i think an animated table would be very useful to an alchemist,....

[zainale]

....don't you?

here soon in the next 2-3 months i will get to finally level my alchemist up which means i will get a new ability maybe a feat or a discovery. if its a feat it means i will finish my feat line i was chasing to the end and will be able to focus on my discoveries. which means i will pick up Promethean Disciple.

anyways that should happen in 6 months or to a year. the game is just that slow. and the DM does not provide cover in his games. and since my character really does kind of need it i was thinking about making some sort of animated table which i could then flip over onto its side as some kind of portable cover. my DM loves surrounding my character on all sides and then AoO my character into unconsciousness.

my character is an alchemist grenadier. with throwing around bombs and shooting arrows and such.

is this idea a pipe dream or possible? or as a DM your self would you shoot it down?

i would love taking the flight discovery but my DM says he would have to set up combats with enemies just to attack me but he is already doing that on the ground.

[Diachronos]

From the sounds of it, your DM is painting a bulls-eye on your chest and offering a full ring of three wishes to whoever can hit it the hardest. Does he single you out for all of this, or does he spread the "love" to the whole party? Speaking of which, what level are you at where you're the only person that the DM has to worry about attacking in the air?

To answer your question, yes, I think this would be a very good thing to have around. Ideally you'll want to make it out of something durable, just to make sure it's not being broken after only a few fights.

[Saethori]

I get the feeling that shortly after you bring this animated table to the campaign, encounters will start conveniently including enemies that like to sunder equipment. Maybe with adamantine weapons, if the table itself isn't made of the stuff.

Of course, if this does happen, you will have all the proof you need that he's gunning for you intentionally, so you can call him out on it and/or leave the campaign in protest.

[zainale]

the wizard teleports out of danger while the pally and monk tend to rush the bad guys but they can't hold back everyone which means three or four bad guys tend to get pass them and surround the wizard and my alchemist. the melee guys tend to face tree or four badies themselves.
before i would say yes it seemed like the DM did have a target on my pc but would also not kill my character. but we had a talk after one game where he had KOed my pc for the third time that night. and as of yet had any combat in the last six months.

we are currently lvl 6. i am a multi classed alchemist 2 fighter/ 4 alchemist.

well i have the ability to pick up the flight discovery later on or soon if i can convince my DM to allow my pc to retrain one of his fighter levels to alchemist. and i am sure the wizard could cast a levitate or flight spell if he has it. he is already casting the lowest lvl teleport spell.

how durable would a wood table topped in iron be? mostly i was thinking table as in tower shield.

[Diachronos]

I'm not sure an iron-topped table would be much more effective than a pure wooden table, to be honest. You'd have to have at least a one-inch thick iron plate, which would give hardness 10.

What exactly do you usually end up fighting where there are enough enemies to consistently surround you like this?

[zainale]

most the time it seems like we are getting our asses saved npc assists or running away. we survive but don't really feel like heroes at least i don't.and if we did not have those npc assets we would have tpked over half of the times we got into combat. i am all for dumping all of the party npcs if we could just fight something that was not a horde of this or that.

we have faced 8 ogres, 5 trolls, a horde of wolves lead by an abomination, a wraith with a swarm of squirrels, a horde of some sort of veggie like halfling like creatures, birds just birds, a dire tiger, a swarm of bugs, two armored animated statues, a bucket load of evil dwarves over several different fight, a giant venus flytrap. pretty sure i am missing some encounters.

saethori, i don't know an adamantine sword for an animated table might just be worth it. it would go to me or the pally. if we could catch it.

[Saethori]

...so what you're saying is that the GM is actively trying to murder the entire party.

There may be bigger problems than what your alchemist is taking as a discovery.

[zainale]

not sure i think he might be compensating encounters for the party npcs

[zainale]

not sure i think he might be compensating encounters for the party npcs. so making sure we have to depend on the npcs to survive the encounters. this is why i think Dm should have their own pcs of similar lvl and not npc of godly power.

[Diachronos]

If that's the case, the party NPCs shouldn't be there. If the encounters are hard enough that you're forced to rely on them to bail you out, then they're too difficult for your party's level.

From the sounds of it, you already have a "complete" party without the NPCs, since you have 4 players and only seem to be missing someone who can use healing spells. To be frank, your DM shouldn't even be including NPC allies except for maybe a cleric or support caster of some kind to patch you all up after a fight since you already have most things covered.

[Dr Styx]

Here I was thinking you where looking for some kind of Moble Alchemist Lab...

Because that could be cool.

[zainale]

yea basically doctor styx that and portable cover