There's that 1/20 chance. Told you the dice roller was couting down. :)
Its more than slightly ironic that he got his 1 with his -2 to hit.
Where'd the gnoll in AN 32 come from? Is he a new combatant?
He is the lucky gnoll who got up and was spared by Sajan and Grall. He's legging it.
The scariness of the low level but very determined priests of Rovagug is certainly being diminished by you critting the crap out of them :)
I will be out for most of the next 3 days. I will try to check in once a day but don't let me hold up the action.
Apart from cantrips and 1 spell (Create Pit), Zeladiel is down to equipment. Which leads to the question- where is all the equipment we picked up? I've marked off (and have used) the Wand of Summon Monster II on my sheet. That still leaves the Hand of the Mage and, especially, the 2 Beads of Force.
Edit: Also, got stroppy with all my dice rolls and plugged every one into a spreadsheet.
Out of over 80 rolls, my average is less than 10.
Out of over 40 rolls against me, their average was over 11.
I'm wondering if I should go for the History of Scars achievement as I've already taken about 130 points of damage. Other players should be way ahead of me.
And with most of that healed by Linah, multiply by 6 and she shouldn't be too far from the Healer's Touch achievement.
Currently on 13hp too. ;-)
*shrug* Nuveril doesn't have any of it; I can tell you that much.
Yay, Team Wizard, btw. Not everyone can say they killed an air elemental with magic missiles. :)
Thanks for the support. Team wizard is hoping to keep its current membership. :-)
Nuveril, Sajan, and Zeladiel seem to be the only ones with an item in the neck slot, unless I'm missing something on someone's character sheet. (And I'm one to talk, as I don't have her bronze-disk-thing on hers, although it's kind of hard to list something you don't know what it is. Mysterious amulet of mystery.) Based on fashion sense alone, wearing a severed hand would seem to fit Grall the best, but I don't know if he'd ever want to use mage hand. :)
Nuveril can heartily get behind Team Wizard keeping its current membership. God knows what she'd get stuck with next time. Another Gnome or something. *shudder*
Awww, that's sweet. It's almost like Nuveril doesn't want to kill Zeladiel just yet. :-)
Wizards needs lots of scrolls...u have more s rolls of haste right? :)
Of all the spellcasters Nuveril has known, he's the least objectionable! It's high praise! ;)
Beads of force... That's a ranged attack, so someone with a good Dex + BAB. Grall's +8, Khalid's +7; I'd rather see one in Khalid's hands, as Grall's usually busy rushing into melee and tearing out throats. (Nuveril's +8 too, but she'd be afraid the thing would go off in her pack, entirely aside from her conviction that only cowards stand back and fight from a distance.) Sajan's normally going to be in melee too, so Zeladiel could keep one of them; we hope he figures out how to stay behind the front lines one of these days. ;)
Front lines? Hmph!
I've noticed an alarming tendency for Large flying creatures to pounce over the big guns and on to Zeladiel for lots of damage.
Perhaps he should spend more time by Nuveril's side. :-P
I'm telling you! With the flying! What is it with this AP that everything has wings?!?
Just wait. Genie AP remember :)
Guys I had some issues updating over the weekend as I may or may not have a bricked PC at home. Should know by tonight.
So I have a corrupt system registry file preventing the PC from booting, in safe mode or otherwise. Ironically something to do with my AGV software although I'm not sure. Tried to boot up repair CD and it variously says nothing is wrong or that there it has rectified the error without improvement.
To my great annoyance it also says there is no system restore point although I maintain tonnes.
Any ideas from the technically savvy here short of trying a complete re-install or getting a new one (its getting toward the end of its natural life anyway).
Sounds like its a last cause to me- try and get data recovered from the hard drive then format it.
I defer to the even more IT savvy Gnoll Barbarian though.
Yeah, it could get nasty. Without having more info like PC make (Dell?) and other info it would be hard for me to guess although it sounds like a virus of some kind.
Do you have another PC you can hook the dard drive to and see if you can get the date off of?
I did pass this along to my brother who did desktop troubleshooting and repair for 5-6 years to see if he had any work-around...
Its an old Sager 8660 laptop. Nearing 4 years old but never had an issue that system restore couldn't fix before now.
Reason why I thought it was an AVG issue is when I start it in safe mode with prompts it seems to hang when it tries to boot one of the AVG named drivers. Is there any way I can boot it up without that (or is that just safe mode and I'm completely mistaken)?
try this url
PC Help URL
If you can get to it in safe mode, run MSConfig and use that to tell it what to startup on boot- you should be able to disable whatever service name AVG uses. To be safe, tell it to use a selective startup and to use a diagnostic startup.
Thanks for this. While trying it, laptop did actually brick. Will not even turn on (so maybe something funky with the power caused the registry corruption). New laptop being ordered. Very sorry for the annoying delay.
I remain committed to the game and will have things back up as soon as I can.
No worries, not like you can control when you laptop goes belly up! Hope you are able to replace it with something nice and upgraded!!!!
no worries. the longer your laptop stays down, the longer Linah survives! :)
No problems (other than the annoyance of having to get an new computer that is). I'm sure we'll all be here when you are able to continue.
This is the current replacement HERE . A little worried about service/warranty from this (german) supplier but its just such good value for the features here in the UK. Many better options for you lucky americans but I don't feel like going through the shipping and import duty hassle this time around.[/ooc]
Its pretty nice.
