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Which is what I've been doing. Avoiding some of the shield enhancements that would be silly (returning, dancing, etc) it seems to balance. My concern is 'when was the change made' The text above is from the last printing of the dasatana. But the sage says it's a shield now. Did he read the Arms and Equipment Guide and make the decision or did he just decide 'poof, it's a shield now.'
hmm, Pellucider maybe? Watching Cities of the Underworld on History Channel Lagerholm? I would find it amusing if the races of the surface held that hell was a place of eternal darkness and damp cold. While the underdwellers thought it was a land of light and flame, with the light dimming so the sinful could appriciate the pain.
Last season, once they finally got past the Xindi and time war stupidity. They hit the Euginics wars, the klingon differences, and even both the Mirror universe and the Tholian web. Now if only they'd actually had Archer screw something up so bad they needed to create the prime directive. I'd actually buy a DVD with the just two mirror episodes on it. And I loved the alternate credits. And of course Linda Park in the mirror uniform... purrrr.
Today, Wizards of the Coast and the Istari announced the conclusion of the Istari's license to use the term 'Wizard'. The Istari will be known now as 'Not-really-wizards, but OGL equivalents', and will be retreating further West in August. Wizards of the Coast will be offering services to halflings, dwarves and the races of men in an online model. Both companies remain on good terms and continue to discuss future opportunities for publishing partnerships. Gandalf the White, head and CEO of the Istari, released the following statement. "Being a Wizard has been a labor of love for me, as well as Alatar and Pallando. Our goal as Wizards of Middle Earth has always been to give the long suffering peoples of Middle Earth quality help that supports our vision for Middle Earth, and deliver a Shadow-free world. Our agreement has come to an end, and is not being renewed." Loren Greenwood, WotC Exec, was unavailable for comment. He has promised a statement, once his new headquarters, complete with environmental friendly geo-thermal energy, is completed on Mount Wotzi, formerly known as Mount Doom.
I'll agree on a Core Belief's rush. The articles have done their job so far, as far as I'm concerned. They make me want to play followers of the deities. If I lose my battle sorcerer tonight :-( I'm either going to play a half-vamipre Duskblade of Wee Jas, or an Aasimar Cleric (or Paladin) of Herionious. Neither concept would have been likely w/o the Core Faiths articles. Oh and Kudos to the artist who drew the cleric w/battle axe. That's what 'caught' me. That and Sean's writing makes me think of a Paladin talking like Lee Emery:
If we're going Clan Mechs, then I'm all in love with the Mad Cat Mark IV. My first experience with BattleTech was pre-Clan/3050 sourcebook - played House Kurita, my brother played House Steiner-Davion. Feh on the clans. If forced to, I'll take Nova Cat (Morris bloodname FTW) and a Turkina B. Nothing says loving like a penetrator clan style. funny infantry story. Playing in an open one year, I had a squad of Infiltrator II face off against a Sagitare (100 ton monstorsity) Here's the funny thing. I fire off a salvo of Magshot Gauss at the Mech chipping paint. The guy chases after my infantry, but due to all the terrain and mods, can't hit me meanwhile I'm chipping paint off and he ends up clear off in the corner. It was called on time, but the infantry was unscratched.
Ah I much prefer the current classic storyline. I don't like how the entire inner sphere got a case of the stupids, but maybe it will eventually make the dark ages make sense to me. I prefer the Penetrator myself when it comes to mechs, the Warrior VTOL in vehicles, and of course the Infiltrator II for the best in battle armor. Oh, and like I always say:
Toede was a hobgoblin, but there are indeed bugbears in Krynn (but no orcs). Half Ogres are in Races of Destiny, and the outdated version is in savage species. I don't know if there's an open soruce version.
Not that I'm disagreeing (Been using the house rule for a while) This pair of metal bracers can be worn in addition to some other types of armor to provide an additional armor bonus that stacks with both the foundation armor and any shield worn. You can wear dastanawith padded, leather, or chain shirt armor. You need the Armor Proficiency (light) feat to wear dastana without penalty. So when the sage says it's a shield bonus that doesn't stack with shields, when was this revision made? And are they still limited to the above light armor or any light armor?
Having shifters showing up in the Wild Coast, or changelings appearing in Greyhawk city, or warforged wandering out of the Blackmoor region are easy to set up and fun to play. I took a warforged Fighter/Shaper as a cohort in an oerth game. He spoke Ancient Suloies instead of common, and he background was he was a survivor to the reign of colourless fire, knocked to -3 HP. I enjoyed him almost as much as the character he ws the cohort for.
