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I doubt the rest of hydra family would share my views.
That's absolutely correct. The rest of us are much more concerned with finding Beachhead's black headband with eye holes. Your book fetish will have to wait until this other crucial quest has been completed.
Tomorbataar wouldn't mind a book.
IRL chain male is pretty restrictive, unless it's real well made. If I wore something with sleeves I'd probably not be able to do totally full range of motion pushups because of the male bunching up around my elbows and shoulders, and if I were a GM I'd say that a hydra head wouldn't be able to bend very effectively and would take some kinda penalty for wearing chain male unless it were really well made.
I believe that's the idea behind it having a worse ACP and max Dex bonus than a breastplate already. I'm not sure it needs any worse penalties than that.
For a human, sure, but I think it'd be pretty restrictive for a hydra. I've spent a lot of time watching snakes and they can't strike hard and fast unless they bend up more than I think chainmail would let them, whereas a human doesn't need to bend so much so chainmail is fine.
I guess I've imagined you as much less flexible than a snake to start with.
Huh. How do we hit things? Is it just like the whole neck is an arm and the head is the fist?
I guess hydra martial arts are pretty mysterious.
You see, the problem is I don't think any of us have figured out what slots we have or don't. Probably the only thing we can agree on is we can use ioun stones.
I mean I'd like a cool cape, but I suspect the rest might think capes are a bad idea.
My brother once recited all of the lines for that movie, it was a pretty weird night. Also a pretty good movie.
I, on the other hand, am a big fan of capes. I wish I had a nice black cape that didn't quite touch the ground, that'd be great...
I don't think Tomorbataar would be a fan of a cape since it'd drag all over the ground and get in the way.
I mean, a cape is no headband with eye holes, but it's still pretty stylish (in situations that I can't think of, right now).
Anyway, if you guys have already had the hydra magic item slot conversation, can someone summarize or link to it for me?
Like every situation where you're standing? Or any situation where you're not standing as well. Come on friend, use your head, you can totally think of a few, can't you?
I don't think we have, or if we have I don't remember. Probably we'd get ring though.
Animal archive to the rescue! We're serpentine, right?
Serpentine
Slots: Belt, eyes, headband
Examples of animal companions: Constrictor snake, electric eel, gar, giant leech, giant moray eel, giant slug, megafauna (basilosaurus)
Examples of familiars: Sea krait, viper
No rings, because no hands. Unless we get to wear earrings(do we have ears?), or nose rings.
I think I'll rule this way:
Eyes, Headband, one Ring (on a horn, tooth, or wherever else you can cram it), and an Amulet or Belt.
ABP will hopefully make up for the rest... though honestly, you haven't been struggling with this at all.
Nice, thanks.
Sorry. My activity won't be good as I am having 2 exam papers this week.
Exam papers can't possibly be as important as hydra nonsense...
Good luck.
So, we're kind of at a crossroads here... we're actually close to the end of what's in the module I've been adapting for you. So there are a few options:
*Go ahead and move to the final couple of challenges, then 'retire' to your life of luxury, being fed a steady stream of livestock in return for keeping the vale safe for trade.
*I could add a few more things to the vale for you to do, lengthening the game a bit, but still ending after you've cleared everything out.
*For a longer game, you could be come the lords (and lady) of the vale, and do some light kingdom-building, extending your control over the areas near the vale, maybe even rebelling against Korvosa if you feel like being independent.
*Or... I've been hinting that this is happening at about the same time as Curse of the Crimson Throne. We *could* try throwing you into the middle of that adventure path and seeing what happens. :D
For longer options, I'd probably recruit one or two more heads to fill in for those that have fallen off. I have some good possibilities in mind.
So, what would you like?
Being someone who has only been doing this since campaign since October, I'm inclined towards the two longer options. However, I'll understand if the other players were playing towards a goal and will be ready for one of the shorter two options.
What's CotCT like? I don't have a strong preference, but I've enjoyed hydrating and would prefer not ending soon.
I don't think I'm for Curse of the Crimson Throne. Somehow I think its a bit weird for a hydra to do city things. I can't imagine the panic on the streets!
Its also fairly talky if I don't remember wrong, and expecting talkies out of us...eh. I s*ck at political intrigue.
I'd vote for retirement.
Been lurking in your game and it has been awesome. Having Hungry galloping around Korsova and negotiating rewards in cows would be hilarious.
I'd be making some rather... extensive changes to Curse of the Crimson Throne, to say the least, and you'd be coming in not too long before the campaign leaves the city for a time. But yes, it *is* rather inappropriate for a hydra... which is why the thought amused me.
