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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rkanodia" data-source="post: 1279551" data-attributes="member: 11681">Hmm, thanks for the second wave of replies.  I think I might have an idea for exactly what it is I'm looking for.Gather the Storm: You focus your energy inwards during a battle, storing it for a spectacular display of power.Prerequisite: No idea, help me out a little?Benefit: During a full-round defense action, you may choose to gather the storm.  This fills you with ki energy which you may release by attacking; on the round when you release your energy (a free action), every melee attack you make has its damage multiplier increased by one.  You may gather the storm multiple times before attacking, stacking up as many storms as you like, but you must release all of them at the same time, thus increasing the multiplier of your melee attacks for that round by the number of times you gathered the storm before striking.  Gathering the storm is a supernatural ability and is overtly aggressive.Drawback: At the end of any action, if you are holding at least one storm, you must suceed a Concentration check (DC = last round's DC + number of storms, starting with DC 1) or all of the charges dissipate uselessly and you become fatigued for a number of rounds equal to the number you failed the check by.How does that sound?  Note that, by itself, gathering the storm doesn't improve your damage/round output; in fact, since the benefit is a multiplier and not a fixed number of damage, it actually reduces your average damage slightly by giving you fewer opportunities for critical hits.  The NPC who is going to be using this technique is going to be a 4th-level fighter, in a game not high on min-maxing and 'magic Walmart' item purchasing.  His actions will probably go something like:Round 1: Gather the storm.Round 2: Gather the storm.Round 3: Improved Feint + Chink in the Armor against one PCRound 4: Release the storm.I have to go now, I'll run the math on it later.  But I think there are cases where it will definitely be beneficial in terms of damage/round.  And of course, he also gets the defense bonus of total defense for the first two rounds of it.Comments/suggestions?  Please rip it apart.  If you can remove breakability and/or simplify the situation, I'll be grateful!</blockquote>

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