Death of the dragons (OOC)

[Vertexx69]

Calling hellrazor, ryfte and kasuki. We're waiting on you folks in the IC thread.

@ nuerotic - your monk should be getting a stat bonus from his bloodline since he has 5 HD right?

@ Kasuki - war gets a stat bump at 4th HD (i'd suggest evening out one of your odds stats)

[Neurotic]

I already edited it, but thanks.

I have a question: I noted that anklet of translocation and boots both have location: feet. By the rules that means they cannot be used on the same person. But I feel it should be possible. It would seem that it is same as making trowsers of jumping (legs) and being unable to wear magical boots.

If it is impossible, I'll find similar translocating item that can be used with the boots


In combat I'll describe movements and body postures resembling a dragon (think Bruce Lee "dragon sweeps his tail")

[hellrazor111]

I'm waiting for Kasuki, he only has dial-up which is too slow for enworld. He can only go to the library or my house to update, and due to some minor problems, he is not allowed to be at my house for a while. I will do some stuff with you but will wait for him before adding meat to the story.

[Neurotic]

I'd say Marius at least heard of War warforged not being very common. Especialy in uncivilized reaches of the northern mountains. I'd say he came to the temple more then once to study in peace, to peruse temple library and maybe to make some items for temple residents.

As Marius is somewhat known there for his bloodline and looks strange with his yellow eyes, he might have caught War's eye occasionaly.

[Vertexx69]

@ hellrazor - You might want to get kasuki to write down what he wants to say on paper or in an email, and then you can log in as kasuki and post it to save time If you see him in real life that is.

[Neurotic]

I'd like to take PrC Initiate of Draconic mysteries.

Since it has power attack as prerequisite and Marius gets Power attack as part of his blood line later, could I at that time select another related feat (such as flying leap attack or some other)

Also, the class gets evasion which Marius already has thanks to his monk levels. Would it be possible to get improved evasion instead (as would rogue that multiclasses as barbarian or vice versa). And later instead of improved evasion get something related...

I can afford to 'waste' one feat since this is fighter gestalt, but I wouldn't like to repeat evasion and improved evasion which usualy have comment along the lines of "if character already has evasion form some other source he gains improved evasion instead" or some such...I don't know why it isn't included in this book. Maybe it's 3.5 thing? Do I remember such comments from 3.0 books?

The class fits Marius, but as this is to be fairly power-game oriented game, wasting more then one feature seems non-optimal.

For DM

Could Marius be poylmorphed and memory shaped gold dragon? Such that he would have sudden insights into his past or some other non-mechanic flavor; or even game effective such as he failes his dragonfear save and is suddenly overcome with memories so he is not shaken, but dazed for few rounds...

At 20th level he would become a dragon again.

[Halford]

I think you are thinking of Uncanny Dodge Neurotic, you never gain Improved Evasion by simply getting two classes with evasion - if you did two level of rogue two levels of monk would be amazing. Improved Evasion is only available as a high level class ability for rogues and through some prestiege classes, standard barbarians never get evasion.

Uncanny Dodge is the ability that commonly grants Improved Uncanny Dodge if acquired twice, and its power level is far less than Improved Evasion.

[Neurotic]

Indeed, I am. Hereby I humbly apologize for not checking instead of writing from memory.

Another question (and I know this is highly irregular )
I finally got some time to scour Magic Items Compendium and found out that there is a set with Monk signature (Monk's Array). I'd like to replace Anklet and cloak for Cobra Straps and Panther Mask (Created in the form of gold dragon of course ). Scorpion Kama is for now outside the scope of our current funds, but provides good item to search for...

This resolves the issue of anklet/boots conflict. If this is not allowed I'll make Marius' personal quest searching for those items.

[Vertexx69]

It really is ok to just role play around a bit until the DM gets his act together. Its a chance to really get to know our characters before we get dropped into the crap. We can roleplay the entire evening, as that would be much better than nobody posting anything for days on end.

[Halford]

Good point, I'll go and post shortly.

[Vertexx69]

Why is it that that its SOOOO HARD to find a group of people that actually WANT to play D&D? Everyone is gung ho about building characters, but when it comes time to play with them it seems like the smallest excuse is enough to get them to forget about it? This is what I meant by statistical mathturbation...

[Halford]

Sadly it seems to be an inherent problem in PBP, its one of the reasons that I have found myself concentrating more and more upon the Living Worlds which I have had far more luck with.

You could try L4W or LEW Vertexx, the fact that DMs are backed up by a judge whose duty is to continue or wrap up the adventure and that you can transfer your character to other games helps a great deal. Of course you may well already have tried that.

[Neurotic]

I think it's the problem with all games. After initial rush when people see "power game" and everybody goes out of their way to create freaks, they finish and find out that it's not as interesting to play as it might have been if it was less focused...

That said, DMs back off just as often as they loose players so it's 50-50 deal. At least you can reuse your char in some other game.

[Vertexx69]

Well the Breath of Fire universe is populated with animalistic type humanoids, and the general population just excepts this as normal. With fishman traders and Oxman boat captains being commonplace, a motley crew in a tavern shouldn't scare anyone away.

[hellrazor111]

Dang, I updated IC before I looked at here this, I hope people didn't give up on this. I was sick for a while then had to catch up on home work after my grades dropped to Fs I'm back now though. I was hoping that when I logged back on there would have been lots of posts and what not. Damn sad to see this die..

@ Vertexx: McNeils Village is a little bit out of the way of the rest of the world, and, you all are outsiders to the village, and a tough looking group, it's less that your scary and more of they don't want to anger you.

@Neurotic: Considering that nothing has happened sense I was gone, go ahead I mean, nobody know what anyone else has so..

Oh and I'll get a RG up in a few minutes, ment to do it a lot sooner.

[hellrazor111]

Heres the rogue gallery

[Vertexx69]

I don't think its that we have given up on the game so much as we were scratching our heads as to why the DM only posted twice in 2 weeks. But the party make-up of 3 evil characters (2 of which are undeadish) and 3 good characters (including a paladin) might have made interaction a bit of a problem But the 4 of us that actually have posted should be able to handle this.

[Halford]

Posted Alariass in the RG he now has all of his Archivist spells and his spells prepared on there to - ready to rumble! Was it roll for HP btw? I placed a link to my IC rolls, hope thats right...

[Halford]

Looking back to the first post I see we all get a free +1 weapon. Would it be permissable for Alariass, who is about as much use in melee as a chocolate teapot, to use the funds for something else? Or at least to sell his +1 weapon and use those funds to purchase something more appropriate to him?

[Halford]

I have to note that ethereal characters were specifically banned and Voidrazor is running a character who can become ethereal at will. Sorry to be a stickler, but it doesn't seem fair that an option is open to one player and not to others - especially since I had been planning to use it.

Sorry Voidrazor, don't mean to be irritating, but fair is fair sort of thing.