Lemur
2007-02-12, 04:24 PM
I've had this absurd idea in my head for a while about a potential encounter for a party to face. I have my doubts about its true effectiveness, but I think it would be a fun thing to throw at a party.
The concept is this: take a high level egoist, who can manifest Greater Metamorphasis. Have him transform himself into an adamantine weapon, and have a combat oriented NPC, like a fighter, use him. This would be a particularly fun thing to do to a party that isn't very familiar with psionics, as their first assumption would be that the weapon is some sort of special magic item. If you want make things more interesting, you can add other egoists to transform into other pieces of equipment, like shields, off-hand weapons, or armor.
The fighter's task is simple: attack normally.
The egoist helps support the fighter, by using powers like Empathic Transfer and Psionic Restoration (possibly even Psionic Revivify, if it was feasible to use it and heal the warrior before the PC's could react- a potential use of quicken power, perhaps). In addition, he'll store touch attacks, like Hostile Empathic Transfer to get back hitpoints after healing the fighter, or just generally use various powers in his repetoire to confound the party. Ditto for any other egoists the warrior NPC is wearing (although those transformed into non-weapon shapes wouldn't use touch attacks).
In return, the Egoist(s) are fairly well protected, having hardness 20, and being wielded by another person makes hitting them a bit more of a difficult prospect, as well as non-intuitive, since the party probably won't expect such a bizarre tactic. Also, if you use point buy to make NPCs, it would be easy to min/max, since the psion would only really need Int and Con, and maybe some Wis for will saves.
Obviously, this would have to be a high CR encounter, due to multiple high level combatants. The main fun with this encounter wouldn't necessarily presenting a real threat to the party (although it still might) but rather getting to watch their reaction as they tried to figure out what the hell was going on.
It also makes for a good recurring villain(s), who pops up in different weapon forms, used by different people. If they manage to kill the warrior without realizing his weapons are also people, they might be peeved to find the uber treasure they thought they were going to get suddenly teleport away.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that out of my system. If you have any other silly encounters you've thought about, or actually faced or made a party face, I'd be interested in hearing about them.
The concept is this: take a high level egoist, who can manifest Greater Metamorphasis. Have him transform himself into an adamantine weapon, and have a combat oriented NPC, like a fighter, use him. This would be a particularly fun thing to do to a party that isn't very familiar with psionics, as their first assumption would be that the weapon is some sort of special magic item. If you want make things more interesting, you can add other egoists to transform into other pieces of equipment, like shields, off-hand weapons, or armor.
The fighter's task is simple: attack normally.
The egoist helps support the fighter, by using powers like Empathic Transfer and Psionic Restoration (possibly even Psionic Revivify, if it was feasible to use it and heal the warrior before the PC's could react- a potential use of quicken power, perhaps). In addition, he'll store touch attacks, like Hostile Empathic Transfer to get back hitpoints after healing the fighter, or just generally use various powers in his repetoire to confound the party. Ditto for any other egoists the warrior NPC is wearing (although those transformed into non-weapon shapes wouldn't use touch attacks).
In return, the Egoist(s) are fairly well protected, having hardness 20, and being wielded by another person makes hitting them a bit more of a difficult prospect, as well as non-intuitive, since the party probably won't expect such a bizarre tactic. Also, if you use point buy to make NPCs, it would be easy to min/max, since the psion would only really need Int and Con, and maybe some Wis for will saves.
Obviously, this would have to be a high CR encounter, due to multiple high level combatants. The main fun with this encounter wouldn't necessarily presenting a real threat to the party (although it still might) but rather getting to watch their reaction as they tried to figure out what the hell was going on.
It also makes for a good recurring villain(s), who pops up in different weapon forms, used by different people. If they manage to kill the warrior without realizing his weapons are also people, they might be peeved to find the uber treasure they thought they were going to get suddenly teleport away.
Anyway, I just wanted to get that out of my system. If you have any other silly encounters you've thought about, or actually faced or made a party face, I'd be interested in hearing about them.