Epic Cinematic (Recruiting)

[Albedo]

Arabesu: You've got the swordsage AC bonus wrong. It applies ONLY if you wear light armor (Hence it is impossible to stack it with the monk bonus).

 

[Vertexx69]

Also Arabesu: It says in both the monk (for monk's belt) and swordsage descriptions - no shield if you want the wisdom bonus to AC

 

[Jemal]

Also, Re: Force Shield. It functions as if you were wielding a shield, so you'd loose any bonus to AC you get from being unarmoured, Such as monk (and Swordsage? don't know what it does..)

Also Arabesu: It says in both the monk (for monk's belt) and swordsage descriptions - no shield if you want the wisdom bonus to AC

Great minds.

 

[Albedo]

Ok, lots of random question loating around here, lets see if I can answer some of them.

Monks Belt = No Wisdom bonues to AC

Third Eye Conceal: SRD is trash, use the written version, which does not state anything about divination spells, only specifics. You can use true seeing/see invis on it.

Arabesu: I would like to know how you are using a large weapon. Also, magic item compendium is NOT the rules we are using for swapping enhancements, the DMG is. As such you have to pay 1.5 cost for adding enhancements to your items.

All: I forgot to add this rule. All magic items in this campaign reform after 24 hours if broken with no penalties. Ring of Weapon Breaking is included in this process.

 

[Arabesu]

So then would a casting of the "shield" spell stack with what he has?

After dropping the ring bonus and the wisdom his AC is suddenly much worse. Kind of crummy for this level. Below 60. Oh well.

Strongarm bracers allow bigger weapons. They specifically don't stack with powerful build, but should stack with enlarge person, as far as I can tell, so once enlarged it will be huge.

I guess his ring of spell storing is going to have to store a shield and two wraithstrikes, rather than an enlarge person and two wraithstrikes, since I only want to spend one round of actions casting spells, IF I choose to cast a spell, since Albedo wants to de-emphasize spells. The swift spells will also be a tough decision since swift and immediate actions in this game are so valuable.

Jemal, I don't understand how your vow of poverty character gets into this campaign without a 5 mil item. How you do that? Doesn't that seem contradictory?

 

[Jemal]

He used to have a 5 million dollar idol of Cthulu, which he donated to a church for destruction when he was deciding to mend his evil wicked ways.

 

[Jemal]

And in actuality, Albedo's exact specifications were "You start with 10,000,000 GP but over half of it has to be spent on a single item." It doesn't state "You have to HAVE a 5 million GP item and KEEP it", otherwise Vow of Poverty would be impossible.

 

[Shayuri]

An AC of high 50's is workable. Pixie Power has normal AC of 59...it goes up a bit when she skirmishes, but not much...

And yes, casting Shield will work. Plus, if you cast Shield, you can use your Wisdom Bonus to AC again.

 

[Arabesu]

Deleted because I really shouldn't post after a stiff drink, and I have made an a$$ of myself.

 

[Jemal]

Wow. Are you a lawyer? Perhaps your left foot is cloven and your smile wicked? That is such an interesting twist on what he intended and yet it still works. I applaud your aplomb. Now just don't sunder any of my magic stuff with your forsaker and we can be best friends.

Tell you what, cut the condescending bull or that's the first thing I'll do.

Considering the fact that Albedo has had no problems with my taking the Vow of Poverty, I highly doubt that you know 'what he intended'. He gave us 10 million, which is MORE than DOUBLE the standard starting amount for this level and to balance that out somewhat, put a limit on it (One of the items has to be worth at least half). This leaves you guys with a single VERY POWERFUL magic item, and STILL more money than a standard 30th level character starts with.

And then you have the audacity to make a poorly veiled insult because I took a road that was designed with NON-EPIC gold values in mind? I'm giving up EVEN MORE for this campaign than a standard vow of poverty character, and gaining nothing extra in return.
Don't get pissy just cuz I put work into making my character both powerful and flavourful instead of just going "Hey 13K for 10 AC, sold!"

I tend to take insults personally, and hate it when people take a condescending, holier-than-thou approach to things. As such, I respond by becoming the very thing I despise.