Arabesu's Eyes of the Lich Queen, w/ Boons! - OOC

[renau1g]

Actually Divine Casting is a bit light too I think? Only a Druid w/Shapeshifter variant.

 

[moritheil]

OOC-The thing about a game world to remember is that you have to leave the 21st century morality at the door.

While you are right in that not all societies adhere to modern Western concepts of ethics or justice, I'm really not sure your demand that we as people learn to ignore our morality is appropriate. Better to remind everyone that it is up to what our characters would do, think, or feel.

Rosa is a city-dweller from what amounts to an Orwellian police state, something that cannot exist historically without advanced technology (or magic.) She may be accustomed to not protesting torture. As for the other characters, why not let them decide?

 

[Vertexx69]

@ Ren Hightower's speed is only 20' as well, since hes in full plate.

 

[moritheil]

When are you gonna run a game?

Oh yeah, I second Vertexx's stroke of genius. I'd really like to see what a Shayuri game would be like.

Derailment aside, Shayuri, have you considered the Crusader from Bo9S? It works very differently from a paladin both RP-wise and mechanically. It can pull healing duty at low levels (though it tends to lag behind at higher levels.)

 

[Shayuri]

Mew. I hadn't.

I didn't realize Bo9S was included. I'm used to most games leaving it out.

I'll take a peek...though I suspect we'll need more healing than a secondary healer can dish out. Is the player of the druid still playing? I could always bring in a healer-druid.

 

[moritheil]

Under the SRD rules it lists "emulating a feat you don't have" as a possible use for action points. (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/adventuring/actionpoints.htm)

Is it possible for Rosa to spend action points to emulate the feat Resist Poison (PGF)? It grants a +4 bonus against poison saves. I have grave doubts about her ability to make fort saves.

 

[Arabesu]

I'm using the Eberron action points and I'm not familiar with the action point system you are referring to so at first glance I am generally disinclined to use it. Some of the alternate ways to use action points at the SRD seem very strong, and I'm not sure that the challenges are calibrated correctly to take that into account. I've already opened up a whole lot of alternate material, after a while it gets too difficult for me to keep track and make adjustments to scale each encounter appropriately.

FYI they are calibrated to keep you well up to your neck in danger, typically ELs are 1 to 3 levels above you, but that is designed to get your group from 5th to 9th or 10th in only 46 encounters, rather than the typical 70 to 80 balanced encounters for a party of 6.

So yes, its designed to be scary. Some of the challenges are downright unfair. Those that are I have fixed. I hope. This one is very tough but I have faith that you will get through it OK, although you will probably be bloodied quite a bit. Your already off to a good start.

I will give you a hint, you are expected to rest after taking out the poison dusk and blackscale camp and before entering the portico of the temple. So I'd throw everything you got at these guys as far as daily resources go. Particularly the guy who just shot Rosa. There is an alternate encounter that you can do, but I wouldn't recommend it under your current shape.

Shayuri, no pressure or rush, but it would be best for your character to show up within the next few fights at the latest. Also, I have no problem with the Bo9S, there are bad guys in this module that are straight out of the Bo9S so it would be pretty uncool for me not to encourage your group to dip into it.

Crusader is a very nice option considering the party's strengths and weaknesses.

 

[Arabesu]

The player for the druid, Jack of Tales, is on hiatus. I think she is backpacking across the Pyrenees or something equally exciting. I don't really know for sure. She specifically suggested I NPC her druid, Faris Ravenblood.

Shayuri, I think it would be cool for you to run her character for this fight, just to get you involved, and it makes me feel less guilty about bringing her in if the group needs help.

Are you interested? See the rogue's gallery for her character sheet. I don't believe she has cast a single spell, relying much more on her shapeshifting. Fenwick has cast mage-armor on her which nets her a +1 to her AC.

I have know idea what happened to Douane/Saris' player. Running that character as a temp PC would be fine with me, unless/until he shows up...

 

[moritheil]

I'm using the Eberron action points and I'm not familiar with the action point system you are referring to so at first glance I am generally disinclined to use it. Some of the alternate ways to use action points at the SRD seem very strong, and I'm not sure that the challenges are calibrated correctly to take that into account. I've already opened up a whole lot of alternate material, after a while it gets too difficult for me to keep track and make adjustments to scale each encounter appropriately.

FYI they are calibrated to keep you well up to your neck in danger, typically ELs are 1 to 3 levels above you, but that is designed to get your group from 5th to 9th or 10th in only 46 encounters, rather than the typical 70 to 80 balanced encounters for a party of 6.

So yes, its designed to be scary. Some of the challenges are downright unfair. Those that are I have fixed. I hope. This one is very tough but I have faith that you will get through it OK, although you will probably be bloodied quite a bit. Your already off to a good start.

I will give you a hint, you are expected to rest after taking out the poison dusk and blackscale camp and before entering the portico of the temple. So I'd throw everything you got at these guys as far as daily resources go. Particularly the guy who just shot Rosa. There is an alternate encounter that you can do, but I wouldn't recommend it under your current shape.

I'm not familiar with Eberron's AP system and thought perhaps that was it. Sorry for the discrepancy. Can you tell me what benefit comes from spending AP on a save? I'm prepared to spend the APs, I just don't know what happens

 

[Vertexx69]

Using an AP adds 1d6 to any d20 roll at our lvl. You can also use them to activate a class ability an extra time in a day or auto-stabalize when at negative HP. That's it for Eberron.