Man, I been watching a whole buncha damn samurai movies free on Youtube.
Tenchu! (Hitokiri) is crazy.
It's got Yukio Mishima in it; he commits hara kiri in it, like a year before he committed hara kiri in real life.
I've seen Twilight Samurai before;
I saw Hidden Blade, When the Last Sword is Drawn, and The Great Buddha Pass; the last one is from the 60's or so and has a guy in it that looks like Spock, cept he's all evil and stuff.
I got one called Kwaidan; it's where I got the watermelon growing off of the pine trees schtick. Apparently that freaks out Japanese people; IDK.
Heh. Interesting. (makes not to self)
Actually, with all of the weird stuff that Japan is known for making up (especially in Anime/sci-fi) You'd think that something tame like that wouldn't phase them much. Huh. 'Who Knew' indeed? ;P
Now, watching samurai movies on Youtube, I may have to check that out. I've never even seen the Seven Samurai! (I know I know, 'Infidel!') ;)
Emrael requests the following from the contact.
Frostbite (1st)
Illusion of Calm (1st)
True Strike (1st)
Unerring Weapon (1st)
Blur (2nd)
Brow Gasher (2nd)
Bull's Strength (2nd-level
Cat's Grace (2nd-level
Fire Breath (2nd-level
Flaming Sphere (2nd-level
Frigid Touch (2nd-level
Scorching Ray (2nd-level
Spider Climb (2nd-level
Animal Aspect, Greater (3rd)
Beast Shape I (3rd)
Burst of Speed (3rd)
Elemental Aura (3rd)
Force punch (3rd)
Locate Weakness (3rd)
Magic Weapon (Greater) (3rd)
Monstrous Physique I (3rd)
Versatile Weapon (3rd)
Water Breathing (3rd)
Arcana Theft (4th)
Ball Lightning (4th)
Beast Shape II (4th)
Elemental Body I (4th)
Fire Shield (4th)
Monstrous Physique II (4th)
Wreath of Blades (4th)
Beast Shape III (5th)
Wall of Force (5th)
Plus four mithral daggers and two blank scrollbooks and the necessary materials to scribe spells into said spellbooks.
I believe that leaves her with some more cash for miscellaneous gear that I have not determined yet, but this is the lion's share of the purchasing she wants to do.
Right on; She's good to go.
She'll be spending a lot of her downtime scribing spells, as you can tell. I kind of minimized my spell selection to get her off the ground and this just seems like a great opportunity to legally improve her options.
'course, with the other spellcasters in the group, she's probably just going to prepare nothing but touch spells so she can spellstrike all day long. ;) But it's nice to have options.
right on....
the old lady makes her some green tea, real thick and sludgy at the bottom, so she can scribe all night if she wants to......
lol, if I read the rules for such correctly, it will take days to scribe these. 87 hours' worth of scribing, in fact.
Emrael will stay up and do as much as possible, but she still requires her rest for her spells.
right on.....
Huzzzah!
Those look like UM spells some of them.....
Oops - is that a concern? I pulled spells from all over the place; I think some from both UM and UC.
Oh, no; I got d20pfsrd.com; just kinda making a mental note to check them out and all.....
I had to buy Ultimate Combat even after they nerfed my katana.
Nerfed it how?
They made it 1d8 instead of 1d10; I spose it's okay, I just wanted 2d6 for some reason. ;)
Oops... you know, I have 1d10 in my character sheet. Guess I thought it should hit like a bastard sword, too. I'll fix it.
right on....
They're 1d8, 18-20x2, and they have the "deadly" condition:
"When this weapon delivers a coup de grace, it gains +4 to damage when calculating the DC of the Fortitude saving throw to see whether the target of the coup de grace dies from the attack. The bonus is not added to the actual damage of the coup de grace attack. Source: Ultimate Combat."
Hm, interesting,
In previous versions of our beloved game, The katana was 'merely' an exotic Bastard Sword. Any NPC that you saw with one used the same stats.
Looks like they nerfed it to an exotic longsword? More or less?
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Well, there aren't many (any other?) one handed weapons that do d8 damage and have an 18-20 crit modifier (generally you need to go 1d6 damage to find that crit potential) - so that is pretty good; depending on your POV it could be as good as or better than 1d10/19-20; the average damage for a non-critical hit is not much less, but having crits more likely to come up is great, given that crits multiply all your bonuses too.
Can't be bothered to do the math, but it would be interesting to see which one did more average damage over 100 attack rolls.
The 'deadly condition' ... I don't know, I guess it kind of fits, I can't see it being that useful in the average game.
