On the Mystic Shield item, I thought that looked fishy. Looking back at my old sheet, it turns out what I bought instead was a 4-charge per day magic item with the spell on it at CL 20. Only good-aligned Warforged Juggernauts could use it, so that reduced the cost by 30% down to 161,280gp. Easily affordable that way, and that's still 80 minutes of protection as a standard action.
That makes much more sense. It's also dispellable, of course, but that's one less spell he has to mess up your day with.
Greater Dispel Magic is a 6th level spell, my friend.
Yeah, but unless the spell specifically says otherwise, you can still target the
mystic shield directly. Targetting you would have the added bonus of possibly dispelling all your other stuff, but unless he had a
reaving dispel or the like, that's not going to happen.
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Reaving dispel would be awesome in this situation, though. How many buffs did you have running?)
And, hey, wait, wouldn't the cost before the reduction have been about 230,000 gp, over the threshold? I'm pretty sure that's still epic. (And I'm pretty sure there's a sidebar or something somewhere that says "Dont' let your players benefit from the skill required/class or alignment required discounts when making items; the items are less valuable on the open market, but no less valuable to them." Not in the DMG like I thought, though.) Hardly matters, though; you could have gotten almost the same reduction by knocking CL down to 15.
Well, that's exactly how I got the Independent Action ability. We banned infinite loops, so there was only one way to actually have this work. The albino high priest of the Sarrukh, Pi'it'lith, has a slightly nerfed form of the ability that can only be used once on a creature and never to grant Manipulate Form, It can only be used on a scaled one, but that's why I got a yuan-ti tail graft. To pull this off I actually did have to prove that I could by fighting him and threatening him with death if he wouldn't grant me that ability. Good times. Pun-Pun used the ability of the standard Sarrukh that has no such restrictions.
Wow. Even with those restrictions, I can hardly believe anybody put Manipulate Form into their game. I mean, Pun-Pun is not so much a character as a great big neon sign that says "This is why Manipulate Form is a terrible, terrible, idea and no one should ever use it". And, yeah, he plugged the omnipotence loophole, but it's still a ludicrously open-ended ability that enables some insanely overpowered stuff. Grafting any ability onto any creature is just a recipe for madness. (Also, tail graft or not, I doubt you were native to Toril.)
That said, why didn't he just reduce all your stats to 1 or given you "Obeys Pi'it'lith like a golem obeys its creator" or something instead of making you even more powerful? Not like you could have stopped him. (And can't it only grant one ability per use, and therefore, in this case, ever?)
And you haven't explained that saint thing, either. I can't figure out how that's supposed to work.
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