Board 8 > Anagram's D&D Game - Topic 2

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We didn't neglect to do it we dodged around it!

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Whatever and stuff.

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Updated Wishlist (since I got an item off it, it's the same list minus that item)


Level 1: Restful Bedroll (Adventurer's Vault)
Level 2: Boots of Adept Charging (Adventurer's Vault)
Level 6: Iron Armbands of Power (Adventurer's Vault)
Level 6: Distance Javelin +2 (Adventurer's Vault)
Level 6: Amulet of Protection +2 (Player's Handbook 1)
Level 7: Ghost Strike Ki Focus +2 (Player's Handbook 3)
Level 8: Eladrin Finemail +2 (Player's Handbook 1)


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-Bloodiron Scale +2, Adventurer's Vault.
-Vae Damno upgrade to +2, Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium, Frostbrand Weapon.
-Badge of the Berserker +2, Adventurer's Vault 2.
-Boon of the Fading One, Dragon 389.
-Gauntlets of Blood, Adventurer's Vault 2.
-Backlash Tattoo, Adventurer's Vault 2.

Updated wishlist!

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Friday Session:

-Spoke with Vea. Received much loot, plus a map leading to the stolen ship's landing point.
-Advanced, finding a dead dragon, likely killed by Queen. Attacked by Fury soldiers, who were soundly trashed, only to be harassed by gnoll warriors...who were trashed even more soundly.
-Most of the dragon's teeth were missing. Possibly to be used in some ritual?
-Found ship, guarded by Shursh and a large contigent of Furies.
-Winter diverted most of the Furies away while the group snuck in.
-Fought and defeated Shursh, denying her from hitting spectacularly (Cash moment: her missing Valerian on an 18). The haze of madness and pain lifting from her eyes, she asked to die. Grudgingly, Valerian complied. A bit of her soul was feed to Luni in exchange for assisting the group by briefly summoning an army of Deadlights.
-Buried Shursh, using her blade as a headstone. Climbed onto the ship to find a way to seize it or disable it.
-Decided to disable it, in the end. Unable to manipulate it properly, Brona sent it forward, towards the edge.
-Tried to leave, only to find the door closed and Sonya waiting for us. End of session.

PS: Extra bulletpoint: -Dealt more than 100 damage in one round ). The race between Brona and Val for strikeriest guy is on now!

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Sburbopolis, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60981373

BTW, something I just realized: you might wanna take a look at the Infernal Slave theme, Scep. It' s insanely good on Brona, no lie.

EDIT: Vance himself might love the Yakuza theme - it lets him go full-CHA without so many penaties and it has a pretty nice power.

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So, Omega was having trouble picking a theme, since none of the available ones fit him. He was thinking about his character's style, one thing led to another, and inspiration struck...so he wants to know if this theme is kosher. Behold, the...

Secret Spellspy

Level 1: You gain access to the One-Liner feature power.

One Liner
Encounter + Martial
Minor Action + Personal
Effect: If you hit the target with a Will attack, it takes a -2 penalty to attack rolls until you are hit by an attack or until the end of the encounter. If the target is bloodied, you may also immediately make an Intimidate check to force it to surrender.

Level 5: Chose one power you currently know. All saves made against that power suffer a -2 penalty. Each level, you may repick your signature power as you see fit.

Level 10: You may use your Arcana skill in place of your Stealth skill, as you weave wards and spells of invisibility around you like a subtle web of nondetection.


Basically, this theme is a tweaked Yakuza (Dragon 404) power plus a castery bent for features, based on the secret services of the Magitek land Omega's character hails from. It's less powerful than Yakuza, being single-target and chomping up an action, but easier to trigger. And the features are about even - they do different things, but do them well. Does it seem OK?

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Sounds okay I guess.

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Uh, you sure you mean Infernal Slave? Seems completely worthless.

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Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
Uh, you sure you mean Infernal Slave? Seems completely worthless.

Yeah. Notice the Slide 5 thing. Now, wasn't there a power that gave you an extra shot of damage on moving somebody...?

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From: KanzarisKelshen | #410
Sceptilesolarbeam posted...
Uh, you sure you mean Infernal Slave? Seems completely worthless.

Yeah. Notice the Slide 5 thing. Now, wasn't there a power that gave you an extra shot of damage on moving somebody...?

I don't need more powers for moving people, I have Mark of Storm.

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"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." -Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick

Pretty sure you can't retrain the theme of your life's upbringing. I'll stick with Mercenary.

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Accel ACE
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In actuality, you can retrain themes according to Dark Sun, and anyway I'd rather not take themes as a literal restriction on background.

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That's... incredibly silly.

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Gonna update wishlist.

Incisive Lancing Dagger +2 (AV2)
Repulsion Armor +2 (AV)
Choker of Eloquence +2 (AV)
Resplendent Circlet (AV2)
Resplendent Boots (AV2)
Siberys Shard of the Mage (Eberron)
Bracers of Mental Might (AV)

I think that's about it.

