Too much character makes TS ARGHHH!!!

[kreynolds]

Globe of Kinda-Sorta-Mostly-Invulnerability? Pretty sure if I came across a scroll with that, my reaction would be along the lines of...

"Meh." *drop*

 

[Creeping Death]

Does your DM read this? That sounded like a challenge.

Yes, everyone in my group reads this. We all take turns DM'ing. We either get a module or come up with our own adventure then set the parameters. Last adventure, I ran, 12th level gestalts using any 3.5 source. This adventure, another person is DMing, 14th level non-gestalt using any resource you have. Next adventure the other DM has said 20th level characters, not sure about the parameters. We do this to try things out, learn the rules, test the limits, and see what combos are tough to challenge or are out right broken.

Right now if my 14th level character expends his psionic focus I can manifest psionic dominate and that sets the will save to 32. Being a 9th level Thrallherd, I can pretty much dominate any dragon, outsider, elemental, and what not, that are supposed to present our whole party a challenge.

While this is a cool character concept and certainly powerful, we haven't really had to fight anything yet. We knew about two huge elementals guarding a huge metal tree, so the cleric summoned a celestial monkey and sent it toward the tree, the eath elemental formed and stomped him, I manifested dominate and it failed, easily. Same thing with the fire elemental that was nearby.

One thing I've thought about is, how would the rest of the world react to someone like this. Here is a guy that can dominate almost anyone at will, think of the political ramifications of someone like this who decided he wanted power. Visit the king in the throneroom, and pow, while the king is still the king, everything he says and does is by command of the psion. Hordes of low level troops are sent to kill this guy, he dominates a bunch of the closest ones and has them turn on the other troops nearby; rinse and repeat. He would be as valuable as a nuke. Half the rulers would want to have him on their side, the other half would want him dead. .... Wow, this sounds like it might make for a cool campaign....

 

[The Blow Leprechaun]

One thing I've thought about is, how would the rest of the world react to someone like this. Here is a guy that can dominate almost anyone at will, think of the political ramifications of someone like this who decided he wanted power. Visit the king in the throneroom, and pow, while the king is still the king, everything he says and does is by command of the psion. Hordes of low level troops are sent to kill this guy, he dominates a bunch of the closest ones and has them turn on the other troops nearby; rinse and repeat. He would be as valuable as a nuke. Half the rulers would want to have him on their side, the other half would want him dead. .... Wow, this sounds like it might make for a cool campaign....

Remember that you have to augment it to affect extra people, they can't be more than 15' from the next one of them, and there's a cap to how many power points you can spend on augmentation (you can't spend more points on a power than your manifester level).

Since that's 14, you can basically dominate 4 people - 7 (initial cost) + 6 (2/person * 3). And the duration is only as long as you're concentrating on it.

 

[Creeping Death]

Remember that you have to augment it to affect extra people, they can't be more than 15' from the next one of them, and there's a cap to how many power points you can spend on augmentation (you can't spend more points on a power than your manifester level).

Since that's 14, you can basically dominate 4 people - 7 (initial cost) + 6 (2/person * 3). And the duration is only as long as you're concentrating on it.

6 + 7 = 13, still have one more point, add 1 for duration of 1 hour instead of concentrate. With a range of 240 ft, I would have 2-3 rounds to dominate 4 people each round, have them run to me to protect me. Now their buddies have to slice through them to get to me, all the while, I'm dominating.

m = me, d = dominated, e = enemy, t = enemy about to be dominated
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dmdett
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The more I think about this, the more I want to turn him evil and make him the archenemy of the next campaign I run. What's so cool about this bad guy is the Thrallherd ability. If his cohort or followers get killed, they are automatically replaced withing 24 hours.

 

[Nail]

Some of those monsters need to learn how to use Protection from Evil! (Potion, wand, spell caster cohort, etc.)

That's a 1st level spell, BTW, that totally nerfs the Dominate schtick.

 

[Pielorinho]

If they twig to what you're doing, they can ready actions to attack you when you dominate, making your attack fizzle. Protection spells will be a huge help. High-level characters may well resist your save and present a serious problem to you.

Daniel

 

[Arkham]

Globe of Kinda-Sorta-Mostly-Invulnerability? Pretty sure if I came across a scroll with that, my reaction would be along the lines of...

"Meh." *drop*

But what if it is a Globe of Nigh-Invulnerability?

Verbal component: SPOOOOOOOOOON!