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...you get to the table and your dedicated caster character has half again the AC of the *martials* at the table and as many hit points......and it's not an 'evergreen' with new characters.
A recent mission.
Two wizards more hale than I;Way less armored, though.
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why do people turn to my aasimar Cleric and expect him to be the diplomat of the party with an 8 Cha and 1 rank in Diplomacy at 7th level... *sigh* out come the wands and scrolls...This is why I don't use the word "cleric" when introducing my pirate PC. Yes, Besmara gives him divine power, including the ability to use Cure wands, but that's all the healing he can provide. Yet when some people hear the word "cleric", they automatically translate it to "healer" in their head.
I cured an entire party of that habit once. After combat: "we're all hurt, why don't you just channel?" "Uh...OK? I'll choose to not affect myself, though. (roll) Everyone take 3 points of damage." "I thought you were a cleric!" "I am, but I thought the pentacle and the sermon on how Asmodeus is the source of strength kinda gave away what was going to happen there. Anyway, who wants some infernal healing?"
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The sorcerer has the second lowest CHA and is wearing heavy armor.
Alternatively, you realize the paladin has the highest CHA and lowest STR.
A sorcerer wearing heavy armor is a viable build now that Occult Adventures came out. Not sure how viable but still its plausible with the Psychic bloodline.
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...and you get to the second encounter before one of the players realizes they've played this before and the table suddenly becomes illegal and one of the players would have to drive a couple of hours back home if no alternative is found.
(In the end, Muser ran a totally different scenario cold. What a tremendous fella.)
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The GM is holding a deck of Pokemon cards excitedly ...
The phrase 'Cantrip based character' is used ...
At least 3 of the players have Lawful marked down, but aren't sharing the same good/nuetral/evil axis ...
The guy to your right is wearing a 'Feel the Bern' pin and the guy to your left is wearing a Trup #MakeAmericaGreatAgain pin...
The GM has been on a three day trip and he hasn't left his room...
Your buddy sits down, stares the GM in the eye, and says 'Bring it wuss' ...
The GM has replaced all the miniatures with Warhammer 40k figures
A sorcerer wearing heavy armor is a viable build now that Occult Adventures came out. Not sure how viable but still its plausible with the Psychic bloodline.
The bloodline allows the sorcerer to treat arcane spells as if they were psychic spells. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that psychic spells can be cast even while wearing armor, but I can't find it now — and it's notable that the psychic class cannot wear any armor. So how is a heavy armor build viable for the sorcerer? Even if it is viable, she would have to devote three feats to getting heavy armor proficiency, no?
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A sorcerer wearing heavy armor is a viable build now that Occult Adventures came out. Not sure how viable but still its plausible with the Psychic bloodline.The bloodline allows the sorcerer to treat arcane spells as if they were psychic spells. I thought I remembered reading somewhere that psychic spells can be cast even while wearing armor, but I can't find it now — and it's notable that the psychic class cannot wear any armor. So how is a heavy armor build viable for the sorcerer? Even if it is viable, she would have to devote three feats to getting heavy armor proficiency, no?
Heavy armor does not effect psychic spellcasting, since psychic spells do not have somatic components. Therefore, a psychic in heavy armor will take all the usual non-proficiency penalties to skills and attacks, but their spellcasting isn't affected in any way.
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...when you get to ready to DM the game, and the party tank/healer is a homebrew Small-sized otterfolk; some dude is playing a female black-leather clad, wannabe "ninja" druid archer; the fighter has Str 6, Con 8, and "specializes" in crossbow; the homebrew skill-based magician did not put max ranks into Spellcraft; and the party wizard is an Empowered Awakened parrot (Int 3d6 x 1.5!) that only summons bananas in people's pants ("BANANA PANTS!!!").
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...when you play a 7-11 and have one 8, three 9s, one 11, no healer, and the 11 is a fighter barbarian that does 1d10+6 each hit and NEVER RAGES!
Also the sub-tier is dragged to the high tier and the week later the guy who played the 11 is like "Yeah, we needed a healer, I should have played Kyra instead.", after I had suggested it to him on the day and he's like "Don't tell me what to do.".
Also if it wasn't clear, thos was a near TPK, and I say near because the other arcane managed to escape with her anti-sight shenanigans, the fighter* managed to bail before she could die, and the level 8 barbarian had ran off.
Also that level 8 barbarian was the main melee damage dealer in the party. This experience made me rather cross with the level 11 player.
...when the one fighter* in the party has died enough times to have the wealth of an equal or lower level npc.
...when the one player is building his character off of another fictional character, and invests in proficiency with the two-bladed sword, but says he won't take TWF until level 5.
...the Ninja pre-gen.
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The party of tetori monks says they just finished off the succubus
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.. and the GM can only speak in a whisper.
...and the GM has to leave the table during the first encounter.
The Grapple rules need a serious, serious overhaul. Unlike Trip, as one example, you can have a mosquito grapple an apatosaurus. Ridiculous.
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....the new player at the table has read this entire thread...
(I've read the thread but haven't been to a game yet. Blasted RL)
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Its worth noting that the proficiency penalty also applies to Initiative checks although you can get round that with Noble Scion of War.
Anyway:
... when the venture captain mentions a name and the entire table laments, "NOOOOO! Not him!" And you have no idea who this person is, and when you ask they give cryptic answers. Well, thanks for not spoiling me I guess.
