A nice outfit is easy, I could actually just use the Craft skill and have one in a couple of days, or I can do it in one minute with the arcane forge spell. In fact, I can do several outfits at once with one spell, if there are other takers.

I don't think it's worth using a miracle just to give me a bull's strength, although if it's free (which it seems to be) and you don't have a better use for your spell slot, why not ? But a Heal to restore all lost Strength seems a good use of the spell. Or a Mass Heal, if we coordinate with Sidar and his spellcasting. Or if you don't have anything better to do with your spell slots.

P.S. I have two masterwork daggers and 2 masterwork starknives which are free to anyone who offers them a good home. And if anyone needs a continual flame cast on something, I can oblige too.
This message was last edited by the player at 13:00, Sun 10 Mar 2013.

Well, otherwise, I'd probably just burn them up for stone shapes and walls of stone to help make the well, garden area, and courtyard bigger.

Pale has five Stone Shapes and five Wall of Stones. Would you like some help with your garden-building? Oddly enough a druid would not be opposed to helping :)

Certainly!  I was thinking we could make a walled courtyard with a well.  I'd use meteor swarm to start to get us some of the earth, dirt, and ice for soil.

And if nothing grows, I'll end up sculpting a garden of stone and using craft construct to make it aliiiiiveee!

Actually that's an interesting image.

Monstrous Physique and its brethren give size bonuses to Strength, which stack with the enhancement bonuses from Bull's Strength.

But then, Mighty Strength is a 4th level cleric spell with a minute/level duration that grants a +8 enhancement bonus: combined, monstrous physique III and mighty strength give a +12 strength bonus for 20 minutes, which is more than enough for several castings of fabricate.

Also, when using fabricate to create components for magical use you get 250 full gp per point of strength used, rather than having to reduce the total by 1.

The cost for this +12 enhancement is... Two Limited Wishes. You recover it in one casting.

A reminder: you cannot reduce your Strength below 1 with Blood Money.

I recover the diamond dust in one casting, yes, but it also costs two level 7 (or more) slots, which I could have used to cast a a full cycle if I can scrounge a level 1 slot. So that's 9000 gp that I'm not making + 1,500 extra gp, which I recover in... ok, two cycles, so it's worth it :)



That's 250 gp instead of 499 gp per point of Strength then Because Blood Money normally costs 1 point of Strength per full 500 gp... ?

Or I cast miracle again and you have it.  Boom!  Divine magic!

Those are personal spells, so if you use a miracle to cast them, YOU get them, not me :) Unfortunately...

OK, it's 500 gp. My bad. I remembered incorrectly. Actually, I was about to fix it right now, since I redid some math and I found that it wasn't working out...
This message was last edited by the GM at 14:53, Sun 10 Mar 2013.

About the Miracle thing...

Miracle, like Wish, can do things that are "in line with" the power level of the spells it's emulating.

Giving somebody Monstrous Physique is probably in line with the power of Greater Polymorph, which is a 7th level spell: even though the spell doesn't quite say that, it lists elemental body III, a 6th level arcane spell, which is actually higher than  monstrous physique III. So that would most likely work as a standard Miracle.

Mighty Strength is a 4th level spell, so a 5th or 6th level spell could reasonably have a target of "creature touched" instead. That would also work as a standard Miracle.

It is, after all, a miracle :P

Yeah, what Pun-Pun said!

All right, so if Tully does the buffing with two miracles, and sends 8 heals my way, and 7 mass heals, and a couple of lesser Restorations to clear up the Str I used on my own stuff, that's... 21 full Fabricate that I can do, each fueled by a 30-Str Blood Money, and six of them needing my own Limited Wish to restore Strength. That's...

500*30*21 - 1,500*6 = 306,000 gp worth of diamond dust. 12 full wishes or expensive miracles, and a little left over. No way Baron Sidar can keep up with the wishes :)

Yes, let's do that ! Our wish economy will be going full style for a couple of days at least :)

Remember "Wishes are granted by Gods and administered by Imps." :)

Goodness me, I spent the day (on sick leave) preparing the first of three monsters you will face for your first encounter. Hopefully the next two will go faster. And that did not add a single line to the inventory or the IC thread... And I should post something from Lareth, too. Sigh...

Really, just make them up on the fly.  I won't mind.

P.s. Feel better!

That... Really wouldn't fly ;)

So, today I'm feeling better, got plenty of work (alas, not "work done", just "work"), so I'm wondering... Who is missing in my big list?

I know what Tilly and Mirelinda are doing. What are Pale and Derak doing, in terms of item creation feats? What about spells?

Sider will be writing down a number of spells, I'm sure... What about item creation?

I eagerly await for your replies in the appropriate private thread ;)
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:28, Tue 12 Mar 2013.

In reply to Mirelinda (msg # 155):

Finalizing things, I realized that I do know the spell giant form II, which will do nicely for that +8 Strength size bonus, so I'm only going to need a miracle for that mass bull strength (that way everyone gets it).

OK, but "Everyone" is you and Sider, as nobody else has Fabricate - Zhorr having spent his entire allotment - and he only has 3 of those. Also, Dekar has some Bull's Strength prepared, AFAIR.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 22:10, Tue 12 Mar 2013.

I could help with masterwork transformation, maybe?

Some advice on what I could be doing would be useful. I also have most item creation feats.

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Create Water
Know Direction
Light
Read Magic

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Magic Stone
Dream Feast
Ant Haulx2
Air Bubble
Endure Elements
Blood Moneyx2

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Soften Earth and Stone
Endure Elements, Communal x2
Lesser Restoration x2
Web Shelter
Wood Shape

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Stone Shape x5
Daylight
Sky Swim
Water Breathing

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Spike Stones
Air Walk
Control Water
Dispel Magic
Cure Serious Wounds
Freedom of Movement
Life Bubble

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Wall of Stonex5
Commune with Nature

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Stoneskin
Greater Dispel Magic
Ironwood
Move Earthx4

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Elemental Body IV
Control Weather
Wind Walkx2
True Seeing
Greater Scrying
Rampart

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Earthquake
Finger of Death
Word of Recall x2
Wall of Lava
Whirlwind

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Elemental Swarm
Regenerate
Foresight
Shapechange
World Wave
Tsunami

Help me with the garden!  Or create an item as Mirelinda finishes materials.

Hmm I could make a lake.

Can I make a magic item out of diamond dust?

Well, with rampart, wall of stone and stone shape you can help Sider with the construction of our stronghold. It's probably too early for wood shape and ironwood since we haven't gotten around to creating wood yet, but it will come. Most of the rest, well, they'll be good for encounters, but I don't see an obvious way to use them for construction. But that's all right, to each his job.

Item creation, well, either start work on something small you'll have finished in one day or two, figuring to have as many as possible ready when the monster come, or start on something big in the hope of finishing it in time to do a lot of good...

Concur with using Rampart to build defenses around the tower.

Now that you mention it Tilly, I think that we might want to pair up on some of the tasks for the group.

1. Shelter
1a. a natural area (Druid's Grove/long term food)
2. Creating items (Magical/normal)
3. Exploring to see what we got.

I can help with 3.

I've got World Wave, so I could pair with someone who knows teleport, zoom out over the land and note anything we see, then teleport back.

I've got Commune with Nature so I can find out about the land within a twenty mile radius; more, if I can apply Widen Spell.