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Frog Dragon
2009-08-24, 07:02 AM
I was thinking of a big bad fight where the big shtick is that the big bad has many copies of himself. Indistiguishable, but under his control. Weaker of course too. The baddie is going to be a high level wizard so is there any way to do lots of these clones?

UserClone
2009-08-24, 07:10 AM
You could make some sort of clone type of construct using the rules for creating golems...

Longcat
2009-08-24, 07:14 AM
Simulacrum?

Atelm
2009-08-24, 07:22 AM
Simulacrum?

This is probably your best bet, they'll have only half his class levels but under his complete control.

Longcat
2009-08-24, 07:29 AM
We'll, you could also use Ice Assassin to create a clone of equal strengh.

Farlion
2009-08-24, 07:37 AM
And have each clone use mirrorimage!

Confusion pure!

Cheers,
Farlion

UserClone
2009-08-24, 07:39 AM
Whoa, man. Simulacra with mirror image is badass.:smallcool:

Lysander
2009-08-24, 08:50 AM
Or, just have a bunch of minions disguised as him with Veil. Much cheaper than an army of simulacrum. Unless your BBEG has unlimited xp and resources for the purposes of his evil plan, which is always a possibility.

Or why not a mixture? He could have several veiled minions and one simulacrum. The players will think the simulacrum is the real one because it'll eventually use his spellcasting abilities.

Irreverent Fool
2009-08-25, 11:50 AM
We'll, you could also use Ice Assassin to create a clone of equal strengh.

While this works for a BBEG, Ice Assassin has the terrible stipulation that although the creature will follow the orders of its creator to the letter it absolutely hates the being after which it was created and that the assassin's sole desire is the destruction of the original. I don't know about you but I wouldn't want me plotting my demise.

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flabort
2009-08-25, 02:32 PM
edit: faulty quote mechanism

Doc Roc
2009-08-25, 03:09 PM
What you want is Body Outside Body, a Wu Jen spell in complete arcane. It's useful for a wide variety of abuses.