this is because half-orcs are the master race, ironzerg
we've been over this
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Re: Optimus, as for your question about 2nd-level wizard spells that deal damage, there aren't many but one in particular hits like a truck:
[Melf's] Acid Arrow - 2d4 damage for 1 round + 1/3 levels
Flaming Sphere - 2d6 damage that is guided around, 1 round/lvl
Scorching Ray - 4d6 fire damage/ray, +1 ray/four levels
Just remember that acid arrow and scorching ray require touch attacks. Of course, touch attacks against creatures have laughably low AC defenses (unless by some oddity you're facing a force-based creature) so it's not likely the wizard will miss.
I've actually toyed with a similar idea, Dani, though mine was more setting up a frontier in a more typical D&D world.
With dwarven gunsmiths and Half Orc barbarians with flintlocks and such.
And an Eladrin Pinkerton agency.
This remindes me of how I would love to make/see released a setting the borrowed heavly from Arcanum; Magic vs. Tech Victorian Steampunk world that (Arcanum spoilers)
Had been going back and forth between Magic-domanate and Tech-domanate for thousands (or possibly even hundreds of thousands of years, and only a few people are aware of it
Well, because of Encounters tonight (which I'll write up tomorrow on my blog; plug plug plug) I ended up picking up Heroes of the Fallen Lands. Too bad it's three books back in the line of things I'm trying to read at the moment.
Encounters also introduced my 3.5 loving girlfriend to Essentials, and she was pretty pleased with what she saw. She thinks that there's way too many powers in 4e, and the more focused bent to Essentials characters was more up her alley. So.
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Encounters also introduced my 3.5 loving girlfriend to Essentials, and she was pretty pleased with what she saw. She thinks that there's way too many powers in 4e, and the more focused bent to Essentials characters was more up her alley. So.
I'm not making a statement about worth with regards to "Normal 4e" and "Essentials 4e" when I say Heroes of the Fallen Lands felt more like the D&D I played growing up.
With regard to lots of people who were lost in the move to 4e I think this may be the thing to bring them back with.
Encounters also introduced my 3.5 loving girlfriend to Essentials, and she was pretty pleased with what she saw. She thinks that there's way too many powers in 4e, and the more focused bent to Essentials characters was more up her alley. So.
I'm not making a statement about worth with regards to "Normal 4e" and "Essentials 4e" when I say Heroes of the Fallen Lands felt more like the D&D I played growing up.
With regard to lots of people who were lost in the move to 4e I think this may be the thing to bring them back with.
Essentials is really hitting the nostalgia centers of my brain.
It does kind of feel like a return to form in a lot of ways.
Oh man. I've been running the occasional pickup game the landlord and some kids. They're used to AD&D or have never played D&D at all, and teaching kids is tremendously difficult. I could never keep them interested, only the magic-users were consistantly relying on powers, no one really knew what was going on, and the landlord would just complain and complain. I was about ready to give up.
And then I remembered D&D Essentials. I'm gonna run that next time, because as I understand it, that's the system that's meant to introduce new players as well as help bridge the gap for the old school.
Thank you, Mike Mearls. You may have ruined D&D, but you saved my game.
Man, an all goliath party could be awesome. Almost as awesome as all dwarf.
All Warforged Party... lead by a Warlord with the Legendary General ED. :P
There is actually a monster in the Dark Sun creature catalog that gets a pretty hefty damage bonus against warforged (due to having an anti-construct bonus). Not to mention how much damage it does anyway, so it's adding insult onto a large amount of injury. It can probably knock every character to negative bloodied easily.
Man, an all goliath party could be awesome. Almost as awesome as all dwarf.
All Warforged Party... lead by a Warlord with the Legendary General ED. :P
There is actually a monster in the Dark Sun creature catalog that gets a pretty hefty damage bonus against warforged (due to having an anti-construct bonus). Not to mention how much damage it does anyway, so it's adding insult onto a large amount of injury. It can probably knock every character to negative bloodied easily.
Is that the rampager?
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Man, an all goliath party could be awesome. Almost as awesome as all dwarf.
