Type: Metamagic
Source: Dragon Annual 5

You maintain a ray spell for an additional round.
Benefit: When the extended ray spell is cast, you can use your next action to attack with the same ray. You can designate either a different target or the same target. A successful ranged touch attack is required for the second target. If any other actions are taken, or the spell is disrupted before your next action, then you lose the extended spell (though any previous effects remain). An extended ray uses up a spell slot one level higher than the spell’s actual level.

Type: Metamagic
Source: Dragon Annual 5

You can attack three adjacent targets with a ray spell.
Benefit: A split ray can hit three targets. A successful ranged touch attack is needed for each target, and each roll incurs 5-4 penalty to hit. A target cannot be attacked more than once with a given spell. A split ray uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Type: Metamagic
Source: Dragon Annual 5

You change the effect of a ray spell to a 30-foot radius burst centered on yourself.
Benefit: A ray burst hits all targets (friend or foe) within 30 feet. Targets within 30 feet are allowed a Reflex save to avoid the burst. Any targets that do not avoid the effect are treated as if they were hit by the ray spell. Any target with 100% cover with respect to the caster is not affected. A ray burst spell uses up a spell slot three levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

Type: Metamagic
Source: Dragon Annual 5

You expand a ray spell to a 30-foot cone.
Benefit: All targets in the area of effect receive Reflex saves to avoid the effect, but are otherwise affected as if they were hit by the ray spell. A coned ray uses up a spell slot two levels higher than the spell’s actual level.

good, because Erok has been using it since the beginning 😜

@halfgiant said in Harm Spell (Variant): Daerma Adventures:

The 3.5 Harm (link) is a will save, just kept it the same.

That works. Fixed the first post.

@dwarf Well that was depressing, i had hoped over time maybe 5e would have had enough power creep to become interesting. Similar to 3.0E in the day, after a few years some of their later products started producing some interesting ideas.

With that said, the 3.5E metamagic rods i never really found interesting or thematically liked. Just seemed lame, and Kargin did investigate what he called meta crystals that you could embed in wands, rods, and staffs. However shortly after that @dwarf brought up the concepts of lens’s and amp’s … and we just ran with that. Kargin also flirted with psicrystals, i do believe he has some prototypes specific for melee types, and some specific for caster types. There was a lot of interest but it typically fades fairly quickly because in order for them to work they need to be implanted into their spine or at the base of their skulls to hide the crystal, while others implant the crystal shard in their forehead, forming a mythical “third eye.” Some warriors tend to have them implanted into the hand or chest, often sporting custom-made armor to show off the crystal to their enemies. To implant and integrate the crystals into the various systems of the body (i.e. nervous, immune, etc…) requires the skills of an alchemist… and that is where Kargin loses them.

Back to the drawing board.

the initial build of the powermaster had 3 primary processors - one for each “spellcasting” class, mage cleric and psion. i think it was the 3rd or 4th gen where a “physical” processor was added - for melee, movement or whatnot. a few generations after that, a set of 4 co-processors was added, taking the load off the main brains for minor actions like ongoing spell concentration, shifting targets, gem actions, refreshing stoneskins, etc. the co-processors are limited to self/personal effects only - fiddling and diddling with things running in the background on the powermaster himself.

so, for example, if Daren was casting a prismatic spray at some lich that pissed him off, triggering the lich’s dim-door contingency - a coprocessor could re-target the ongoing spell and hit the bastard anyway (provided he was in range, obviously), but the coprocessor isn’t “smart” enough to initiate the casting in the first place as it involves both casting and targeting (a non-personal effect).

@dwarf said in The Ancient - Epic Prestige Class:

Ignore Level Limits: When an Ancient picks up a magic item that’s spell affect uses the Ancient level, not the level limit imposed on the magic item.

now here’s where things get a smidge hairy… see, magic items are created around a base core item - then modified to hold a magical “charge” or effect. when built correctly, you wind up with a wand/weapon/ring/whatever thats balanced to exude said effect for a limited time.
when you try to FORCE more magic thru that item, bad things often happen. kinda like trying to push a .50 cal into a .22 rifle - or a cannon ball outta a bb gun. she just ain’t made to handle that kind of charge.
an epic level item, sure - they’re overbuilt to unleash great honking swathes of magic… so they’ll hold together without complaint but non-epic items ? you could probably (ie safely) push about twice the level of spell thru one (so a 12 dice fireball outta a 6-dice wand, for example) but i don’t know much further you’d go before KABOOM happens…
(i reposted the End of the Powermaster story that talked about when Daren tried it)

3.5 Pre-Epic staffs are able to do this, admittedly wands do not, at least not without a lot of feat twiddling. Didn’t seem like it would be a big stretch for a Ancient to do it.

Under Staff Descriptions - https://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/staffs.htm
Staffs use the wielder’s ability score and relevant feats to set the DC for saves against their spells. Unlike with other sorts of magic items, the wielder can use his caster level when activating the power of a staff if it’s higher than the caster level of the staff.

This is the 3.0 conversion of the monster.
I had originally ruled it as a +4 ECL accoring to a @dwarf note.

battleogre3e.doc

Quasi-elemental Radiance - described as searing white light or shimmering COLORS… tho a little tweaking of Solar/Sun could work too (since that plus water makes rainbows in the first place).

like most efx in 10e, there’s most always several “paths” to generate whatever effect you’re lookin for 😉

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General

Save DC 35 Reflex (+1 for every spell point added to power up damage) Damage 2*XdX per point save missed by. XdX is same as caster power level options, the default is +0 (Base), Dragon can use spell points to up it from there.

