(Inactive) Psion's Return to the Tomb of Horrors (ORG)

[Psion]

The RG thread is up. Please post your character there. I am still toying with the format. I'm not picky about it as long as we hit the major points, but I would like to see some consistency.
http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3237366

Please get magic item purchases and all that icky math done.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Testing...portrait of Peja.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

The thumbnail pic I put up is 100 x 77. I'm on a newish computer without photo editing software. Anyone have a suggestion for me as to how I could go about resizing the pic to 150 x 150 using MS accessories? Thanks.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

If you'd prefer. I just thought you wanted to play a wizard first. My only concern was when nobody was taking a fighter or a rogue.



If you are concerned about being fighter light but still want to be an arcane caster, you could go for a fighter/mage build. You only lose one spell level if you pick up eldritch knight, and can dip into spellsword if you want to make an armored build or run for abjurant champion for armorless build. A good fighter/mage build is a fighter 1 / wizard 6 / eldritch knight 2 / Abjurant champion 5 and continuing into EK.

For a straight mage, I would avoid any PrCs that lose any caster levels for you. Some 8th level spells will prove very helpful to your survival. This suggests a no caster level loss build, frex:
-straight wizard
-wizard/archmage
-wizard/mage of the arcane order
-specialist/master specialist (a real nice one here is abjurer/master specialist/initiate of the sevenfold veil. Master specialist takes the sting out of the initiate prereqs, and warning and defense spells are not out of place in this adventure).

Spells... what can I say without tipping my hand too much? The module's reputation is well earned. Consider spells that protect you or make you immune to things, even some that do so a bit unconventionally...

I think since we have so many casters that I should go with a straight barbarian just to give the party a bit more fighting power. Plus I've never played a high level arcane caster before. RttToH may not be the best place to try and play one for the first time! I'll make up a Wizard as my alternate character if that's ok.

This is my first PbP so forgive me if some of my questions sound a bit naive, but how do you work out things like Power Attack. I haven't used Invisible Castle before but I imagine that it does the rolling for you. Does it just give you a d20 roll or do you put all of the modifiers into it beforehand?

Olaf the Stout

 

[CanadienneBacon]

Psion, I know you requested that we polish off our character sheets in the RG so that we could start by Wednesday, but it's just not gonna happen for me tonight. It's 11:30 pm here, and I just now got done wrapping presents, and this after baking for most of the day. I'm off to bed with visions of Peja in my head.

I got a start on Peja in the RG, though, and will work on him tomorrow as well.

Christmas. Little kids just make it. Wish my husband could be here.

 

[Psion]

Psion, I know you requested that we polish off our character sheets in the RG so that we could start by Wednesday, but it's just not gonna happen for me tonight.

I did? I really wasn't expecting to start until next week at the soonest, and many people said they couldn't post until the second. So no rush... yet.

I just know that making high level characters takes a while, and I need time to approve all the items & stuff.

I'd really like to get rolling by next week, though. There's some early stuff that need not involve all the players.

All:
I've already had 2 people tell me they won't be available next week. If you can't play next week, let me know.

 

[Psion]

I think since we have so many casters that I should go with a straight barbarian just to give the party a bit more fighting power. Plus I've never played a high level arcane caster before. RttToH may not be the best place to try and play one for the first time! I'll make up a Wizard as my alternate character if that's ok.

Sure.

This is my first PbP so forgive me if some of my questions sound a bit naive, but how do you work out things like Power Attack. I haven't used Invisible Castle before but I imagine that it does the rolling for you. Does it just give you a d20 roll or do you put all of the modifiers into it beforehand?

Go to www.invisiblecastle.com, go to roll dice (or just bookmark http://invisiblecastle.com/rolldice.py, as you will be using it often.) Put your character name and what the roll is for. You can make it add modifiers.

 

[Psion]

The thumbnail pic I put up is 100 x 77. I'm on a newish computer without photo editing software. Anyone have a suggestion for me as to how I could go about resizing the pic to 150 x 150 using MS accessories? Thanks.

Well, I could upsize it, but it would look blurry. You are probably best off, if you know where it came from, pulling it from the original source. If you aren't married to that one, I could find a different one.

 

[LiquidBlue]

Psion, I have decided that my character will be one of the elemental variants from UA. Thus my character will be an Air Gnome Beguiler named Ahrim Whisperwind. My internet connection has given out, so I may not be able to post again until Friday or Saturday. I will work out his feats and advanced learning options during that time.

As an aside, a gnome illusionist almost natural leads one to consider the Shadowcraft mage from Races of Stone. What are your feelings towards that class? If I went for that class, I probably wouldn't take complete advatage of the shadow conjurations, it will be difficult enough playing a class that can spontaneously cast its entire spell list.

 

[CanadienneBacon]

If you aren't married to that one, I could find a different one.

Do you have time for that? If you do, I would be happy to have some help finding an image. And more than content to let whoever does the finding decide which image they like.