First Hit Die: max
After that: half round up (d4 = 3, d6 = 4, d8 = 5, d10 = 6, d12 = 7)
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Cool.
Closer to having him worked out. Had an idea that, while, yes, he is a bodyguard/hereditary protector for one or more members of the group, he does have a personal goal: Get back some heirloom stuff that was stolen/lost a few generations back.
Just need to do skills, and decide if I really do want Blitz...
I guess that depends on if the "Add your BAB to your damage in exchange for an AoO" ability stacks with criticals.
Closer to having him worked out. Had an idea that, while, yes, he is a bodyguard/hereditary protector for one or more members of the group, he does have a personal goal: Get back some heirloom stuff that was stolen/lost a few generations back.
Just need to do skills, and decide if I really do want Blitz...
I guess that depends on if the "Add your BAB to your damage in exchange for an AoO" ability stacks with criticals.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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By the tome wordings and any "errata" I can find around this forum, Blitz damage (being neither the undefined WotC concept of "precision damage doesn't get multiplied" nor the vaguely recalled Frankian fix of "Damage Dice don't get multiplied") totally gets multiplied on crtis
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
That's what I was thinking.Josh_Kablack wrote:By the tome wordings and any "errata" I can find around this forum, Blitz damage (being neither the undefined WotC concept of "precision damage doesn't get multiplied" nor the vaguely recalled Frankian fix of "Damage Dice don't get multiplied") totally gets multiplied on crtis
By the way, I'm about to compare Snowscaper to the others and tone a few things down and tighten up the loopholes.
Some things, I honestly don't care about (Skate, for example).
Others--especially the ones which increase damage and such--need to match the equivalent abilities from the other powers.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
Yo, I was lurking about but since Josh has a completed character, he can take my pseudo-slot. If anyone drops, could I be an alternate?
FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
Pall of Frost (Su): At level 1, the Snowscaper may frost herself over and chill the air around herself within 10 feet as a standard action, inflicting 1d6 cold damage to everyone within the radius, with a fort save for half. While frosted, the Snowscaper is considered armed, and all of her melee attacks do 1d6 extra cold damage.
After a check, I do not know how you get that she gets her full Charisma bonus to damage. Seeing as how it'sFrost’s Bite (Su): At level 3, the Snowscaper’s ice abilities generate a bitter cold. No more than ½ of the damage inflicted by his cold damage can be negated by hardness or immunity or resistance to cold. In addition, the Cold Mage ignores the first 5 points of cold Resistance that a target has.
And last time I checked, 3 is less than 5.Frozen Heart (Su): A Snowscaper gets her Charisma bonus or her character level (whichever is lower) to Cold damage.
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He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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So what's the information for whatever IRC thing we're using, if that's decided yet?
Edit: Slapped-together character sheet! Because not going beyond the impossible is not at all how team Gurren rolls.
Edit: Slapped-together character sheet! Because not going beyond the impossible is not at all how team Gurren rolls.
Raine Silvara, Princess Sparkles
(Angel White Mage 3)
Medium Outsider (Chaotic, Extraplanar, Good)
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 7, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 19, Cha 18 // because I expect clumsy will be funny
HD: 3d8+9 (27 hp)
AC: 14 (-2 Dex, +5 armor, +1 shield) without spells/ward, flat-footed 14, touch 8
Racial Abilities: Tongues (Su) always on, Smite random person 1/day (+4 attack, +3 damage), Wings (glide, slow-fall), Magic Circle against Evil + Light at will
Equipment: Masterwork Chain Shirt (with wing slots), masterwork buckler, warhammer, tiara of armor enhancement, various sandwiches (both melee and throwing).
Trained Skills: Concentration, Diplomacy, Knowledge (Religion), Listen, Perform (Oratory/Friendship Speech), Sense Motive. All at max ranks.
Feats: Zen Archery, Persuasive
Saves: Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +7
Special Actions: Magic Hands (heal/damage 1d6+4 as a touch), Instant Ward (Immediate Action, +5 AC and saves to one ally within 30 ft.), Turn Undead 7/day, Magic Circle Against Evil + Light at will, Smite random person 1/day (+4 attack, +3 damage)
Modifiers: (Healing) spells are automagically Chained (4) Reach spells, Tongues always on, debuff removal on self is stilled/silenced
Immunities: Positive energy (bad stuff only), sleep
Spells:
0 (6/day) cure minor wounds, dancing lights, detect magic, disrupt undead, flare, light, mending, purify food and drink, resistance, virtue
1st (6/day) avoid planar effects, bless water, cure light wounds, deathwatch, delay disease, endure elements, faerie fire, greater dispel magic, lesser vigor, produce flame, protection from chaos/evil/good/law, remove fear, shield of faith, entropic shield (advanced learning)
Combat role: Combat healer and occasional smitifier of dead things and anything which is flammable.
