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Wow! Just found this! I can't believe you never made it past 50 posts!

Hard, isn't it?

:-)

It is!

But then I didn't have a DM willing to help me out!

Actually, it's partly because I was playing the wizard, lots of homework to do between sessions. PCs don't optimise themselves, you know!

The Pathfinder rules sort of suggest that every wizard should also be an acrobat, just so he can tumble around at 30 ft./round, staying out of reach, without ever having to worry about casting defensively in the first place.

Now, the DM can say, "it's unrealistic for wizards to be acrobats," and housreule against it. But the core rules as written seem to sort of expect that's what people will do.

F@@* YEAH!!!!!

Who needs Pathfinder?
It's a no-brainer to buy Tumble in 3.5, even at 2-for-1!

"Go, go, go to Lazytown,
It's the start of a brand new da-a-ay.
Things are upside down in Lazytown,
Pleasure's just a moment away..."

Try to catch me, you slow, clumsy bastards!

Sorry, I meant slow, dead bastards.

"Oh, what a fee-li-ing, to be dancin' on the cei-li-ing,
Oooh, what a fee-li-ing..."

What's up with the Half Dragon-Minotaur, Zarik Dhor?

How the hell is Zarik going to know who killed his father? It's not like the town is going to let this bizarre and monstorous creature wander the town investigating his father's killers.

I think standing there with Dhorlot's horns embedded in my hat was a giveaway.

Would you expect Albert Einstein to be an expert infiltrator, better than a trained operative?

That was certainly the case at the start of our SCAP game.

Our rogue 'found' all the traps head first.

I had to climb in and disable them to get him out.

And, let's not forget that you can reduce the damage with a soft surface.

I made quite a few 30' leaps, much to the disbelief of my fellow PCs.

Holy crap; I will have to finish this off one day...

Ok, I was the guy that bought it (and I wasn't even at the game that night!) but I agree with Snorter's point. The DM could've been kinder in cluing us in that we were outclassed though, presumably.

Do you think?

I believed we were outclassed, after questioning the guard, but just didn't care. As an ex-slave of the Suloise, I had a point to prove.
No way was I sloping off to fight another day, when there's people need rescuing, and others need gutting like fish.

You can take solace in the fact that you were picked on for doing most damage.
Well, no, not really; it was just you were the nearest, straightest target for a charge in the rear...
I think I pissed the boss off most, by gluing his pet to the floor, then critting him with an Acid Arrow. Fast Healing is rather poor when you've just lost 6d4 off your max hp!
However, I simply had the wisdom to say "My work here is done.", and be out of charge effect, freeing prisoners from the crossfire, when the beast got free and the proverbial hit the fan.

I still maintain that if I were there I wouldn't have died. My character rocked man! No it wasn't Kaile.

Why do you think I've turned up to every session bar 2 in the last 2 years?

I'm more afraid of the other players than I am of the enemy!

I am pleased to see those roles are given any support.

If you wanted support, you'll need the Brasierre of Holding instead...

The only way to improve that melee AB is from divine and arcane buff spells (Recitation, Aura of Vitality, Prayer, Righteous Wrath of the Faithful, Haste and so on) that I frankly cannot count on my 'comrades at arms' to be bothered to cast on a "mere Fighter".

EEEEKK!

Assuming that statement is true, or at least 'mostly accurate'...that would go a long way toward explaining the 71(!) PC deaths. Far more so than "the DM is a meeeaaany...Boo Hoo!".

In our current SCAP, we've had 6(?) deaths, plus a cohort (twice), by level 15, and most of them were from freakish crits or "anything but a 1" saves. And I wouldn't claim we're particularly well-co-ordinated, either. 0ur 'tactics' in the infamous Kuo-Toa temple seemed to follow the 'Headless Chickens On A Hot Tin Roof' stance...