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I shall be a Winged flying robot.
Yeah, I prefer the Kolyarut SLAs, but I suppose this will do...at least I shouldn't get thrown out of town that easily.
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And sorry Robert, I have a large streak of wizard in me :(
And I'm probably those sort of wizard that people will blame for all the wrongs in the world...
Though for that character test I gave Robert, I ended up as a monk.
Hey I have learned to appreciate the greatness that is wizards! I just don't want to be or play one... I didn't read a lot of fantasy about wizards, I've read a little, but I was a big fan of Elric and the 'eternal champion' series in general.
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I love Harry Dresden, he's like "The Rockford files" for nerds.
I read the first Harry Potter book with my youngest daughter, she was in Jr. High at the time... she read the rest of them... I did not...
I have added David Eddings to a list of authors I should read, I just need to either post less or work less at work to be able to do so...
I love Harry Dresden, he's like "The Rockford files" for nerds.
I read the first Harry Potter book with my youngest daughter, she was in Jr. High at the time... she read the rest of them... I did not...
I have added David Eddings to a list of authors I should read, I just need to either post less or work less at work to be able to do so...
I've never read Dresden, I've read some Eddings, and the first Harry Potter book is the least interesting, to me.
Also: in a similar test, I was rather consistently a cleric, though I got a bit of monk and/or bard and/or ranger in me, at times; similarly, usually a half-elf.
That said, I'm totally a wizard sorcerer... or maybe even a bard, insomuch as such things translate into real life.
So, I'm back!
... with really carpy internet.
Because, like the fish, it flops uselessly back and forth gasping for breath.
That said, we are on Spring Break, which is great, but also means my free time is going to be substantially less - I should still be able to maintain updates, but it may be spotty this week, as a result.
That said, I look forward to updating the game today, but only when I have time. Sadly, right now, I'm just passing through.
Wednesday, 3:48 pm
... well, at least Inwarned you.
:/
Anyway! Either later today or tomorrow I will post something in Gameplay, no matter how small, Lord be willing and allow it...
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Ok, since were asking 'what if' type questions, I want a ruling from the GM's.
There is a weapon made by cold steel called a Grosse Messer Sword Based on German weapon, It is considered a one or two handed weapon. Not to be mistaken with the one handed Messer Sword Which is similar to other 'modern falchions' for sale. (none of which are two handed weapons)
Back to the Grosse Messer Sword, it is listed as able to be used one or two handed. Unfortunately the video only shows it two handed.
The question, Would you consider it a Falchion, that must be used two hands or a hand and a half hybrid that can be used two handed or one handed with exotic weapon feat?
If it's an exotic weapon would you make it d8 x 3 or d10 x 3?
Man, I'd love to watch videos and/or not be stuck on my phone because my home internet only works when I am either away from the daggum computer or unable to use it 'cause busy...
Due to this, to answer your question: I'unno.
(It's worth noting that I haven't really been doing all that much over the last few days, relatively speaking, so I'm a bit confused as to where my time has gone. Sleeping a lot for reasons I don't understand, maybe. I might be able to do this tonight...?)
Also:
So, I'm back!
... with really carpy internet.
Because, like the fish, it flops uselessly back and forth gasping for breath.
That said, we are on Spring Break, which is great, but also means my free time is going to be substantially less - I should still be able to maintain updates, but it may be spotty this week, as a result.
That said, I look forward to updating the game today, but only when I have time. Sadly, right now, I'm just passing through.
Wednesday, 3:48 pm... well, at least Inwarned you.
:/
Anyway! Either later today or tomorrow I will post something in Gameplay, no matter how small, Lord be willing and allow it...
I totally had a thing written up, right up until the Internet cut out when I tried to post it, followed by (some time later) my two-year-old discovering the joy of button mashing and, in an attempt to help, my five year old tried to move him which resulted in a clicked on the mouse, successfully closing several windows unsaved, and weeeeeeeeee...
At least they didn't spill any of their drinks on the computer!
(So much for house cleaning at the time, though...)
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Your so lucky! I want a two year old and a five year old to play with! My wife got me a nerf dart gun for Christmas and my granddaughter is too young to shoot it at!
Hey it could be worse, it could be ity bity parts of the computer your cleaning up from the carpet. And you know one little piece that you missed would be sitting there like a silent lego for your wife to step on right after she kicks her shoes off.... just sayin'
Ok, well I will check the boards again when I get up, FYI, the boards are acting wonky and not posting 'new' posts on the queue, so when you read this you'll probably be like "Hey, that didn't show up on my queue."
Stable (?) internet connection: check(?)!
Child sleeping never-mind-he's-awake-so... poopy diaper changed/no current emergencies: check!
I'm not asleep: eh, working on it.
I'm not distracted: eh, working on it.
LET'S* DO THIS!
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DONE!