Persona: Princess Sparkles was taught in the ways of Love and Friendship by a recently ascended archangel who had also previously journeyed to the netherworlds. She is optimistic to a fault and continually tries to inspire her friends to victory with speeches. FRIENDSHIP speeches. Justice is also frequently mentioned when dealing with enemies who have wronged/inconvenienced/might be opposed in some way to herself and her friends. Heaven may forgive them, but she will not.
(Angel White Mage 3)
Medium Outsider (Chaotic, Extraplanar, Good)
Abilities: Str 13, Dex 7, Con 16, Int 14, Wis 19, Cha 18 // because I expect clumsy will be funny
HD: 3d8+9 (27 hp)
AC: 14 (-2 Dex, +5 armor, +1 shield) without spells/ward, flat-footed 14, touch 8
Racial Abilities: Tongues (Su) always on, Smite random person 1/day (+4 attack, +3 damage), Wings (glide, slow-fall), Magic Circle against Evil + Light at will
Equipment: Masterwork Chain Shirt (with wing slots), masterwork buckler, warhammer, tiara of armor enhancement, various sandwiches (both melee and throwing).
Trained Skills: Concentration, Diplomacy, Knowledge (Religion), Listen, Perform (Oratory/Friendship Speech), Sense Motive. All at max ranks.
Feats: Zen Archery, Persuasive
Saves: Fort +6, Ref +1, Will +7
Special Actions: Magic Hands (heal/damage 1d6+4 as a touch), Instant Ward (Immediate Action, +5 AC and saves to one ally within 30 ft.), Turn Undead 7/day, Magic Circle Against Evil + Light at will, Smite random person 1/day (+4 attack, +3 damage)
Modifiers: (Healing) spells are automagically Chained (4) Reach spells, Tongues always on, debuff removal on self is stilled/silenced
Immunities: Positive energy (bad stuff only), sleep
Spells:
0 (6/day) cure minor wounds, dancing lights, detect magic, disrupt undead, flare, light, mending, purify food and drink, resistance, virtue
1st (6/day) avoid planar effects, bless water, cure light wounds, deathwatch, delay disease, endure elements, faerie fire, greater dispel magic, lesser vigor, produce flame, protection from chaos/evil/good/law, remove fear, shield of faith, entropic shield (advanced learning)
Combat role: Combat healer and occasional smitifier of dead things and anything which is flammable.
Persona: Princess Sparkles was taught in the ways of Love and Friendship by a recently ascended archangel who had also previously journeyed to the netherworlds. She is optimistic to a fault and continually tries to inspire her friends to victory with speeches. FRIENDSHIP speeches. Justice is also frequently mentioned when dealing with enemies who have wronged/inconvenienced/might be opposed in some way to herself and her friends. Heaven may forgive them, but she will not.
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Count Arioch the 28th wrote:I'm not going to go full-asshole, but I'm turning up the dial about 50 millikaeliks.
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Yup.Maxus wrote:After a check, I do not know how you get that she gets her full Charisma bonus to damage. Seeing as how it's
And last time I checked, 3 is less than 5.Frozen Heart (Su): A Snowscaper gets her Charisma bonus or her character level (whichever is lower) to Cold damage.
That would be why the cold damage listed on my charsheet post is all +3 in spiffy different colored text.
The issue is that a Snowscaper 2/Something Else N adds FLOOR [CHA_BONUS, (2+N) ] to all cold damage (and by extension all frosted melee damage). A Fire Mage 3/Something Else N adds FLOOR [CHA_BONUS, 3] to all fire damage (and by extension to all hand of flames melee damage). One of these is clearly superior for multiclassing.
And since the Green Mage gets explicit "caster level = character level" text for her electric magic (including shocking grasp usable as an attack action that is deliverable via quarterstaff - which is pretty sweet but doesn't stack as well with the monk slam) I think this is a case of the Fire Mage (and probably the Star Mage) needing slight wording tweaks to be more multiclass-friendly.
Of course, if you think multiclassing is stupid, this is not a problem for you.
