[RPG] Lightspeed supreme cleave, does it work

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Minsc the barbarian has to warn Dynaheir of impending doom because Thay is on the move. Unfortunately he is deep in Rashemen mountains, and Dyn' is studying in Candlekeep.

Minsc is lv 20, well equipped, has supreme cleave, boots of flying and a wish ring with 2 charge.

Seeing his master's distress, Boo whispers to him his idea[1]:

  • Use the first wish on the ring to wish for an endless stream of unarmed unarmored levitating summoned kobolds each one 5 foot apart from the previous from a space adjacent to Minsc and going in the direction of candlekeep over the surface of land or water. Pop the kobolds up or down or across a curve as it is needed to cross over any mountain range in the path.
  • Use the last wish to turn all 1s in attack rolls into 2s for the next round.
  • beat up the first kobold, trigger supreme cleave and get to candlekeep in a single round.

Assuming the DM has let him get away with those wishes, is it doable? If it is not and there is something that can be changed to make it happen, what is it?


[1]: cut the space hamster some slack. His animal companion intelligence couldn't think of using a single wish to emulate teleport without error

Best Answer

Probably not, no.

Assuming that Minsc is a knight-protector, rather than a frenzied berserker, then this works up to a point. But since Minsc is a barbarian, the frenzied berserker prestige class is much more likely, and that won’t work. Why is simple: the frenzied berserker version of the supreme cleave class feature is limited to only one 5-ft. step per round. The knight protector class feature of the same name, however, does not mention any such restriction.

But even for a knight protector, a 5-ft. step is a free action, and the rules state that DMs are allowed to limit those to some reasonable number. You could argue that knight protector is more specific than that rule, so when it says that the knight protector “can” take a 5-ft. step that includes overcoming that limit, but that’s a stretch. And it is very unlikely that a DM is going to consider the 2.5 million free actions necessary here “reasonable.”

Then again, this is a DM who allowed wish to create 2.5 million kobolds, so maybe he will...

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