[Hivemind] Oh the pain! The pain!

Sir Osis of Liver · Apr 22, 2003

I haven't wondered over to Randomling's forums for sometime. I'm still getting used to being back on-line after my "break".

Dungannon · Apr 22, 2003

Isn't mid-May near finals time for you Arwink?

UnDfind · Apr 22, 2003

Using Fascinate to cause fear...should I make that 16 or 18 ranks in perform?

UnDfind · Apr 22, 2003

Wow. I think I broke the Hive

Steve Jung · Apr 22, 2003

UnDfind said:
Using Fascinate to cause fear...should I make that 16 or 18 ranks in perform?

Hey UnDfind,
Is your vacation still going? 16 ranks should be enough, that's a minimum 13th level bard.

UnDfind · Apr 22, 2003

Yup! My vacation's still on! And it is fun!

I'm just putting the final touches on the Companion Notes the bards in my world get. They're kinda familiars for bards.

EDIT: How are you, Steve?

Steve Jung · Apr 22, 2003

UnDfind · Apr 22, 2003

Originally posted by Steve:

Or

I completely agree

Steve Jung · Apr 22, 2003

Previous post got mangled. Let me try again.

Sounds good. I'm doing fine. Do the bard companions have a physical form?

UnDfind · Apr 22, 2003

They're ethereal creatures called notes (called that because they speak in music). They appear as fluctuating balls of light, but can go invisible at will on the material plane. They are attracted to a bard's mystical music.

EDIT: Oh, and a bard gets a new one every 5 levels, starting at first...so they end up with 5 notes at level 20. Their stats are nowhere near as cool as a familiar's though, and they have no real use in combat (can't deliver touch spells, etc...) but they can give the bard some groovy abilities, and after a while can be used to report on the look of things in the ethereal plane.