Per my calculations, the expanded threat range doesn't overcome the greater base damage, but they are pretty close. The critical focus feat tree would make the katana more attractive, but head-to-head by the numbers, it appears that the bastard sword wins out. Slightly.
I have a spreadsheet that I use to compare different aspects of a weapon attack - with power attack vs without, with improved critical vs without - using that to compare these two weapons, they appear to be within 30 points of damage after 100 rolls.
That said, I suspect there's a glitch in my spreadsheet, so I need to revisit it to see if there's a formula wrong somewhere. My attempt at basic probability calculations for the two swords seems to lend toward the bastard sword's better damage. Again, slightly.
That sounds cool. I guess the katana isn't that bad; I was really mostly joking.
Heh. WEll I suppose it's pretty common knowledge (now) that the Katana was light years ahead of the other swords of the time in technology. (rolled layers of steel vs forged/hardened steel)
But when your raised on King Arthur, all of a sudden the sight of an exotic Katana on the late-night movie just looks so much cooler,...
Or was that just me?!
:)
Naah; I saw John Belushi do the SNL samurai tailor bit when I was eight, and I was hooked.
Heh, I still remember Samurai Bellhop. :)
I'm samurai dungeonmaster.
Anyway, for those who haven't heard;....
Mothy posted in deep 6 fawtl yesterday that he was let go from his job.
I'm kinda.....shocked and bummed out at the moment.
Wow. Yeah. Me too. That's,...
(I don't even have an adequate adjective for that.)
Round of Prayers for Moth coming up.
Oh. Wow.
Yeah that's never a good thing. I took it hard when I was let go in 2009. It's always a hard thing when a company you invested time and energy with just turns about and treats you like a disposable napkin. Positive waves Mothman.
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Hey guys,
Apologies for my unexpected absence over the past few days. Looks like you guys heard my news, thanks for the positive thoughts. Times are going to be tough for a bit – my wife has just started working for three days a week after coming off 18 months maternity leave, so we fortunately have some income, but we pretty much burnt through our savings over the past 18 months so … hopefully I will find something soon. My industry is starting to be pretty badly affected by the financial uncertainty in Europe and elsewhere, but I’m sure something will come up. Circumstances may keep me away from Paizo more than normal though – not sure yet. Apologies in advance for any upcoming delays or slow downs. Please act for my character where required, or forgive slow GM updates as the case may be.
Anyway, this post is not meant to air my misery or garner sympathy, it is to express wonderment and heartfelt thanks to this fantastic community. Some far too generous person or persons who chose to stay anonymous have sent me a likewise far too generous gift certificate to help me keep up my AP subscription during this time. I can’t know for certain, but I suspect the person (or persons) is either a FAWTLy and / or in one of my pbp games. If you were behind this, thankyou so much, it is truly fantastic of you.
Cheers,
Luke
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So, if you have a few minutes to spare, you might want to feast your eyes on this truly, um... remarkable collection of fantasy stories.
While this sort of thing (it has a very McSweeney's/The Baffler-type feel to it) can be a bit too smug and clever for its own good, these guys got it mostly right. Good dumb fun.
I'll check it out in a while;....
heh heh.....place where the sun shines not...
Hey everyone, quick heads up that my travels have taken me to a part of NZ with very very spotty cell phone and internet provision. I've just driven 60 kilometers to find a town where I can get a signal. We're staying long enough to have a coffee and answer some urgent emails, then it's back to the dark ages.
I should be back in a couple of days time - or heck maybe the lodge we stay in tonight will have wifi - but basically expect nothing from me for a day or two.
Right on!
Yay, civilization again! Posts coming from tomorrow.
Meh.
Civilization is over rated. :)
Hope you had a good time!
Hellz yeah; I've heard them.
There's just no replacing Udo, but the new guy's cool.
STURM UND DRANG!
That brings back memories. I believe I saw them opening for Ozzy in the mid-eighties.
Heh, sometimes I think I missed too much back in the 80's.
IOW= Never heard of them. ;P
But, they sound cool. :)
YOU GET CHER BALLS TO THE WALL, MAN!!!
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That was a brave move by Ozzy - 1980s Accept could wipe the floor with him, after forcing him to give them his lunch money. Jeez, did anyone put together a better series of albums than Breaker/Restless and wild/Balls to the wall/Metal heart/Russian roulette during that decade? The only ones that are even close are Judas Priest, and that's purely on the strength of British steel and Painkiller, the two most metal albums ever made.
Of course, after Udo left, Accept turned to utter, total crap, not to mention shooting the ugliest album cover ever. Which is why the new guy is such a pleasant surprise.