Epic Advice Column

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

Okay, I have created an Epic Advice Column on my website:

www.immortalshandbook.com/sermon5.htm

If you have any questions for the column (which I'll update every week) or any comments about the column, post here (or email me agooddesigner@hotmail.com ).

 

[historian]

Hey U_K!

This is a very good idea.

I have a question about iterative attacks. Suppose I have infinite strength. Can I make an infinite number of infinite damage attacks in a round or would you limit the number of attacks to 4 or 5?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey U_K!

Hi historian mate!

This is a very good idea.

I probably should have had something like this ages ago, although in a way the boards are a kind of Epic Advice column in themselves. The website will just help people tracking down the relevant information.

I have a question about iterative attacks. Suppose I have infinite strength. Can I make an infinite number of infinite damage attacks in a round or would you limit the number of attacks to 4 or 5?

The number of attacks would be limited by your BAB divided by 5 - it would have nothing to do with strength at all.

Remember that you use the lowest modified base attack bonus for all attacks (rather than simply 5 less for each individual attack).

 

[historian]

Hey U_K!

The number of attacks would be limited by your BAB divided by 5 - it would have nothing to do with strength at all.

Remember that you use the lowest modified base attack bonus for all attacks (rather than simply 5 less for each individual attack).

Thanks much for that, my thinking in retrospect seems rather muddled.

 

[dante58701]

Shark Chain Armor (as in the kind used by those people who swim with sharks)...what would this grant and what kind of enchantments could be placed on such a thing.

I was thinking +4 AC and DR:half/bludgeoning.

 

[Axolotl]

Why do you recomend the removal of Iterative attacks?

 

[Pssthpok]

Shark Chain Armor (as in the kind used by those people who swim with sharks)...what would this grant and what kind of enchantments could be placed on such a thing.

I was thinking +4 AC and DR:half/bludgeoning.

Remember that bite damage is all three types. There doesn't seem to be any major difference between this sort of of mail and 'regular' chain mail, other than the material out of which it is made. For the most part, the chains deter the animal from holding on once they have bitten; those who are attacked by sharks while wearing this armor typically incur contusions and often broken bones; and while the shark cannot typically cut through the metal, the armor is comprised of rings, not plates, which means that the wearer may yet suffer puncture wounds and/or armor bites even if the metal itself doesn't break.

Shark Armor: AC +4; immune to rusting attacks; no penalties on swim checks.

 

[dante58701]

Severing resistance? It's got to have some sort of impact on that at least. Otherwise, what would be the point of wearing it?

Maybe it turns all damage into bludgeoning damage?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey guys!

Shark Chain Armor (as in the kind used by those people who swim with sharks)...what would this grant and what kind of enchantments could be placed on such a thing.

I was thinking +4 AC and DR:half/bludgeoning.

Don't know about the DR Half/Bludgeoning...unless your campaign has armour grant DR all the time.

The +4 AC sounds about right. I like Pssthpok's idea of no penalties to swin checks. Although not sure about the immunity to rusting...rust resistant - certainly, rust immune - debateable.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hi Axolotl mate!

Why do you recomend the removal of Iterative attacks?

Well, there are a couple of reasons.

1) I don't see how someone making multiple fast attacks can be as accurate as someone making one precise attack.

2) Mechanically I think its a bit clunky.