Now it's up to you to determine what you're up to.
Anyway, just to be clear:
- there is an extremely powerful "unnatural" creature down one rune-level, and two powerful "unnatural" creatures (well, four, if you include Usawoti and Inarus) on this level
- Usawoti has a vague understanding of how to travel from level to level: there are generally two entrance/exits from a given rune-level, one above and one below
- the mephits, birds, and similar are considered "animals" in this area
Hope that helps!
I would also like to apologize for my relatively long absence - this last week has been a mess of conflicting times and opportunities and internet and children and all that jazz.
Plus, tomorrow my Eldest has a kind of "all day" event we'll be at - I have no idea how well I'll fair afterwords, in terms of GMing, and the next day is a volunteer Sunday (we help at our church every other Sunday). I think I'll be able to update, but, especially after this week, I can't promise anything. Sorry in advance if I'm out!
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Welcome back TL, don't worry, as in the game, time here can flex... Hope you sons event is enjoyable.
I've read the in game post, need to think a little and put my head together with Morts and we will figure out where we are going!
Mort, will be back on in a couple and then head to work.
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I'm not sure how much I can respond to your thoughts, since they are, your introspection? I say we make our way to Shuuvu, figure out who's controlling all this and start messing around with them.
What all day event?
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We need to regenerate the mephits (probably two per day depending on your capacity. Yeah I know we could get more mileage out of that stuff, but since we got them into the mess....
Then heal up whatever we can and we can mosey.
@ TL, Could Usawoti tell if the dragon they killed or the dead one they found were 'natural' to this place? I'm assuming the smoke monsters were.
Dragons: ... eeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhh... kinda? ... but not really. It's... complicated, is what I'm saying. They could swing either way; you're not sure which way they did so.
Elementals: yup, totally.
Also TL, how much of the information that you shared with Usawoti would Inarus have 'learned' through the mental connection?
Literally as much or as little as you like - with those crystal shards, there is no need for spoiler tags or wondering who knows what, unless a) you explicitly attempt to avoid revealing things (in which case you retain your privacy and we use spoiler tags and they only know what you want), or b) you want to RP things like a conversation (either telepathic or aloud - always a good idea to remove doubt/create an immersive game; generally, you otherwise get the gist at least of what the other knows, though you don't necessarily read their minds, unless you're both cool with that).
I'm not sure how much I can respond to your thoughts, since they are, your introspection? I say we make our way to Shuuvu, figure out who's controlling all this and start messing around with them.
These answers and goals may well be contradictory...
*cough*
Plus, tomorrow my Eldest has a kind of "all day" event we'll be at - I have no idea how well I'll fair afterwords, in terms of GMing, and the next day is a volunteer Sunday (we help at our church every other Sunday). I think I'll be able to update, but, especially after this week, I can't promise anything. Sorry in advance if I'm out!
What all day event?
Hah!
He's have a "Music(o)lympics" (or something) where he plays a violin for his "team" ('red' - though that means little, really) - but there are all sorts of events, boat rides, tours (it's at a park), and hype and other things, too. It's a "big deal" kind of thing (although, really, it's not the most "important" concert he has - that's the end-of-year concert).
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Is he intending to go for music exams? And boat rides and tours sound fun fun fun!
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Please stuff delay poison on yourself in case of more incidents. I'd also recommend a few communal resist energies, or resist energy for yourself. Divine favor(if you used your FCB to take it) is a good spell, other then that I'd probably go for spells that don't involve saves since your wis doesn't quite cut it for save or die/suck category.
I'm currently a little jaded with regard to evocation because of the sheer amount of damage I can turn out in a round if I'm like minded to. Heck, most of the time I don't even get to throw my buffs out.
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I don't think you can raise dead.
Constructs, elementals, outsiders, and undead creatures can’t be raised. The spell cannot bring back a creature that has died of old age.
Yup, outsiders means dead for good. Good thing it doesn't apply to native outsiders...
In case it's unclear, the (native) subtype of the outsider type changes whether or not a creature can be raised/reincarnated/etc.
If an outsider lacks the (native) subtype, their really hard (though not impossible) to bring back from death.
Thus, I think his point is that you have no one to raise from the dead with that spell.
Raise Dead works on neither mephits nor Inarus' demonic aspect (though it would work on his dragon aspect... not really a result that either of you'd really want, I'd wager, from what you know...). It'd work fine on Usawoti (because he is an outsider (native) creature type; also because he has the Scion of Humanity racial trait (seriously, Paizo, no-no, you can't name two things the same thing), but mostly because he's an outsider (native) creature type).
Reincarnate, works under the same restrictions, but is a lower-level effect, cheaper, random, and requires special rare unguents and oils from rare compressed plants to function. Oh, weird, there are so many extremely rare herbs and plants just kind of suddenly blooming nearby...
x1,000 gp-worth of materials *
Resurrection doesn't work on non-native outsiders, either, but True Resurrection could... but it's not on anyone's spell lists...
