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[kaenneth]

Watched 5000 fingers of Dr. T today...

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[Frumple]

I can just imagine a flaming tarantula sinking its half-inch long fangs into your tender flesh as it sets your clothes on fire.

This one knows the truth of reality. Setting spiders on fire does not stop them. It merely makes them flaming and angry.

[Hanslanda]

So, I keep having the thought.

What if you had the powers of a level 20 spellcaster (All spells, all types. Divine, Arcane, Druid, all of them.), albeit you had a limit to the amount of spells you could cast, just not a limit on specific spells. For all spells that had a XP cost, you simply didn't have to pay an XP cost, but you DO have to have an equivalent amount of money to make up for it. (I'd count 1000 XP as worth 100 gp, so you'd have to find a LOT of gold or valuable materials... But you are a spellcaster who can cast Wall of Iron...) You had metamagic Quicken, Still, and Silent, but no other metamagic or applicable feats. You could pick and choose which version of DnD your spells worked according to.

Exactly how much good, or evil, could you do with this?

With 2ed ADnD, I could simply cast Protection from Normal Missiles, and be immune to all guns forever with the application of Permanency. This combined with Protection from Elements of some sort, would make most modern weaponry pretty useless.

I don't know, I just keep thinking about it, and I'd like to discuss it.

[Bauglir]

Are you familiar with the Tippyverse? You'd essentially be able to create the technological framework for it singlehandedly, although you probably wouldn't cause the economic changes that go with it, so there'd be some spillover into other areas of civilization that are related to economics.

[Hanslanda]

I am somewhat familiar with it, yeah. And yes, you could just go around creating Teleport Circles permanently in every city, town, village, and hovel. And you could create as much Salt and Iron as you wanted, which would... Somewhat unbalance the economy a bit, but not a huge amount.

Also, since I didn't restrict the spell type or anything, you could also permanently eradicate all diseases and heal people from the brink of death, or even BRING PEOPLE BACK TO LIFE. Hell, I think you could even reverse aging, but I can't be sure. Not to mention go explore ANYWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE YOU WANTED.

"Hey, guys, do you ever wonder what Alpha Centauri looks like? Put on that space suit. Greater Teleport. THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE MOTHERFUCKERS. Greater Teleport. So. How'd you like MOTHERFUCKING INSTANT SPACE TRAVEL?!"

[LordSlowpoke]

So, I keep having the thought.

What if you had the powers of a level 20 spellcaster (All spells, all types. Divine, Arcane, Druid, all of them.), albeit you had a limit to the amount of spells you could cast, just not a limit on specific spells. For all spells that had a XP cost, you simply didn't have to pay an XP cost, but you DO have to have an equivalent amount of money to make up for it. (I'd count 1000 XP as worth 100 gp, so you'd have to find a LOT of gold or valuable materials... But you are a spellcaster who can cast Wall of Iron...) You had metamagic Quicken, Still, and Silent, but no other metamagic or applicable feats. You could pick and choose which version of DnD your spells worked according to.

Exactly how much good, or evil, could you do with this?

With 2ed ADnD, I could simply cast Protection from Normal Missiles, and be immune to all guns forever with the application of Permanency. This combined with Protection from Elements of some sort, would make most modern weaponry pretty useless.

I don't know, I just keep thinking about it, and I'd like to discuss it.

Gold, huh.

If your lore allows, you could just materialize someone's dreams of a fountain of gold by forcing them to sleep for a while and throwing some dust on their faces.

spell abuses: trivialized

[Sergarr]

Teleport, Greater
Conjuration (Teleportation)
Level:    Sor/Wiz 7, Travel 7

This spell functions like teleport, except that there is no range limit and there is no chance you arrive off target. In addition, you need not have seen the destination, but in that case you must have at least a reliable description of the place to which you are teleporting. If you attempt to teleport with insufficient information (or with misleading information), you disappear and simply reappear in your original location. Interplanar travel is not possible.

[Flying Dice]

Teleport, Greater
Conjuration (Teleportation)
Level:    Sor/Wiz 7, Travel 7

This spell functions like teleport, except that there is no range limit and there is no chance you arrive off target. In addition, you need not have seen the destination, but in that case you must have at least a reliable description of the place to which you are teleporting. If you attempt to teleport with insufficient information (or with misleading information), you disappear and simply reappear in your original location. Interplanar travel is not possible.

Note that it says nothing about interstellar travel.

[Sirus]

Still doesn't solve the "insufficient information" problem.

[Sergarr]

you must have at least a reliable description of the place to which you are teleporting

How you would describe a place on Alpha Centauri?

EDIT:ninjad

[Vorthon]

Still doesn't solve the "insufficient information" problem.

Some knowledge of basic astronomy would solve that. Plus, divination spells. :v

[Sergarr]

EDIT: I didn't noticed that the spellcaster in question has ALL the spell lists. That's OP as hell.

EDIT2:

Divination
...The advice can be as simple as a short phrase, or it might take the form of a cryptic rhyme or omen...

This might be problematic.

[Flying Dice]

Still doesn't solve the "insufficient information" problem.

We already have confirmed the existence of several potential life-bearing planets in relatively nearby systems. A "reliable description" could potentially mean information that could be garnered through conventional methods. More importantly, you could use Scrying or Greater Scrying if the planet bears life (secondhand knowledge of the subject, defined as "you have heard of the subject", could possibly be extrapolated from known information on the conditions of the world, and what sort of life would likely evolve. Alternatively, you could build a sublight probe, plant an Arcane Eye on board, and check in every few score years. Given the potential for achieving immortality, even if scry-to-teleport/conventional-information-to-teleport doesn't work, you could still get to another solar system after a few centuries of time, though it'd be something of a gamble in regards to potential for human life.

With Greater Teleport you can move 1 Medium-sized being and their equipment per caster level, and Teleport Object lets you do the same with a limit of 50lb and 3 cubic feet of volume per level. If you locate a planet that can sustain human life and devote as many spell slots as possible to Greater Teleport and Teleport Object (neither of which has a stated maximum range for the TP), you could set up a self-sustaining colony much more rapidly and securely than you could with ramjet sleeper ships or generation ships. And forget sending out one Arcane Eye probe, send out thousands over the course of years, with a well-ordered record of them.

Best case scenario, you find a habitable world with conventional means and have sufficient detail to teleport/scry-to-teleport onto it. Bam, colonization at the cost of a few spell slots, without ever needing to get into orbit, much less cross interstellar space. Worst case, you take a path to immortality and wait a few centuries until you can start founding colonies. Hell, maybe they'll invent a workable FTL drive in that time.

[Bauglir]

Immortal superwizards can construct interstellar teleportation circles or gates so that the mere mortal civilizations can tag along on the intergalactic tour extravaganza.

[RedKing]

Somebody needs to turn this into a campaign setting NOW.

Magical space race, ho!