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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hong" data-source="post: 3378745" data-attributes="member: 537">So, 3rd session tonight. Long break due to other stuff getting in the way.Picked up diamond nightmare blade. Picked up swift-action true strike 1/day, enchanted into my sword (the DM was well-apprised of what was coming). Got everyone's attention.- 196 points of damage against some hideous flesh-construct aberration in a lich's fortress, taking it down.- 201 points against the lich the next day, after winning init. Lich goes down without getting a shot off. I said to the others that I'd be bragging online if I broke 200 hp, so here I am. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />- 201 points against some huge worm-like creature at the entrance to the Tabernacle of Worms (Dragotha's immense underground lair), destroying it in one blow. This was without the true strike, since I was saving it for Dragotha; simple max-Power Attack against low AC.- 180 points against one of Dragotha's minions, again taking him down in one blow (again, no true strike).I'll revise my evaluation of diamond nightmare blade; it's hideous against low-AC creatures, and middling-AC ones if you have true strike. Against high-AC ones you're mostly still better off with greater insightful strike + one with shadow.It should be noted that some of the encounters in the Wyrmcrawl Fissure don't seem to be that tough, the above cheese notwithstanding. In another fight, we met a giant crawling undead worm-sorcerer thing, 80 ft long... the archer hits it for >100 points from 5 arrows, the wiz drops a meteor swarm on it for another 116 points, and it's dead. No Con bonus makes for fragile undead.OTOH we've met an NPC who gave us a foreshadowing of Dragotha's stats: 800+ hit points, SR 35 and AC >50. Now that will be something different. We've got some plot-device items/effects that will help against him, but we're still scared shitless.I believe I've got the hang of juggling strikes, boost and counters now. I use almost no boosts, which incidentally means the 20th level swordsage ability is of questionable value. Counters OTOH are immensely useful, especially one with shadow (turn incorporeal), which saved me from being bitten for >50hp, a slay living, an enervation, and other crap.</blockquote>

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