurus]

Well, I purposely avoided going the extra-munchkiny routes like adding a template or cutting off both of his arms and replacing them with Arms of Nyr.

Dude, that is actually quite funny. LOL

"extra-munchkiny"

Myself, i think that even including a +5 Manual of Gainful Exercise is ridiculously munchkin, but that's the way the Smackdowns are played, grasshoppper.

And if you want to limit this high-STR character (to make it more "practical" :
Use the Mighty Contender of Kord PrC from Dragon 283 (Brb1/Cleric8/Mighty Contender 10/Frenzied Berserker1)
20 STR half-orc
+4 while raged
+4 Rage spell (DotF)
+6 when frenzied
+2 Mighty Contender level ups
+5 level ups each 4 levels
+4 Righteous Might
+27 from the Surge of Power 10th level Contender ability: grant an enhancement bonus to STR equal to 1.5 times your combined cleric and contender levels for 1d4+1 rounds
= 72 STR (for 1d4+1 rounds)

That is a real character - not only practical, that's the progression for Ubaar (see my sig)
The Rage spell is written into his background.
He has a magic item provided to him by a significant NPC in his life to become a great champion for the half-orcs.

And this practical character doesn't use the +5 Manual ('only' 137,500 gp's)
He only uses spells he can cast himself and a 3rd level magic item (and toss in the luckstone and ioun stone which is also supported in his backstory - he likes pretties.)

So we get +41 to the STR check.
And all this is almost verbatim off of what I'd already worked out almost a year ago in the Sultans of SMack thread....

Part of the reason to create Ubaar was to have a legendary-Strength half-orc character that would live on for generations in story and song thru feats of Strength exactly like this DC 50 pulverizing of stone fortresses and the like.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

Re: Re: Sorry...

Hence, a 15th level Psion with Str 10 and a score of 16 in his key ability score (for 9 bonus PSPs) should be able to do it.

a 15th-level Psion with Str 10 would not be able to cast Psychofeedback, cause it's Psion 4 (Psychometabolism ). But you could make him an egoist and give him the 16 as his strength score (he needs at least Str 14 for Psychofeedback, unless you use Bruce R. Cordell's secondary discipline rule)

 

[hong]

I might also mention here that "3 feet of hewn stone" would not be a bad name for a rock band. However, this only works if you're Russell Crowe.

 

[milo]

Half-orc Psion(Egoist)
Start with the 20 strength
Read the manual of gainful excercise +5
Put all your level bonuses into strength for a total of 30 strength at 20th level.
Use animal affinity triple empowered with the feat in one of the Dragon's (can't remember which) for a max of 11 points of strength 41
have your incantrix friend cast a 7 times empowered bull's strength for 19 points
strength 60
Use 50 power points on psychofeedback to get a modifer of +50