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Jovocian Bomb
Jovocs are a race of Tanar'ri from the Monster Manual II, and with a bit of finangling, you can create a source of infinite damage with them, easily shared by simple proximity, all thanks to their Retributive Aura.
Ingredients needed:- Regeneration (spell, PHB)
- Mind-Switch (power, XPH)
- Metamorphic Transfer (feat, XPH)
- Frenzied Berzerker (PrC, CW)
- Astral Seed (power, XPH)
- Gate (spell, PHB)
Race: Human
Build: Barbarian 1/Psion (Shaper) 15/Frenzied Berzerker 4
Feats: Destructive Rage, (Intimidating Rage), (Acquire Psi-Crystal), Power Attack, Cleave, (Expanded Knowledge (Claws of the Beast)), Extra Rage, (Expanded Knowledge [Metamorphosis]), Shape Soulmeld (Girillon's Arms), Metamorphic Transfer, (Expanded Knowledge [Mind-Switch]), Expanded Knowledge [Compression].
The Trick:- Both Psions manifest astral seed (10 minutes casting, no XP cost)
- NPC casting of gate x2: summon 2 Jovocs for 17 rounds each.
- The two Psions place their storage crystals near the Jovocs and then kill themselves
- The two Psions (now inside the storage crystals) manifest touchsight (so they can see the jovocs) and then manifest mind-switch on them. The NPC caster commands the Jovocs to be willing, or the two Psions could just brute force the Jovocs. Their saves aren't very high. The NPC should forbid the Jovocs from attacking anything.
- The Psions (now inside Jovoc bodies) use metamorphic transfer to grant themselves the retributive aura. They turn around and smash their storage crystals.
- The two Psions lose a level by killing their former bodies (the storage crystal) but regain this lost level through an NPC casting of psychic chirurgery.
Commentary: The build above would make rather poor psi-gishes, but at least they can manifest claws of the beast and rend with the claws (girallon's arm soulmeld bound to arm chakra, which was opened via open chakra). Other than that, these two are pretty much one-trick ponies.
SOMEONE SET US UP THE BOMB:- Use a dorje of greater metamorphosis to morph into a solar (Shapers have UPD as a class skill). Share this power with their psi-crystals.
- Dismiss the power, but keep the power active on the psi-crystals.
- Using a dorje of fusion, the Psions fuse with their respective psi-crystals.
- Compression is used to reduce the size of the now metamorphed psi-crystals down to small size. This is legal because both are now of the outsider type and of small or smaller size.
- Begin Frenzying
- Approach eachother and stab the other Psion.
- BOOM!
After much issue, changes were made to this design that allows it to function in Non-Psionics as well:- Find 2 characters with Improved Assume Supernatural Ability
- Shapechange them into Jovocs, then polymorph them into Trolls, using IASA to acquire the Troll's regeneration and the Jovoc's retributive aura.
- Deal damage to them. Once you've dealt all the damage you need, cast regenerate or a similar spell to remove all the nonlethal damage.
What happens is that since the characters have Regeneration the damage they take from the field is converted to nonlethal damage, an infinite amount to be precise. Regenerate removes all of the damage. Naturally, you'll want to wait for the transformations to wear off first
Last edited by Lyinginbedmon; 2007-09-26 at 09:27 AM.
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2007-09-26, 09:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jovocian Bomb
Regenerate does the trick, provided it's not done by you personally.
Take a look at the very last line of Astral Seed
Originally Posted by SRD - Astral Seed
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2007-09-26, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jovocian Bomb
Wasn't this already on the WotC boards? Like, a long long LONG time ago? Or was that a different Jovoc bomb?
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2007-09-26, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jovocian Bomb
Handbooks:
Shax's Indispensable Haversack, TWF OffHandbook
Builds:
Archon of Nine, Jellobomber, King of Pong, Lightning Thief
Spells:
Druidzilla, Healbot, Gish
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2007-09-26, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Ghola's sandwich came after the Jovocian Bomb, though he did help out with the Psionic variant
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2007-09-27, 10:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Jovocian Bomb
There are issues with this.
Step 4.
Why cast touchsight? Psicrystals can see. Construct Trait. SIghtless
Step 5.
Metamorphic Transfer soes not help you out. You did not change your shape you inhabited another creatures body.
Per the SRD: Each time you change your form, such as through the metamorphosis power, you gain one of the new form's supernatural abilities, if it has any.
You did not change your own form.
Also as soon as you destroy the crystal and kill the Jovan, you die as well.
Bomb Step 1:
You can't take the form of a Solar, they are an Outsider. also Solar's have 22 HD. you would have to be 21st level.
Also if you could somehow become a Solar, you would have a hard time damaging the other solar since you can't bypass the evil part of the DR.Last edited by Techonce; 2007-09-27 at 10:48 AM. Reason: Bad typing
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2007-09-27, 11:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Granted.
Technically speaking, by changing from being a human to being a Jovoc, we did change our form. However, I can see how that would be seen as flawed. If you can find a way to acquire the ability otherwise, please state it here.
That would be true if it were just Mind Switch. We're using Astral Seed as well, which states right in the description that it doesn't kill both.
They don't manifest the power personally, you use a Dorje. A Dorje can have a higher ML than is needed to manifest the power. Also, Greater Metamorphosis does allow Outsiders.
They could indeed deal damage to eachother, because their slam deals 2d8+13 damage.Last edited by Lyinginbedmon; 2007-09-27 at 11:15 AM.
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2007-09-27, 11:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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I guess we both read the Metamorphic Transfer a bit different.
The description "You can gain a supernatural ability of a metamorphed form" leads me towards you changing shape not changing minds. You didn't paint your house, you moved to a new one. It could go either way, depending on the DM.
I swear there is a prestige class or feat that lets you steal supernatural abilities from others. I can't find it though...
Reading Mind switch it states that you die after the power runs out if the other body is killed. However with the long duration of Mind switch, that's far enough in the future it's not a worry.
Greater Metamorphesis... I read it wrong. My bad. Of course if you want the regen, but not the issues of being a solar, then a troll would work.
How exactly does the retributive aura work? I don't have MM2.
While the above is not practical, it does make you think and look at things that you might not otherwise. Kind of like quantum mechanics... but more interesting!All hail the Dark One!
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2007-09-27, 12:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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You may be thinking of either Master Transmogrifist or the Assume Supernatural Ability feat, but the first only goes with extraordinary and the latter has the same issues as Metamorphic Transfer.
As I said, Astral Seed gives a unique exception to the rule on Mind Switch.
The Retributive Aura affects a 30 ft. radius. When the Jovoc is damaged, it releases the same quantity of damage into everyone in that 30 ft. radius, with a Fort 15 saving throw for half. It only works on non-Tanar'ri, which is where most of the effort comes in. Whilst the saving throw is pretty mediocre, consider an infinite number of them in a given round, virtually anything will die (And everything did when it was originally conceived, a few years back).Last edited by Lyinginbedmon; 2007-09-27 at 12:19 PM.
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2007-09-28, 03:58 AM (ISO 8601)
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Alright, so assume that they took Expanded Knowledge (true mind switch) instead of Expanded Knowledge (mind switch)