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Staggering Fall and Hideous Laughter. If the enemy you are facing has a low will save, they are not getting back up for 1 rd/lvl thanks to staggering fall requiring a will save to break, and since it staggers an opponent, no breaking out of hideous laughter.
Definitely not a new player. I've run pathfinder dnd 2e through a short stint of 5e, tries to play AL at my flgs but they were more interested in just running a home game. I was mildly annoyed as I would have liked to take a character with me to gencon.
This seems interesting, I might submit a character. Thinking a drow paladin of Ellistrae taking oath of the ancients.
Itching to play some rotrl, I'm going to try and throw together a brawler, but since the Sith game fell through I think I'll use a familiar name. Character might be similar as well, but most likely a human brawler.
halfling witch with the malicious eye feat? Take bolster jinx and just tank enemies saving throws into the dirt before yourself or the wizard just decimates with spells. Sluggish jinx also helps your allies against enemy martials and with various spells and summons etc you can just debuff your enemies until they are dead.
Why not just wet his powder somehow? Or if he is using paper cartridges a wall of stone with scrolls of arcane eye to view the battlefield. Summon monster spells to get creatures with reach and dirty trick the entire party blinding them all. There's also charitable impulse. Which could get kind of funny.
Not wrong really. This is the 3.5 forums so check out the Eberron setting from WoTC. The idea that magic isn't prevalent in say Pathfinder is because no setting has utilized it like Keith Baker did. But he also built the Eberron setting around the system as opposed to the system conforming to the setting.
It's a work in progress, a musket master. Not going for rapid shot shenanigans, going for one shot per round and my houses stuff.
Testing the waters a bit, build is going through various steps and going back to the drawing board. Having a lot of fun, tinkered with bard, then a galvanic saboteur/trapper ranger. Gunslinger yes or no? Or firearms in general? If no, would an exception be made for the Bolt Ace archetype?
Working on something, half elf thundercaller bard of house lyrandar? Might change the archetype but I like house Lyrandar.
This conversion looks like my favorite so far. Unless of course you knew about it.
3.5 and 5e are my systems of choice for Eberron, Pathfinder is okay, but I've always run into weird compatibility issues, even with the various conversions of the setting. Unless that's changed since I last looked, and it appears that is has. I ran a moderately successful Eberron campaign just last year IRL before I had to move. I used 3.5 as the base chassis, pathfinder feat progression, fighter, paladin smite, ranger animal companion, and combined a bunch of skills like open lock into disable device (3.5 disable device says in one of the books an example is opening a lock...). I think I also had tumble and balance combined, climb and jump combined, diplomacy and gather information, as well as hide and move silently, and of course spot listen and search into perception. It worked, it took a little finagling but I don't think I've seen players so happy with characters. It brings back some good memories, I had a bard with the acf to get an animal companion from house vidalis and every other adf we could cram into a bard like savage skald and a few others. He took wild cohort or whatever it was started the game with a wartrained dog (okay wartrained after a bit) and a horse and went into beastmaster and the house vidalis prc. A monk/paladin into argent fist, a rogue/swashbuckler into invisible blade, and then a wizard. That was a fun game, ah memories.
Seems interesting, what if the gm picks a chapter, or makes one up with very little known about it and each player can make up a historical fact or piece of information about the chapter like chapter colors? Then it gets fleshed out even more as the game progresses.
Heck yeah, who doesn't love Eberron?
Summon nature's ally spells for cannon fodder will be our friend.
Sadly I do not have my hard cover yet. Although I do have a few pdf's that a friend gave me for my birthday, so I can build a character and outfit it with equipment, just not cyphers or oddities. I'll work on the crunch tomorrow, but the basics would be a martial artist with a shield. Carries around a jeweled weapon of some kind. Glaive Connection: 17 Your master wrote a book on the martial arts. Sometimes other warriors seek you out to ask about it's stranger passages. Source of Power: 48 Intentional or Accidental immersion or treatment with ancient chemicals or radiation. I think I have an idea forming.
I actually just won a sweepstakes that earned me a copy of the Numenera book, so count me interested. Thinking about a character. I'll mull things over at work but I think the character would be: A Graceful Glaive who Fights with Panache.