... when the GM thinks that eidolons and phantoms need a Handle Animal check to act.
... You're the only one who spent 2 PP on wand of CLW.
... No one brought cold iron and/or silver weapons, when there's the word "demon", "devil", "fiend", "abyss", "hell", etc, in the title of the scenario.
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...the GM gives the summoner character an evil grin and starts rolling dice before play starts...
...you're the only one that spent money on ANY sort of curative, and it's a *potion* of CLW.
...The GM, trying to be helpful, puts out a copy of the scenario on the outside of the GM screen... and it has a picture of some horrible Big Bad that is well beyond the capabilities of any party member or the party combined...
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...the GM gives the summoner character an evil grin and starts rolling dice before play starts...
...you're the only one that spent money on ANY sort of curative, and it's a *potion* of CLW.
...The GM, trying to be helpful, puts out a copy of the scenario on the outside of the GM screen... and it has a picture of some horrible Big Bad that is well beyond the capabilities of any party member or the party combined...
Important note, the monster on the front of the not is often the first or second combat not the final one.
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Andreww, can you give a citation where it says that an initiative check is an ability check? By your reasoning heroism would give a bonus to initiative, which I have not seen anyone do. Thanks.
Heroism doesn't give a bonus to ability checks, just attacks, saves and skill checks. Also, pg. 178 of the CRB for the bit about initiative checks:
At the start of a battle, each combatant makes an initiative check. An initiative check is a Dexterity check. Each character applies his or her Dexterity modifier to the roll, as well as other modifiers from feats, spells, and other effects. Characters act in order, counting down from the highest result to the lowest. In every round that follows, the characters act in the same order (unless a character takes an action that results in his or her initiative changing; see Special Initiative Actions on page 202).
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...when you play a 7-11 and have one 8, three 9s, one 11, no healer, and the 11 is a fighter barbarian that does 1d10+6 each hit and NEVER RAGES!
When I did this our level 11 was a grapple witch that was killed by a couple of CR2 alligators before she had a chance to act in the first encounter.
So we finished the rest of the game without our level 11.
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...when you play a 7-11 and have one 8, three 9s, one 11, no healer, and the 11 is a fighter barbarian that does 1d10+6 each hit and NEVER RAGES!
When I did this our level 11 was a grapple witch that was killed by a couple of CR2 alligators before she had a chance to act in the first encounter.
So we finished the rest of the game without our level 11.
Note to self: try to make own grapplewitch sturdier than this.
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How did that happen? I'm assuming it had something to do with dumping Con?
I could see it happening if party was surprised (or went after the crocs in the surprise round) and the croc action did something to prevent the character from going and then on into the full normal round where the crocs once again prevented the character from going, etc, etc.
It almost happened to my -1 in Six Seconds to Midnight...
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You arrive and the Synthesist Summoner turns to the Vivisectionist Alchemist and Undead Lord Cleric and says "Bob and his Primalist can't make it, and Jim's stuck in traffic with his Monster Tactitian. We might have to play down or switch to our party of Drow rogues and play an evergreen"
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... The available tables are Sealed Gate, Bonekeep, and L1 Thornkeep.
Funny spoiler-free story on Sealed Gate. I was scheduled to run it a while back and we had players signed up who provided their levels and such in the invite. The one of the organizers, who was playing at the table, looks at me as I walk into the venue and says "We need to talk." As it turned out, he only had 11s to play and the party comp was such that they would be forced into high tier 4-player because of the spread. He then asks for permission to use Planar Binding for the scenario to ensure their survival. Being the nice guy that I am, I said sure. I know he's not going to get table-disruptive with whatever he pulls, particularly since he tells me he's going to go for something cleric-y.
He proceeds to drop several thousand gold to prep for this Planar Binding. He gets a Circlet of Persuasion for the CHA checks, the consumable that lets him push 2 HD higher on the outsider, etc. He uses his Staff of the Master to make the spell persistent. He then says that the critter has to make its saving throws and that he only needs one of the dice to be below a 15 or something.
Natural 19
Natural 17
And yet, they survived.
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How did that happen? I'm assuming it had something to do with dumping Con?...when you play a 7-11 and have one 8, three 9s, one 11, no healer, and the 11 is a fighter barbarian that does 1d10+6 each hit and NEVER RAGES!
When I did this our level 11 was a grapple witch that was killed by a couple of CR2 alligators before she had a chance to act in the first encounter.
So we finished the rest of the game without our level 11.
No, this player builds very sub-optimal characters with very poor tactics. She was a full white haired witch. Her CMD was like 15 flatfooted.
We were coming up to a fight. Everyone knew combat was coming so I told her to start casting spells and preparing for combat. She said she would be fine.
She got like a 5 on initiative got hit with a lightning bolt to soften her up and then the alligators came up and got death rolled by one. Another PC killed it instantly. The the second one finished her off.
She is a nice person, but if you were to look at her characters you would think she tries to build them weak. Her level 7 barbarian that brought the party up in traitors lodge started ranging and hit something for 9 damage. I cringed as the DM. Then another monster with a damaging grab effect finished her off later in two rounds.
No, this player builds very sub-optimal characters with very poor tactics. She was a full white haired witch. Her CMD was like 15 flatfooted.
How did that happen? I'm assuming it had something to do with dumping Con?
Wha... wait, howw?
My WHW has a better CMD and he's only level 4.
:O
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