Recent content by Theblazeuk

Thanks Ryan. Good design, I think I will maybe try it out (though all my 20s roll on skill checks...)

So, I'm playing a swordmage. I can throw my sword and call it back Skywalker-style, or I have a pair of daggers for disposable throwing. However as I'm a martial scientist, I could use pistols if I wanted. And it seems like it would be a cool addition - fire one, move closer, mark, fight with...

We just finished up the first adventure and it didn't seem like we had much chance to call in favours. I vaguely used it during the crowd control section of the coal tongue, but on the island my only idea was to request explosives (which came in the form of gunpowder rather than alchemist's...

We started playing a 4E on Sunday. We didn't do well with the crowd, I wasn't quite sure what to do other than keep an eye on things (and our bard's attempts to blend in with the drinking public went very badly) but we headed off a couple of things. Certainly nothing worse than a couple of...

I think I underestimated how fun the experimental strike thing would be anyway :) I missed a guy in front of the furnace (firegem thing), so I completed the swing by grabbing a handful of the coals/firegems and flinging them into his face - setting him on fire and blinding him.... Will be...

Thanks, that helps tremendously. Now just to decide if the Veshti mystics are the terrorist remnants of an evil empire (as one player thinks) or if they are mystical vigilantes rising from the ashes to bloodily carve a better world for all, one tyrant/bastich at a time...

So I am about to start my first ever game of D&D and have gone for a Genasi Swordmage, with what I hope is some good fluff to support the character in world. It seems like Martial Scientist would fit in well with the idea - roughly along the lines of a 'thesis' that saw him enter the Dreaming...