@High God, I decided to go completely crazy by studying further education for next 2-3 years during the evenings while still doing my normal full time work. I begin studies mid May, so expect no more than a post a day.
Ok well I'll try and fill in for you when needed Athola. Hope your education goes well.
What is the study in Athola?
I am trying to figure out how an intensified schorching ray would work but I am not sure I am high enough level to get the 3rd ray.
Intensify does nothing for scorching ray.
Benefit: An intensified spell increases the maximum number of damage dice by 5 levels. You must actually have sufficient caster levels to surpass the maximum in order to benefit from this feat. No other variables of the spell are affected, and spells that inflict damage that is not modified by caster level are not affected by this feat.
Scorching Ray is not a variable damage dice by level spell. It is rays that are set to a static 4d6 that you get additional rays based on your CL.
So no effect.
Doctorate of Science: Mathematics
Nice! I have my doctorate in education.
Spells like fireball, lightening bolt, etc would work with the rod though correct?
Yes, up to level 3 spells. Not that you would need it yet though considering that it does not give you extra dice unless you're above your class limit for the spell.
So only the spells that are like at 1st level, burning hands and snowball. Would it work with a magic missile?
Nope not with magic missile. That is pretty much the same thing as scorching ray as far as how it works. So yeah right now it works with snowball and burning hands. If you have or learn burning arc a second level spell it would work with it. The bread and butter will be fireball and lightning bolt when we get to level 10 and you have your increased CL or when we get above that.
But I would have to be an 11th level caster to really take advantage of the 3rd level spells with said limitations, correct?
9th. When the moon is right you add +2 right? So at 9th it would count as 11th which would only add a d6. So yeah I would use it only for Snowball or shocking grasp until level 11 or so.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US! ONE YEAR!
Congrats to the original players on this achievement. I have no idea when I joined this adventure.
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This is going to be nice if I can tap into my renegade hunter ability to cast a few spells at higher levels as well as use the rod of intensify spells.
The Shard should do well in this combat!
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Just a reminder...
This looks like a nasty feat to take:
Disructive Dispel
When you dispel an enemy’s magical defenses, those defenses crash down with debilitating effects.
Prerequisites: Ability to cast dispel magic or greater dispel magic, caster level 11th.
Benefit: When you successfully make a targeted dispel check against an opponent, that opponent must succeed at a Fortitude save (DC equals the DC of the spell used to dispel) or be stunned until the start of your next turn. If the save succeeds, the opponent is instead sickened until the start of your next turn.
not bad.
The higher level DC of the Greater Dispel might be pretty hard for some casters to make! It is a good feat, me thinks, for a renegade hunter.
BTW the wights are using swords, not claws BTW. These are Carin Wights so they can use their level drain through a melee weapon. Once again I used my GM prerogative to boost the encounter somewhat. This encounter was laughable in the 3.5 book. Level 7-8 characters VS 5 CR 3 wights. Instead I adjusted the encounter to make the Wights a more viable threat so added 2 levels of fighter, gave them standard Dark Knight warrior equipment and made them Carin Wights to buff them up. I also added an extra monster as 5 wights were made for a 4 person party.
Not a biggie, I think this is a neat but scary and potentially deadly encounter.
Not a biggie, I think this is a neat but scary and potentially deadly encounter.
No doubt!
Yep good fight.
GM, next level I am thinking of taking the discovery which allows specialists to get rid of one of their prohibited schools. I am going to get rid of the prohibition against abjuration so I can cast spells from their like Dispel Magic and the various protections. Maybe we can rp it like Solinari still having interest in him?
Ah interesting, never knew about Arcane Discoveries. Well they are legit feats to take and so long as you allocate a feat to it you can take one. As for how it will work, we'll work in the details later.
I am looking forward to that, maybe even a little roleplay?
Please guide Jor for now. Had sudden businesstrip from tomorrow till Saturday planned (not getting paid enough for this stuff)
Just to info you guys so there will be no slowdown
Yea I'll be away all weekend myself for a gaming convention starting on Friday, expect few if any posts during that time.
So how is everyone doing?
Tuesday is the last day of school and Wed is making sure to close down for the year! Hooray for Summer Break~!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oo8QzDHimQ
lol
I am back from a week of fun! let us continue with the game!
Now for more discussion about rules when it comes to high level PC's versus lower-level foes. Eventually threats that were deadly at lower levels become almost laughable at higher levels. The typical Dark Knight Solider for instance is a Level 1 Warrior for raw recruits, Level 2 Fighter for standard rank and file and level 3 Fighter or Cavalier for experienced soldiers and field lieutenants (Equivalent to the Mounted Dark Knights you fought earlier). Even in large numbers, a high level PC would have little trouble with them. Still standard PC's should not be able to melee an entire army in combat. Hence why I like using "Mob" rules to represent large numbers of lower level creatures. This represents that a large number of enemies will tend to mob a small group rather than take them individually.
I've talked about this before on other posts about the "Vanishing Monster Syndrome" as I call it. Where higher level PC's eventually advance to such a level that your average level 1 goblins are so un-threatening that they vanish from existence in the world because what threat would puny goblins do to a high level PC decked out with magical weapons. I wish there was some way that Pathfinder would address this problem. Now some might justify saying "Well why not throw a level 10 Goblin at the party then?". The problem exists that there aren't that many level 10 goblins in the world. A level 10 goblin would be a chieftain of a tribe of hundreds if not thousands of goblins and why would he really care to personally fight a bunch of PC's who could effortlessly wade through his entire army without breaking a sweat. Certainly something to consider when thinking of the world and how things interact.
The world leveling with players is as old as D&D Doing a MOB style I think is fine.
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I will return to regular posting tomorrow.
Jor does happen to have Reputation with Dark Knights, (only 2 though) but I am unsure if its any help here.
Mercenary plus no really any idea of Knightly laws or behaviour. Also will be weird if he just suddenly pops out from tunnels designed to be "closed off"
FYI, the wizard is not going to waste his magics, if possible, on patrols and other things. He is saving his spells for the Thorn knights and the Skull knights. Thorns because they are renegades, Skulls becasue of competition with necromancers :)
What ever makes for the most sense tactically and allows for the most room. We will let you judge since you have the map :) Probably this room as the prison area is most likely a hall with alcoves as cells.
Gm is this in the right thread?
Wow what a Fireball!
Maybe the Staff of Magius reacted to ambient magic and was not at all happy.
They were only level 2 characters, what level 2 character has more than 35 hit points?
Lol. Now they are 2nd level ashes.
They were only level 2 characters, what level 2 character has more than 35 hit points?
Yep true enough DM!