"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
Dig it. Still Wednesday afternoon Aussieland/almost midnight in AMERICA FUCK YEAH?Koumei wrote:Sure. Basically I can run for 4-5 players, and then if someone doesn't show up, I just run without them.
I'll probably make a Star Mage Touhou because I can't be arsed to fix my Bullet Mage.
EDIT: Although after reading through the PDF, I kind of want to make an Angel that doesn't believe in pants. And has a striped beach ball for a pet.
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FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
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God, I hope not. Definitely not thinking of D&D right now. I lost my wallet today (actually, I know what happened. Fell out of my pocket on the bus) and just did a Google binge to find out who to call about various IDs and such.
Thank God I took my debit card out of it before I left for work, though.
Thank God I took my debit card out of it before I left for work, though.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I can be Flonne. Well, a yandere asshole Touhou Flonne. That's good enough, right?
Also, sheet. Because laser Star Mage is not difficult. I'll be taking Maxus' rolls because they're gdlk.
Also, sheet. Because laser Star Mage is not difficult. I'll be taking Maxus' rolls because they're gdlk.
Tabi Lightbringer
(Apostolo Angel Star Mage 3)
Medium Outsider (Neutral, Extraplanar, Good)
Abilities: Str 7, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 18, Wis 19, Cha 14 // Even angels get asthma and anemia.
HD: 3d6+6 (20 hp)
AC: 15 (3 Dex, 2 armor, 0 shield), flat-footed 12, touch 13
Racial Abilities: Tongues (Su) always on, Smite Enemy of Love and Justice 1/day (+2 attack, +3 damage), Wings (glide, slow-fall), Magic Circle against Evil + Light at will (in the shape of a cross of light)
Equipment: Magic Clothing (with wing slots and an inexplicable lack of pants), Prinny Staff, zebra striped beach ball.
Trained Skills: Concentration, Diplomacy, Spot, Knowledge(Planes), UMD. All at max ranks.
Feats: Product of Infernal Dalliance, Danger Sense
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +4, Will +7
Special Actions: Baleful Glare (Standard action 1d8+7 damage, Fort for half), Light (Glowing Orb and Dancing Lights at will. 4 lights max), Ray of Light at will (Standard action ranged touch blind for 1d4 rounds), Attune Form at will (makes people not explode in nasty planar stuff), Armor Break (Standard action, one creature within Short range glows like Faerie Fire, all attacks are touch attacks against it for one turn.) Day Break (can wake up any sleeping creature within Short range as a Standard action.) Searing Light as an attack action, Self-only Greater Dimension Door always on. (Can short-range D-Door as a Move action that does not provoke).
Combat role: Party debuffer and bringer of hard to graze laser danmaku in increasing quantities. Also can pretend to be a real Wizard thanks to UMD.
Persona: Tabi's mother always wanted to be a magical girl, so she made a deal with a fuzzy white Fiend for unlimited cosmic power. She was a little old to be a magical girl (to the tune of 2000 years), so the power went on to the next generation. Enter Tabi, a warrior of love and justice who is indelibly warped by energies most foul. This turned her love into the kind that people go to jail for after the bodies are found and her justice into general assholery. The magical girl powers she was given made her a conduit for incomprehensible "Star" magic, which primarily involved beam spam and Things Netherworldkind Was Not Meant To Know. This didn't help matters.
(Apostolo Angel Star Mage 3)
Medium Outsider (Neutral, Extraplanar, Good)
Abilities: Str 7, Dex 16, Con 14, Int 18, Wis 19, Cha 14 // Even angels get asthma and anemia.
HD: 3d6+6 (20 hp)
AC: 15 (3 Dex, 2 armor, 0 shield), flat-footed 12, touch 13
Racial Abilities: Tongues (Su) always on, Smite Enemy of Love and Justice 1/day (+2 attack, +3 damage), Wings (glide, slow-fall), Magic Circle against Evil + Light at will (in the shape of a cross of light)
Equipment: Magic Clothing (with wing slots and an inexplicable lack of pants), Prinny Staff, zebra striped beach ball.
Trained Skills: Concentration, Diplomacy, Spot, Knowledge(Planes), UMD. All at max ranks.