All Warforged Party... lead by a Warlord with the Legendary General ED. :P
There is actually a monster in the Dark Sun creature catalog that gets a pretty hefty damage bonus against warforged (due to having an anti-construct bonus). Not to mention how much damage it does anyway, so it's adding insult onto a large amount of injury. It can probably knock every character to negative bloodied easily.
Is that the rampager?
I think so. I can only imagine how hilarious that monster would look damage wise scaled to level 30. It already does ridiculous damage for its level (especially when bloodied). It actually makes me somewhat regret the lack of warforged/shardminds, because it's basically the ultimate "Screw you" to those races.
I think so. I can only imagine how hilarious that monster would look damage wise scaled to level 30. It already does ridiculous damage for its level (especially when bloodied). It actually makes me somewhat regret the lack of warforged/shardminds, because it's basically the ultimate "Screw you" to those races.
Maybe that is the developer's deviously subtle way to punish players who want to play non-default races in Athas.
I think so. I can only imagine how hilarious that monster would look damage wise scaled to level 30. It already does ridiculous damage for its level (especially when bloodied). It actually makes me somewhat regret the lack of warforged/shardminds, because it's basically the ultimate "Screw you" to those races.
Maybe that is the developer's deviously subtle way to punish players who want to play non-default races in Athas.
I have a reflavored Shard Mind in one of my Dark Sun games.
I look forward to his encounter with the Ravager, especially given the two of them having roughly the same end goal (the destruction of virtually everything).
I think so. I can only imagine how hilarious that monster would look damage wise scaled to level 30. It already does ridiculous damage for its level (especially when bloodied). It actually makes me somewhat regret the lack of warforged/shardminds, because it's basically the ultimate "Screw you" to those races.
Maybe that is the developer's deviously subtle way to punish players who want to play non-default races in Athas.
I have a reflavored Shard Mind in one of my Dark Sun games.
I look forward to his encounter with the Ravager, especially given the two of them having roughly the same end goal (the destruction of virtually everything).
What's the deal with the reflavored shardmind, again?
With how many powers the Rogue has that debuff the target (blind, stun, daze, etc) I'm a little sad that the Thief has no such options. You can knock prone on MBAs, but that's about it.
That's really the only thing that sucks for me about Thief vs Rogue. It'd be nice if Backstab could be improved by feats to apply those conditions.
I think so. I can only imagine how hilarious that monster would look damage wise scaled to level 30. It already does ridiculous damage for its level (especially when bloodied). It actually makes me somewhat regret the lack of warforged/shardminds, because it's basically the ultimate "Screw you" to those races.
Maybe that is the developer's deviously subtle way to punish players who want to play non-default races in Athas.
I have a reflavored Shard Mind in one of my Dark Sun games.
I look forward to his encounter with the Ravager, especially given the two of them having roughly the same end goal (the destruction of virtually everything).
What's the deal with the reflavored shardmind, again?
Some kind of sociopathic earth spirit?
Sand storm spirit, actually.
But he basically wants to become a primal sorceror king and rule the tablelands from the throne he will be building out of the bones of all sapient life on Athas.
But right now he's bound to a piece of jewelry that is being worn by a wife of Nibenay, played by my wife.
But he basically wants to become a primal sorceror king and rule the tablelands from the throne he will be building out of the bones of all sapient life on Athas.
But right now he's bound to a piece of jewelry that is being worn by a wife of Nibenay, played by my wife.
But he basically wants to become a primal sorceror king and rule the tablelands from the throne he will be building out of the bones of all sapient life on Athas.
But right now he's bound to a piece of jewelry that is being worn by a wife of Nibenay, played by my wife.
So there's some stress there.
I really really dig this party.
Conrad would fit right in.
We're headed to Raam to foment open rebellion. Should be fun.
So I kind of touched on this last night, but I wanted to continue along with the thought -
I wasn't much impressed by the fighter I picked up last night for Encounters. Oh boy - I have two stances, and I can either stand there and be a wall, or I can...stand there and be a wall. *Yawn*. If I want to have actual hitty type abilities, I'd have to go with slayer - or I could just, y'know, play a fsking regular fighter. Myself, I'll stick to the stuff in the PHBs.
