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I'm taking a hiatus from Paizo for a while. I'll probably be back at some point, so just shove my characters into the metaphorical attic until I return. Nothing personal against any of you, I just need a bit of a break. See you all around,
PS: If you briefly saw this in PBP Discussion, that's because I realized that this was better suited to Gamer Connection and reposted the thread here after deleting that one.
Finally. There's been a torpedo frigate without rules for torpedoes for too long.
Remember, we all get 3 krak and frag grenades for 0 req pts. The oath I would prefer would be the Oath of the Weapon, but from what I could tell Quintus would only have 1 cohesion point. This being the case, I will take the Oath of Astartes, so that we will have 3 cohesion points. Actually, we'd have at least 4(from your 48 Fellowship). So, yeah. We might be better off with the Oath of the Weapon.
I vote for Quintus as squad leader. He's fought 'nids before, in any case. More than most of us can say.
Fine by me.
The Astartes Bolter(Godwyn pattern) is one of the things Techmarines(and every class other than assault marines and devastators, for that matter) get for free as part of their starting equipment. You don't need to requisition it, same way you don't need to requisition your power armor.
For the Requisition, I'm thinking a chainsword or two for the more melee-inclined among us, if only because I'm paranoid about our combat knives not being up to snuff if we get into close combat, and definitely some flash and blind grenades to cover our entrances and exits. Some demolition charges and/or cluster mines might prove useful to have too, depending on the exact circumstances of our mission and whether anyone knows how to set explosives. Maybe some special ammo too.
Hi folks, just wanted to get some feedback - if I were to start this game up again, would you be willing to convert the characters over to 4E? Already have a 4e version of Korren statted up. (Well, I statted him up months ago for the hell of it.)
To answer Radavel, I would probably advance a DH Assassin to Rank 8 and pick one the more interesting career enhancement options they have. You have good taste. I'd probably make some sort of DH character too, just because I've never really had a chance to play a high-powered one for any real length of time.
I haven't posted here in a while, have I?
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn why it did that or why it stopped. I just care that it isn't doing it any more.
Hey, eVeryone! Guess wHiCH keys on my keyboard are apparenTly broken! I mean iT. A few of my keys apparenTly only work wHen I Hold down sHifT. Any ideas? Spoiler:
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Well, for the players in the current game, great fight with the Auldmaw. Now the other shoe falls.Yeah it does. I do not know if any of us can destroy him. Well, Iacton is sure as hell going to try. That's the problem with playing a guy who thinks he's acting as the Emperor's blade in this world, it's perfectly in-character for him to try stabbing the evil daemon that probably can't be killed. Oh, and welcome to the club Eradico.
I say run both concurrently, if you can. I'd suggest slowing things down in this game while you set things up, but I don't want my favorite game on these boards to stall.
Happy New Year!
Anybody here use d20Pro? I've been playing around with the free trial and, once I've got the basics down, I'd like to try using it with someone in a relatively benign environment. *cough*Maptools does nearly everything that does but you don't have to pay for it*cough* Haven't used either, admittedly, but I felt like pointing it out.
My internet connection has apparently frozen solid. It should not take ten minutes to load a five minute Youtube video. I can only hope it starts working properly soon.
Happy Chanukah Tad late for that, don't you think? Anyway, merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. (I still call dibs on a Blood Angel Apothecary in the Deathwatch game.)
Is Dr Carding still playing? Torolf hasn't posted anywhere since the 4th. I don't think so.
My family's cat has diabetes. That cat is also the closest thing I have to a real life friend at the moment. Tonight, I had to give her her shot because no one else is in the house. An hour and a half later, I still haven't done it. I just can't stick the needle in. I almost had the nerve, then the dogs barked and she bolted and I had a meltdown because I've been doing this for an hour and it's probably too late at this point and now it's even later and anything that happens because of this will be entirely my fault.
Dammit, missed that. I'll be taking Berserk instead.
