The Legacy of Marianasu - DM Downrightamazed

Game Master downrightamazed

A healer wouldn't be bad...

So if I took

And

Would I be able to use a wand of teleport with dimensional agility and still get the rest of my attacks?

I am completely not a fan of cohorts. One feat basically doubles your power. That's why Damian's "cohort" is a mere squire with almost no combat effectiveness.

@Damian: Oh. Sorry to hear that. =/ It would be the first time i've used the leadership feat since 3.5 and I'm going to make her as utility as possible. But if it will bring the game down I will withhold her being in the group. I was thinking about using the bullet point from SGG which gives two more options for Leadership but they don't quite fit our group dynamic.

The first option would give us a team of characters to turn to in our down time. But we travel too much to always be returning to one spot. The second option gives him bonuses for a Favored country. For Min that doesn't work either.

Another character that can outrun both Maiathreen and Livain without breaking a sweat....that's really the only issue I have with it.

Only reason I chose Pegasi is it fits her story, its not a Pega Lord or anything monstrously special aside from being a paladin mount. But if it will cause issues then I will just withdraw it and pick a different feat.

Min can provide most of the healing anyway and once i'm able to cast Mass, Cure spells it will be even better. Aside from restoration and raising the dead. :)

Oh I don't have any real problem with you taking the feat. I also think its interesting when you think about the fact that Damian was told that we'd be getting more people who would be under his command.

Speaking of which...if we are all officially a part of the military....what would the rest of our ranks/positions be?

So I just saw a blog post called unsavory characters.....and I totally thought it was going to be a picture of DRA beard and all.....

Nice cohort!

Nothing against you at all Min, but I have always felt the same way about cohorts. Leadership is far and away the most powerful feat in the game. There's nothing even remotely close to it. The standard way it's used makes it a completely broken feat IMO.

It does especially seem a little unbalancing for Min, when he already has a mount that is arguably now one of the most powerful members of team.

However that said, if DRA says or the general consensus is that it's ok, I can roll with it.

If she is to become part of the group, my main question is how did she get a pegasus? Aylaeth had to pay a pretty penny for hers (and is about to pay a quite a lot more.) Would provide quite a lot of interesting RP potential for Tora'an of course though ; )

Hehe she isn't done yet but thank you. :) I was trying to give us a little more healing power.

I'm all for more healing power. :)

Nothing against you at all Min, but I have always felt the same way about cohorts. Leadership is far and away the most powerful feat in the game. There's nothing even remotely close to it. The standard way it's used makes it a completely broken feat IMO.

It does especially seem a little unbalancing for Min, when he already has a mount that is arguably now one of the most powerful members of tetam.

However that said, if DRA says or the general consensus is that it's ok, I can roll with it.

If she is to become part of the group, my main question is how did she get a pegasus? Aylaeth had to pay a pretty penny for hers (and is about to pay a quite a lot more.) Would provide quite a lot of interesting RP potential for Tora'an of course though ; )

One of her feats I need to change out for a feat from 3.5 that allowed a paladin to choose a Pegasus as a special mount.

Also how is Lin the most powerful? She's a 1/4 to 1/3 the power of a normal dragon easily if not more. She can't cast spells, is huge and the only thing she's really got going for her is speed. She doesn't have multiattack anymore, not until level 11 so she doesn't get that many attacks and only because of some very special stones is the only reason she's done so much with her breath weapon lol. If she is that much more powerful then I need to tone her down some more then...

Also I understand you paid for Tora'an. Which I didn't know about, but Paladins get the chance to have their divine bond be a mount, which if DRA wanted he could allow her to have a Pegasus without the cost of a feat. It's much like cavaliers mount and such. So at the cost of a feat and a class ability I think she's paid enough?

The other thing I've never understood is how many people dislike the leadership feat because of the cohort. Yet we don't find an issue with having multiple companions or powerful familiars/mounts. Like I said before if its an issue with others I will just withdraw the idea entirely. Done and over with. Withdrawn. It'll make it easier anyway.

I'm kinda in the camp of hey if it gives us more healing power then great. Also DRA "could" play Sophitia as an npc he controls. Then all Coreue did was pay a feat to let DRA bring in an npc. Rather than getting to control essentially 3 characters.

