Just in case any of you "refugees" has missed this video/song.
They're Icelandic, funny, and it's a pretty darn awesome adventure-story in like 4 minutes.
Cool.
Here's another awesome one that you may or may not have seen.
So my Wizard bit the big one last night in our Kingmaker campaign. :( I was viciously taken out by a Troll. But it is ok because it really helped me understand the whole "Wizards are OP" nonsense. See Wizards are OP...IF they have the right spells and IF they are a high enough level to start making items. Between levels 1 through 3...they suck, but nearly as bad as they used to back in the days of 3.0+.
Factors that lead to my character's death. 1. Half of the Party was down at that time. 2. I moved into Melee range so that I could allow one of the rogues to have a flanking bonus and hoped and prayed that he did enough damage to put this thing down. 3. We didn't have a "tank" class in the party.
wow yeah that sucks
Will you be rolling up a new character?
Yes I will be. Given the play style of the group and the now lack of a full arcane caster, I will likely play a Sorcerer. I was thinking of a Half-elf or a Human, but I haven't decided yet.
That would be great except I'm not a fan of most Enchantment spells because either they are REALLY powerful or the DM is super afraid of you ruining his "well laid out plans" and makes it impossible for you to do anything. Besides there are WAY too many defenses for many of the Enchantment spells and they are WAY too specific for my tastes. I mean you need to be able to cast 4th level spells before you can start affecting monsters...
Based on the way this party is going, blasty sorcerer is what I'm going to end up being. My Wizard was going for "Battlefield control" but without a BDF (Big Dumb Fighter) it was difficult to pull off especially at low levels.
...But it is ok because it really helped me understand the whole "Wizards are OP" nonsense....
Pssst. There is your next rant right there.
...But it is ok because it really helped me understand the whole "Wizards are OP" nonsense....Pssst. There is your next rant right there.
I'll add it to the list.
Part of my players not having any tactics (and they're getting a little better) is that they keep making characters that aren't really frontline characters and then using them as frontline fighters.
But, they're getting better...
Part of my players not having any tactics (and they're getting a little better) is that they keep making characters that aren't really frontline characters and then using them as frontline fighters.
But, they're getting better...
That never works. We have a Summoner (Sythesist), a monk (hungry ghost), an inquisitor, a rogue and a ninja. The rogue went right up to one of the trolls and tried to go toe to toe with it. He was a Gnome and thought the +4 to his AC would save him....
Yeah, we have a summoner who fights with a Lucerne hammer, so he keeps thinking he's a frontline fighter. His eidolon? Sure. Him? Not so much.
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We have that problem now and then but usually the party is made up of hybrid classes like clerics, paladins, and druids and such that cast spells, fight in melee, and heal. Really we have always at least two secondary healers [maybe a negatively-charged cleric and a bard] and two secondary meleers [ranger, thuggish alchemist] and a bunch of other quirkiness.
Really, you just have to get used to a certain style of fighting (running away, resting every other encounter, buying wands and investing in UMD, sneaking and pushing rocks on your opponents, withdrawing from melee every few rounds, sending in the animal companions, diplomancy, etc.).
Or you can do a gritty NPC classes one-shot where everyone starts out as a commoner.
Work sucks, that is all.
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School does not suck as much as work, I think.
Anyway I think DJ Patch in the music thread linked a video of a ninja with a moustache, which reminded me of this comic which I still haven't finished reading.
yet now that I am a hybrid I think I am just good enough to stand toe to toe ... not sure if that is the case.
You're not. What level are you?
Also I just finished watching Annie Hall, which I think is pretty great.
I'm glad you liked it. It's one of my all-time favs.
Hee hee!
It goes well. What does steel dragon bloodline mean? That you're some kind of bard/sorcerer?
And, in Roman news, Marc Antony is pretty f!+&ing badass.
I'm watching the second season of Rome. Just finished the episode where Octavian sends Attia to get it on with MA so that they can unite and kill the traitors/heroes of the Republic (depending on your pov) Brutus and Cassius.
There are many episodes that showcase Marc Antony's badassedness to much better effect, but I wanted to give a shout-out before I forgot.
So in 3.5 edition of D&D there is something called bloodlines mine happens to be with a dragon major bloodline. So I get additonal stat bonuses and skill check bonuses. Eventually based on level I will get resistances to like fire and cold and stuff.
Hmm. You still don't sound like a front-line fighter.
Maybe you can work in tandem with the rogue, but it's always going to be a little dangerous.