Didn't notice this. So long, Fabes, and good luck with your other games. So, we now have two Defenders, a Leader and a Striker(that's also a pretty good Controller). Assuming bmars posts some more if I poke him in Xabulba's game, that means that we've got two strikers that can do some decent control. Sad to see Fabes go, but at least we should be able to handle ourselves just fine without him.
My internet connection apparently went to hell today. It's taken 15+ minutes to fully load a three and a half minute video. I am now completely sick of Reel Big Fish, just because I've been listening to the first half of Don't Start A Band for far too long. EDIT: It took four minutes to post this.
I'll pass a Fear test one of these days.
But I don't even look like Ithuriel... Anyway, can we have a summery of what we know so far? I was going to do that in my post-fight post, but I'm not actually sure what we all do and don't know.
They can if they can find a ritual that hasn't been rendered powerless by too many people knowing it. It's a use of Lore and works like temporarily gaining Sponsored Magic for the use of a single specific spell. Otherwise it works the same as any other form of magic. You need to use Lore to actually find the ritual, though.
Doesn't apply for Deirdre, so I'll go on a tangent vs with her scream attack. I had the idea that it was a reasonably strong attack, not super powerful but something that might let her hold her own / contribute in a group. I had the idea that 7 was a pretty decent attack. Considering I spent a fate point to get it up there and I could only have rolled 2 more successes max, I think that means 9 is the best I could possibly do if all the dice came up in my favor. Is that a decent attack? I didn't expect to take a troll down with one blast of that by any means, but the fact that it was not even inconvenienced by the attempt surprised me. Was that a consequence of trolls being super badassed (I realize I cannot bypass their catch with that attack), or poor strategy (complete lack of any strategy I should say) on my part? Let's say I took those 7 successes and instead had tried to impart the condition of "stunned" or "deafened" to the troll I hit. Would that have been more likely to have any success? Yeah, it's a Good(+3) attack that's equivalent to hitting everyone in a cone with a baseball bat, so yeah it's pretty good. They were only mostly unaffected because they were really damn tough and could just soak your attack without taking any Consequences. Really, you probably won't take someone out in one hit unless they take a bad enough Consequence from it to want to concede, just because of how the stress system works. Also, using it to put an aspect on instead of attacking (and not just dealing enough damage to make them take a consequence) would be a Maneuver, so you wouldn't get the two dice for making a Weapon(2) attack. Otherwise it's just about the same. Another question- cold iron is anathema to faeries. In game terms it bypasses their catch. Deirdre currently has no powers with a catch. Does that mean she would have no penalty for carrying around a cold iron knife if she wanted to? Should it have some IC consequences even if it had no mechanical ones or would you say she's just too human to be bothered by cold iron at present. (Caveat- I'm not familiar with the rules and didn't go searching before I wrote that so I may be missing the obvious.) No Catch, so you can carry one around without violating it. Smerg would probably compel Banshee Bartender a lot because you're fey-blooded and carrying around a chunk of cold iron and that's bound to have some side effects, but it won't negate any of your powers or anything.
Let me say that, despite my last post in this thread, I'm still here if other people are still here. I'll just have to not freeze up the next time we get into a fight. 1> Overall story It's the start of the first story. It did everything it was supposed to. I'd just try to keep things focused on one storyline per thread at a time. Otherwise this could get confusing fast. 2> Rule System General It's still a good system. I'm just bad at it. 3> Rule System Magic Works fine for me.
It's my number 2 now. I can't get enough of Stylo. Not a big fan of that song, but that's one fine music video.
Alternatively, if you want a character that works similar in concept to the bomb-tossing, mutagen-drinking Alchemist class, you could reflavor the Druid into something like an Alchemist quite easily. (This assumes your DM is fine with you doing that, of course.) For the powers you can use in human form, just make them quick alchemical concoctions instead of primal magic. (Let's say they expire a few seconds after you mix them, just to explain why you can't just hand them off to someone else.) Instead of Wild Shape turning you into an animal, you just drink a potion, turn into Mr Hyde and start beating things with your staff. Then just switch Ritual Caster with Alchemy because an alchemist without Alchemy is silly and you should be good to go. Of course, if you don't want to reflavor a class too much, or you don't care that much about it playing like the Alchemist class, just play an Artificer and take Master Mixer as one of your feats. It's the closest to what you want otherwise.
