58th level mage Vs. the modern world

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 05:30pm

St 10(doesnt need it)
dex-300
con-300
int-300
wis-100
char-15

Skills, well what skills he has is a non-issue

Feats

Quicken spell'
maximise
empower
intensifyx7
epic spelcasting
improved spell capacity x3
twin spell
autoquickenx3
improved metamagic x9
improved unarmed strike
deflect arrows
imprioved deflection
multipspell x 7
energy admix
energy sub
enhance spell
weapon focus-bolt spell
silent spell
still spell
innate spell-lesser acid orb

A chaotic evil mage named......Malavok appears over New York city, and glasses the city with spell.

The US cals in favors and alliances with other nations to combat this lethal; threat

Assume no harmful teh/magic interactions

Will he succeed in destroying the world, or will he be overwhelmed.

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2002-12-23 05:54pm

Well hitting him with a nuke will work, as will any other large scale explosive devices.

High level velocity sniper rifle, or a handgun @ 10 metres, any automatic/semi-automatic weapons.

Deflecting arrows is one thing, deflecting a bullet is another.

BTW:
Malavok wouldnt be able to glass New York. He could try, but simple size will defeat him. And it just makes him so much easier to hit with area effect weapons(cos he isnt going to be moving fast, compared to stuff we have)

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2002-12-23 06:08pm

at this high level, with the proper spells active, he could go against a tank...
And then he has invisibilty, and all the other nice spells at hand.
i think he should be able to wreak a huge amount of havoc...

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 06:14pm

Handy little spell called prismatic sphere

And with epic spells(my version of HADOKEN) he could glass the city

Actually, a cast number of spels could protect him from explosives...Energy buffer, wall of force etc

Or he just makes his reflex save, and dodges

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 06:19pm

And he actually has the hitpoiints to TAKE a hit from a bomb exploding next to him. he has ~8600 hp and his armor class, his armor class is 155

Brother-Captain Gaius · Post by **Brother-Captain Gaius** » 2002-12-23 06:25pm

I fail to see how having a high armor class is going to make a nuclear explosion miss you.

Anyways, I think the mage will last a good long time and destroy tons of cities around the world. Until they nuke him, of course

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 06:35pm

He wil not be able to dodge a nuke(he would make his reflex save for half damage though) But tha high ac will allow him to dodge bullets

He is able to survive direct hits with conventional explosives

Deflect bullets

And when he sees/hears the atomic bomb/icbm coming, he just quicened casts prismatic sphere, and is fine.

while continuing to rain death(literally as per the rain of fire spell) apon his enemies no less.

Hell he makes his spot check, he sees the nuke coming, ad detonates it prematurly using a lesser fire orb spell

Skelron · Post by **Skelron** » 2002-12-23 06:37pm

Armour class is more than a reflection of how much physical armour you have on, it also reflects such things as magical protection speed etc. In this case this would repesent his prot spells I imagine. Anyway, such a shame all those levels where concentrated in one person, if we where to split it out a little we could try the summon Dragon spell....

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 06:39pm

He can his spellcraft check is high enough that he doesnt need to ritual cast it

Darth Garden Gnome · Post by **Darth Garden Gnome** » 2002-12-23 06:40pm

Tanks, guns nukes, has everyone gone looney? Just challenge him to a good old fashioned game of D&D (2nd or 3rd edition rules) and if you lose everyone dies, you win he goes back to....where ever.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2002-12-23 06:43pm

Isn't the idea of the reflex safe throw against fireballs and such that you dodge behind some kind of cover and avoid some of the force of the blast?
I'd like to know what kind of cover is effective against a high-yeild nuke, say 2 megatons?

And you can't hear an ICBM's warheads as they are decending, their hypersonic and since they move too quickly to be seen with a naked eye, I think that the mage is fried.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 06:54pm

Another way he could do it is simply siting inside his sphere ineach city he visits, using teleportation spells to travel.

He could also make a reflex save to put up a prismatic sphere(i love automatic quicken spell)

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 07:20pm

*begins casting "pestilence"*

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-12-23 07:28pm

The presence of that much magic... The stars must be right.

The Great Old One's return to earth and Tsathoggua is hungry.

Tsathoggua eats the mage.

The end.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 07:41pm

What? Weemadando, stay on topic.

Post by **weemadando** » 2002-12-23 07:50pm

Alyrium Denryle wrote:What? Weemadando, stay on topic.

My bad...

But the mage still loses. Its inevitable.

It might take a while, but they will eventually have to a) run away, b) die).

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-23 08:12pm

The mage wins. The battle is so one-sided it's not even funny.

With the spells foresight, telekinetic sphere and teleport there is no way to hit him.

Bullets? Telekinetic sphere can protect from ANY material harm and can only be brought down by a dispel magic or disintegrate spell. As though any modern army in the world could cast those. Same goes for helicopter missiles, tank guns, etc.

With nukes he could be killed by the radiation, but with quickened teleports he wouldn't even be there by the time it hit. And he could always use gate to reverse the nuke's course and drop in on one pf the major cities.

It's even worse if you use the "bloated corpse" technique and allow said mage to have a permanent emanation telekinetic sphere and evasion on at the same time. Or some other strange and lame combination of abilities.

The only way to beat him would be to wait until he's resting and then kill him. But at such high levels the wall of force spell (hell, any decent protective spell) will last for a whole lot more than the 8 hours he needs to rest, especially with the Persistent Spell metamagic feat.

And we're not even considering all the summons (call forth a pack of spell-casting Pit Fiends and Balors, epic dragons, xixecals, as well as other epic monsters) or the summoning of OTHER epic mages (I mean, if it's going to be one man vs. 50 million soldiers and all their guns tanks and bombs might as well even the odds a little by calling in Raistlin and the Simbul and compnay)

gravity · Post by **gravity** » 2002-12-23 08:16pm

The Mage can't stay awake for ever, even if he constantly uses Prismatic Sphere, eventually he has to go to sleep, and is killed.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 08:22pm

No it isnt

It lasts the full duration whether the mage sleeps or not. at least in p&p D&D which is higher cannon than games

Or he could just cast "rope trick" and sleep in an extra-dimensional space

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-23 08:25pm

gravity wrote:The Mage can't stay awake for ever, even if he constantly uses Prismatic Sphere, eventually he has to go to sleep, and is killed.

Uhhhh so he uses persistent spell to cast primatic sphere, sleeps inside it, wakes up to a storm of nukes detonating uselessly on his sphere, recasts all needed protections, then chain casts dispel magic and time stop and proceeds to summon more monsters and cause more havoc.

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 08:29pm

Hell 0ne sphere is going to last him for 58 hours

He doesnt need persistent spell

Evil Sadistic Bastard · Post by **Evil Sadistic Bastard** » 2002-12-23 08:30pm

*Claps hands togather in front of him and draws them apart, flames voiling forth from the tattooed palms*

TSUGIIIII!!!!!

Post by **Alyrium Denryle** » 2002-12-23 08:57pm

Veckshet niral penden *Fire begins to rain from the sky over london*

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2002-12-23 09:31pm

Well then why the spon did you start such a one-sided thread?!

lgot · Post by **lgot** » 2002-12-23 10:40pm

A mage of D&D does not even need to be 50 or more levels to defeat us. Even because there is almost no character of such level in the book but some god's avatars and they have not such stats (which are impossible to achive by the way).
But he does not need to sleep in this dimension, he does not need to show himself, he does need to be in the place he is attacking, he can use as much protection that one a area effect such a nuke will hit him, etc. But then, that is ridiculous.
And those stats...talk about extreme power rpging...