I had a nice review, then the website ate it *sigh* Anyway, I'm in agreement with Lady Auora about the cover and the devourer. My players will regret that I pulled two of them in my Dethknell cases. It blew me away. Creature Compendium was hit and miss. It was nice to see some old friends, including the Maedar. I'm pretty sure I saw the Cannon Golem on Operation Overdrive two weeks ago. I want the iPod dragon on a T-shirt. as well as the Nodwick line "She's Lawful Evil on social issues, Chaotic Evil on moral ones." Mr. Jacobs, is the Alu-fiend Template still a +4 ECL? I'm thinking the lost of some of the offencive spells might drop it to a 3
Hmm. Well Cone of paralysis gas is always fun. disarm the pesky intruders, gut their mage and cleric is a generally good idea, then sit down and tell the surviors who they work for. Cone of energy drain is just terrifying. Shadow dragons are scary. in the end though, Line of lightning. Got to love my blues. (Storytime. Draconomicon says that blues build up static electricity. We had a party with a blue and a silver in it. Blue kept touching the silver, shocking him ;-)
Ok, thanks Azzy on the Retcon info, it's been a while since I read the SB soruce book. Robert B, Retcon per wiki: Retroactive continuity or retcon is the adding of new information to "historical" material, or deliberately changing previously established facts in a work of serial fiction. The change itself is referred to as a "retcon", and the act of writing and publishing a retcon is called "retconning". Retconning can be done either on-purpose, or accidentally, wherein a break in continuity is not noticed until later and is then 'blessed' by later writers or editors.
Hoping Sci-fi picks up Torchwood here (He who is too primitive to use bit torrent) The last episode of season 2 made me cry. Oh, and amusinging I was playing a (female) Elan Erudite when the end of season 1 was played on Sci-fi. running in Heart of Nightfang Spire. *Vampire makes his obiligatory evil speech, waits for reply. Me: You are the weakest Link, Goodbye. *Empowered Disintigrate into the heart* :-) Elans make good Doctors ;-)
Thanks Morgenes, I just wanted to make sure the disadvantages in the race were already taken into account. (I personally love the race) Oh, and to be clear, I didn't think the rust monster effect of the rhagodessa was too much (did you adjust its CR since this will affect a lot of things?) I was worried more about the black pudding tripple damage thing mentioned in Takasi's post. After the shipwreck and the run through the jungle, yeah, I think the 'forged will have problems.
Seems a bit much to me. Just curious, folks with warforged (except the artificer)are remembering that the cure spells are only half effective, right?
Ok getting off my original rant. (and sneaking on from work) Cam, I'm happy with the Beastiary (Lightning Draconians rock my world) The Towers, Legends, and most all of teh other DL products I've bought. I didn't mean to imply that that's -all- that's out there. I should have been clearer. Seeing Yet Another Trillogy With the Companions (Dragonlance: what the rest of the party was doing while Tanis was in the loo) a 3.5 edition of the original set of modules, more War of the Lance references etc. isn't what I want from the product line. (Legends is the exception, since it deals with Time Travel and alternate Dragonlances) I want to go forward. (And an update for Taladas, which I liked more anyway :-P) it would be like every few years Forgotten Realms: Just in case you wanted more information about the Time of Troubles came out. Or Greyhawk: Yes Rary's still an evil son of a basalisk, want to go voer it again? and Istar was in the first trillogy, albiet under the sea :-) Oh, and back on topic and somewhat nearer my heart... I love James Lowder's work on Sithcus. Pity Taki's dead. I'd love to see her meet the mirror night
Ok, let me try to get these in before work. Al-Qadim: How to fly airships into Sharn's buildings. Sorry, seriously. It's dealing with the desert tribes, by Wolfgang Baur. Planescape: The gatetown of Ecstasy, by Todd Stewart. It's the Gatetown between the outlands and Elysium. (thus explaining the grin) Class acts:
Arcane: Look, lets take one of the unique things from psionics and call it magic. Divine: General cleric info on divine casting, turning, alignment, and some complete divine errata. Warrior: magical cybernetic implants for monks, blah. Dragonlance has info on Istar. Since DL is still in print, I'd have preferred a Mystara piece instead, but that's personal preference. (I wish DL products would stop going back to the original trillogy, but that's a seperate rant)
Just got #351 Haven't read through all the articles yet, so don't expect instant answers. Read Order of the Stick, laughed. (Belkar was overcharged I think) Read Nodwick, this one belongs in every gaming table. Started reading Class Acts... Hit the Arcane one... Stared. Muttered. Cursed. Who's idea was it to give the arcane casters Psionic Focus under a new name?
Can another spontanious caster (Beguiler, Bard, Warmage etc.) take advantage of a knowstone via Use Magic Device to use their spell slots to cast a spell not on their list? Here's my logic. Warmage has a knowstone of detect magic. Detect magic is not on their list (How does a warmage detect magic? Anything that survives the fireball must be magical) He uses 'Emulate class feature' from UMD to emulate the spell being on his class list. Is 'Having the spell on your class list' a class feature? Or is 'Ability to use a knowstone' a Sorcerer class feature? I don't see it being horribly broken to go this route, but would like other opinions.