Breath Types
Power Cone 5x5x5000 resizable within that max capacity

Power Line: Common breath weapon style of more powerful dragons. A power line has an area of effect that fills a space of 125,000 cubic feet. This can take the form a line begining at the dragons snout and continuing a distance until it fills a volume of 125,000 cubic feet. The Height by width by length ranges from 5’ high by 5’ wide by 5000’ feet long to an almost wall like 500’ high by 500’ wide by 5’ long.

Power Gas: No clue yet.

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@dwarf I know we have talked about the mechanics of the managanger many different ways over the years. Mostly about their ability to manipulate their entire being down to the molecular level, tune and adapt themselves to different magic sources, etc.

The details are blurry i don’t remember if that included being able to unravel existing enchantments, even draining them away.

And that there are only two Managangers roaming around, but has anything more than that been jotted down?

Probably should throw down what you remember while we can still remember to put pants on in the morning.

*** Zap adjusts his reading spectacles and peers down his nose at you. ***

“There is a certain type of mined material, called the Unspoken Ore - so named, because its very existence is so unknown that only the eldest of masterforgers and a SELECT few deities have ever even heard of it. In one, sandier world its named Jasmium - but they have their own convoluted and squirmy problems.”

“Using a chronoforge, typically constructed in the bowels of an active Sun or along the event horizon edge of a singularity, one can process and stasis-forge said material into a unique metal that takes on the properties of a perfectly-aligned two dimensional weapon - one that can cut through both enchantments and typical material alike. Obviously, this renders it unable to be enchanted - but it can be STACKED by a sufficiently talented master, one atop another, creating a 2x, 3x, 4x or even 5x weapon.”

*** Pushing his glasses up to the bridge of his pale schnoz, he moves his face a few inches closer to yours ***

“Now you didn’t hear this from ME, but there’s a certain famous assassin wielding two such weapons, who’s been on a lifelong QUEST - trying to find a legendary Ring which could allow one to survive on not only the surface of a star, but actually endure the depths of a Manastar… wherein she believes it’d be possible to layer even more dimensional blades together ! But i doubt she’d be willing to discuss it with most anyone - probably kill you dead as a post for even asking.”

*** The Magnasti winks and goes back to reading Larloch’s diary ***

Eyes of the Oracle
(Dragon Magic)

Divination
Level: Cleric 6, Sorcerer 6, Wizard 6, Wu Jen 6 (all),
Components: V, S, M,
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Personal
Target: You
Duration: 1 round/level or until expended

Vague, translucent shadows of your body’s form move just out of sync with your own motions, a visible sign that you exist in two places in time.
You can see into the future, slightly anticipating your opponents’ next moves.
You gain a +2 insight bonus to Armor Class and a +2 insight bonus on Reflex saves.
Additionally, at the end of your turn, you can ready a single standard action regardless of the number of actions taken this turn.

Thus, you can move at your movement rate, make a single attack, and then at the end of your turn ready an action to cast a single spell with a casting time of one standard action.
This behaves as a readied action in all other ways, including the change in your initiative.
If you take the readied action, the spell’s effect ends immediately.
Special: If you are of the dragonblood subtype (see page 4), your bonus to Armor Class and on Reflex saves improves to +3.

Saving Throw Difficulty Class

A saving throw against your spell has a DC of 10 + the level of the spell + your bonus for the relevant ability (Intelligence for a wizard, Charisma for a sorcerer or bard, or Wisdom for a cleric, druid, paladin, or ranger). A spell’s level can vary depending on your class. Always use the spell level applicable to your class.

DC = 10 + spell level + ability modifer + mods

@halfgiant said in Ohm Gems and other Gem Magics:

Rechargeable (Big Ohm - Heal) - 6 spell points per refill, Cost: 5000gp
Regenable (Big Ohm - Heal) - 2 spell points per refill, Cost: 25,000gp

So what are the costs (gp’s) for the following? Costs for both Market, and costs for an Ancient to make.

twinned regennable big ohms (1000 hp max, 10th lvl efx, 4 pp to refill)
magnified 2x twinned regennable (2000 hp max, 16th lvl, 6 pp to refill)
magnified 3x twinned regennable (3000 hp max, 22nd lvl, 8 pp to refill)
magnified 4x twinned regennable (4000 hp max, 28th lvl, 10 pp to refill)
magnified 5x twinned regennable (5000 hp max, 34th lvl, 12 pp to refill)

I am not sure if I am remembering wrong or not, but I think we said we can’t make our own regennable’s until becoming an Ancient; we were limited to having the Obelisk making them for us at the going rate.

@daermadm said in Cubes:

Where the fuck did cube chamber come from? Are you making up a new thing to go along with Kargin’s chain gun of wands?
Cubes are simply small slots on the magic item that they can be inserted into, historically, they were generally not interchanged during combat.

hmm no and yes, its loosely based off of wand chambers, and adapted by Kargin to create physical and/or extradimensional chambers (depends on the circumstance) to hold cubes that power magic items outside of the rod, wand, staff space; like rings, amulets, etc…