Congratulations to Mothman! :D Agreed. Congrats, Mothman!
Deidre and Nathaniel are up. Sorry. I'm just too indecisive. There are just too many things I could do, so I just lock up because I don't know which would be best at the moment. Should I cast a spell? Should I put an aspect on something? What aspect? There's just too much. I've got half a mind to drop out of this game now. I love the game, and I love character creation, but I just suck horribly at actually playing it.
Looks like my luck might be turning. No matter. I've still almost defeated the If the pup's piteous cries do not summon its mother he may yet emerge with his life. Damn it.
What's are some of the differences between 4e and Essentials? For one, you know how 4e fixed the whole Quadratic Wizard Linear Fighter problem by putting everyone on the same power curve and giving Fighters just as many cool powers to use as Wizards? Well, the Wizard subclasses in Essentials has roughly the same number of cool powers as a regular wizard. The Fighter subclasses, well, they have two or three ways of augmenting a basic attack and not that much else. The 4e fans dislike it because it's a return to the 3.5 days of fighters just hitting things the same way while spellcasters have all the cool stuff, and 3.5 fans hate it because they still don't like 4e. I could go into further detail, but that sums up most people's issues with Essentials.
I'm in a 4e group too. We're just pretending essentials never happened :) Hey, half of Essentials is good! Really, it's biggest problem is that it's caught in the gray area between 3.5/Pathfinder's game design and 4e's game design, thus not really satisfying either group that much. Personally, I just think of it as 4e's Unearthed Arcana equivalent. It's much less annoying that way.
Do you know how giddy I am at how well I'm rolling in this fight? I haven't been hit yet, and assuming the Auldmaw has at best 30 Wounds I've taken out half of it's health. Truly, the Emperor takes care of his own.
Say, if/when we get into another fight, think we could maybe get a rough map so we might be able to figure out where things are in relation to each other? No need for anything fancy (I mean, Google Docs is much more than enough for what I'm talking about), but I still have only have a vague idea where anything is in relation to anything else in this fight. (Only linking to a map I made for a different pbp to show something simple that's much more complex than I'm hoping for. Really, at most I'm hoping for a rough sketch of where we are and everyone's place in it. This, basically. Guy A and some civilians are in one place, Guy B is two zones away, Guy C and Guy D are near Guy B but are still a zone away.)
They ate it. WHILE saying how much better Alton Brown was than myself and Rachel Ray put together. Ah, so your roommates were just a**holes then. The whole point of the show was to teach people who don't know how to cook. (I mean how to actually cook and not just copying what the guy on TV did.) If they watched the show and didn't even get the basics of cooking, well they're a lost cause. Also, blame Food Network for Iron Chef America and not the guy hosting it.
I think yes. Davi doesn't seem attached to him No, I might as well take over Swire again for this fight. Just checking, the khaasta in L24 is still alive and Justin just jumped through that portal? So, James, do I still have any ranged weapons loaded? I doubt I'll be getting in melee range any time soon. Oh, and I've pretty much bought all the stuff I'm going to on Quinn. Just need to put the total amount of gp I have left.
Yeah, I also say we try to find a replacement. Otherwise we'd have to phase him out or just pretend he never existed.
Yeah, that was a great fight. I just wish I remembered Impenetrable Warding earlier. Maybe then I could of actually did things for more of my turns. Also, if this game continues I'll still be here with Isari.
And the fight (probably) begins. Unless it dodges, I probably have first blood. Here's hoping I won't need to spend many more fate points. Also, remember that since my blade isn't Primitive and has +2 Penetration, unless the Auldmaw is wearing a flak jacket it's going to get cut.