Ooh, a monk, those are always fun. What kind? I got to play exactly 1 monk, and then I was told to never play one because it had zero monk levels. It was a Psychic Warrior with Tashalatora, since it technically doesn't require you to have any levels in monk.Just a regular monk, but might go Tattooed Monk at 7th level. Always good, best monk I saw in play back in the day was a monk/rogue with ascetic rogue and kung fu genius. I think he only took like 2 levels in monk but kept all his ac and unarmed damage, but because he went heavy into rogue he got a lot of sneak attack and skills. The nail in the coffin for everything he fought was he took the decisive strike feature and the dm let him double his sneak attack damage. Here's how combat worked. We would invis the rogue/monk, he would sneak up to the bad guy, stunning fist (with ability focus so he netted a +6 on top of his 10 + 1/2 level + int mod because kung fu genius) and murder it. If it survived it was probably stunned. Party would wipe the mooks, and we all had fun. I think Rission is more or less finished. I have to go through the 10 levels of thaumaturge but I think it'll be good. Edit: was it kung fu genius or carmendine monk that lets you add int to stunning fist dc? This is going to bug me.
Ooh, a monk, those are always fun. What kind? I got to play exactly 1 monk, and then I was told to never play one because it had zero monk levels. It was a Psychic Warrior with Tashalatora, since it technically doesn't require you to have any levels in monk.
Yeah, he's a bit of a healer/skill monkey, but come level 9ish will start going more arcane cannon.
Also have to rework skills because I said seeker of the song, but I meant sublime chord.
Sorry, for whatever reason the swift hunter isn't coming together, I can't piece it together in my head, although I am piecing together something. It'll probably die because hey, it's a bard, but bard into lyrical thaumaturge into seeker of the song has always been something I've wanted to play.
Putting together my scout/ranger, what would you recommend as a favored enemy? I haven't read too much about it but Undead is almost always useful.
Ah, okay, I was looking at the unofficial errata from the creator of the class. I'll find the blog post later, but it was from the creator of the class because originally IB was a 10 level PC in Dragon Magazine that had master thrower mixed into it. The fix removes point blank shot as a prereq and allows unfettered defense to work with light armor but only while wielding daggers, kukris, punching daggers, or any weapon that qualifies as a dagger. Gotta fix my external, in the meantime I'll have to find my spare usb with complete scoundrel and complete adventurer on it, a ranged scout/ranger with the swift hunter feat could be useful. Probably an elf, although I might look at the various other races available.
Count me interested, I'm currently out of town but I got a computer for a bit, I might put in a Warmage/Warlock into Eldritch Theurge, or Ranger/Scout or Swashbuckler/Rogue (if invisible blade is made playable by not requiring point blank shot)
Would skinwalker be allowed? I know that in Blood of the Moon the wereshark-kin predominately live in the Shackles and the werecrocodile-kin primarily live in the Mwangi. If no I would still be interested, looking at a few different builds, maybe a Corsair fighter or some kind of Bard. If skinwalkers are permitted maybe a witch or magus of some kind. The sea witch always looked pretty nice.
Whoops, looks like this is a private game, sorry for the intrusion. But it looks good so I'll probably watch this one when you guys start up game play because who doesn't love pirates?
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Not bad, not bad at all. Could I use the Monster Hunter from the Unearthed Arcana; Gothic Heroes? If yes, I'm debating an elf or a human, probably will use a trident or spear/shield, possibly a bow.
So what is the date in game. I know February, but is it before Valentine's day, after, exactly on?
Have fun, I have a vacation coming up in about two weeks now. I'm going to Disneyland! But I should have access to internet.
Nice to meet you all, I'll be playing Cavan "Murphy" MacDermot a mage/face. On the upside since we will be in the Redmond Barrens I actually do have a contact out there.
Pretty good ideas actually, I'm going to ditch Arcana for Artificing just so I have the skill. I realize I'm not going to be making a whole lot of foci, I'd rather just buy it with cold hard nuyen. Demolitions and Chemistry I figured would be part of his military training since the TRC used to be a faction of the IRA, they'd probably teach him at least how to make/disarm a basic bomb using household chemicals and stuff you'd find in a garage. Doing some final tweaks, added the negative quality addiction alcohol mild, and spent the last 5 of my karma on improving the quality of my contacts. Mainly loyalty but my talismonger also improved her connections. One of my contacts is out in the Redmond Barrens so it could provide an easy way to push Murphy in. Also Murphy is an Irish beer, when Cavan first ran he needed a name so he looked at the shirt he was wearing at the time and came up with the name.
