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The Friz is Arnold's mauler familiar, which means she can bring the hurt. She really can't, but makes for a good mode of transportation. As a so-called "intelligent" creature, she can share Arnold's Jade Ogre style he picked up on assignment (Dragon Style). This lets them pass through difficult terrain and allies on a charge.
The massive wallaby seems less than content. So, he talked to people. Any fool can do that, just another reason why I don't. Makes the whole Tar-Baphon thing more difficult, though. Maybe next time we'll get a mission where our talents can be put to use. Spilling blood! For the glory of the Whispering Tyrant, may his name be praised forever!
Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention that our team gets one free Holy enchantment apiece (without needing a +1, because this GM STILL doesn't know you need a +1 first). I asked him if that could be applied to an Amulet of Mighty Fists, and he said yes. Needless to say, my eidolon now packs an extra 2d6 against all of those Evil schmucks. My hopes are now even higher than before, especially after the Scroll of Servitor IV I purchased. If anyone wants to know our builds, I'll put them up.
No classes from the Core Rulebook, or races from the Core Rulebook besides human. All third party stuff is probably out of the question. Terrain is most likely unimaginative, flat terrain, like if someone took the Beginner Box blank map without drawing on it. Or possibly an arena. These are merely the most likely options, though. Will probably go in invisibly. Yes, quite so. However, the pre-battle summons should turn the tide rather quickly if uninterrupted. It wouldn't be too bad if I had to cast them during the battle, but that is obviously less preferable.
I've gotten myself into quite a debacle. Well, it's not nearly that bad. I went back to my old stomping grounds of last year (an old school) to get some service hours primarily via playing Pathfinder. I knew this guy there I think my influence rubbed off on (I was a GM of questionable merit, a long and partially unrelated story) who is now a GM. But before I get to that, it's on to...
A long and partially unrelated story:
I think I didn't open the Bestiary throughout the campaign. This was partially due to the kingdom rules we mostly played by, partially because I was quick to eyeball stuff. I also slaughtered the whole party in a too-high-level scenario the first day to see how they worked together (hey, they didn't even have a healer!). It was all reasonably well received, though. Anyway, I came back today to look around, and he started mock-worshipping me over my comparatively-optimized characters, and I couldn't even tell if it was sarcastic or not. That was strange. He then challenged he to this wager: My team, two fifth-level and one second-level Good characters versus his new party (four or five fifth-level unoptimized Evil characters). I only know two of his, a hunter and an antipaladin. My party will most likely consist of a fifth-level summoner, a rogue (unless I can convince my teammate otherwise), and a second-level Lunar Oracle or possibly barbarian. I'm not looking for optimization, I'm more concerned about tactics. My current idea is to lie in wait, pop off a Summon Monster, summon my eidolon (possibly via the spell if time is of the essence), and pop a boosted Servitor II that I got from Experimental Wordcaster, at which point I attack. I'm actually thinking we have good odds here. Thoughts? And, before you lose interest, another anecdote: Wow, do any of you understand this?: The GM in question banned all of the core classes and races except human for his group. Any advanced race (except drop noble, most likely) is completely fair game. Does that make sense to any of you either? Didn't think so - In advance! |
