Epic Awaken [Archive] - Wizards Community

Epic Awaken [Archive] - Wizards Community

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baelzemon_2200
08-25-07, 08:54 AM I browsed another thread, and came up with an idea.
Is it possible, using this mix of metamagic feats, to boost Awaken: Snow Casting (adds cold descriptor), Energy Admixture (doubles the number of dice, each lot of dice is tracked seperately), Empower (adds .5 times the number of dice, whic is 1d6+1d3 of int to each line), Intensify (Maxamises and doubles each line)
BillTheManiac
08-25-07, 09:21 AM 1. No, it's not energy damage, Admixture won't work.
2. Empower will work, but it is subsumed by Intensify.
rob_douglas
08-25-07, 11:49 PM I never allow empower, maximize, or intensify to work on Awaken. I think it is a mistake to do so - it doesn't so much grant 3d6 to your INT, but instead gives you "normal" INT, which results in game terms to rolling 3d6 as you would for any random person you met. In other words, I don't think it is an inherent power of the spell to create that INT.

However, buy the RAW - that is what happens, and intensify gives you INT of 36. Have your wizard polmorph ANy Object into a tree, then have a druid intensify awaken you. That would make you smarter. Seems kind of dumb, don't you think, that there is a cheap way to make something with no brain really smart, but not a really smart person. Looks more like just a silly loophole to me. Depends if you want to play a game that makes sense or a competition to see who can make the "best" thing.

ROB

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
baelzemon_2200 08-25-07, 08:54 AM	I browsed another thread, and came up with an idea. Is it possible, using this mix of metamagic feats, to boost Awaken: Snow Casting (adds cold descriptor), Energy Admixture (doubles the number of dice, each lot of dice is tracked seperately), Empower (adds .5 times the number of dice, whic is 1d6+1d3 of int to each line), Intensify (Maxamises and doubles each line)
BillTheManiac 08-25-07, 09:21 AM	1. No, it's not energy damage, Admixture won't work. 2. Empower will work, but it is subsumed by Intensify.
rob_douglas 08-25-07, 11:49 PM	I never allow empower, maximize, or intensify to work on Awaken. I think it is a mistake to do so - it doesn't so much grant 3d6 to your INT, but instead gives you "normal" INT, which results in game terms to rolling 3d6 as you would for any random person you met. In other words, I don't think it is an inherent power of the spell to create that INT. However, buy the RAW - that is what happens, and intensify gives you INT of 36. Have your wizard polmorph ANy Object into a tree, then have a druid intensify awaken you. That would make you smarter. Seems kind of dumb, don't you think, that there is a cheap way to make something with no brain really smart, but not a really smart person. Looks more like just a silly loophole to me. Depends if you want to play a game that makes sense or a competition to see who can make the "best" thing. ROB