Discussion for a Kingdom of ashes OOC II

[Xath]

I like the whole idea of us teleporting in between the elves and the rest of the army as the Black Orcs attack from the rear. Cinematically, it'd be realy cool. Safetyly, it is very dangerous. But hey, whoever said this group had common sense?

I vote for the heroes' last stand.

 

[Archon]

ivan the terrible...

i say the six of us make a circle, when the battle finally comes down, with Xath in the center singing/spellslinging. that way they can't flank us and we get to make the stand together. plus, it makes for a great play on words to cement our legend.
The Circle of the Phoenix.
mik aka "Son of Bruce"
ps...."Ivan", yeah my parents wanted me to have a "normal" middle name in case "mik" was too weird. Thus "Ivan".

 

[Xath]

i say the six of us make a circle, when the battle finally comes down, with Xath in the center singing/spellslinging.

Bah, I can't Lightning people if you're all surrounding me. But stopping ourselves from being flanked is a good idea. Pairing up and standing back to back would have the same effect without compromising anyone's fighting ability.

 

[The_Universe]

Bah, I can't Lightning people if you're all surrounding me. But stopping ourselves from being flanked is a good idea. Pairing up and standing back to back would have the same effect without compromising anyone's fighting ability.

But it's not as circle-y.

I thought your lightning came down from the sky? Even if it doesn't, I am pretty sure you can find a way to avoid hitting PCs with it, even from behind cover.

The one time I got to play my half-orc paladin, I spent the entire game as cover for a lightning spewign wizard, so it must be possible...

As for Heroes Last Stand in general, just make sure you have a way to get out of there if people start to fall down.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I like the whole idea of us teleporting in between the elves and the rest of the army as the Black Orcs attack from the rear. Cinematically, it'd be realy cool. Safetyly, it is very dangerous. But hey, whoever said this group had common sense?

I vote for the heroes' last stand.

Cinematically, there are lots of things that would be really cool... I want to really think through what will happen if, indeed, we open the gates so that we can be prepared this time.
Opening the gates is, without a doubt, something that the bad guys WANT us to do-- we need to have everything thought out VERY well for this battle or we're going to end up dying the deaths of fools and not the deaths of heores... cinematically, that's very un-cool.

Don't want the "they're closer.... closer... closer... BAM HERE!" to happen again while we discuss what we should be doing.

So, put your evil caps on! What do you think they are going to do when we open the gates?

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

Bah, I can't Lightning people if you're all surrounding me. But stopping ourselves from being flanked is a good idea. Pairing up and standing back to back would have the same effect without compromising anyone's fighting ability.

Not having the bonuses from Xath's songs can limit all of our abilities to fight, though. The lightning bolt is really cool... but, at the same time, it's also really cool to have a +2 to attack and damage for *all* the allies within the radius.

 

[Archon]

Archonus the Invincible!!!.....(yeah)

just fire the lightning bolts through me or Kaereth. it's not like they're going to hurt us.

 

[Laurel]

Anyone remember AoO?

Um.... circle cool for effect, but L'aurel's gonna fall real fast or just remain really low on effectiveness... ranged weapon anyone??
But hey, I guess she can finally use that staff for more then just tripping people --hehe.. to bring up something else random to everyone, think gabby from xena

 

[Laurel]

just fire the lightning bolts through me or Kaereth. it's not like they're going to hurt us.

in case they do not come from the sky... that would be cool, Arhconus taking her pain and dodging her lightning This gets better and better

 

[The_Universe]

Um.... circle cool for effect, but L'aurel's gonna fall real fast or just remain really low on effectiveness... ranged weapon anyone??
But hey, I guess she can finally use that staff for more then just tripping people --hehe.. to bring up something else random to everyone, think gabby from xena

Well, even if you're in the circle, you should be trying to use your bow as much as possible. If worse comes to worse, when you "circle up" you could step into the circle with Xath, and be protected and effective. However, when you run out of arrows, you could step up with the quarterstaff...

Just a thought. No reason to put people in a position in which they aren't effective...