FrankTrollman
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norfleet said:Neat trick. Although I personally, wouldn't have picked the combination of the Negative Energy Plane and Lord Soth as an example. Isn't he undead, so doesn't negative energy heal him?
That depends upon which section of the story you are talking about. IIRC, he starts as a human, and then becomes a death-knight like dude, and then he becomes a human again and then becomes a death knight dude again. Although it is true that it probably would have been better to use Mordenkainen or Rothar in the example.
Of course, using Gate to kill your enemies is simply symptomatic of the fact that it is basically too powerful for you to name anyone you want and have them serve you for 17 rounds. It's more powerful than Dominate Monster (as they get no save), and more powerful than Greater Planar Binding (as it always works and takes only a single action). You can also get yourself wishes with it, it's all crazy.
And while we are on the subject of Wishes, anyone else notice that the 3.5 Wish allows you to get Magical Items of unlimited power? The XP cost of the spell goes up - but creatures with Wish as a spell-like abilitiy (such as Pit Fiends and Efreet), and thus pay zero no matter how high the cost gets. So Efreets can now give you Staves of Power and even Mantles of Supreme Stealth - for free.
-Frank