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Leonardo
2013-12-24, 07:54 PM
Alright, the game is this:
Make 3.5 stats that give Santa all of his powers ascribed to him in traditional popular mythology. Use 28 point buy, SRD only + Magic Item Compendium custom item rules. Any level. We can vote on the winners based which stats are the closest fit and the most detailed.

Points to keep in mind:
-human with centuries life span
-double move action with fly spell 120 ft / 6 sec = 20 ft/sec
20 ft/sec * 1 mi / 5280 ft * 3600 sec/hr = 13.6363 . . . mph to cover the whole world
-magic items, enchanted animals
-languages

Go!

Heliomance
2013-12-24, 08:21 PM
I would be very, very surprised if this was possible with SRD only. With all splatbooks open you might get something decent, but SRD only? Unlikely.

Also, since when is Santa required to be a human? I refer you to The Night Before Christmas:

And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St Nicholas came with a bound.

He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot.
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler, just opening his pack.

His eyes-how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow.

The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath.
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly!

He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself!
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread.

It clearly refers to him as an elf!

Hurnn
2013-12-24, 08:53 PM
shouldn't he get a celestial template too being a saint?

Zanfire
2013-12-24, 09:37 PM
shouldn't he get a celestial template too being a saint?

Or maybe the saint template?

I'd put my money on an epic Druid with max handle animal and the epic polyglot feat for starters.

Brookshw
2013-12-24, 09:45 PM
Will you allow a homebrew "detect naughty/nice"?

Seerow
2013-12-24, 09:46 PM
My guess?

Cheesed out Sorcerer who uses some sort of shenanigans to get unlimited spells, uses Celerity + immunity to daze infinite loop to deliver all of his presents to everywhere improbably quickly.

CyberThread
2013-12-24, 10:30 PM
to much effort so I give you this instead

Santa Claus: Male human Drd13/Clr5/Rog2; CR20; Medium-size humanoid (Human); HD 13d8+13,5d8+5, 2d6+2; hp 125; Init +1; Spd 30 ft.; AC 24 (touch11, flat-footed 23); Atk +14/ +9/ +4 melee (1d6+1,staff); SA sneak attack (+1d6), turn undead 6/day;SQ a thousand faces, animal companions (see below),evasion, nature sense, resist nature’s lure, search fortraps, trackless step, venom immunity, wild shape(Tiny, Small, Medium-size, Large, or dire animal4/day), woodland stride; AL NG; SV Fort +19,Ref +13, Will +23; Str 12, Dex 12, Con 12, Int 13,Wis 24, Cha 16


http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/santa.pdf

Hurnn
2013-12-25, 01:33 AM
Will you allow a homebrew "detect naughty/nice"?

Detect evil.

Bullet06320
2013-12-25, 02:22 AM
there was a dragon magazine article that had stats for santa, I think he was sorcerer and had a special charm elf ability, that only worked for one month of the year to make toys
pretty sure it was 3rd edition build, been years since I seen it, will have to go dig through my old issues, lol

there is an article in dragon #44, but not the one I was looking for

but I did find this over at candle keep
http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=11989

Kelb_Panthera
2013-12-25, 03:33 AM
Been a while since I looked at it but how does this (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=14384481&postcount=71) grab you?

It was created by rockdeworld and placed 4th in that contest.

j_spencer93
2013-12-25, 03:38 AM
wizards have made 3.0 stats