My girlfriend, on the other hand, came away from Encounters with a very different impression. Like I said before, she's a 3.* holdout; while she likes the characters she's built so far for 4e (a beastlord ranger, an assassin, and for my game, a barbarian) she's always mentioning that it always feels like she's "Super Saiyan" and has all of these over-the-top-kewl-powers that she feels overwhelmed choosing between when it comes her turn.
So last night she picked up the slayer and had a ball with it. The abilities - you hit things, either more consistantly, or more powerfully - worked out for her. The fact that everything keyed off of basic attack was easy for her to grasp as well. To her, fighters and other non-magical types just hit things; where she understood tactically what powers were for, they still didn't quite click for her. Essentials though? Hit the right buttons. She was (gently) pushing me last night to pick up Heroes of the Fallen Lands, and started thumbing through it when we got home.
So on that, Wizards has made a convert, and it makes me glad. If Essentials manages to quell the fanboy jihad some, I'll be glad about that too. I'm not much impressed by the Essentials characters, but I can see where it'll help bring more people in.
But seriously, two books for everything that's in one book (PHB)? No thank you.
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But he basically wants to become a primal sorceror king and rule the tablelands from the throne he will be building out of the bones of all sapient life on Athas.
But right now he's bound to a piece of jewelry that is being worn by a wife of Nibenay, played by my wife.
So there's some stress there.
I really really dig this party.
Conrad would fit right in.
We're headed to Raam to foment open rebellion. Should be fun.
Conrad would take every arcane defiling feat.
Boy would defile all the time.
Even when he didn't need to. Especially when he didn't need to.
Wouldn't even feel bad about it.
That's the way my party seems to be going. 3 primals, 1 psion, and that one guy that's going to end up dead. Presuming we ever escape the weird hive slave city that undergirds the Nibenay arena of course.
Well in my Dark Sun PbP a Wife of Nibenay sent to infiltrate Tyrian ziggurat construction fluffed two defiling rolls in front of High Templar Tithian, who is now blackmailing her into assisting his plots...she's not dead yet, but he is definitely watching her.
But seriously, two books for everything that's in one book (PHB)? No thank you.
Do you know what confuses me about this attitude? The two books are each about half the price of the one book. I don't understand finding quantity somehow offensive.
Well in my Dark Sun PbP [strike]a Wife of Nibenay sent to infiltrate Tyrian ziggurat construction[/strike] everyone fluffed [strike]two defiling[/strike] almost all their rolls in [strike]front of High Templar Tithian,who is now blackmailing her into assisting his plots[/strike] combat ...[strike]she's [/strike] they're not dead yet, but [strike]he is definitely watching her[/strike] but they will be. Oh yes. They will be.
Well in my Dark Sun PbP [strike]a Wife of Nibenay sent to infiltrate Tyrian ziggurat construction[/strike] everyone fluffed [strike]two defiling[/strike] almost all their rolls in [strike]front of High Templar Tithian,who is now blackmailing her into assisting his plots[/strike] combat ...[strike]she's [/strike] they're not dead yet, but [strike]he is definitely watching her[/strike] but they will be. Oh yes. They will be.
I get the sense my players are developing a dislike for me.
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Just remember that acid arrow and scorching ray require touch attacks. Of course, touch attacks against creatures have laughably low AC defenses (unless by some oddity you're facing a force-based creature) so it's not likely the wizard will miss.
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[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Edit: Misread.
Why are we doing it? Because it's a giant dude sneak attacking with a gorram greatclub, that's why. I thought that would be obvious.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
There needs to be appreciation for big meatheads that hit things with large objects.
I dream of a party entirely made of Goliaths.
Constantly smashing everything.
Solving skill challenges with creative smashings.
And at epic level, clubbing the Universe into submission.
All Of The Universes.
I would totally play it. I love theme games.
Like the time it just so happened that our party had an average of 15 Str, 15 Cha, and 9 Wis/Int.
First and likely only adventuring guild that moonlighted as an all nude male revue.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
This remindes me of how I would love to make/see released a setting the borrowed heavly from Arcanum; Magic vs. Tech Victorian Steampunk world that (Arcanum spoilers)
I love that game's world so much...
Encounters also introduced my 3.5 loving girlfriend to Essentials, and she was pretty pleased with what she saw. She thinks that there's way too many powers in 4e, and the more focused bent to Essentials characters was more up her alley. So.