It is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle then for a rich man to pass through the gates of Heaven!
Jesus was a red!
I'm watching the second season of Rome. Just finished the episode where Octavian sends Attia to get it on with MA so that they can unite and kill the traitors/heroes of the Republic (depending on your pov) Brutus and Cassius.
There are many episodes that showcase Marc Antony's badassedness to much better effect, but I wanted to give a shout-out before I forgot.
They did manage to wrap it up in two seasons, but I wish it could have gone on. Alas, the budget was too expensive to keep going. But I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Since it's based on historical events, I don't need to inform you that MA's badassery will go downhill as you get further into the season.
I liked how they handled Caesarion, though.
...Since it's based on historical events, I don't need to inform you that MA's badassery will go downhill as you get further into the season...I'm watching the second season of Rome...
There are many episodes that showcase Marc Antony's badassedness to much better effect, but I wanted to give a shout-out before I forgot.
Wow, I never knew he had all that going on as a side-project to being Van Halen's drummer.
Yeah, any class that does not have at least a d10 hit dice is not a front line class.
My attempt to make Sorcerers feel like intuitive, not learned, spellcasters. The basic idea is that, while they don't have all the fancy spells and secrets Wizards have, they can take what few spells they do have and modify them a million different ways, giving them their own form of versatility that doesn't overshadow the Wizard.
My attempt to make Sorcerers feel like intuitive, not learned, spellcasters. The basic idea is that, while they don't have all the fancy spells and secrets Wizards have, they can take what few spells they do have and modify them a million different ways, giving them their own form of versatility that doesn't overshadow the Wizard.
Interesting. I started with that idea (more intuitive spellcasting), but went a different way for a spontaneous-caster magus. It's supposed to be in the upcoming Wayfinder #7.
My attempt to make Sorcerers feel like intuitive, not learned, spellcasters. The basic idea is that, while they don't have all the fancy spells and secrets Wizards have, they can take what few spells they do have and modify them a million different ways, giving them their own form of versatility that doesn't overshadow the Wizard.Interesting. I started with that idea (more intuitive spellcasting), but went a different way for a spontaneous-caster magus. It's supposed to be in the upcoming Wayfinder #7.
I'm still working on my own version of this idea. Since I took away the three most powerful levels of spellcasting, it needs to get good enough metamagic to make players want to use metamagic all the time, or it'll be underpowered. I'm thinking of making certain metamagics do nothing to spell level, and others reduce it less than the feats say. I'm also considering a "meta pool", which is basically a pool of extra spell levels per day usable only with metamagic. Each point spent from thiss pool negates one level of spell level increase from metamagic, an it replenishes each day.
I liked how they handled Caesarion, though.
I was going to complain that the second seasons didn't have stuff like that, but then I finished watching the episode where Cicero gets offed.
I've been resisting the urge to look stuff up, but I couldn't help it. Turns out Antony and Octavia were married and she got dumped so he could run off after Cleopatra.
Which is too bad. I like to picture her smoking hyssop and going to orgies.
I'm sure she'd be fun to hang out with every now and then, but I wouldn't want her for a neighbor.
I'm still working on my own version of this idea. Since I took away the three most powerful levels of spellcasting, it needs to get good enough metamagic to make players want to use metamagic all the time, or it'll be underpowered. I'm thinking of making certain metamagics do nothing to spell level, and others reduce it less than the feats say. I'm also considering a "meta pool", which is basically a pool of extra spell levels per day usable only with metamagic. Each point spent from thiss pool negates one level of spell level increase from metamagic, an it replenishes each day.My attempt to make Sorcerers feel like intuitive, not learned, spellcasters. The basic idea is that, while they don't have all the fancy spells and secrets Wizards have, they can take what few spells they do have and modify them a million different ways, giving them their own form of versatility that doesn't overshadow the Wizard.Interesting. I started with that idea (more intuitive spellcasting), but went a different way for a spontaneous-caster magus. It's supposed to be in the upcoming Wayfinder #7.
(I wish I could post my magus archetype so you could see how I did it, but I'm supposed to wait till the print/PDF Wayfinder is out.) What you're thinking of doing is pretty similar to how I did it in the magus archetype: burning arcane pool points to fuel the metamagics while keeping the casting time and spell slot the same. Maybe you could do something similar as a sorcerer archetype? Maybe it loses the bloodline powers (and possibly the bonus bloodline spells) and gains an arcane/meta pool for metamagic? It wouldn't have to lose the top three levels of spellcasting either.