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My home game became remote because I moved away a while ago. While I ran this wasn't so bad, but as a player it's beginning to bug me. I can't see the map very well (web cam to table maps) and I got nominated to play the Wizard this time. I figure I need to get used to it because of how I can't see the map as well anymore. Large blobs of boom seem easier to see than 5-foot-palooza.

Only I can't get the DM to fail a save. And it's not like stuff's overdone, like we are legit OPENLY-ROLLED seeing him save like clockwork every time I hit him with anything. Not even save-or-suck (I never bothered trying any of those) just anything with any save attached he will make. In a year he's failed a save against something I've tossed at him (this also includes reflex saves for fireballs) about 10 times, 12 at most. That's 1 a month.

Perpetual half-damage blast spells, no access to any save or suck, no "save to reduce" spell access and it's a mostly undead campaign. But they all save. Even my necromancer channel negative commands. They. All. Save.

So now I buff in combat, stand in the back, cast Disrupt Undead as a cantrip through a Mage's Crossbow (I have no ranged feats anyway) and wait for the fight to end. Then I hate casting spells for story reasons, because they almost always fail (yes, he saves versus his own cut scenes) and we have to find out other ways anyway.

I'm 10th level, and I'd rather play a vow of poverty monk at this point for more combat interaction. In a high magic setting, where learning new spells isn't terribly hard, what am I doing wrong here?

Bonus Irony Points: I was forbidden from taking the spell "Ill Omen" by any means during character creation. I pissed off the dice Gods...

littlehewy wrote:

Gee whiz. This looks tough.

Agreed

6 spots (1 reserved)
22 Characters (1 reserved)

5 spots and 21 submissions =?= 1 in 4.2 chance of being selected.

Hey. Next year will you do my taxes?

Chiara "Chana" Durante wrote:

I've been having a lot of fun reading through all the cool character ideas people have put together.

I always have troubles coming up with something cool and by the rules.

Or maybe my "cool" ideas are usually closer to silly, crazy and/or insane.

All I did was make the WHO first, then play mad scientist with the HOW. Like the time I saw someone play a Nature Fang Druid and was wrecking face as melee damage, then would back up and drop tons of lighting damage like some kind of World of Warcraft shaman. All while pretending to be the medicine man of a barbarian tribe.

Sometimes you just gotta embrace the insane.

After the prayer he feels... something. Mostly the tingling sensations along the once-faint blue lines of his body. Now they were more prominent and he could see the glow more prominent along the exposed skin of his cheeks making it reflect off coat. He could think of nothing else to do but tuck the book into his coat pocket and stand.

The ringing of the words in his head dulled his hearing. You and your people, my son.... you are slaves of the Technic League. Lifting his hat he set it back on his head, feeling something strange in his stomach. An ache, perhaps? But it tingled much more than the hurt. Like the warm feeling of the drink he'd been given the previous day.

He could only nod in a kind of daze at the shorter priest. He turned, only hearing the previous words. If the Technic League knew you were here, they would certainly be sending representatives to reclaim you. I am told they have hundreds... thousands of android slaves in Starfall.

Walking for the door as fast as he could without running, he made to push himself through and head back to the only place he knew as home. It was the burning in his chest that bothered him most. Detached from himself, but there. Has Iomedae called you to free them?

Was this anger?

Sorry for the delay. Been a long day and a half for the family. If you need edits just tell me and I'd be happy to accommodate.

Lifting the glass he looks at the liquid curiously and leans down to sniff it once before looking at the dwarf, "A kind of bonding ritual around this liquid? Interesting." With a small tip of the glass he inclines his head, "Atrast Vala Dwarva." Lifting the glass he tosses the liquid back with one gulp and looks at the now empty glass with a curious eye as his lips rub together.

When he looks up at the dwarf he inclines his head, "Is it supposed to taste so... abrasive?"

Dotting. I'll see what I can come up with, but first...

4d6-2
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The legendary 3 point buy character, basis of all commoners everywhere! I'm not just bad. I'm uniquely bad.

Okay. I guess I'm going to go 20 PB for this one. I'll give the pg a once-over and see what calls to me.

Seriously... I feel like there needs to be a campaign where your entire goal is to protect a 3 point buy commoner. Legendary Escort Quest!

My 2nd ed Wizard would use dig to make shelters and sometimes to have a latrine when he needed one.

Played with a druid who was a pyro. She didn't think flint and stone was very safe because the sparks could travel beyond the camp fire. So she'd insist on lighting the campfire with Flame Strike. Chaotic Neutral Druids, man...

Played a Cleric who use to use Blade Barrier to help chop firewood and ingredients for the stew.

In a very ancient version of Star Wars my soldier stole a lightsaber from an Inquisitor he killed and used it to open his beer. And sometimes doors. But never to fight with. I think the GM was mad I never tried to fight with it. Oh well.

On a side note I did play with a guy who's Gunslinger was our unofficial mechanic/repair guy. Any tech was all him and if he kept failing rolls he'd find a way to make Utility Shot rolls to help him repair things. Essentially if it gave him trouble he shot it until it worked.

The out for a Paladin of Abadar dealing with legal slavery (or various other legalized evil) is the "if a system is fundamentally flawed, I will work to aid citizens by reforming or replacing it." part.

Oh I entirely get that, I really do. But you are ignoring an evil that your Deity of choice is actually not inherently against. But Abadar is one of those weird Deities where a Paladin could legally smite a Cleric of his own religion, so take that for the grain of salt it's worth as well.

I've never understood this hard line of "Orcs/goblins/bugbears are evil, stop trying to make them not evil" from certain game developers. I've seen way too many canon characters created from supposedly evil creatures who are good and nice to others simply because it's easier for them to blanket something. Now sure, if the Orc is howling and talking about the kittens he plans to grind on top of his human-stew for flavor... Smite it.

But the wider implications of alignment aside, it's entirely possible to have a Lawful Good villain. Law is subjective on who makes the laws, as is Good technically. A paladin who believes that your God is a pagan and needs to be cleansed from his lands... might just force you to repent or be executed and technically it's Lawful and Good.

One of the many reasons I feel like Paladins and Anti-Paladins should have their alignment restricted to simply match their deity and leave the topic of Lawful Stupid in the dust behind it.

I think I'll pick up Intrigue and weigh that in with the Iroran Paladin. See what options the Gray Paladin has first. Only have to wait a few days and I have some time before I have to set myself in stone. Thanks, guys!

Oh no. Even I think that's cheese. But if I run a game I make sure to give a list of "more common" enemies. I don't tell them which they'll see most, but I don't want someone picking Favored Enemy Gnome and never fighting a gnome. I just consider it good form.

I don't see it so much as metagaming the favored enemy. If you are suddenly fighting a ton of psycho halflings for several levels, wouldn't you go "Ok, I'm done getting punched in the knees by a bunch of short people with anger management issues" and add them to the list of races you absolutely hate? But that's sort of how I see it so far as metagaming.

But I think maybe Abraham is right in this and the GM may think that countering is the only way to challenge us. I'm looking at a Freebooter Archetype for a ranger now. Maybe passing out buffs to hit and damage that can't be turned off or avoided might help.