Almost drown while swimming on a lake when i was 8.
I got a little away from my family while exploring the lake (i was a very enthusiastic swimmer as a kid) untill i reached a big stone surfacing the water and decided to climb it. As soon as i got near it, something sucked my left foot and immediatly went underwater (some air vacuum effect at the stone's base?).
I desperatly climbed to the surface and screamed for help, but at that moment my parents were assisting my small sister so after a second, i went down again. My energies were spent from the first climb, oxigen was almost gone so i stop struggling and everything fades to black.
Suddenly, i felt something pulling me up insanelly fast, and whithin seconds i was breathing again that sweet sweet air again.
Long story short: My life was saved by a taxi-driver that decided to stop at the lake to have a swim break, and was the ONLY ONE that managed to see a little poor bastard struggling for his life at the back of the lake.
To this day on, i always say that my life was saved by a very oportunistic random encounter. And also, i always leave a generous tip to kind taxi drivers (you never know...)
It's a 7.5/10 for me: Big nostalgia hit, nice casting overall, spectacular effects.
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The story is plain and unimaginative, mostly a New Hope rehash with a fresh face. Dialogs are quite standard, with a LOT of puns and only few of them gave me a real laugh.
I kinda liked Kylo Ren...until he started to give tantrums and whinnings, plus the removal of his helmet killed the "big bad boss" mood for me (making him "Darth Puber"). In any case, i would have prefered that his helmet removal was at the scene with Han Solo, for a more dramatic effect.
The transition from "Return of a Jedi" to this is quite strange and forcefull: Why has the Empire reformed around the First Order...WHY is it called the First Order? Why the Resistance still exists, if the Republic has been behind them all the time? Why the Republic does not simple actively fight against the Empire remenants with the Emperor, Darth Vader and the Death Star Destroyed? Who the hell is Lord Snoke (horrible name by the way), where did he come from?
WHY THE REPUBLIC IS CLUSTERED IN A SINGLE SYSTEM AND GETS ONE-SHOTED WITH A GIGANTIC PLOT CANON? Why Kylo Ren venerates Darth Vader as the ultimate evil figure when he was REDEEMED at the end of "The Return of the Jedi", making him the worst traitor to the Empire ever?
Shouldn't Leia have learned SOMETHING tangible about the force right now? I would have loved to see her as some kind of mentor to Rey, or even the guardian of Luke's Lightsaber. Instead, she plays the role of a "nice grandma", when she could have done so more.
Finally: If Luke needs around 3 movies to be trained as a decent Jedi Knight (with both force powers and lightsaber skills), Rey suddenly is able to defeat Kilo Ren because "she listened to the force?".
With a little more depth, this could have been the movie of the year for me. As it is, its a nice foundation for another trilogy, but nothing too memorable.
As a Battlestar Galactica ans sci—fi fan, i was always intrigued by B5 but never really took the time to watch it. That was untill 2 years ago, when a friend of mine insisted me SO MUCH to see at least the first episodes that i gave it a shot.
Today, it remains the ONLY series in which i have ever cried. Seriously, the last episode was a freeking ninjas—chopping—onnions fest.
Lando and G'Kar are by far the BEST characters , their relationship grows at an amazing rate and you manage to love/hate them at the same time, in several ocassions.
Pretty much everyone would recommend your player to rebuild his character as a Slayer, Investigator or Vivisectionist Alchemist, since those clases not only feel "roguish" enough but are better combatants.
If not, you could apply some house rules to help him stay in toes of other full BAB characters.
For example giving a +1 to all sneak attack rolls for every odd sneak attack die he has as a class feature (+1 at 1D6, +2 at 3D6 and so on).
Or, allow sneak attacks on other conditions other than flat-footed or flanked: Like Frightened, Panicked or Stunned. He could gain new conditions to sneak as he levels.
Etc, the point is to help him to do more damage and keeping his character more or less intact.
If not, then the only way i see for him to improve in combat is heavily investing in magic items or multiclassing on a full BAB class.
I loved the Ultimate Battle and Ultimate War products, i would be very interested in a supplement or add-on with a LOT of examples of armies (land, sea and airborne) created with those rules (also, having all the rules in one place to create armies from scratch would be much easier). There could be even space to tailor some of those armies, with background, officer names and so.
Ultimate Armies, perhaps?
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Twist Away
Your quick reflexes and dexterous movements make up for your lack of stamina.
Prerequisite: Evasion.
Benefit: While you are wearing light armor or no armor, if you are forced to attempt a Fortitude saving throw, you can use an immediate action to instead attempt a Reflex saving throw (at the same DC). If you succeed at this saving throw and the attack has a reduced effect on a successful save, you avoid the effect entirely. Whether the saving throw is successful or not, you are staggered until the end of your next turn
Does this feat ONLY work on effects that have a reduced effect on a successful fortitude save? I would think that it's intended for all fortitude saves, but i find the bolded text slightly confusing.
Just to make a note: The Unflinching class feature from the Unbreakable archetype applies only to mind affecting effects, not to all will saves (it's still better than the regular bravery feature).