We've been blessed(?) by a pair of dragons at different times in the party. They've both provided some unique advantages and disadvantages (Party level's 9th fwiw) Nimbus the silver dragon has been with the party since level 1. At low levels his natural attacks and high hitpoints made him pretty decent as a tank, but his AC was poor. He took 'awaken frightful presence' from the Draconomicon, and we found that, RAW, it does work in alternate form. At one point he was scouting as a mouse and used it on a dog! Now that we're at 9th level and the DM let him take a level of Fighter (houserule) he's actually fighting with a spear and or sabre. He suffers from the low AC issue, and that all his weapons are for medium sized creatures. He's kind of the opposite of an eggshell with a hammer. He can take it, but can't dish it out. Oh, and DR/Anything pretty much hoses him. "I gnaw ineffectually on the Stone Golem's leg!" I had Estherinus the Blue (Esther) from levels 5-8, I lost her in the great hard drive crash of 06, and am playing a Duskblade now for the direct damage dealer (see Nimbus, above, to notice why) Esther served as our scout. Once she gained flight, she became a headache for the DM. With maxed out spot, listen, and use magic device, she could assist the rogue in lookout and take late watches. (wasn't happy about it though) She had the improved speed feat from the Draconomicon, and as a result what she couldn't outfight, she could outfly. Things for the aspiring draconic DM to remember: 1) Energy immunity is fun! Silvers are immune to acid and cold. DM was surprised when Nimbus laughed off a blakc wyrmling's acid breath. And was Frustrated later when the 'big nasty electrical trap' didn't slow Esther down. 2) Paralysis and Sleep are no longer your friends. A ravening pack of ghouls that has to get past the dragon who's defending the cleric is going to be upset when they can't paralyze him. 3) Dragons aren't people too. Like many monster PCs the low level spells are not going to stop the raging dragon. Charm Person? Nope, Hold Person? Nope. 4) Stop, look, what's that sound? with Draconic senses, ambushes became that much harder. Blind Sense and cone breath weapons make for bad news for invisible critters. Things for the aspiring draconic player to remember: 1) Energy Vulnerabiltiy sucks. Mad god's key. Flask of oil. Tindertwig. Nimbus (alternate formed into a purple orc) do not mix. Load up on energy resistant items or friends. 2) Flying does not get you out of trouble. Flying gets you into worse trouble. Yes, you're Mavrick, flying and blasting with your awesome breath weapon. Tanglefoot bags turn you into a slow target, slow turns you into a slow target. both turn you into a grounded target. Also remember, you may be able to fly faster than your friends can walk, you may be too far away from them to help if you aren't careful. 3) Dragons aren't people too! Yup, Enlarge Person is nice, pity it doesn't work on you. Neither does Reduce Person. 4) Sharp Pointy teeth! Your claws and bite. Seriously, look at them, d4s and d6s most likely, and you aren't magic, adamantine, or cold iron. Damage Reduction is not your friend. Your BAB is low, due to LA, so you'll be rolling often, but not hitting. Hope you have a druid willing to magic fang you now and again. 5) Make your gaming experience easier. Check with your DM to make sure you're clear on how alternate form works in his game. Does your silver carry around a chest of clothes for those alternate form moments? Keep a d4 for breath weapons. roll it to determine 'recharge' time and tick it down every round. Make sure you know all your abilities and how they work. This will make your life easier, and your fellow players play more fun. Sorry for such a long post. P.S. When do we get (3.5 psionic) Gem Dragons as PCs?
Short and simple statement. I like 'em, and actually It's the second thing I read (Table of contents is first) Keep the Will Save. As to the latest one, my wife has started using gaming terms. Though I tell her, when I miss something "Remember, Wisdom 8, no ranks in spot or search, +10 innate bonus to spot asian women."
Did anyone else look at the corpse rat swarm and go "Holy..." Well in our case it was the DM who went 'holy...' he gave me the stats and I reverse engineered it from the rat storm and the zombie template. Fortunately we were armed with greek fire and he figured chucking a few flasks in the centre of the swarm would disapate it, 52 hp or not. We also encountered the prayer to vecna trap, and dm to player, figured out that when the rogue made her disable device check, she knew the prayer used to bypass it. My character is a nominal follower of Zuoken and won't bow to any deity. I spent a power point on vigour and just set it off, taking the damage like a man :-)
Sorry I was away, 'tis the season to be busy. Anyway, Night Howlers was part of the monsters as races series from OD&D. There is a section of Glantri detailed in it where the Werewolf from Sylair is detailed along with a couple of d'Ambervilles. Amusing aside: I ran a modified Castle Amber for a party, when they got to Sylair, they met the werewolf and he came up with an elaborate 'I'm the wronged party' argument that the party fell for. Serious Aside. Does anyone know if the CAS stories have fallen into public domain?
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