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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6060 on: October 30, 2018, 02:19:11 pm »

This is true, but you could trade that weakness for another if you give it a permanent antimagic aura.  Then the abjuration would not be able to hit.
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« Reply #6061 on: October 30, 2018, 02:23:27 pm »

This is true, but you could trade that weakness for another if you give it a permanent antimagic aura.  Then the abjuration would not be able to hit.
But then the antimagic aura would cancel the magical effect of being polymorphed, ending in the same result: Mighty unmorphing power raptors.

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« Reply #6062 on: October 30, 2018, 02:33:10 pm »

There's an out for that.

The true polymorph effect is the result of an enchanted object, rather than a spell.  That abuses the antimagic field's rules.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6063 on: October 30, 2018, 02:34:49 pm »

The "or a diety" part could be backstory-abused as well. "Oh no, I'm a dino given sentience and damned by a trickster god to question why, oh god why!?"

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6064 on: October 30, 2018, 02:36:55 pm »

The "or a diety" part could be backstory-abused as well. "Oh no, I'm a dino given sentience and damned by a trickster god to question why, oh god why!?"
Or...

"I used to be a dino poacher, until I angered a wild primeval god who cursed me to take the form of my prey"

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« Reply #6065 on: October 30, 2018, 02:39:53 pm »

Absuing anti-magic in this way though is very dangerous.

Healing becomes problematical. :P
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« Reply #6066 on: October 30, 2018, 02:44:05 pm »

"by hitting me with an arrow in the knee"
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6067 on: October 30, 2018, 02:46:02 pm »

Then I'd have to figure out the bonuses and maluses of being a dino. Slowly we draw closer to me writing up Deeno the Deinonychus
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6068 on: October 30, 2018, 02:54:49 pm »

Also, doesn't something have to fall more than 10 feet to take falling damage?
So far as I know, falling exactly 10' should deal the 1d6 of damage... I think. There are at least two random people on the internet who agree with me, so there.

Absuing anti-magic in this way though is very dangerous.

Healing becomes problematical. :P
Sure, but a healer's kit can be used to restore 1d6+4(+total number of hit dice) once per short rest with the appropriate feat, and the Inspiring Leader feat's temporary hitpoints are presumably also considered nonmagical... Difficult to say, though. Goodberries are considered magic items, so they probably wouldn't do anything.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6069 on: October 30, 2018, 03:33:42 pm »

Then I'd have to figure out the bonuses and maluses of being a dino. Slowly we draw closer to me writing up Deeno the Deinonychus
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6070 on: October 30, 2018, 03:42:55 pm »

I don't understand why you guys are bothering with True Polymorph shenanigans when you can just have use Awaken on a deinonychus. It's instantaneous, so it can't be dispelled, and all you need to do it is have a level 9+ druid and an agate worth 1000gp.
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« Reply #6071 on: October 30, 2018, 03:48:19 pm »

I don't understand why you guys are bothering with True Polymorph shenanigans when you can just have use Awaken on a deinonychus. It's instantaneous, so it can't be dispelled, and all you need to do it is have a level 9+ druid and an agate worth 1000gp.
Except that Awaken can be cast on beasts and plants that have an INT score of 3 or lower.

Deinonychus, being a clever girl, has 4.

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« Reply #6072 on: October 30, 2018, 04:11:27 pm »

I don't understand why you guys are bothering with True Polymorph shenanigans when you can just have use Awaken on a deinonychus. It's instantaneous, so it can't be dispelled, and all you need to do it is have a level 9+ druid and an agate worth 1000gp.
Except that Awaken can be cast on beasts and plants that have an INT score of 3 or lower.

Deinonychus, being a clever girl, has 4.
Ah, I see. That makes it a little bit trickier, but doable with a 15+ level wizard casting Feeblemind on it beforehand or putting an intellect devourer next to it so it can devour it's intellect and reduce it's intelligence to 0, and stopping it before it jumps into the deinonychus's skull and takes control of its body.
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« Reply #6073 on: October 30, 2018, 04:36:06 pm »

Or just have an argument with your DM whether or not Wish's spell-copying statement of "You don’t need to meet any requirements" can mean that the spell no longer requires the target to have an intelligence score of 3 or lower.

As an added bonus, you won't have to shell out 1,000 for the agate.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6074 on: October 30, 2018, 05:50:17 pm »

Or you could just say that a rare more powerful version of Awaken was cast on you.
We don't actually have to be able to cast it ourselves.
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