My favorite gestalt is rogue/alchemist. :)
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That would probably work better than staggering rogue/ninja, honestly. Staggering bandit/vivisectionist would be just as nuts, with the extra perk of alchemy. :P
EDIT: Of course, that assumes you don't interpret the vivisectionist sneak attack in such a way that gestalting it gives no extra sneaky dice.
True that. Even so, alchemist benefits a lot from rogue talents. The one that zaps 2 strength per sneak attack hit is VERY nice.
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It's also very flavorful. I have a non-gestalt character that goes by the name of Jack. He's in a homebrew pirate game my friend has going on at home. I'm planning on taking 3 levels rogue and 2 levels alchemist as his first 5 levels. Standard rogue, and vivisectionist/mindchemist alchemist. 20 starting intelligence with a plan to go duelist later. Threw in Breadth of Experience and suddenly you have a super-genius pirate with rapier abilities unmatched. He's so much fun. Rogues and alchemists work wonders together.
Oh, and the +12 to untrained knowledge checks helps too. ;)
You're all filthy powergamers. :P
I kid, I kid. I'm just jealous of you guys for knowing so much and finding such ridiculous builds. I've never even multi-classed once - mind you, I never really get the chance, as most of the games I join tend to end pretty quick. The longest-running game I've been in is Legacy of Fire, which I've been DMing for seven months. Longest time as a player? Five months with my gnome, and she's not even great at mesing with people.
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Well, I starting playing D&D 3e in 6th grade. I'm not 21, so I've went through a lot of phases. My first character was a human fighter. With a headband. That headband was this fighter's entire characterization. Fast forward high school. Power game. Yep, let's see if we can build a 10th level party that can take down the tarrasque. Check and mate.
Now that I'm in college, I actually care more about the roleplaying than the power, though I do balance the two. My 'Jack' character is me power-gaming the roleplaying aspect. Hahaha
Horatio's the most fully-formed character I've ever come up with. I not only know in my head exactly what he looks like, I know how he walks, sounds, stands; I know what stages of character development I want him to go through; I have plans for significant things to happen at certain points of the campaign (assuming he lives); I know what he wants to do with his first 10,000gp.
Most of my characters have a couple of traits to help me quickly get into charaacter (my gnome sorcerer is impulsive and optimistic; my human summoner is an arrogant bastard who hates being proven wrong; my human musket master is a drunkard who just wants to be left alone). But nope, Horatio had to go and cock it all up by appearing in my head, fully-formed, waving his hands and going "Ta-da!", then forcing me to think really hard about each post. Smug bastard.
I'm still learning how to build good statblocks. Good characters, too. All a learning process, one I simply don't get a chance to go through.
Just wanted to let you al know I'm dreadfully under the weather and will probably need to be dmnpced until Friday or at least Thursday evening. Sorry for the holdup.
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Yeah, even with what time I've had, I still just get an itch for more.
With all of my characters, I plan every mechanical move they make from level 1 to 20 when I create them. I also give them a history far more detailed than I care to write and a very specific look that I only emulate with pictures. Character building is my favorite thing... Ever pretty much. I have a hard time playing any game that isn't a role playing game because of one little thing called...
Customization. I live for it. Everything I do that simply free time revolves around it. Even things that aren't free time, I incorporate it all. Role playing has been the only way (save music) for me to truly customize things precisely how I want them. No more, no less. It is quite sad really. I do large mathematical equations and come up with formulas all to describe some fantasy or another I've come up with (you should see my formula for calculating average damage with a weapon in D&D, it took over an hour to derive. On a related note, if you have power attack, you should ALWAYS use it for damage purposes, no matter what). All while my math homework collects dust.
It's quite sad, and I apologize for ranting. Haha.
I may have made my action with an old map. Can that map be reviewed for errors, please. Especially connected to Olivius and his target?
Yeah, when I checked the map after you posted your action, so I could make a correction to my own post (since done), there had been a couple of odd changes. Olivius moving, I expected; Pavanna being moved back to her old position was odd, but I’ve fixed it; and it looks like one of the goblins, #7, who was over with War-chanter #2’s little sub-group, has outright disappeared from the map!
[Elmer Fudd]Dere’s somethin’ scwewy goin’ on awound here....[/Fudd]
... has anyone seen Saroune today?
Not I. Or mr. DM, but he probably won't show until we have all posted our round actions.
Hence the question. :P
I hate waiting. :-(
Hmm, Akisame has disappeared from the map. Maybe he achieved enlightenment with that last grapple? Though grappling with a goblin is about the last place I would expect one to suddenly find enlightenment.
[shrug] Anything’s possible, I guess. FWIW, I’ve put him back onto the map at G-10, his last reported location.
