A Fun way to say "Fuck You"

[Amechra]

A nice way to do this is a Wizard 5/Red Wizard 5/Incantatrix 10

"I'm terribly sorry for what I'm about to do..."

Spells: Fimbulwinter

Metamagic: Fell Drain, Extend Spell, Flash Frost Spell, Energy Substitution (Cold), and Lord of the Uttercold

Metamagic Reducer: Arcane Thesis (Fimbulwinter).

Maximize Spell and Empower Spell are gained from Circle Magic

Fimbulwinter (8)+Fell Drain (+2-1-1)+Flash Frost Spell (+1-1)+Extend Spell (+1-1)+Lord of the Uttercold (+0)

Energy Substitution (Cold) is required for Lord of the Uttercold.

Make sure you've raised your CL to 40.

Wait until winter. Cast Frostfell to drop the temperature so that it's a cold climate, for a +10 to your d20 roll for the effects of Fimbulwinter.

Cast Fimbulwinter. You might want Spell Thematics to make this even more epic. Maybe have it look like a wolf is eating the sun, or some such.

10 minutes later, an area 40 miles in radius, up to 20 miles away from where you cast this, is in the depth of winter.

But this winter is different... for one thing, it will last for at least 100 weeks, or up to 144 weeks at most. For the people that don't want to do the math, that's a span from a little less than 2 years to a bit less than 3 years.

For another, its cold is infused with the deadly embrace of the Negative Energy plane. Every six seconds, regardless of the actual conditions within the circle, everything takes 8 cold damage and 8 negative energy damage. And everything damaged gets dealt a negative level. Wights begin to rise within a day of the start of this storm.

And the winter's conditions themselves are a horror. The depth of the snow can range from 9 inches to 10 feet of snow. And the winds...

Well they can be anywhere from 11+ to 31+ miles per hour.

I'm actually planning for something like this happening to a populous city in the history of my campaign world. A city of culture is destroyed within days, while hordes of wights roam through the area and into the countryside itself. And even a minute or two of exposure without adequate protection can result in another wight joining those numbers...

Of course, as of the present, this happened a century ago. But they're still hunting the wights...



But, yeah, find a way to make this immune to dispelling, and I would say this is worse than the locate city bomb and AftS. Because they don't last as long, and don't have the horrible effect of forcing the survivors to watch their loved ones, children and the elderly first, die from the supernatural cold, and knowing from the icy feel of the drain inside your chest that you would be next...

And there is the horror of effectively making that 40 mile radius almost completely unclaimable; an explorer would probably see it as merely being a field of winter, and even if he was 20th level (probably a monk,from the lack of paranoia and foresight necessary), he would die after a mere 600 feet of travel.

Drop this on a major trade route, and watch as wars break out...

Happy Halloween.

[geniussavant]

talk about a hell of a plot device, where's Fimbulwinter from though?

[KellKheraptis]

Frostburn.  And it needs Dweomerkeeper's Supernatural Spell to make it not subject to dispelling

[archangel.arcanis]

Congratulations you just explained the Blight in WoT.

[Amechra]

Kell, you are a wonderful person.

Now, what other spells would be helpful when used with the random roll for weather conditions? Are there any spells that add to generic d20 rolls? Because the 9 inches of snow/11+ mile per hour winds are only if you roll a 1-5.

I want to make this as horrible as possible.

[Agita]

It's beautiful. Where's Flash Frost Spell from again? I thought it was in Frostburn, but I don't see it in the feats section.

As for the roll, depending on who makes the rolls according to the DM, you could use something that lets you reroll one or more rolls per day. Alternatively, tack on Sudden Maximize. Nevermind, Maximize is already there.

[KellKheraptis]

Kell, you are a wonderful person.

Now, what other spells would be helpful when used with the random roll for weather conditions? Are there any spells that add to generic d20 rolls? Because the 9 inches of snow/11+ mile per hour winds are only if you roll a 1-5.

I want to make this as horrible as possible.

Um...precast Control Weather?  So it's already a hurricane, perhaps, with a tornado to boot?

It's beautiful. Where's Flash Frost Spell from again? I thought it was in Frostburn, but I don't see it in the feats section.

As for the roll, depending on who makes the rolls according to the DM, you could use something that lets you reroll one or more rolls per day. Alternatively, tack on Sudden Maximize.

Flash Frost Spell is from PHB II.  What can I say, I'm a firm believer in the
Tippy Incorporated Thermonuclear Training Institutional Education Society.  Sorry, couldn't resist the moment I saw what the first three words spelled

[RobbyPants]

If nothing else, these kinds of things make great doomsday plots for high level PCs to thwart.

[RelentlessImp]

...(probably a monk,from the lack of paranoia and foresight necessary)...

Poor monk.

[Amechra]

Forgot about the maximize, that means I have a range of 8 to 10 feet of snow, with 31+ mph winds.

Heh, it's already a severe storm. For 2-3 years. Control Winds would be fun, if it would last more than 800 minutes (13 hours, 20 minutes)

Besides, Fimbulwinter sets the wind speed to whats on the table, so...

Well, since it says 31+, a hurricanes not out of the question...

[Surreal]

You forgot invisible spell 

[PhaedrusXY]

You forgot invisible spell 

[Amechra]

But then we couldn't Spell Thematics it...

Oh, and if you are doing this in gestalt, may I support either Dread Witch for Fearful Empowerment, or Eldritch Theurge, for the shear lols of combining this with Brimstone Blast? Of course, you would have to have them advancing sorc or something...

[wotmaniac]

 
I'm speechless.
I think that this may accidentally belong on the Break it/Buy it forum.

You forgot invisible spell 

... and yet another thread that my players will absolutely never know about.

[Amechra]

I'm speechless.
I think that this may accidentally belong on the Break it/Buy it forum.

You forgot invisible spell 

... and yet another thread that my players will absolutely never know about.

That is probably the nicest thing anyone has said about something I've done.

Ever.

[Surreal]

But then we couldn't Spell Thematics it...

You know that crazy old guy on the street corner waving his sign around and calling for the end of the world? You could *be* that crazy old guy.

[Sunic_Flames]

This thread is made of Win and Awesome.

[altpersona]

you will be doing this more than once per day right?

like 6? ish.. so you can pretty much screw up ~100 mile radius a day.. (with gaps (trying to keep all the circles together not in a row)

if the world is earth size ish, you could cover the equator in about 250 days.. give or take..  (use them consecutively and its only ~100 days)

also, needs to be in a wand or unlimited item.. got an artificer buddy?

[KellKheraptis]

you will be doing this more than once per day right?

like 6? ish.. so you can pretty much screw up ~100 mile radius a day.. (with gaps (trying to keep all the circles together not in a row)

if the world is earth size ish, you could cover the equator in about 250 days.. give or take..  (use them consecutively and its only ~100 days)

also, needs to be in a wand or unlimited item.. got an artificer buddy?

Unfettered Heroism + Aligned Casting + Chaotic Spell Recall = do this all day, 24/7.

[altpersona]

well then someone needs to work out the math on how many 24/7 really is.

movement, casting time, that sorta thing..