Similarly, Breath of Life (or "Cure Deadly Wounds" as JJ likes to call it in his games) works on everyone, but it's actually on your list! ... you just have to be fast about it.
Regenerate functions on all the creatures as well.
With all that information, I wouldn't mind if you wanted to alter a spell or three.
... it's for the amount of value that has just grown around here. It requires a DC 20 craft (alchemy) check to convert the stuff, and requires an hour per 1k gold-value. It can be made untrained, and you get a +10 bonus to the check while in this area for unknown reasons. No more than this will grow there.
Usawoti was not dead - there shouldn't be a way to convert anything to anything that would have done that to him.
Either way, it's not too relevant: presuppose that whatever the ratio of his ending hp was as an army to his maximum army hp, that is the ratio of his actual hp to his full hp.
For example, if he had 7/10 army hp, he'd have 70/100 actual hp.
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That's why the first thing I did when they were retreating was to heal you. I don't do things without reasons you know. The part about native outsiders can be raised was more of a subtle reference to ROW ;)
You were at 49/91 hp, then 6/13 in army form. If I don't remember wrongly. At most you'd just be staggered.
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An outsider with the native subtype can be raised, reincarnated, or resurrected just as other living creatures can be.
I need to lower my SR, but I will for heals. In combat healing me will be a problem since my SR will get in the way.
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TL - I know I'm in discussion, but not saying anything in game atm, since I'm trying to digest what the response to Usawoti's info dump would be.
Basically long posts require me more time to think up replies.
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You're asking a monk to gather stuff. Really?
Long time ago someone posed me with a question. You’re a level 20 wizard sent to stop the tarrasque.
I knew the tarrasque was generally unstoppable(since I was relatively new to D&D and so I didn’t know more of the crazy shenanigans that people do involving the Tarrasque).
I said – I wish(as per the spell) the tarrasque never existed.
I mean you could wish it dead, it’d just pop back to life…
Don’t think it was too a bad answer to give, honestly, based on the knowledge I had at that point of time.
Then he said, since the tarrasque never existed, you have never had the incentive to become a level 20 wizard, so now you’re a level 1 commoner with orcs pounding on your door.
Me: “If my life is the price to save the world, I die content.”
Of course, these days the fashionable thing to do with the tarrasque is to wish it into the sun so that the fire and cold damage from being in outerspace keeps it in a constant state of dying and regenerating. The tarrasque still needs to breathe, and has no way of transversing outerspace unlike some really freaky aberrations. But hey, I was new to this!
You're asking a monk to gather stuff. Really?
Long time ago someone posed me with a question. You’re a level 20 wizard sent to stop the tarrasque.
I knew the tarrasque was generally unstoppable(since I was relatively new to D&D and so I didn’t know more of the crazy shenanigans that people do involving the Tarrasque).
I said – I wish(as per the spell) the tarrasque never existed.
I mean you could wish it dead, it’d just pop back to life…
Don’t think it was too a bad answer to give, honestly, based on the knowledge I had at that point of time.Then he said, since the tarrasque never existed, you have never had the incentive to become a level 20 wizard, so now you’re a level 1 commoner with orcs pounding on your door.
Me: “If my life is the price to save the world, I die content.”
Of course, these days the fashionable thing to do with the tarrasque is to wish it into the sun so that the fire and cold damage from being in outerspace keeps it in a constant state of dying and regenerating. The tarrasque still needs to breathe, and has no way of transversing outerspace unlike some really freaky aberrations. But hey, I was new to this!
... meh? Your answer was extremely solid, and, frankly, I find such manipulations of wish to be less-than-awesome... not because you can't alter how wishes go, per se, but because I don't like messing with people all that much and, "Good job, you suck." is kind of lame.
In any event, the best answer is just to turn it into a zombie via limited wish -> animate dead. Instant fix. :)
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Seriously though, maybe gather about 2000 gp worth of material components before I start buffing up for the day. Again, I've never been what you call greedy in a material sense.
Get between me and my food, and that's a whole different ball game.
I thought the answer was to find a small mountainous highly populated island and then continuously create other large monstrous creatures which you then place on the island drawing the Tarrasque out of the ocean to that island; driven by his desire to fight these other monstrous creatures. That way the Tarrasque would only go to one Island and stomp around there and the rest of the world would be safe...
Oh! No, you're thinking of King Mogaru...
Don't you need to kill it first before you can get a tarrasque zombie?
Not that hard.
That said, they keep ret-conning the thing to "patch" various "loopholes" they see that people come up with to defeat it forever instead of just owning up to the fact that it's a nifty and terrifying monster for much of your career unless you're a commoner or you have the best item or the best spell (or, if you're shooting for overkill*, both).