Feats: Product of Infernal Dalliance, Danger Sense
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +4, Will +7
Special Actions: Baleful Glare (Standard action 1d8+7 damage, Fort for half), Light (Glowing Orb and Dancing Lights at will. 4 lights max), Ray of Light at will (Standard action ranged touch blind for 1d4 rounds), Attune Form at will (makes people not explode in nasty planar stuff), Armor Break (Standard action, one creature within Short range glows like Faerie Fire, all attacks are touch attacks against it for one turn.) Day Break (can wake up any sleeping creature within Short range as a Standard action.) Searing Light as an attack action, Self-only Greater Dimension Door always on. (Can short-range D-Door as a Move action that does not provoke).
Combat role: Party debuffer and bringer of hard to graze laser danmaku in increasing quantities. Also can pretend to be a real Wizard thanks to UMD.
Persona: Tabi's mother always wanted to be a magical girl, so she made a deal with a fuzzy white Fiend for unlimited cosmic power. She was a little old to be a magical girl (to the tune of 2000 years), so the power went on to the next generation. Enter Tabi, a warrior of love and justice who is indelibly warped by energies most foul. This turned her love into the kind that people go to jail for after the bodies are found and her justice into general assholery. The magical girl powers she was given made her a conduit for incomprehensible "Star" magic, which primarily involved beam spam and Things Netherworldkind Was Not Meant To Know. This didn't help matters.
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FrankTrollman wrote: Halfling women, as I'm sure you are aware, combine all the "fun" parts of pedophilia without any of the disturbing, illegal, or immoral parts.
K wrote:That being said, the usefulness of airships for society is still transporting cargo because it's an option that doesn't require a powerful wizard to show up for work on time instead of blowing the day in his harem of extraplanar sex demons/angels.
Chamomile wrote: See, it's because K's belief in leaving generation of individual monsters to GMs makes him Chaotic, whereas Frank's belief in the easier usability of monsters pre-generated by game designers makes him Lawful, and clearly these philosophies are so irreconcilable as to be best represented as fundamentally opposed metaphysical forces.
Whipstitch wrote:You're on a mad quest, dude. I'd sooner bet on Zeus getting bored and letting Sisyphus put down the fucking rock.
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I kinda thought so, but I don't think a start date was ever made explicit.Quantumboost wrote:Am I correct in supposing that we're starting in (as of this post) ~53 minutes?
I'm online for at least the next hour or so either way.
PS: Maxus, I hope you started with the obvious call to the bus company to see if it turned up in their lost and found.
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
First thing I did.Josh_Kablack wrote:
PS: Maxus, I hope you started with the obvious call to the bus company to see if it turned up in their lost and found.
I didn't even get an answering machine. I got an answering machine that cut off halfway in the "This is Customer Support" (funny how that happened when I called the operators), rang some more, told me to hang up. I called customer support, thinking I'd fight the robots to get to a person....And it said "This is customer supp--", rang some more, then hung up.
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
I'm tentatively saying we could start next week? Tomorrow I fly to Adelaide to spend time with my family, and I return on Tuesday. So the Wednesday I'd be right to run.
We can probably use irc.nightstar.net -> #orcnet (or at least, gather in there and I'll make another room up at the time)
We can probably use irc.nightstar.net -> #orcnet (or at least, gather in there and I'll make another room up at the time)
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
Next week is good, I'll get my ass on finishing my character by then.
Cuz apparently I gotta break this down for you dense motherfuckers- I'm trans feminine nonbinary. My pronouns are they/them.
Winnah wrote:No, No. 'Prak' is actually a Thri Kreen impersonating a human and roleplaying himself as a D&D character. All hail our hidden insect overlords.
FrankTrollman wrote:In Soviet Russia, cosmic horror is the default state.
You should gain sanity for finding out that the problems of a region are because there are fucking monsters there.
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I'm sorry I missed this.
I was wondering if a Don Quixote flavoured/themed/styled kobalt/skaven (blue scaled/furred?) knight would be possible? Perhaps one whose mount is a giant little penguin (with a southern Aussie accent? Little Penguins only originate from the southern half coast of the Underworld; I have no idea what a s.coast accent would sound like though). Alternately a kangaroo mount. Hunting spears or boomerangs, maybe nets at the end of rope, would probably be this character's equipment.
In keeping with the Quixotic line of thought, making them believes that every piece of junk that the player characters come across is an artifact of some kind (mistaking a copper shaving bowl as a "golden helmet of such-and-such place"; or a broom handle for parts of the cross torture device spartacus was executed on). Having them followed by an other, fatter, kobalt/skaven, named Sancho (an NPC commoner or expert, Sancho's not supposed to fight) who rides some sort of appropriate fauna (pony) .
