Hethas' Gambit: Game of Death discussion [rnd 5]

[seasong]

I think it adds insight and understanding, just like your Exposition posts in the Iron DM competition (you got unlucky on the scheduling, and on a brief glance, the decision didn't seem completely accurate OR correct in my eyes)

Well, I got unlucky on scheduling, but that didn't hamper me as much as my boss/job did the next morning . A few hours of editting, and I might have had a chance. As it was, my entry was too sloppy. Good, but very sloppy.

As for "Cautious Hill", the only things I remember thinking before giving my starting coords were: I wanted a place where I could be central, and be able to attack a lot of potential targets. And also, that it would be smart to start in a corner, to attack spellcasters and hidey-people, but I didn't want to risk starting in an empty corner - it would take too long to get started.

Heh. Well, that makes a lot of sense now - you were working for a happy medium between the spot I thought you'd want, and the area that looked ripe

I'd been wondering why you ended up in the wrong spot

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Reaper, is that a Jimmy Hendrix reference? I know you like to make a bunch of those, so I'm just curious

 

[seasong]

I'm going over the entry one last time, just to make sure there's nothing really stupid . Should be up in about five minutes.

Edit: Speaking of stupid, no one saw that.

 

[seasong]

And I'm off to bed.

Custom e-mails in the morn.

 

[reapersaurus]

Fun round.

I liked Cholestus's futile cry for whereabouts.

Mr. Stampy's sense of loss was palpable.

Hagberd : a Save-or-Die specialist?
Number47 - are the dice hatin' you, now? that green bolt looked painful, but DAMN! That was some serious init they had (have).

seasong - when you get the chance, I'm guessing you're going to update the point totals in the first post with the new point-scale?
And you went to bed at 8:17? (you are 2 hours ahead of Pacific time, right?)

 

[Number47]

The dice have been hating me all along. I really did not take into consideration the possiblity that Hagbard would survive my assault. It is simply inconceivable!

The funny thing is, I chose my opening position because I wanted to ensure that I was near quite a few combatants, preferably all bunched up together. That was accomplished admirably by DMwaV. I didn't like Cholestus starting just five feet from me, though! Even that would have been nothing if I had only gotten better initiative. I do believe that Xiao Fung's +16 to initiative is the top amount possible in this game of death, but I suppose I might be wrong.

Maps are done. Just getting started to work on the pages themselves. Remember that the Round two action pages are going bye-bye now!

 

[reapersaurus]

It is simply inconceivable!

I do not think this word means what you think it means. (1)

That was accomplished admirably by DMwaV.

You can say that again.

I do believe that Xiao Fung's +16 to initiative is the top amount possible in this game of death, but I suppose I might be wrong.

Ya, that's pretty darn high.
So did you take Way of the Scorpion, too?
It's the only way I can think of getting that high of init.
Well, actually Master could have had +17 if I'd bothered with Foreaction and kept a magic item...
and the funny thing is, I really didn't build him for Init - it was just a fringe benefit, really. I was surprised when he was acting first to begin with.
He's a fast little gnome (in following with my references, "He's a nimble little minx, ain't he?") (2).
Well, if you called him a gnome now, he'd ooze on your shoe as much as look at ya'.

In following seasong's very creative use of footnotes in his posts while slumming at NL, I'll continue the tradition:
(1) this is from Princess Bride
(2) Ghostbusters here, Ray. The obligatory response if that happened would be, "He slimed me."

And yes, Sollir - that was Jimmy Hendrix earlier - but I also threw in a Steve Miller reference with the Toke-ing.

edit: how did Mang cast a Wall of Force on init 19, after the other 2 cast spells? Would he have Delayed for a later init (7 or later), it's just that you listed it that way?

 

[Number47]

If you look at init 19, it says Mang delay to init 6. The second init 19 is a typo, I think.

Maps are up.

 

[Sollir Furryfoot]

Fun round, it seems Rillos isn't that threatening compared to alot of these contendors we have here. Maybe I should've gotten myself a cohort

My compliments to Master and Blaster for being a very entertaining tag team, and #47's Xiao team for being tactically perfect as usual.

 

[seasong]

Init 6/19: Yeah, typo. I'll fix it when I get a chance at work.

Point totals: I'm doing the round stuff first, then worrying about points, since the points can be done later. Once I've got everyone's custom e-mails out, I'll worry about points.

Or, more realistically, I'll be worrying about corrections for round three .

Sleep: Yes, a bit after 8pm. I've had a very long week with little sleep, and a game Friday nights that usually goes to midnight, and I'm going out of town over the weekend... so if I didn't sleep Thursday night, I wasn't gonna sleep period .