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Minor revision.

Level 4: Everlasting Provisions (Adventurer's Vault)
Level 5: Helm of Seven Deaths (MME)
Level 7: Lesser Cloaked Longsword +2. (MME)
Level 8: Vagabond's Die. (AV2.)
Level 9/10: Wintersnap Armor/Doppleganger Armor +2 (MME)
Level 10: Periapt of Cascading Health.

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From: Accel ACE | #412
Pretty sure you can't retrain the theme of your life's upbringing. I'll stick with Mercenary.

Scep kinda beat me to it (screw losing internet for a day), but I wouldn't say the theme is your life's upbringing in this case, since we've reskinned heavily and had to employ homebrews for characters whom normal themes simply did not fit. I understand it perfectly if you don't feel like swapping the theme, since Mercenary is a pretty great one, but since you mentioned that you wanted to do a crazy CHA fighter, I realized Yakuza functions as a boss enabler to the concept, so I figured I might as well suggest it. :)

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Sburbopolis, Homestuck RPG: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/60981373

More theme talk:

http://community.wizards.com/go/thread/view/75882/28882221/HotElemental_Chaos_in_hand...

And this time, I seriously think it's worth considering a swap, Accel, if that Elemental Initiate thing is true. I know you feel like your theme has to be core to the character, but imagine not having to burn an MC and a ton of feats on that monk strike, plus getting ANOTHER damage boost vs. bloodied with that ki focus expertise.

EDIT: And Scep: Seriously consider the Hyper Focus for Lightning down the line. I'll try to pass the detailed info out ASAP, but +2 damage a shot is 'gatlike'.

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Y'know I just don't like the idea of swapping out options for better ones as content is released. There's a line where the munchkining just gets excessive and I already think we've gotten dangerously close to it. Besides most of my favorite feats are monk feats anyway.

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Accel ACE posted...
Y'know I just don't like the idea of swapping out options for better ones as content is released. There's a line where the munchkining just gets excessive and I already think we've gotten dangerously close to it. Besides most of my favorite feats are monk feats anyway.

It sounds to me like you would just be using the resources you had available. Like in a vidya game where you have a +2 weapon of awesome but a monster suddenly dropped a +4 weapon of awesome. Would you switch weapons?

If this game had started a couple months later with this already released, would you still have picked mercenary?

I am sure either way will be fine, but it sounds like this theme is more what you would want. Unless it isn't *shrugs*

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Well, I'm not swapping out, but I think it's logical to mention the options. If it helps you realize a concept, I say go for it - why put points into WIS to be effective if a theme swap lets you go full CHA, and so on.

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Because this isn't a video game, characters in D&D are meant to be played like living, breathing people inside this fantasy world. Wizards of the Coast doesn't release content from the in character perspective, that is purely out of game stuff.

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It's your loss if you want to play it like that, but given that retraining is very well-supported in the rules ever since PH, I'd say your perspective is at least at odds with the rules.

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You also wouldn't have the same perspective on other spells or powers you might learn, or other feats, or retrained skills. It's an acceptable break from reality to keep people from being locked into a choice they no longer want; whether what they're changing to is new or old makes no difference.

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"As the size of an explosion increases, the number of social situations it is incapable of solving approaches zero." -Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick

If everybody else is going to do it I can give it a looksee, but it just feels like trying too hard to "win" at D&D which is something inherently wrong of the current generation of people that play roleplaying games. You don't have out of "game" knowledge of real life, if you were actually these fantastic characters you wouldn't have the same perspective on freshly released content to make yourself stronger. It's rollplaying over roleplaying.

Edit: And aside from that none of us have really even roleplayed or so much as mentioned the retraining we've already done in character aside from Valerian's whole resurrection thing basically making him a new PC.


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And this goes back to the edit I made (a bit late of course), is that we've failed to really even mention half the retraining we've done in roleplay. Just, "oh I could always do this", really. I guess I'm at fault here for being an avid roleplayer over the past nearly two decades.

"IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT!"

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From: Accel ACE | #426
And this goes back to the edit I made (a bit late of course), is that we've failed to really even mention half the retraining we've done in roleplay. Just, "oh I could always do this", really. I guess I'm at fault here for being an avid roleplayer over the past nearly two decades.

"IT'S STILL REAL TO ME DAMMIT!"

Hey! I did that when I swapped like half my character around! |:<

(Mostly, I think feats are a small thing - retraining them isn't too important. Themes are bigger, but if they fit the concept still, you can just say the truth, that that's the essence of your character being preserved. If the theme is noticeably different in what it accomplishes, roleplaying it is totally kosher of course.)