There are some other, shorter modules I could throw you at, too, if that would interest anyone. They'd be more wilderness-y.
I don't really know most of the modules too well, if you put up descriptions that'd be helpful.
I wouldn't hate to retire, but would prefer not to.
I don't really know most of the modules too well, if you put up descriptions that'd be helpful.
Here you go. As he said, GM_of_the_Heads would modify it for a hydra-centric campaign, and also keep in mind that since we're level 7, we might not even start in books 1 or 2.
Some other possibilities:
*The Ironfang Invasion AP has some possibilities for a hydra. Even if I didn't run you through (a heavily modified version of) the later half of the AP, I could easily mine it for some ideas.
*This module could be fun
*I have some other wilderness-y modules lying around from 3.5 I could convert
*I could just create some things from whole cloth depending on what you wanted to do--rule the vale, go exploring, visit Korvosa, join the army, whatever.
I'm waiting for a consensus before moving on because what you find scouting will depend on what direction we're taking things.
I find making extensive changes to a module quite hard on me(were I in GM shoes), so I rather not put the burden on another.
Five fold maw sounds fun and seems less editing on the GM part. I'd think lizard men would be more receptive to us then humans, since we're all reptiles.
But you know, don't strain your finances for us etc.
I would like for the hydra to find a Spelljammer ship, so that we can explore the cosmos.
Five Fold Maw looks good to me, I'd be excited to do that.
Oh, don't worry, these are all things I (or my family) already own, so I'm not buying anything for this.
While the idea of you guys on a Spelljammer-style ship is hilarious (and I do have several Space Fantasy setting books to choose from lying around), I don't think I'll do that. Five-fold Maw has the most votes, so I'll start prepping that while we finish out here in the Bloodsworn Vale.
While the idea of you guys on a Spelljammer-style ship is hilarious (and I do have several Space Fantasy setting books to choose from lying around), I don't think I'll do that.
I've changed my mind, anyway!
Can you convert us to Mutants and Masterminds so that we can be a superhero(es)?
Oh, wait no! Shadowrun!
Wait, do you own Car Wars?!
(Ok, re-reading the above and trying to be "funny," I see that I didn't actually vote. Five-fold Maw looks fun!)
Time to start re-reading the module, then. :) Shall I bring another head on board? I think my brother would like to play. :D
Lol I think your bro is cool. I read some of his posts in monster dungeon. Sorry about being rude but Zips very protective of her friends and that elven terrorist just earned an empowered lightning/water blast.
I think another head would be nice because we might be bad at combat right now. I have to say, though, that having just a few players means there's not a lot of waiting around, so I'd say that at most one more head.
I don't know your brother at all, but I trust you if you think he'd do well.
+1 vote for +1 head.
No problem, Ziphora, this guy is a jerk. :D
I'll let my brother know he'd be welcome. I mentioned the possibility to him a few days ago so he's been kicking some ideas around.
Yeah, he seems a bit dumb, if he can afford to pay us so much why not just give the humans a lot of money to leave?
Hullo! As you may be able to guess, I am the brother in question. I'm still deciding on exactly what I want to do, but I was thinking of doing a warpriest or a cleric. I kicked around a bard for a bit but it just didn't seem like it would really fit.
Hi Razzocnor. My main handle is Andostre, but I'm also the gargoyle about to join the reverse dungeon campaign. Good to see you!
Hello Razzocnor. One thing to note is that we seem to be pretty selfish and power hungry, a very narcissistic hydra.
Let's see, where do you want me to do my rolls? Should I just do the generation-y stuff in the recruitment thread?
Oh, I know! I think I'll make a skald. Now I just need to decide on a sufficiently improbable instrument to use. String? Percussion? Hmm....
Here is fine.
Oh, I know! I think I'll make a skald. Now I just need to decide on a sufficiently improbable instrument to use. String? Percussion? Hmm....
Harpsichord.
Oooh, are we rolling things?
Prime number! I win!
Alright, Stat rolls...
Eh, not bad, not great either.
And now I have an alias! Though the stat block isn't finished yet. But I can spontaneously appear and but into the ongoing conversation, confusing everyone by myself!
"Warhead!" Awesome!
Decent stats, welcome to the fray.
What kind of reward am I looking at for that 11, eh GM? Eleven pipers piping?
I think I'll just take average hit points. Do we still get maximum for our first hit die like normal?
Correct.