I'm kinda in the camp of hey if it gives us more healing power then great. Also DRA "could" play Sophitia as an npc he controls. Then all Coreue did was pay a feat to let DRA bring in an npc. Rather than getting to control essentially 3 characters.

Ugh. I hate doing DM(N)PC. All the NPCs I've got to keep straight is bad enough, I don't wanna have to control PC party members as well.

C'mon guys; given the amount of retros, munchkin/twink/minmax feats and features, crazy monsters, ridiculously OP builds, etc. etc. etc. that I allow in my games, it seems kinda silly to complain about Leadership, eh?

I understand many folks have objections to it, but I allow it. End of discussion.

Oh I have no objections what so ever boss man. My suggestion was just a counter to the objections.

That's the end of the discussion for me too. If DRA allows it, 'nuff said.

And Aylaeth and Tora'an cartainly won't mind having anothelr female and another pegasaus respectively, in the party ; )

Will Tora'an be getting a girlfriend Pegasus? Only time will tell....

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Would I be able to use a wand of teleport with dimensional agility and still get the rest of my attacks?

No.

In Harm's Way: When you aid another's AC and the attack succeeds, you may take the damage and effects of that attack yourself.

So for what we are facing here in the other planes. The Slayers, for lack of a better term ;), have the ability to anchor us right? So I was wondering if in Harms Way still works despite not having any damage accompanying the attack? It still matters if I succeed in aiding another first of course.

So can Min use his Bodyguard/In Harms Way to block the anchoring effects and in essence keep everyone else from being anchored?

Sure, but it's too late; you and Aylaeth are both already anchored. You have to declare an AC aid ahead of time, I thought, or do you have some thing that lets you do it as an immediate?

Nope I mean't in the future boss man :) and before I assumed we were too spaced out. I kinda saw it as~

Ay, C, C, C, Min Before.

or

Ay,x,Min
C ,C, C

something like that I guess was what was in my head. Since no one attacked the kids I didn't have a reason too use In Harms Way/Bodyguard . :D

Did Aylaeth's knowledge results give her any idea how long the anchoring would last for?

And with that in mind, are we able to determine the passage of time here?

Oh! And Aylaeth is anchored, but is Ada'an??

lol I didn't think we took Ada'an. xD By the sounds of it its just You and Myself who are anchored.

I could be wrong of course. :/

No no my friend, Ada'an is always with Aylaeth, on her head, unless otherwise specified. Why would he not be? Mages and their familiars are not oft apart, after all.

Did Aylaeth's knowledge results give her any idea how long the anchoring would last for?

And with that in mind, are we able to determine the passage of time here?

Oh! And Aylaeth is anchored, but is Ada'an??

No, no, and no.

The way I play it, any spellcaster can know the bounds of the duration of a given spell with a successful K check, but it's not possible to know precise duration. So in this case you'd know it's a minimum of one minute and a max of 20 (or so) minutes for any non-epic/non-god caster, but you wouldn't know where an ethereal slayer would lie on that continuum.

And since I know you'll ask; you guys have been floating here for three minutes and 37 seconds, but without watches or the presence of anything to use to judge the passage of time, you guys would just know it as "a few minutes".

Three minures and 37 seconds. xD Your awesome DRA, i nearly spilled my soda when I read that.

Heh. Glad you like.

And if I didn't say that, James would ask. I'm just trying to save us a couple posts of back-n-forth. :-)

Also, as I play it, Limbo isn't a sea of chaos; it's actually quite peaceful. It's nothing. It is pure and endless silence and pure and endless dark, all of which makes the rude presence of all these ethereal slayers that much more troublesome.

No no my friend, Ada'an is always with Aylaeth, on her head, unless otherwise specified. Why would he not be?

...because a bone devil ripped a hole in him and threw him on the floor. That's one reason. ;-) Obviously doesn't apply in this case, but, you know...just sayin'.

Lol. Yeah... Summon Dragon/Mount doesn't seem very appealing right now. =(

Summon Slayer Lunchmeat! Oh... Wait! NO. AW CRAP!

