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I love that the cartoon of them has the gold-plated d6's. Attention to detail.

yeah man it's on the strength chart, page 14 of the PHB with the winged helmet cavalry guy. For example, if you have an 18(76) strength then your bend bars/lift gates is 30%.

If I wanted to make a barbarian who specializes in fighting multiple (weaker) opponents, what kinds of things (feats, rage powers, etc) should I look to pick up? I am picturing him running into a crowd of guys, being surrounded and slaughtering his way out of it; or maybe holding a pass against an army (i know barbarian may not be ideal for this); etc.
I thought that I should not trade away uncanny dodge, since he'll probably be flanked.
I know that AC is good when fighting multiple weaker guys.
I thought about Dreadful Carnage and Terrifying Howl.
I think one would have a hard time getting whirlwind attack on a barbarian, but could possibly get cleave. I don't know if it's that good, though.
Any other ideas?

human ranger, elf fighter, dwarf fighter, human fighter, wizard, and four halflings

it seems to me like a lot of the CR10-12 opponents should be able to make the save against a first level spell. It's like what, DC17? You could up the dex on the guys by a couple of points, or use rogues or monks or a duelist or something (i.e. who have good reflex saves), or maybe a bunch of weaker guys so it doesn't really matter if one or two of them are disarmed.

The larger issue, i don't really know. Maybe if you have a mix of different kinds of opponents, the same tactic won't work every time?

i'd probably wish for the removal of the -1 to all saves...

Can you just hang onto it for an emergency? It'd be sort of awesome if 3 months from now everybody has forgotten about it and you use it to bust out of some impossible situation.

how about a feat that lets you use your str instead of dex on your AC, reflex saves, and initiative? How about one that lets the wizard use int? maybe we need some "dervish hit points" and "dervish skill points" and "dervish will saves" feats?
Yeah, it's super cheesy.
I think that it might be OK as like a couple-levels-in power in a prestige class, or something (sorta like duelist). But just having it be "oh yeah take this feat (or even worse, just buy this +1-cost weapon enhancement) and you can not bother to think about tradeoffs between offense and defense" ... lame.
(edit: of course, i am just some guy talking on the internet, and you should do as you like.)

I guess I sort of find "agile" offensive. e.g., how about we add a +1 armor enchant that lets the fighter add his strength to his AC? or an int one for the wizard? It's just cheesy.

Though, the mad/sad thing is an issue. I don't know. What I used to do was just keep any monk ideas i had around until i happened to roll a character with 4 17s or something like that. But with point buy that isn't really a valid approach.

So, I guess don't have a solution. I don't like "agile", though. Maybe it would be OK if it cost a feat or if it were a class feature, as you guys are saying.

So I'm not dumb, I just don't understand? Ok, got it.

I think they are just saying something like: there is very little overlap between the set of people who are reasonable and play games to have fun with their friends, and the set of people who would log into their computer to argue about game mechanics on an internet forum with a bunch of unreasonable people who they don't know. If anything they are insulting themselves (and i guess i would consider myself to be more than a little in that set), not you.

http://xkcd.com/386/

i wouldn't buy a used karma from this man

what about a monk with a longspear and a free foot?

it's just the internet. when you sit down to play with real people it isn't actually like that.

i think it's important that you be able to punch peoples' heads off with a vorpal amulet. Just gonna put that out there.

at least i have chicken.

It's obvious that what you need is snakes with crossbows and the prone shooter feat.

Enough is enough! I've had it with these motherf&%@in snakes and their motherf!#@in crossbows!

i guess if i were the boss, i would try to be full attacking guys from prone. Is there something that prevents that?

i think the basics is that is super cheesy and you shouldn't do that

obviously, it should look more like this.

I think the guy who I like the best is the "T.D." guy from the 2nd edition monstrous compendium. I think maybe it's this guy

Personally, I think it's pretty important that the raging dude be able to flip a car over.

"I am not at all cramped, and there is much to be learned
in the thread yonder."
"I discover dissertations, contradictions, and
reconsiderations of these same dissertations; and reconsiderations of
the contradictions and contradictions of the reconsiderations---all
indexed and cross-indexed in the red and blue thread posts yonder. I plan
to use some of the more discursive reconsiderations for fuel, unless I
am furnished a few more sticks for my fire."

you're the DM, right? why don't you just give him a +2 con instead of a +2con/+2wis/-2cha and call it a day? Will anyone really care?

the discrepancy is that you still do some damage on a non-crit. the extra damage you do is twice as good for the axe.

say you do 10 damage on a hit and hit/confirm on a 5 or higher.

19-20 x2 ... you do on average:
4*0 // 1-4
+14*10 // 5-18
+ 2*(10 + 0.8*10) // 19-20, if you confirm you do 10 more
= 140 + 36 = 176
/ 20 = 8.8 per swing

20 x3 ... you do on average:
4*0 // 1-4
+15*10 // 5-19
+ 1*(10 + 0.8*20) // 20, if you confirm you do 20 more
= 150 + 26 = 176
/ 20 = 8.8 per swing

i.e. the same damage.

I think that the sword is still mechanically better because:
- less likely to overkill
- there are feats/abilities that trigger off any crit, but don't care about a multiplier.

However...

I like big axe and i cannot lie
Does damage with a twelve-side die
When a dwarf goes rage
With a times-three crit
And a great axe in your face
You get
CLEAVED!

i would only do that kind of s+*@ to somebody if he was such a tool that he would go and post passive-aggressive internet blogs about it on some random messageboard. Because that would make it 100x funnier.

thejeff wrote:

How does a human's wooden shield stand up to metal weapons of large creatures? Or Huge ones, for that matter?

Make no mistake, I was wondering that as well.

The answer to this one is easy: with real-world physics, the huge humanoid collapses under his own weight and dies, instead of attacking the medium humanoid's shield.

jeez. Well if I rolled that i would make a monk, since, why not. But probably anything you want is ok. I suppose a cleric would be good. The guy is the damned second coming so you may as well be a cleric ...

in an old 2nd edition game, i had a wandering merchant/bard relieve my brother's fighter of (i don't remember, 10,000gp or something, which in those days was a lot) in exchange for a large chunk of "transparent adamantite", which turned out to be glass.

He tracked the merchant down for much of the rest of the campaign, and killed him. And then from then on that character and all of his other characters have summarily executed every bard they have ever met.

Summoner/Barbarian. Use your eidolon as a mount and take the rage powers that let your mount rage and use your rage powers.

oh man and then you guys can flip it up so that the eidolon is riding you and you can use its rage powers cause he has the rage power that lets his mount use rage powers and IT'LL BE LIKE JUNKIONS

A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of him. He can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

it seems like maybe heroes' feast isn't what it used to be ... but in 3.5 yeah we would start the day with a hearty breakfast and then drop cloudkills on ourselves while being immune to poison for the rest of the day