Wow, that's expensive. I hope all the technical mumbo-jumbo translates to some really optimized components. I haven't paid more than $1500 for a laptop since 2004. Then again, that's probably about the last time I played video games that needed optimized components.
Btw, it's my birthday, AK. All I want is Sargavan Saga at the top of your update list. ;)
Bah women's day, sounds like Valentine's day over here...a bunch of hoo hahh IMO.... :]
According to my wife every day is woman's day....
Wow, that's expensive. I hope all the technical mumbo-jumbo translates to some really optimized components. I haven't paid more than $1500 for a laptop since 2004. Then again, that's probably about the last time I played video games that needed optimized components.
Btw, it's my birthday, AK. All I want is Sargavan Saga at the top of your update list. ;)
Its a gaming laptop which means I'm looking at around 700-800 GBP at least over here if I want it to play things that are out now. This one has the features of one at the 1300-1400 GBP range for just over a thousand (expansionist german manufactuers at their best I believe). I try and squeeze as much useable life out of laptops as I can (hopefully 3-4 years) although I'm resigned to them not being able to play the latest games for the last few years of that.
A work perk also nets me a free 600 GBP every 3 years as long as its notionally going to get used partly for work purposes which is pretty handy.
Wow, that's expensive. I hope all the technical mumbo-jumbo translates to some really optimized components. I haven't paid more than $1500 for a laptop since 2004. Then again, that's probably about the last time I played video games that needed optimized components.
Btw, it's my birthday, AK. All I want is Sargavan Saga at the top of your update list. ;)
congratulations!
So, Zel and Khalid with a Bead of Force each.
Was there a Necklace of Fireballs somewhere?
And happy birthday Joana- you're 3 weeks before me. :-)
Thanks for the birthday wishes! @Pryllin, all the best people were born in March, you know. ;)
Which I already knew, if you thought it was going to make me qualify my statement. ;)
Paizo saw me in action, and decided that i'd still be too effective even if they nerfed my brass knuckles. They took another big, steaming dump on
the Monk class.
Paizo saw me in action, and decided that i'd still be too effective even if they nerfed my brass knuckles. They took another big, steaming dump on
the Monk class.
What did they do now? I've obviously missed the big Rules Questions firestorm.
Its hidden in the 'Ultimate Equipment' discussion and exploded into a few seperate threads but basically, SKR and Jason Bulmahn say its not fair for me to use my Brass Knuckles or any other single weapon for my 'off-hand' attack (despite Monks not HAVING an off-hand attack), because the ability simulates TWF I need to have TWO weapons to flurry effectively as a monk (although unarmed strike is some weird exception that counts as many weapons for this purpose :/).
Essentially although they claim thats the way they have always interpreted their own text, pretty much every monk guide, every poster on PF forums and most importantly, every NPC monk that has ever been statted out in a Paizo product has allowed the use of Flurry with a single weapon.
It also completely breaks the Zen Archer, to the point where to flurry in the way they are saying is RAW, he needs to have 8 bows and the Quick Draw feat at high levels...
Jason says hes looking at the issue and will come back to it but so far its utter ridiculous.
Paizo have had it in for the monk since launch.
Edit: For example, see the 'Master' at the bottom of this page. Hes flurrying with a single kama and hes from the GMG- under this 'ruling we've used all along', his flurry is illegal. Link- Click Here
Read all 400-odd posts in one of the threads, anyway. Whether or not it was their original intention, they're going to have a hard time crying foul now when every monk they've ever published has his flurry stats posted with a single weapon. Sloppy. And can you imagine what a nightmare stat blocks would be if they had to allow for all the alternating attacks possible in a flurry?
Life is tough at the top, Alex.
And if you had ranged attacks, I'd be completely useless.
(Though I suppose I could start casting Fly on you.) :-D
LoreKeeper did some nice DPR analysis that shows that with this change, PF weapon using monks are now successfully behind 3.5 Monks. Gj Paizo :P
Wow. Lets see what comes of it (they have to explain further for the zen archer at the least and the part about enchanting one fist and not the other just seems contrary to RAW for monks) but as I've ruled this for my game it doesn't change anything (or even apply).
I've ruled that Sajan can use his knuckles (and apply any bonuses thereto) when delivering unarmed strikes (which was the old rule for knuckles). I'm still treating him as fighting unarmed rather than weaponless and theres no such thing as an off-hand attack for an unarmed strike.
As I've said before we could have done this a number of ways (enchanted fist wrappings, magic tatoos etc). The knuckles are fluff as far as I'm concerned.
This provides two benefits (1) he can apply the bonus from heirloom weapon (2) he can enchant the knuckles cheaper than an amulet of many fists and he frees up the neck slot, and one disadvantage (3) he can't apply ki focus and knuckle bonus. I am OK with this given the AP (and having regard to several factors connected thereto) and this ruling doesn't change that analysis.
So unless someone dies and makes a new PC who wants to flurry two-handed with a temple sword I think we can just wait and see what happens. I'm pretty sure this has all come out of expanding the monk's range of weapons for archtypes like the sohei.
As long as they don't change "come and get me" aka "come and kill yourself" rage power I am fine with whatever... :)
New laptop arriving tomorrow so hopefully will have things running again on or around the weekend. Thank you for your patience.
Your welcome...just remember that a Barbarian's patience lasts only so long o great one... :)