Also wondering: would it be a worthwhile practice to mark a character in bold text once they’ve acted in a given round, so we don’t get mixed up over ‘old’ and ‘new’ positions?
Sorry! I had a crazy busy day yesterday.
I reread my scroll blade and scroll shield ability. The created sword and shield have HP equal to the highest level wizard spell on the scroll used. Every time you hit with the scroll blade or are hit with the scroll shield, that scroll loses one hit point. This means I effectively get a one hit short sword and wooden shield? I must have misread it the first time, because this seems like a really crappy ability now.
Also, I destroyed my scroll of identify with that crit. :(
That would be more useful once you get higher level scrolls. Still really cool though. And very impressive RP wise.
Absolutely true!
Indeed.
FWIW, Pavanna has identify as one of her bardic spells, so we can cover that end of things if need be; and with mending as one of her at-will cantrips, as long as the scroll in question isn’t destroyed outright, Pavanna can fix it in down-time. (At-will cantrips FTW! :D) Doesn’t help with the wrecked identify scroll-blade, I know, but as time goes on.... }:)
Y’know, I just bought Faiths and Philosophies, and in reading it, I’m really, really grateful that wasn’t available this time last month, because it would have left me torn between two equally-valid interpretations of my character-creation. :S The ‘arcane healer’ bard(!) archetype is just so... channel energy for a bard? Using rounds of bardic performance to cast cure spells as SLAs? Choosing between that and ‘archaeologist’ to fulfill Pavanna’s concept would’ve paralysed me, and I’d’ve never made the recruitment cut-off. :S
That sounds awesome, and I think I should go read my pdf now. I'm glad my concept was "arrogant sod who wants to be the world's greatest violinist", because it's easy to put together. :p
Ya, my concept was less than easy to put together after I realized that the original build was cripplingly impractical, and I'm still not 100% on what my build will be in the future. I have most of it figured. Whether it will be effective is as yet unknown. :P
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Horatio needs to save the party by playing in a violin contest against a Pit Fiend. Just saying. We have a pit fiend that's a running joke in our games at home... His name is Buddy, but that's a whole other story.
My decision to go Paladin was inspired by reading a little thing called 'The Powder Keg of Justice', if you haven't read it, I encourage you to give it a read. Google it and it's a 1d4 chan article.
My decision to go Archer was influenced by A) How awesome Paladins are at archery (I mean, what's scarier than a volley of smiting arrows?) and B) I've noticed that archer characters are exceedingly rare.
That may have just convinced me to play a paladin too. :P
Everyone, go read that article. It's one of the finest pieces of roleplay I've ever heard or read.
Whenever I build a character I look strongly at theme over optimizing. Akisame was inspired by a character from an anime Called Kenichi the mightiest disciple. A good anime and Akisame is a very entertaining character in it.
I utilize all sorts of strange methods in character design that are very unorthodox. Like Akisame grappling and tying people up. He won't kill them.
are we waiting on somebody? its been awhile now.
posts have started to falter?
I'm really wondering what we're waiting on.
I think we are waiting for DM to make the goblin's moves. Yesterday we were waiting for Saroune. Posts have slowed, but not it's an invoulentary slow, I think. We just need a new round.
Horatio needs to save the party by playing in a violin contest against a Pit Fiend. Just saying.
Good god, DM, please make this happen.
I'll go give that article a read now, just because I'm intrigued. As far as I can tell, Olivius is right, and we're waiting on DM. Also, I need to stop refreshing my campaigns tab.
Horatio needs to save the party by playing in a violin contest against a Pit Fiend. Just saying.Good god, DM, please make this happen.
I'll go give that article a read now, just because I'm intrigued. As far as I can tell, Olivius is right, and we're waiting on DM. Also, I need to stop refreshing my campaigns tab.
Nonsense! Teach that refresh function who's Boss! Mine's been begging for mercy for days and have I listened? Of course not!
Agreed! I was refreshing all day yesterday.
Me too! Let's get this show on the road!
My typing fingers are getting itchy!
Mine too!
Me three!
OHH nooo is it possible the Kasuri Curse has struck again?
lets hope not.
Kasuri Curse?
Kasuri Curse?
Character name is Noro Kasuri
so far 95% of all games that this character or her brother Lou get in ends up dying...
Kasuri Curse?Character name is Noro Kasuri
so far 95% of all games that this character or her brother Lou get in ends up dying...
D:
My God, man! And you knowingly brought this curse into this campaign?!
Evil woman! But, but we can't lose our DM at this point! O.O
If I had his number I would call him, but alas, I don't even know his name to Internet hunt him.
Not that I would do that. That's just creepy.
Everybody calm down; I'm sure the GM is fine, and has a very good reason for being away...
That said, I'm starting to panic a little.
Don't panic! Don't panic!
*screams and runs around, waving his arms like a scared little gnome*