I was wondering if a Don Quixote flavoured/themed/styled kobalt/skaven (blue scaled/furred?) knight would be possible? Perhaps one whose mount is a giant little penguin (with a southern Aussie accent? Little Penguins only originate from the southern half coast of the Underworld; I have no idea what a s.coast accent would sound like though). Alternately a kangaroo mount. Hunting spears or boomerangs, maybe nets at the end of rope, would probably be this character's equipment.
In keeping with the Quixotic line of thought, making them believes that every piece of junk that the player characters come across is an artifact of some kind (mistaking a copper shaving bowl as a "golden helmet of such-and-such place"; or a broom handle for parts of the cross torture device spartacus was executed on). Having them followed by an other, fatter, kobalt/skaven, named Sancho (an NPC commoner or expert, Sancho's not supposed to fight) who rides some sort of appropriate fauna (pony) .
The Gaming Den; where Mathematics are rigorously applied to Mythology.
While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
Okay, quick message here while I still have battery power.
1. There is a bit of a change of plans, and I might have to delay until next week. Long story short, I probably won't be back tomorrow due to volcanoes. And Internet access isn't grand here. My apologies to GX for missing his game, if he's reading this.
2. Sorry, JE. Aside from not knowing who Qixote is and also not caring, I am pretty sure I have 4 or 5 or possibly 18 players at the moment. And to be honest, last time I invited you into a game, I put down a set of "every character must be at least this tall, but no taller than ->THIS" guidelines and you overshot doubled or tripled every single one. I am not prepared to go through the bother involved with arguing and hitting you over the head until your character is as good as the others. particularly when it's over a character concept I don't find that great.
1. There is a bit of a change of plans, and I might have to delay until next week. Long story short, I probably won't be back tomorrow due to volcanoes. And Internet access isn't grand here. My apologies to GX for missing his game, if he's reading this.
2. Sorry, JE. Aside from not knowing who Qixote is and also not caring, I am pretty sure I have 4 or 5 or possibly 18 players at the moment. And to be honest, last time I invited you into a game, I put down a set of "every character must be at least this tall, but no taller than ->THIS" guidelines and you overshot doubled or tripled every single one. I am not prepared to go through the bother involved with arguing and hitting you over the head until your character is as good as the others. particularly when it's over a character concept I don't find that great.
Count Arioch the 28th wrote:There is NOTHING better than lesbians. Lesbians make everything better.
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o_0Aside from not knowing who Qixote is and also not caring
This guy He's a pretty big deal in arts and literature, and whether his tale is intended as a caution against pretending to be a knight fighting monsters or an ironic celebration of such is debated in such circles but certainly relevant to playing D&D.
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"But transportation issues are social-justice issues. The toll of bad transit policies and worse infrastructure—trains and buses that don’t run well and badly serve low-income neighborhoods, vehicular traffic that pollutes the environment and endangers the lives of cyclists and pedestrians—is borne disproportionately by black and brown communities."
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Quantumboost
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Should have character sheet finished in the next couple of days.
I helped cut and lay carpet for someone moving for a lot of yesterday, and spent the rest moving a new mattress into my bed.
No, I don't know why all this junk comes up when I'm working on a D&D game, but it never fails
I helped cut and lay carpet for someone moving for a lot of yesterday, and spent the rest moving a new mattress into my bed.
No, I don't know why all this junk comes up when I'm working on a D&D game, but it never fails
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
--The horror of Mario
Zak S, Zak Smith, Dndwithpornstars, Zak Sabbath. He is a terrible person and a hack at writing and art. His cultural contributions are less than Justin Bieber's, and he's a shitmuffin. Go go gadget Googlebomb!
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Judging__Eagle
- Prince
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- Location: Lake Ontario is in my backyard; Canada
Quixote is the archetypal "useless knight" that doesn't get that they are not really a knight, and that the world they are filled in doesn't really want, or care for chivalry. The story was originally a Comic Novel; then a Tragic Novel; and now it's considered a Classic Literature piece.
The book is considered one of the top 100 books of all time; and on some book lists is considered the most important book of all time.
As for benchmarks in the last game... I just barely surpassed your limits using full attack actions with a somewhat optimized non-lethal rogue1/bard1/monk1/fighter 17, dealing 230-250 pts of damage after all attacks were totaled up.