PS: Also, the issue with roleplaying the retrains is...well, this is a fast moving game. If something doesn't work, why should we be stuck with it because we didn't know better? Like Euri not having an expertise feat because CPU didn't know they were mandatory, for instance. In-game like a week has passed, tops. There isn't much room for fluffing things up. :-/

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It'd probably boil down to 'i did some training and boy, isn't this cool, let's do that in the future and never do that old thing ever again' anyway.

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So I finally got around to updating CBLoader...

Oh my god, we can be Pixies now?

What is this, I don't even...

(I'm not sure if this is awesome or dumb. I'm leaning awesome)

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From: Accel ACE | #430
So I finally got around to updating CBLoader...

Oh my god, we can be Pixies now?

What is this, I don't even...

(I'm not sure if this is awesome or dumb. I'm leaning awesome)

Better yet, you can be a pixie...and hit a dragon with a FINAL! ATOMIC! BUSTER!

(Brawler Pixies 4 lyfe)

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Awesome confirmed.

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pixie was a race i was considereing, but anagram said all the peoples on my island would be pretty much human if i was under rael's domain...

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From: SovietOmega | #433
pixie was a race i was considereing, but anagram said all the peoples on my island would be pretty much human if i was under rael's domain...

Solution: Hidden pixie magocracy. DO EEEEEEEET.

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I made a pixie swordmage for laughs. I love how he came out...

====== Created Using Wizards of the Coast D&D Character Builder ======
level 7
Pixie, Swordmage
Build: Shielding Swordmage
Swordmage Aegis: Aegis of Shielding

FINAL ABILITY SCORES
Str 9, Con 16, Dex 10, Int 20, Wis 10, Cha 14.

STARTING ABILITY SCORES
Str 9, Con 15, Dex 10, Int 17, Wis 10, Cha 12.


AC: 25 Fort: 17 Reflex: 19 Will: 18
HP: 67 Surges: 11 Surge Value: 16

TRAINED SKILLS
Arcana +13, Diplomacy +10, Endurance +11, History +13

UNTRAINED SKILLS
Acrobatics +3, Bluff +5, Dungeoneering +3, Heal +3, Insight +5, Intimidate +5, Nature +5, Perception +5, Religion +8, Stealth +5, Streetwise +5, Thievery +3, Athletics +2

FEATS
Level 1: Intelligent Blademaster
Level 2: Light Blade Expertise
Level 4: Streak of Light
Level 6: Weapon Focus (Light Blade)

POWERS
Swordmage at-will 1: Lightning Lure
Swordmage at-will 1: Sword Burst
Swordmage encounter 1: Crackling Burst
Swordmage daily 1: Frost Backlash
Swordmage utility 2: Guardian's Defense
Swordmage encounter 3: Transposing Lunge
Swordmage daily 5: Lingering Lightning
Swordmage utility 6: Pixie Invisibility
Swordmage encounter 7: Electrified Lash.

ITEMS
Magic Rapier +2, Marauder's Leather Armor +2, Bracers of Mighty Striking (heroic tier), Talon Amulet +1, Horned Helm (heroic tier), Boots of Adept Charging (heroic tier)
====== Copy to Clipboard and Press the Import Button on the Summary Tab ======

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Accel ACE
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...looking my pixie swordmage over I don't think Talon Amulet stacks with Bracers of Mighty Striking. Hmm..

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Accel ACE
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solution: equip the amulet on the bracers to give an enhancement bonus to the bracers that will then pass on to you.

...

or maybe something less fun that the rules would allow ;_;

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Heh, fiddling with this a bit more I made him level 11 and multiclassed bard and effectively gained training in four more skills through bard of all trades.

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Accel ACE
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it is like i am watching the party hand anagram a noose and beg him to tighten it...

glorious

*charges popcorn to maximum*

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From: SovietOmega | #439
it is like i am watching the party hand anagram a noose and beg him to tighten it...

glorious

*charges popcorn to maximum*

?

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KanzarisKelshen posted...
From: SovietOmega | #439
it is like i am watching the party hand anagram a noose and beg him to tighten it...

glorious

*charges popcorn to maximum*
?

making characters higher level than the party to clearly combat them at some point >_>

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Monsters don't play by PC rules. We won't see that character fight us in recognizable form.

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Oh yeah. It's entirely possible I won't be on at all for Friday's game, or at least rather late. It's hard to say, so don't expect anything of me.

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Bump just in case.

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Who has died?

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crazyisgood posted...
Who has died?

If you mean PCs?

shados' character Jean left the party, as did Bonetail's character Chip, and Gen's character Ashara. Kan's character Valerian died, but was brought back.

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By the way I have a new AIM screen name, it's CadenT20. I've been tired of the old one since I've had since my freshman year in high school, finally got around to making a new one!


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Accel ACE
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Okay.

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I use Prestidigitation to bump topics.

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Any updates on Broder?

What's going on with him?

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