I dunno if that would happen and i'm not going to ask, i'm just going to let my character assume the worst atm. >.<;

I'm going to let Aylaeth have a moment to catch up before saying/doing anything else. But with the efficient Quiver I can fight on for awhile lol... I hope at least~

Now that I know you view it as such I will post more to reflect that lol. At least Min can see in the dark, no need for lights or torches. :)

@DRA: Also for some reason MIsts of War appears to be a Previous Campaign now or something, as none of the updates or anything shows up anymore on the campaign tab. I will try and check it more often instead of waiting tosee an update but the last 4 days I thought nothing was going because I didn't see the (1 new). So I will try andbe more vigilant but thought i'd give you fair warning that something odd was afoot...

DRA you Know you love my questions! Admit it! : D

Rolls to figure a way safely out of Limbo, why the Slayers are swarming, or how to get help!

Knowledge (Arcana)†1d20 + 21 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 21 + 2 = 29
Knowledge (Dungeoneering)† 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (1) + 13 + 2 = 16
Knowledge (Geography)† 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (18) + 9 + 2 = 29
Knowledge (Local)† 1d20 + 7 ⇒ (17) + 7 = 24
Knowledge (Nature)† 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 7 + 2 = 26
Knowledge (History)† 1d20 + 13 + 2 ⇒ (19) + 13 + 2 = 34
Knowledge (Nobility)† 1d20 + 7 + 2 ⇒ (11) + 7 + 2 = 20
Knowledge (Planes)† 1d20 + 16 + 2 ⇒ (9) + 16 + 2 = 27
Knowledge (Religion)† 1d20 + 9 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 9 + 2 = 17

Ada'an Aid
Knowledge (Arcana)† 1d20 + 9 ⇒ (1) + 9 = 10
Knowledge (Dungeoneering)† 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (11) + 4 = 15
Knowledge (Geography)† 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Knowledge (Local)† 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (6) + 1 = 7
Knowledge (Nature)† 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (17) + 1 = 18
Knowledge (History)† 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (10) + 6 = 16
Knowledge (Nobility)† 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (11) + 1 = 12
Knowledge (Planes)† 1d20 + 8 ⇒ (2) + 8 = 10
Knowledge (Religion)† 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (7) + 5 = 12

DRA...you know you have a picture on facebook that makes it look like your very happy to be holding a yellow bouquet of flowers....

DRA...you know you have a picture on facebook that makes it look like your very happy to be holding a yellow bouquet of flowers....

Could be worse. Could be much, much worse.

lol

is there.... space for another PC?

Hi Tenro! Thanks so much for asking. Unfortunately right now all my games are pretty packed.

Have you read this thread, or any of my others? Just wondering what inspired you to ask. :-)

I've been reading around looking for games. I've got the itch to play more than I currently do and I have a new resurgence of character ideas. I was looking for someone who is a little more permissive when it comes to characters, since the last two books I bought were Psionics Unleashed and Psionics Expanded :D

The group I just joined on here posts a little slowly for my tastes so I am looking for another campaign I can spend time on.

Ah. So you're looking to join my game because I'm a pushover. Bummer.

As it turns out, I don't have any psionics in any of my current games. Gunpowder, neither. I'm not philosophically opposed to either of those things, they just aren't in the campaign I'm running right now.

Anyway, as I said, all my threads are currently quite full, but feel free to keep checking in as people do drop out once in a while, just how things work in PbP. If someone does, you'll be allowed to put forth a PC for consideration, assuming you pass the initial requirements for doing so.

Thanks again for your interest!

Alrighty! I was never big on gunpowder or psionics but the picture on the cover of Psionics Expanded just inspired me so much hahaha!

And it wasn't because you're a pushover, but more because many others are too restricted. My favorite games took place in cities like Sigil, or settings like Eberron, where diversity and randomness were the plan of the day. In my past hour or two combing through recruitment threads, a saddening majority of them included bans on certain APG classes, or archetypes, even some core races. When I see that I like to read on to see if there is a reason like "it's just not part of this world" but more often than not, no reason is given.

Let me know what you think DRA, her mount will be a Pegasus but not a advanced template one, no offense Aylaeth~ :)

That all looks good to me, Min. You have an idea for a story hook, or you just gonna let me wrangle her in.

Wait, it is a "she", right? The Hero Lab output says "male".

I was going to ask that very same question....I was going to say Sophitia is a very....odd name for a man....

I'm assuming it's just a typo or a left-over HL default value or something.

Yeah it was a typo, trying to catch up lol. Just got off of work. :)

Ah, good. No worries. Let me know about the hook (cf my question above).