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Lol.
Though technically there's no spell in pathfinder to "unmake" stuff either. Well, I was a lot fluffier at that time.
(This guy is better, though.)
The thing is, the Tarrasque is kind of a lot like Cthulu: his fans have blown him waaaaaayyyyyyyyy out of proportion, because he looks really horrifying at first glance (and probably the next twelve), and they bought into the hype. In reality, there is little that a well-prepared mind (and magic) can't do...
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Never used the candle of invocation. At least never got to the level that I'd have the cash to use on that stuff.
I've also never got to the level to use simulacrum before, the only stuff I think of doing at high level is create my own demiplane where time goes super slowly, then sit in there research on immortality. And make all my fancy items. Once I get the immortality thing settled, then I can walk out.
How do gates unmake things? Cthulhu isn't that bad once you get immune to mind affecting. I've thought about 2 ways - Lunar oracle capstone,
"Upon reaching 20th level, you become an avatar of the primal world—part humanoid, part beast. Once per day, you can transform into a lycanthrope of your choice for a number of hours equal to your Charisma modifier, gaining all the powers of a natural lycanthrope of that type, including the ability to change shape between human, animal, and hybrid form.
In addition, you become immune to mind-affecting and language-dependent effects, as well as effects that specifically target only humanoids." or
Occult oracle capstone, when you die and come back as a ghost. Cthulhu can't really hurt incorpreal creatures, unfortunately, his starspawn can use gate, which will harm you.
I've not actually crunched numbers yet to see if you can hit him or not, or stack a suffocate (is that considered as a death effect?) on him. Technically you could baleful polymorph him but I'm not sure what it'd take to get through SR and saves.
Never used the candle of invocation. At least never got to the level that I'd have the cash to use on that stuff.
I've also never got to the level to use simulacrum before, the only stuff I think of doing at high level is create my own demiplane where time goes super slowly, then sit in there research on immortality. And make all my fancy items. Once I get the immortality thing settled, then I can walk out.
Candle's're extremely cheap: at 8.4k a pop (4.2 if you're making it yourself), you'd be able to afford that ~ level 6-8. You could hypothetically afford it 5th, or even 4th, but in most any normal campaign, that proooooobably ain't happening.
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How do gates unmake things?
They do not! (Good question, though.)
You missed the second link in that sentence, right next to the link to gate. ;)
To whit:
Ah! Well, there kinda
^ Gate link
is...
^ Other link
(This guy is better, though.)
^ The second one gives context to this statement
:D
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Cthulhu isn't that bad once you get immune to mind affecting. I've thought about 2 ways - Lunar oracle capstone,
"Upon reaching 20th level, you become an avatar of the primal world—part humanoid, part beast. Once per day, you can transform into a lycanthrope of your choice for a number of hours equal to your Charisma modifier, gaining all the powers of a natural lycanthrope of that type, including the ability to change shape between human, animal, and hybrid form.
In addition, you become immune to mind-affecting and language-dependent effects, as well as effects that specifically target only humanoids." or
Occult oracle capstone, when you die and come back as a ghost. Cthulhu can't really hurt incorpreal creatures, unfortunately, his starspawn can use gate, which will harm you.
Nah, that isn't Cthulu. That's a fan's over-inflated buy-in of the hype-train interpretation of what Cthulu actually is: a moderately-CR'd super-sized kind of stupid (though proooooooooobably sentient?) super-predator who happens to drive people nuts via really, really big psychic aura.
It's closer than many RPG attempts, though, I'll give it that.
I've not actually crunched numbers yet to see if you can hit him or not, or stack a suffocate (is that considered as a death effect?) on him. Technically you could baleful polymorph him but I'm not sure what it'd take to get through SR and saves.
It's not really relevant.
Just hit him with a super-tanker. Toot-toot.
(I'm going to guess you're not super-familiar with the source material. Lovecraft, the author, is a very clever writer with a penchant for the weird and macabre, who used his rather excessive list of phobias and personal insecurities rather well to create immersive, terrifying fiction; unfortunately, he was also terribly racist and and a bunch of phobias and personal insecurities that made him kind of terrible. Cthulu was but one of the creatures he created, and wasn't all that important, even in his own universe. The one story he actually manages to wake up ends with - spoiler alert - him attempting (and failing) to swallow a steam engine boat at full power trying to escape him. I mean, technically, he succeeded... sort of. It popped his head, though, and kept going right on through. The gas eventually drove the dudes that went through it mad, but he never really showed up again, even though he's noted as having regenerated immediately - seems he went right back to sleep.)
Speaking of sleep... g'night!
(I wasn't able to tell if you're leaving now, or what. If no one clarifies, I'll try to update tomorrow.)
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I think my human needs to go pick up some flowers... Then we'll mosey.