When the cap was 200 (which was fine, the level 20 character was able to achieve the cap even assuming poor damage dice rolls, and I really didn't care about optimizing further). While the damage this character did was perhaps x2 (not likely x3) the other PCs in the group against Fiends; the character themselves didn't really surpass the damage cap we had agreed on. They'd walk up to a fiend, hit them once with their 40Kg warhammers of subdual damage, kick them in the shins; then move onto the next one, totaling 200 damage on each possible target. Before sitting down in the middle of the room, and spending the next round prepping their pipe to have a mid-battle smoke.
While, yes the character dealt more damage than the demon-hating godling and the demon-hating paladin. It was all subdual damage b/c I didn't want my "anti-paladin" to go around actually killing stuff.
I wanted to leave the killing to the "Good" and the "Freedom & Good" PCs to do; and then laugh at their characters obvious hypocrisy.
Of course, that was fitting in with the character concept of "fiend slayer". The other players were complete and utter scrubs with little to no true RP capability at all, and kept conflating their character concepts with their in game RP. They kept assuming that if they "said" something about their character it would be "true"; and when my character only said what they were capable of, they scoffed and tittered like squirrels. Until, you know, the first encounter, and they go around murdering creatures like the evil assclowns that they were. Creatures that my character had knocked around a bit and was having a seat and enjoying a nice pipe.
I like to optimize my characters so that I can get to the point where my characters are lazy or even non-engaging in encounters, and have my characters take non-combat actions while melee is still going on.
In any case, Quixote is probably one of the few musicals that I really like. Mostly because of epic and impossible knight songs.
Upon further reflection... Quixote is the cohort, Sancho Panza is the real hero. Which is fine, I've played quartermaster/support characters (I'm the sort of person crazy enough to constantly be carrying 20-30 lbs of gear and supplies to fuel other characters at larps).
I am I Don Quixote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEnDOXmyU-
Golden Helmet of Mambrino /Copper Shaving Dish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8iZu-BAVM&NR=1
Good to see your game's bustling though, I'll probably have to do some worldtesting for my own material plane setting in the near future.
The book is considered one of the top 100 books of all time; and on some book lists is considered the most important book of all time.
As for benchmarks in the last game... I just barely surpassed your limits using full attack actions with a somewhat optimized non-lethal rogue1/bard1/monk1/fighter 17, dealing 230-250 pts of damage after all attacks were totaled up.
When the cap was 200 (which was fine, the level 20 character was able to achieve the cap even assuming poor damage dice rolls, and I really didn't care about optimizing further). While the damage this character did was perhaps x2 (not likely x3) the other PCs in the group against Fiends; the character themselves didn't really surpass the damage cap we had agreed on. They'd walk up to a fiend, hit them once with their 40Kg warhammers of subdual damage, kick them in the shins; then move onto the next one, totaling 200 damage on each possible target. Before sitting down in the middle of the room, and spending the next round prepping their pipe to have a mid-battle smoke.
While, yes the character dealt more damage than the demon-hating godling and the demon-hating paladin. It was all subdual damage b/c I didn't want my "anti-paladin" to go around actually killing stuff.
I wanted to leave the killing to the "Good" and the "Freedom & Good" PCs to do; and then laugh at their characters obvious hypocrisy.
Of course, that was fitting in with the character concept of "fiend slayer". The other players were complete and utter scrubs with little to no true RP capability at all, and kept conflating their character concepts with their in game RP. They kept assuming that if they "said" something about their character it would be "true"; and when my character only said what they were capable of, they scoffed and tittered like squirrels. Until, you know, the first encounter, and they go around murdering creatures like the evil assclowns that they were. Creatures that my character had knocked around a bit and was having a seat and enjoying a nice pipe.
I like to optimize my characters so that I can get to the point where my characters are lazy or even non-engaging in encounters, and have my characters take non-combat actions while melee is still going on.
In any case, Quixote is probably one of the few musicals that I really like. Mostly because of epic and impossible knight songs.
Upon further reflection... Quixote is the cohort, Sancho Panza is the real hero. Which is fine, I've played quartermaster/support characters (I'm the sort of person crazy enough to constantly be carrying 20-30 lbs of gear and supplies to fuel other characters at larps).
I am I Don Quixote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEnDOXmyU-
Golden Helmet of Mambrino /Copper Shaving Dish:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ8iZu-BAVM&NR=1
Good to see your game's bustling though, I'll probably have to do some worldtesting for my own material plane setting in the near future.
The Gaming Den; where Mathematics are rigorously applied to Mythology.
While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
While everyone's Philosophy is not in accord, that doesn't mean we're not on board.
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Quantumboost
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