That’s kind of what I mean by not viable. Those circumstance penalties make intimidate not an attractive option. Why are antipaladins more resistant to being intimidated than a fighter, wizard, or baker?
Is there any situation where intimidate is better than diplomacy?
People who you have authority over. People who you don't care about what they think of you when the situation is over. Where you might need more immediate results (diplomacy often takes more time). Some people can't be convinced and need to be threatened.
Generally diplomacy is better if you want to have a long term relationship with somebody. Intimidate can achieve much of the same results, but generally makes them dislike you once the situation is over.
Right, so in this case we have an antipaladin. Bjorkus doesn’t care what he thinks of him and he wants fast results. He doesn’t care if the guy hates his guts afterward. I mean the guy was trying to kill him right?
Why does being an antipaladin make him resistant to intimidation? Is it his dedication to evilness? His discipline?
And that is why we double-tap, boys and girls. :-p
Lol fast healing.
RIP kiddies
Heh, seriously.
I apologize if that last post was a bit defensive. This has been a long-running struggle of mine. Equal-rights for tough guys! We’re scary and that’s okay!
Intimidate consistently gets a bum rap and I’ve made it one of my personal crusades to see it get equal rights alongside diplomacy. =P
There's no class abilities that make antipaladins resistant or immune to fear, but this is a person who has dedicated his life to spreading death, disease, and misery. Not only has he seen it all, he's usually the one doing it. Try intimidating a mass murderer with divine powers. Technically no he's not immune against it, but you're going to have to say something special to strike fear into his heart.
And he looks good doing it, to boot.
Psshh. He's got nothing on these horns.
Oh s+$*
Wow. A bad word filter. Nice
reflex save lindale!
This is probably a dumb question, but I thought range weapons used dexterity for damage? Shouldn't P's damage be +3?
Ranged weapons use DEX for +ATK. Bows give a penalty, not a bonus, for STR in the positive, except when it's a composite bow of the appropriate caliber.
Thrown weapons, however, use STR for damage while using DEX for +ATK.
Dalton's got it. You don't add anything to damage without feats, a composite bow, or throw weapons.
What sort of siege engine do we have up top?
Thanks, guys!
Catapult up here. Few different types of ammo. Rocks, fireballs, and bombs
Five bucks says we could have used some of the ammo in the crates to blow up the big guy.
Well, at least I have a plan for taking out the siege weapons if we can't subvert it.
We have me and three of their engineers. I'm sure we can use it to our tactical advantage.
I don't think surrender and subvert are the same things Toramin. XD They're agreeing not to fight us, not agreeing to fight with us.
I have ways of making them talk . . .
Excuse me, good sir, would you mind aiding and abetting my allies and I knocking out ket strategic defenses of this city? Thanks!"
Given that we're both paladins, we'd have to leave them alone with Lindale if we wanted to force them to help us. XD And we'd have to both pretend Toramin and Gabriel have no idea why they pissed themselves when we do.
Yeah, that's not going to happen.
Though you did just threaten to through them over the wall. That got a surprised blink from Toramin.
My guess is its just up to Toramin then, and if he can't figure it out we're taking the other spots the old fashioned way. That said, I do have an idea for the next one if they don't surrender. Do you think Toramin could identify one of the bombs from the other ammunition they have?
That was for their own safety. Gabriel doesn't want any of them to get a brave moment and try to kill their captors, since then we'll be forced to kill them. And the Dm may make me roll a bluff check for that soon. XD
DM Omen, how many guard buildings are there? Can we see from the top of the one we're on?
I think so, I have a decent score in Knowledge (Engineering), and my backstory might give me circumstantial bonuses. Plus, there is always aid another checks. I think we can use these to perhaps breach a gate, a wall, or rain terror down on their own reserve forces.
I agree! And Gabriel still has his once a day shatter ability, which means we don't need no stinkin fuse.
Mwahaha. Yes plz
Lets focus on the siege first. Thats out job an it will mean getting a lot of reinforcements on these walls to help take the rest of it.
Also, Lindale, -pokes- I think we're waitin on you again. XD
Is that the trick?
/poke
Bout a dozen ones that have siege equipment, although now you see some of your troops taking some. The wall is falling easier than expected.
Why does that not fill me with relief?
Come on B Team, we can't let them get two encounters ahead of us. They have a dwarf! He has very short legs!
You, sir, are just jealous of my beard. ;-)
Unless there's a large development in positioning, Dalton can do little else; triggering a primal magic event is something which would probably end up doing more harm than good.
I apologize for not keeping up my regular posting rate. I have tests, the opening to a performance, projects, and lots of homework. Things are going to be a little slow until life gets let busy.
Dude, we've been playing for about a week. At most. XD And we've got how many gameplay pages? Relax man, its all good.
I'm going to be at a friends birthday for the next few hours. If things pick up, please don't wait for me. I trust in your capacity to act in Toramin's interests.
Sorry it took so long to post as well. Had trouble thinking what Gabriel would do, then I passed out thanks to my fever, and when I woke up I had an idea.
Did you ever make it to the doctor?
Yeah, don't die on us, Gabe. Take care of yourself. A week long fever seems odd enough that you might be in a bad way.
If freezing him doesn’t work, maybe submersing him in lava will work. =/
Cover him with lava then the liquid and he should explode and shatter.
Just like in ALI3NS
*Things We Learned From Movies*
I’m curious what our next objectives are going to be after we deal with the super aasimar and the conjured walls.
The mission you were on before you ran into him? Oh, and probably prevent Geoff from dying. ;-)
Right but I don’t think we ever got specifics on what that mission was. The mission is so secret that even the people doing it don’t know what it is!
Also with the crazy spec ops nature of the mission, I’m curious why Geoffrey brought Bjorkus along.
I think it might have been something to do with undermining the walls? Maybe these mysterious inner walls we have heard of in song and legend.
Perhaps.
Does Team A have a specific end goal?