How to by raw let a player rp a intelligent hand?

[CyberThread]

So this is the idea..


http://images.wikia.com/addamsfamily/images/8/88/Thing_rollerskate.jpg




How by raw is it possible to have a player become that, and still hold animation , intelligence, and some usability ?

[killem2]

I think it's going to have to be the hand of flesh golem, hit with awaken contruct.

[Eldest]

I'd suggest being a Psion, for playability. (no idea how to become a hand, though, maybe the psionic sandwich trick?)

[Emperor Tippy]

Step 1: Get a hand.
Step 2: Cast Animate Object on it.
Step 3: (this may or may not be necessary) Get a Solar with Tenacious Magic: Permanency to cast Permanency on it.
Step 4: Cast Polymorph Any Object to turn the hand into a human.
Step 5: Cast True Mind Switch on the human.
Step 6: Dispel the Polymorph Any Object.

Result: You are now running around with a hand as your body. The above six step process is done using only SRD sources and can make anything into a usable body.

If you go outside of the SRD there are a few other ways to change some of those steps for others that have their own upsides and downsides but the differences tend to be minimal.

[Alabenson]

You could cast Awaken Undead on a crawling claw (undead hand from Monsters of Faerun)

[Jeff the Green]

You could cast Awaken Undead on a crawling claw (undead hand from Monsters of Faerun)

Awaken construct, actually.

[nedz]

Well there's the Lesser Invocation Disembodied Hand [CArc p 124]

Now the PC is not actually a hand, but he can detach one of his hands and have it run fly around all day.

[killem2]

Just make sure you graft eyes to it. :smallbiggrin:

http://static2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101205131044/oobi/images/d/db/Characters_2.jpg

[nedz]

Crawling Eye [CArc p123] another lesser invocation.

So we have a Warlock who routinely detaches one of his hands, and then one of his eyes, just to ...

[CyberThread]

Step 1: Get a hand.
Step 2: Cast Animate Object on it.
Step 3: (this may or may not be necessary) Get a Solar with Tenacious Magic: Permanency to cast Permanency on it.
Step 4: Cast Polymorph Any Object to turn the hand into a human.
Step 5: Cast True Mind Switch on the human.
Step 6: Dispel the Polymorph Any Object.

Result: You are now running around with a hand as your body. The above six step process is done using only SRD sources and can make anything into a usable body.

If you go outside of the SRD there are a few other ways to change some of those steps for others that have their own upsides and downsides but the differences tend to be minimal.



that almost seems like a fun challenge in trying to write a backstory to.

[Dalebert]

You probably mean 3.5 and not PF? If PF is a possibility, you could come pretty close by playing a Gravewalker witch and possessing a crawling hand (http://www.pathfindersrd.com/bestiary/monster-listings/undead/crawling-hand) with her possess undead ability. That way you could have a regular body and a hand body, effectively, and switch out whenever you want. I'm already making plans to do this myself. They make great sneaky little bastards for scouting ahead.

[CyberThread]

Do you think if psionics are not possible, that a warlock could do a decent job ? ( assuming they could do the somantic stuff one handed))

[Particle_Man]

However you create it, you should name it Bigby. :smallsmile:

Heck, as long as you stat it up in a balanced way, you could just say "reincarnation gone wrong" and leave it at that.

[CyberThread]

Bigbys thing