Unfortunately cracking only includes hacking, cyber combat, and electronic warfare, for whatever reason computers is not in cracking it's covered under the electronics skill group. If he ever tries to open any kind of electronic lock, run a program like scan, or touch a deckers or riggers setup he could break something. Although I could change it to electronics because that also covers hardware and software.
Never played 5e before, tinkering with it, I really do like having edge. The incompetency in cracking was basically me saying I want to have gremlins but I don't want to have actual gremlins. Using a computer sure he's fine, but anything more complicated than opening a pdf and he is not going to be able to accomplish anything. Also gremlins would interact with his demolitions skills and I'd rather not blow myself up with commercial grade explosives because of a faulty timer.
Seems interesting, would you by any chance need some magical assistance? Currently putting together a Mage/Face that is also an elf.
Putting him together in a new Alias. Cavan MacDermot, former member of the TRC in Tir na nOg, wasn't getting anywhere because he's a shaman and his superiors were only promoting mages of the hermetic tradition. While typically mages of any caliber can get anywhere in a military unit his CO just thought that Hermetic mages had more discipline as he was one so Cavan was looked down on. So he quit, took the next flight to Seattle and without any money needed to do some jobs. Unfortunately his fake SiN got burned on his last run so he needs to make some quick cash to get a new one. Used Chummer, and using the priority system I had a leftover point for special attributes... Magic at 6 and Edge at 6. Took Mentor Spirit (Dragonslayer) and Incompetent (Cracking).
An Unhallowed Metropolis podcast by my favorite group. Although my favorite stuff is their Shadowrun games, their Hollow Earth Expeditions, and Numenera games are golden.
@Mordredoffairy He smuggles books and information because it's the right thing to do. Baelir is taking the free VMC for cavalier order of the Tome. He has to protect information and written information, he would have ties to the Order of the Archivists, although he's not entirely too sure of those ties. He has an idea that his father worked with them, but not entirely too sure. Working on his history now.
Currently working on a character concept. Like I said when I dotted this a Monk of the Empty Hand with VMC Cavalier (Order of the Tome).
He's lawful good, but would being a smuggler especially for information (as depicted by his edict) break his alignment for sake of being a monk?
dotting for this, looking at a monk of the empty hand to see how many different things I can beat people with. Maybe VMC as a cavalier order of the tome.
Fantastic, this looks like it will be a lot of fun.
Good luck everybody. It looks like a fun cast of characters.
But if you can find one of the character managers, the l5r toolbox app for a phone, and the l5r wikia you can piece together most of the rules and lore. Unfortunately not having a pdf copy of the book (which I'm sure you can find somewhere on the net for free or pay for it) will hinder you when looking at available options.
Okay so the Phoenix kind of turned into a Scorpion... But I've always wanted to play L5R and my two favorite clans are the Scorpion and Phoenix. There will be a link in his description soon linking to a myth-weaver's page, but most of the information including background are there.
Ooh fancy, okay, so I am currently building a Shiba Bushi. More of a scholarly warrior, probably will take the lost love disadvantage. Tinkering with a back story around the fact that he knows that he will never be famous, that he will be one of the thousands of samurai that will never be written about or be in songs, he thinks he's a pawn in whomever's plans or cannon fodder in whatever conflict might show up. Anything that is more abnormal (like being summoned to the Topaz Tournament as a sensei) would throw him for a loop.
Fantastic, I'll work on a character. I'm thinking Shiba Bushi.
Hmm, both are good, ran both, never played either. I would love the chance to play either of them.
dotting for interest. Looking at a halfling. Member of house Jorasco because I really like them. Maybe a saurian shaman druid or arcane healer bard. Gonna do some thinking on that. Seems interesting.
You could make it like a barbarian archetype similar to the mutagenic mauler. Just change the morale bonuses from rage to alchemical like an alchemist and you have a decent start. Trade off damage reduction for fast healing maybe?
You could also go druid (Ape Shaman) until 6 so you can wildshape into a huge gorilla. It also gives you some spellcasting for some nice self buffs. A small hit to your BaB, but if you take the rest as a fighter you will get that vital strike in no time.
Hooray for the gameplay thread being up, also bought my tickets for The Force Awakens today. December can't come soon enough.
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