Super double secret mission.

[riontwist]

If you guys have free time in Ohio I've got another character I'm going to need in about 6 weeks. It should be fun to build, and there's a lot of ways you could do it, so I figured I'd give Anthony (and anyone else who wants to try) a crack at it at least

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[anthony_kane]

http://www.wizards.com/dnd/files/Santa.pdf

He's 20 Character Levels. Add 5 more of Cleric and some minor tweeking and you're all set.

AK

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[riontwist]

Sadly, there's no way that Santa could make the trip. He moves too slow to deliver specific toys (and or coal) to millions of children in 8 hours.

You may say that wanting the things that lead to Santa being physically capable of making the trip ruins the "Christmas magic" of it all, but this is D&D, and the system is all about ruining magic. On top of that I'm willing to bet there's a build somewhere that's capable of it. . . (c'mon if clerics can throw things into Orbit, we can use the rules to let Santa traverse the sky in one night.)

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[stadred]

I'd like to point out that, due to the rotation of the Earth, Santa has 24 hours of darkness in which to deliver toys.
Not that it matters, since he still has to go at upwards of c to hit all the 2 billion children (Is it reasonable to consider 1/3rd of the population children?)...
Magic breaks physics, so that really shouldn't be a problem anyway.

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[princeneptune]

Well, it's not ALL children. Just the christian ones. There's 1 Billion Catholics in the world. You think the other denominations make up another billion? ...That's still ~666 millions kids.

Man, no matter how you slice it, Santa's a fast bitch.

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[riontwist]

'k so we're talking early 1600's here. . . so we can ratchet that back by about 85%, that's still nearly 100 million children to visit. (Though he might make special stops for adults who believe as well.)

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[stadred]

So let's figure 100,025,000 stops. At that number, considering 24 hours for the run, he have to hit 4,167,709 stops an hour, or 69,462 a minute. To REALLY determine speed, we have to figure out the average distribution of stops geographically. in 1600, America wasn't all that populated (Which may affect time to make the trip) but the major population centers were crowded, with many many children to a stop.
However, there has to be some sort of super speed ability in D&D. Just give him rank 3,000 in whatever it is, plus some sort of super resiliance to withstand friction from the air, and the force of Grandpa Physics trying to beat him over the head with his Calculator of Pain.

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[spectracle]

I don't know about a super speed ability but you can get a character going ~200mph, but thats about tops. Basically using items, a run feat, a character race with a +10 base speed, any random class that adds another +10 base speed, and of course the blade dancer prestige class.

It might work with a combination of speed, time stop, teleport, and an ability to duplicate oneself. Think about it, every Santa at the mall might really be the real Santa!

Found some pages involving things to try to "break" D&D by duplication that probably won't work.

http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-523970
http://forums.gleemax.com/showpost.php?p=8501154&postcount=62

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[spectracle]

forgot this
http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-782463