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Lokiyn 05-20-07, 05:55 PM	By making eldritch preparations on a burial plot, a powerful spellcaster can improve the likelihood of a worm that walks emerging from the ground. The body is buried in an elaborate ritual that, the spellcaster hopes, will attract a critical mass of worms or maggots. The spellcaster performing the ritual must spend 10,000 gp in rare reagents for the ceremony. Furthermore, the ritual drains 2,000 XP from the spell-caster and requires the following spells: limited wish, polymorph any object, summon swarm (heightened to 7th level), and sympathy. Even if the ritual is performed correctly, there is only a chance that the deceased spellcaster will arise as a worm that walks. For each prepared but uncast arcane spell the deceased had at the moment of death (or unused spell slots if a spontaneous caster), there’s a 1% chance that a worm that walks will slither from the grave soil in 1d4 days. Some worms that walk arise spontaneously from ordinary burial plots, but such an event is exceedingly rare. And an epic spell can create worms that walk every time without fail. So limited wish 7th 3775 polymorph any object 8th 3000 summon swarm (7th level) 7th 2275 sympathy 8th 4500 Ritual Costs 10,000 Total Costs 23,550 Gp Lev Extra Wealth 8th 3,450 9th 12,450 10th 25,450 Factor in a Sorcerer with a Charisma of 20 (it would be higher for some lower for other) Level Spells per Day 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th Spells 1st 5 5 — — — — — — — — 10 2nd 6 6 — — — — — — — — 12 3rd 6 7 — — — — — — — — 13 4th 6 8 4 — — — — — — — 18 5th 6 8 5 — — — — — — — 19 6th 6 8 6 4 — — — — — — 24 7th 6 8 7 5 — — — — — — 26 8th 6 8 7 6 4 — — — — — 31 9th 6 8 7 7 5 — — — — — 33 10th 6 8 7 7 6 4 — — — — 38 Wizard with (Arcane Manipulation [LeoF] Level Spells per Day 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th Spells 1st 9 0 — — — — — — — — 9 2nd 10 1 — — — — — — — — 11 3rd 14 3 0 — — — — — — — 17 4th 16 5 0 — — — — — — — 21 5th 20 5 2 0 — — — — — — 27 6th 22 5 4 0 — — — — — — 31 7th 26 6 4 2 0 — — — — — 38 8th 28 6 4 4 0 — — — — — 42 9th 32 6 5 4 2 0 — — — — 49 10th 34 6 5 4 4 0 — — — — 53 Specialist wizard with Arcane manipulation Level Spells per Day 0 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th Spells 1st 10 1 — — — — — — — — 11 2nd 11 2 — — — — — — — — 13 3rd 17 5 0 — — — — — — — 22 4th 17 6 1 — — — — — — — 24 5th 23 6 4 0 — — — — — — 33 6th 23 6 5 1 — — — — — — 35 7th 29 7 5 4 0 — — — — — 45 8th 29 7 5 5 1 — — — — — 47 9th 35 7 6 5 4 0 — — — — 57 10th 35 7 6 5 5 1 — — — — 59 Final Percentages Sorc % Wiz % Spec % 8th 31 42 47 9th 33 49 57 10th 38 53 59
PhaedrusXY 05-21-07, 12:43 AM	Unload a Wand of Rary's Mnemonic Enhancer into yourself before you commit sepuku with your frisbee. That should get you to 100.
Lokiyn 05-21-07, 01:17 AM	Hmm looks like if you use Memonic enhancer to boost by using cantrips to add 6 spells per casting, brings it to Sorc % Wiz % Spec % 8th 31 42 47 9th 33 49 57 10th 38 53 59 Sorc % Wiz % Spec % 8th 12 10 9 9th 12 9 8 10th 11 8 7 Sorc % Wiz % Spec % 8th 5040 4200 3780 9th 5040 3780 3360 10th 4620 3360 2940 Afford? Afford? Afford? 8th FALSE FALSE FALSE 9th TRUE TRUE TRUE 10th TRUE TRUE TRUE % With Affordable wands 8th 31 90 95 9th 38 223 231 10th 38 413 419 So If it wasn't for the extra cost of the ritual itself you could get it lower. Still Getting an epic template at level 8 isn't all that bad. Its got quite a few nice abilities summon vermin (as summon nature’s ally, except it summons 10 HD of vermin per level) (just to point out, Devestation Vermin have 128 HD, so at level 13 you could summon a Cr 50 colossal beetle of doom) Blindsight 300 feet is nice Hmm ECL 8 is (roughly) CR 4 (1 on 1 on the exp chart) so your Cr bumps up to CR 7 (at minimum)
fetfet 05-21-07, 09:05 AM	:eek: :clap: You are a genius!!!! Bravo and such!!! Thank you.:dancin:
goawayugh 05-25-07, 11:04 AM	is there a LA listed anywhere for the work that walks? I just checked the 3.5 update and errata.
Lokiyn 05-25-07, 01:16 PM	I'd say its at minimum +3 but more likely +7 although it has no listed la it does have an aquisition method. Level 23 wizard shoots up to a CR 26 monster (thus the +3) However if you look at the exp tables usualy a character is CR 4 less than his level (calculate the single cr encounters a single character faces to level at a stanadard rate and it falls in that area) Thus the +7 guess.
deathwishjoe 05-25-07, 02:01 PM	interestingly enough the demilich template doesn't have an LA listed for it ether. BTW this is a pretty interesting idea lokiyn.
FriendlyFrog 05-25-07, 04:49 PM	interestingly enough the demilich template doesn't have an LA listed for it ether. BTW this is a pretty interesting idea lokiyn. If it's not in the book, I'm pretty sure Demilich's LA is in either the ELH errata or the 3.5 update booklet. I remember debating whether the LA (I think it was 8) includes the LA of the lich template you need to qualify for it.