I'm not making a statement about worth with regards to "Normal 4e" and "Essentials 4e" when I say Heroes of the Fallen Lands felt more like the D&D I played growing up.
With regard to lots of people who were lost in the move to 4e I think this may be the thing to bring them back with.
It does kind of feel like a return to form in a lot of ways.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
that ^^^ reminds me of this:
http://twitter.com/feministhulk
this is the kind of thing that could inspire a character
fuggin genius man
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
And then I remembered D&D Essentials. I'm gonna run that next time, because as I understand it, that's the system that's meant to introduce new players as well as help bridge the gap for the old school.
Thank you, Mike Mearls. You may have ruined D&D, but you saved my game.
All Warforged Party... lead by a Warlord with the Legendary General ED. :P
There is actually a monster in the Dark Sun creature catalog that gets a pretty hefty damage bonus against warforged (due to having an anti-construct bonus). Not to mention how much damage it does anyway, so it's adding insult onto a large amount of injury. It can probably knock every character to negative bloodied easily.
Is that the rampager?
I think so. I can only imagine how hilarious that monster would look damage wise scaled to level 30. It already does ridiculous damage for its level (especially when bloodied). It actually makes me somewhat regret the lack of warforged/shardminds, because it's basically the ultimate "Screw you" to those races.
Maybe that is the developer's deviously subtle way to punish players who want to play non-default races in Athas.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I look forward to his encounter with the Ravager, especially given the two of them having roughly the same end goal (the destruction of virtually everything).
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
What's the deal with the reflavored shardmind, again?
Some kind of sociopathic earth spirit?
That's really the only thing that sucks for me about Thief vs Rogue. It'd be nice if Backstab could be improved by feats to apply those conditions.
Inquisitor77: Rius, you are Sisyphus and melee Wizard is your boulder
Tube: This must be what it felt like to be an Iraqi when Saddam was killed
Bookish Stickers - Mrs. Rius' Etsy shop with bumper stickers and vinyl decals.
But he basically wants to become a primal sorceror king and rule the tablelands from the throne he will be building out of the bones of all sapient life on Athas.
But right now he's bound to a piece of jewelry that is being worn by a wife of Nibenay, played by my wife.
So there's some stress there.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I really really dig this party.
We're headed to Raam to foment open rebellion. Should be fun.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I wasn't much impressed by the fighter I picked up last night for Encounters. Oh boy - I have two stances, and I can either stand there and be a wall, or I can...stand there and be a wall. *Yawn*. If I want to have actual hitty type abilities, I'd have to go with slayer - or I could just, y'know, play a fsking regular fighter. Myself, I'll stick to the stuff in the PHBs.
My girlfriend, on the other hand, came away from Encounters with a very different impression. Like I said before, she's a 3.* holdout; while she likes the characters she's built so far for 4e (a beastlord ranger, an assassin, and for my game, a barbarian) she's always mentioning that it always feels like she's "Super Saiyan" and has all of these over-the-top-kewl-powers that she feels overwhelmed choosing between when it comes her turn.
So last night she picked up the slayer and had a ball with it. The abilities - you hit things, either more consistantly, or more powerfully - worked out for her. The fact that everything keyed off of basic attack was easy for her to grasp as well. To her, fighters and other non-magical types just hit things; where she understood tactically what powers were for, they still didn't quite click for her. Essentials though? Hit the right buttons. She was (gently) pushing me last night to pick up Heroes of the Fallen Lands, and started thumbing through it when we got home.
So on that, Wizards has made a convert, and it makes me glad. If Essentials manages to quell the fanboy jihad some, I'll be glad about that too. I'm not much impressed by the Essentials characters, but I can see where it'll help bring more people in.
But seriously, two books for everything that's in one book (PHB)? No thank you.
Conrad would take every arcane defiling feat.
Boy would defile all the time.
Even when he didn't need to. Especially when he didn't need to.
Wouldn't even feel bad about it.
Right up until your party-mates stab you to death in your sleep.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
Do you know what confuses me about this attitude? The two books are each about half the price of the one book. I don't understand finding quantity somehow offensive.
I get the sense my players are developing a dislike for me.
Words can not describe how wrong you are. Dwarfs are awesome.