Duels of Impending DOOM! An exercise on PVP/PVE battles

[Wik]

I think our Goliath Fighter in my STAP game could take out most of those PCs.

yyyup.

 

[Erywin]

I think our Goliath Fighter in my STAP game could take out most of those PCs.

yyyup.

ORLY? What level is he? Hey if your interested in joining us to build up characters and slaughter each other, let me know

 

[blargney the second]

Heh - I was thinking of building a goliath barbarian/something else for tripping and much tripping. (And then a little more tripping)

 

[Erywin]

Heh, just about finished my next build as well

 

[RangerWickett]

Blarg's first build, totally devastating against my barb Flying mount + empowered Produce Flame hurts ALOT.

He has Natural Bond, which is useless for a full-level druid. It can't raise your effective druid level above your character level.

 

[RangerWickett]

I had fun with a Raptoran barbarian/fighter with feats like reckless offense and reckless rage, and enlarge person potions. I was able to get his AC into the negatives.

 

[blargney the second]

*lol*

 

[Erywin]

He has Natural Bond, which is useless for a full-level druid. It can't raise your effective druid level above your character level.

Now I am a little fuzzy on the specifics but I believe Blarg chose Natural Bond because he has a Dire Bat companion, which has a -3 druid level adjustment for HD etc. I remember Blarg saying that he basically took Natural Bond to get the extra feat for his companion (Flyby Attack). I believe this is legal.

Cheers,
E

 

[RangerWickett]

Now I am a little fuzzy on the specifics but I believe Blarg chose Natural Bond because he has a Dire Bat companion, which has a -3 druid level adjustment for HD etc. I remember Blarg saying that he basically took Natural Bond to get the extra feat for his companion (Flyby Attack). I believe this is legal.

Cheers,
E

Agh, that is a level of rules wrangling I would not allow, and I'm personally in love with my animal companion (not like that!). Use natural bond for multi-class druids, or for rangers who want tougher animal companions, but the idea that the feat only makes your animal companion stronger if you chose one of the 'high level' options is silly.

They generally try to make feats that limit overly powerful choices, so a feat that helps your dire tiger, but doesn't help your wolf would be unusual. I think if one uses Natural Bond as you suggest, you're really twisting the rules to do something they weren't intended to do.

 

[Erywin]

Agh, that is a level of rules wrangling I would not allow, and I'm personally in love with my animal companion (not like that!). Use natural bond for multi-class druids, or for rangers who want tougher animal companions, but the idea that the feat only makes your animal companion stronger if you chose one of the 'high level' options is silly.

They generally try to make feats that limit overly powerful choices, so a feat that helps your dire tiger, but doesn't help your wolf would be unusual. I think if one uses Natural Bond as you suggest, you're really twisting the rules to do something they weren't intended to do.

I would actually agree with you Wickett, I didn't really look at it until after the character was made and the fights had happened. I believe that the feat was either intended for multiclassed druids or rangers that wanted a stronger companion.

It's interesting to see the different options for character building out there. Allows me as a DM to figure out how things should work before they come up in my campaign so that I can have play-experience with something before I rule on it.

Cheers,
E