Brave New Planes OOC

[Brother Shatterstone]

I take it that you intend such a feat to grant Dex bonus to damage?

Yeah, sorry I should have been more blunt on that, and I was also more worried about Brystasia but you are right. With her sneak attacks (2d6), and her own ability to remove dex bonus from opponents (improved trip) it could get ugly as is.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Well, the sneak attack damage itself isn't going to be too bad, as a pair of energy enhancements could do the same. It's mostly that opponents vulnerable to being tripped may suffer numerous attacks, both from you and from Vilya, should they lose their footing in a melee situation.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Well, the sneak attack damage itself isn't going to be too bad, as a pair of energy enhancements could do the same.

True. I do have flaming burst though... I had to mimic the boss lady herself... ya know?

I can't afford it now but I'm curious about what you think of Heavenly Burst. It's exalted, not a clue on the page number but there’s not to many pages of magic items. Anyhow it’s 3d6 on a burst, a “chance” of blinding someone, and deals 1d2 temporary strength damage to wielding in the process. +2 bonus

Would you be okay with this later in the game? (I haven’t really seen anything else that caught my eye for a whip.

It's mostly that opponents vulnerable to being tripped may suffer numerous attacks, both from you and from Vilya, should they lose their footing in a melee situation.

Yeah that's the game plan for allot of things... Brystasia has, improved trip, the sweeping enchantment that was on her whip originally so she should be capable of tripping at least most of the time.

I'm pretty sure your okay with the feat and the sweeping enchantment stacking in sweeping attacks as she did have but at the same time orginaly but I should probably ask. I know your going to say something like named bonus don’t stack but to be honest I think everyone interrupts that differently.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Named bonuses don't stack. Improved Trip is an unnamed bonus. Ergo, it stacks.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Named bonuses don't stack. Improved Trip is an unnamed bonus. Ergo, it stacks.

Yaw know PA it looks like it doesn't matter... I just read the feat again in my 3.5 book and you only get the bonus for unarmed attacks... :\

3.0 says nothing about being unarmed, do you see any issue with keeping the 3.0 feat or should I chose another feat? I just don't see Brystasia as being capable of tripping to many people when unarmed, she lacks the power.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

What the SRD says is "You also gain a +4 bonus on your Strength check to trip your opponent. If you trip an opponent in melee combat, you immediately get a melee attack against that opponent as if you hadn’t used your attack for the trip attempt." Neither of those rules are limited to unarmed attacks. The only rule which applies to unarmed attacks alone is that you no longer provoke AoOs; this rule only applies to unarmed attacks because "Some weapons can be used to make trip attacks. In this case, you make a melee touch attack with the weapon instead of an unarmed melee touch attack, and you don’t provoke an attack of opportunity." Thus, as armed trip attempts never provoke AoOs, Improved Trip does not need to negate those AoOs.

This is the DM's ruling. So let it be written, so let it be done.

 

[Serpenteye]

Serpenteye, I hate to a bearer of bad news but after looking through about 5 books, PGtF, Compete Warrior, Complete Divine, Defenders of the Faith, and the Book of Exalted Deeds the best I have found was a +10 BAB and a CL of +9. It lacked +1 to the existing caster level at first level.

So tell me what you want for Sandorel, like do you want him to be a mega undead killer a mega healer, etc. and I’ll start working on getting it to you.

Thanks, I hope it's not too much work for you.

Mega spellcaster, I think, both arcane and divine. I only wanted the full Bab for maxi-buffed Shapechenged-into-something-awful butt-kicking, but it's better to work with his strengths.

Spell/level progression is through the Improved Spell Capacity feat; given that you might have two classes which grant it as bonus feats, that can add up very quickly.

And that feat only works for one of the caster-classes per taking, right? And we only get the feats for one of our classes, meaning that Gestalt will be effectively meaningless for those level spells.
Without his epic buffs Sandorel won't get many (if any) bonus spells for high abilities and get merely one spell/day for one class for one taking of the feat. I better come up with some kick-ass 10th level spells.
How does learming new spells work for his Sorcerer class? Does he have to pick Improved Spell Knowledge every time?

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

You're right; I hadn't considered how much that would reduce spell-level increases. I'll tentatively let the feat work for each class that you fill the prereqs for, and sorcerors gain one spell known of each new level.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Thanks, I hope it's not too much work for you.

No problem.

Mega spellcaster, I think, both arcane and divine. I only wanted the full Bab for maxi-buffed Shapechenged-into-something-awful butt-kicking, but it's better to work with his strengths.

I might need help on the Mega spellcaster PrCs, as I don't know the spells that well. Maybe PA could help. Name some PrCs that meat what Serpenteye wants and that you will allow and I'll get him the required information.

Sound good?

PA, Bry will be done this weekend.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

Incantatrix is right out. I'll allow thaumaturge, archmage, and loremaster from the SRD. None of the Tome and Blood PrCs seem to suit, being either the wrong flavor or incompete caster progression. If the Contemplative or Divine Oracle have been modified for 3.5 in Complete Divine, those might be good choices.