Personally, saying that they fae could be Dimmuntive Size is going out of the 'zone' on the discussion of what a person is spending points for what ability they are getting. Yeah, the bit about Diminutive Size was because your example hinged something tiny being seen because it was bad at Decieve. I am not even sure the Refresh value on that particular power is 'correct' since a +4 to Stealth is the equivalent to tagging two aspects. You get an additional +2 to Alertness and Investigation. While your physical damage is limited, I wouldn't be surprised that some min-maxer wouldn't use it as a cheap way to make the 'Leprechaun Wizard from Hell'. Yeah, and you need to make a Might roll to move anything larger than a paperclip. It could be stopped with a coffee cup. In a similar way saying that Little People are Fae so they wouldn't bother with Veils because they are on another plane of existance (inside the Nevernever) doesn't help anything or stay within the novels with Toot-toot and all the fellow fae that seem to come out of the woodwork when Pizza is available. Yeah, and pixies have Decieve at +3, which means it would have a much better chance of actually fooling someone than the ones with +1 you used for an example. I only brought Diminutive Form up in the first place because all the fey I can find in the books are either competent enough at Glamours to trick most of the people most of the time, small and stealthy enough to not get seen in the first place, or enough of a combat monster to not care. --------------------------- But, really, I'm not skilled enough at this system yet to offer counterarguments to the rest of your post or to tell which of our interpretations is more balanced. Since you're the GM and I'm just a player that likes arguing over inane things, I cede the point to you and will go try to find how other people have interpreted Glamours.
As it should be. We, as a people, shouldn't be turning attempted genocide on a galactic scale into a game in the first place. [/reference]
This would lead to quite a few little people being spotted all over the place. They'd usually be on a completely different plane of existence. No one would see them because they wouldn't even be here. (Besides, they'd probably just use Stealth to hide in a bush of something if they do come to this plane.) The way that I have suggested would have the Veil 1 work which will hide the little people from most casual people that don't go looking for the fae since most people have Alertness Mediocre +0 and if doing something else this is a supplementary action making it -1 (that means the person would have to get very lucky to get close to their maximum and score a +3 on the dice to exceed the Veil strength). Further, the little person if in trouble could 'push' their meagre talent to a Veil 2 or 3 but just accept some backlash if the dice are not favorable as they become tired from the effort of fooling humans. Or the little faerie uses the +4 bonus to Stealth from Diminutive Size and maybe one of the scene's aspects to get another +2 if things are looking bad and no one will ever see them even if their Stealth is only Average. Sure, it would be seen if it was in an empty room, but why would it be in a completely empty room anyway? What I'm saying is, the problems you say would be caused by my interpretation aren't really problems because the things that aren't good at Glamours wouldn't be using Glamours to hide in the first place. Either they'd just hide, or they don't care enough to hide what they are even if they were competent at veils. EDIT: Sorry if this comes off badly, by the way. I guess I am a bit of a rules lawyer. Then again, the OOC thread for a game that's in a new system for everyone is just about the best place you can get into a silly rules argument as long as it stays civil.
I see your point, I just don't know if it's right. It's just that the entries for Glamours/Greater Glamours don't say a thing about how you make the veils/seemings beyond that you use either Deceit or Discipline to oppose efforts to discover the veil/seeming. I just assumed that it meant that Glamours just added new uses for those skills, like a more powerful version of those stunts that let you use one skill in place of a different one. Besides, if they worked exactly like spellcasting(use Conviction to determine how powerful it is, roll Discipline to determine whether you control the spell, etc), you'd think they would at least mention Conviction in the Skills Affected line. Hence, why I assumed it wasn't using the spellcasting rules. (Also, all fey that only use the powers in the book can't make a house invisible without using thaumaturgy. Even Greater Glamours can only put a veil over a small group of people at most.)
Glamours are not spells. They're just another use for the Deceit skill (or Discipline). That's why it's good. You can do it all day, every day. EDIT: One of us is wrong. Since they would of said if Glamours had the same costs as spellcasting, I'm going to assume it's you. Wait, no, it's in the Faerie Magic category, so who knows?
Don't remember f prime of x. It's the derivative of the derivative of x. f(f(x)), to put it a different way.
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