[FR][Pbp][OOC] Against the Storm OOC Discussion

[DM_Matt]

When Elric made the character with the regular duelist, and statted it out for some time in the future, its damage potential never came close to Ubaar, Akharos, or Elone. He would have been a fighting character that did no damage.

The SNF dualist made for a pretty useless character. The contender is powerful. Ubaar is powerful. Much more so than Alex.

IF Alex seems to get too powerful in the future then I might change him.

Still, its not as strong as it looks in some ways.

In return for the ability to eventually get multiple attacks with spring attack, he loses the ability to do it with Acrobatic attack.

Precise Strike was neutered a bit to prevent abuse.

Improved Reaction was changed from a flat +2 to a 0-4 based on int.

The duelist eventually gets those constant bonuses to dodge instead of elaborate parry, grace, and improved mobility.

Also added were late-level bonuses to defend against various combat moves taht are not used very often anyway, and the ability to get weapon spec.

More powerful? Absolutely? Game-breaking, especially in the context of a character who will be taking it for the long haul instead of using it as part of some game-breaking front-load maneuver (like most people take the SnF Dualist, and, for that manner, the PHB Ranger, L1 of Contemplative, etc.)

This makes a duelist competitive reletive to tanks and archers. It does not make him stronger than those other types that have much better exploitable published material. It just makes the light fighter viable.

 

[dead_radish]

Nope. Can't post in either of my PbP games. It's annoying as hell.

Re: Boots of S&S. I can drop those, and replace them with necklace of prayer beads. And yes, they are just that nasty, but only in very specific circumstances - they require a divine spell be cast to activate, iirc, and then are time limited each day. They are excellent for buffers, mediocre for attack casters, I'd say. Since Elone is a buffer, I've been kicking myself for not having them.

As for the Duelist - I agreed with reaper until I read your argument. It is true that both Elone and Ubaar are fairly uber-fighter characters. I dunno if I would have made a pumped duelist from hell to balance it, but yeah, probably in context with us, it's about on par.

I coulda twinked one out without it (my RL character is actually a light armor/light weapon fighter), but this duelist puts him about on our level.

And for the Spells: Belsameth's Blessing is apparently an evil spell, so that's out.

Divine Rainment is basically Sanctuary at a higher level. Here's the stats:

Abjuration
Clr 3, Missionary 3, Protection 3.
Component V,S, DF
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Touch
Target: Self, or one creature of the same religion of the caster
Duration: 2 rounds/Lvl
Saving Throw: Will negates
SR: No

Summary: As Sanctuary, but not broken if you attack. Creatures must make a will save to make attacks (melee, ranged, or targeted spells, but not area spells). If they fail, they lose that action and can't attack the caster that turn. If they succeed, they are immune to the spell. Creatures can save each round against it.

Vangal's Wounding:
Transmutation
Clr 3
Components: V,S,M
Casting Time: 1 Action
Range: Medium (100 ft + 10 ft/lvl)
Target: One injured, living creature
Duration: 1 rd/lvl
Saving Throw: Fort. Half
SR: Yes

Vangal's Wounding causes wounds to bleed profusely, doing 1d6 damage per round, to a max of 10 rounds. Victims are allowed one fort save at the onset. Success means they take half damage each round. The spell works only on people that have sustained damage, and have not been fully healed.
Material Components: Iron Fillings.

 

[GoldenEagle]

DM_Matt

I think I got an invitation to join this game. What type of character does the group need the most? Who is still playing. Garyh, i'm sure, but who else?

GE

 

[DM_Matt]

garyh, reaper, elric (he has virtually no net access over winter break, tohugh), radish, and I think fenrir and radish altohugh they havent raeally been around the boards this holiday season.

That means whatever the party doesnt have and isn't a Paladin, it needs. Its heavy on melee and ranged heavy fighters and divine casters.

 

[GoldenEagle]

Grey Elven Loremaster?

Where can I find the construction info? What about background and starting gold. I can see him being an emissary from Evermeet to give info to fight Storm's forces. Let me know. I can typically post at least once per day.

GE

 

[DM_Matt]

GE: That would be good. If he is going to be from Evermeet, will he be a freelancer or someone working on behalf of the government (and if so, from the military or other government agency or from the outside)? Where is he being sent, and t owork with whom? Would it work for him to be a regular agent of Irusyl?

 

[reapersaurus]

Finally found it!
It wasn't listed as "Against the Storm", unfortunately - that title came later.

http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=23759

That was an extended "construction info" thread.

DM-Matt - what about drs?
He was on the list of characters to substitute in case someone dropped out - what happened to him?
(come to think of it, I haven't seen his character (Murhid) in awhile in our other game together)

 

[GoldenEagle]

I posted some initial stuff to your Rogue's Gallery Thread. I just saw the link from Reaper. I think some of the stuff I have is over 4K value. I'll change it asap. What do you think about the concept?

What benefit is spell casting prodigy? I don't recall.

GE

 

[GoldenEagle]

How do you want to work my character into the story line?

GE

 

[DM_Matt]

Spellcasting Prodigy ups your int by 2 for spellcasting purposes. Pretty much, you get a +1 to all DCs and a bonus spell. Its quite powerful, with the only balancer being that you must spend a feat on it at first level instead of getting something else. In a character that is made at higher levels when he has several feats, it becomes a no-brainer.