Desdichado
Legend
Yeah, I'm sure everybody's been stuck listening to some guy ramble on about whatever cool thing their character did. And although I never planned on being "that guy", I had so much fun doing some crazy stuff with my Shifter Ranger2/Barbarian1 this weekend that I had to post up a quick little anecdote. Feel free to add your own!
So, we were playing the first module of the Eberron series. There's a few spoilers in here for that module, so be warned.
In Whitehearth, we were looking for the schema for our patron, and we came to a fairly large room with two fire elementals. The artificier had a spell called weightless cube or something like that -- if that wasn't the name, that's certainly an accurate description of its effects (20' x 20' x 20'), and he trapped one of the elementals in it, who failed his checks to regain control, get back on solid ground and out of the cube. Their was a narrow "corridor" along the wall next to the spell's effect, in which much of the rest of the party was slogging it out with the remaining elemental. The chest that had what we were looking for was on the other side of the room from the cube.
So, I decided that rather than try and force my way into the row going on next to the cube, I would run towards it, leap, and let my momentum carry me through the weightless area, land on the other side, grab the chest and run back.
Turns out, I failed my landing checks both times, taking a fair amount of subdual damage as I skidded to a halt in an ungainly fashion on my backside both times, but that was still pretty cool anyway.
Then, after the first elemental was dispatched, the other one was still floating up in the air taking damage from psionic attacks and the like. I decided to take a more direct approach, and jumped up into the weightless area with my greatsword in front of me to impale and kill him right off the bat.
So, that was pretty cool.
Then, we got out of the Whitehearth to find ourselves surrounded by the vampire, Brother Garrow, a necromancer croney of his, and a combination of ten guards and skeletons, demanding what we had just recovered (reminded me a lot of Beloch taking the gold head from Indy at the first part of Raiders.) Our warforged decided he didn't care if we were outmatched by the vampire; he insulted him and jumped into the attack right away. I immediately raged and shifted (longtooth) pumping my already considerable strength up to obscene levels, but quickly found myself surrounded by underlings that did a number on me and kept me busy for several rounds.
As the fight was "winding down" Brother Garrow made his reappearance, attacking with his death touch the warforged and putting some serious smackdown on him. Our spellcaster cast disrupt undead at him to no effect, so we began to suspect that maybe he wasn't really a vampire after all.
I was able to shake off the rest of my attackers, and the warforged was able to avoid an attack from the "vampire" that probably would have killed him, so I ran up behind the vampire (flanking him, for what it's worth) and whacked him with my greatsword. Natural 20. Because we still didn't know if he was a vampire or not, we weren't sure if he was susceptible to critical hits or not, but the GM told me to go ahead and roll to confirm just in case. And I rolled damage - 18.
So, yeah, I split the "vampire" in two. Turns out that he was just a necromancer, of course, and because it was a crit I did 36 points of damage to him (when he had hit points somewhere in the teens, I think, or twenties tops at that point.)
On a side note, it's pretty obscene that a shifter with a 16 strength and the longtooth shifter ability can take a level of barbarian and rage while shifting to get a Strength score of 22 at 1st level (of course, my guy's third, but still) and that I can do up to 22 points of damage in one attack with my greatsword at that level; 44 if I crit. Yikes! I wonder; I should look at how much it would cost to get Bull's Strength made permanent on me?
So, we were playing the first module of the Eberron series. There's a few spoilers in here for that module, so be warned.
In Whitehearth, we were looking for the schema for our patron, and we came to a fairly large room with two fire elementals. The artificier had a spell called weightless cube or something like that -- if that wasn't the name, that's certainly an accurate description of its effects (20' x 20' x 20'), and he trapped one of the elementals in it, who failed his checks to regain control, get back on solid ground and out of the cube. Their was a narrow "corridor" along the wall next to the spell's effect, in which much of the rest of the party was slogging it out with the remaining elemental. The chest that had what we were looking for was on the other side of the room from the cube.
So, I decided that rather than try and force my way into the row going on next to the cube, I would run towards it, leap, and let my momentum carry me through the weightless area, land on the other side, grab the chest and run back.
Turns out, I failed my landing checks both times, taking a fair amount of subdual damage as I skidded to a halt in an ungainly fashion on my backside both times, but that was still pretty cool anyway.
Then, after the first elemental was dispatched, the other one was still floating up in the air taking damage from psionic attacks and the like. I decided to take a more direct approach, and jumped up into the weightless area with my greatsword in front of me to impale and kill him right off the bat.
So, that was pretty cool.
Then, we got out of the Whitehearth to find ourselves surrounded by the vampire, Brother Garrow, a necromancer croney of his, and a combination of ten guards and skeletons, demanding what we had just recovered (reminded me a lot of Beloch taking the gold head from Indy at the first part of Raiders.) Our warforged decided he didn't care if we were outmatched by the vampire; he insulted him and jumped into the attack right away. I immediately raged and shifted (longtooth) pumping my already considerable strength up to obscene levels, but quickly found myself surrounded by underlings that did a number on me and kept me busy for several rounds.
As the fight was "winding down" Brother Garrow made his reappearance, attacking with his death touch the warforged and putting some serious smackdown on him. Our spellcaster cast disrupt undead at him to no effect, so we began to suspect that maybe he wasn't really a vampire after all.
I was able to shake off the rest of my attackers, and the warforged was able to avoid an attack from the "vampire" that probably would have killed him, so I ran up behind the vampire (flanking him, for what it's worth) and whacked him with my greatsword. Natural 20. Because we still didn't know if he was a vampire or not, we weren't sure if he was susceptible to critical hits or not, but the GM told me to go ahead and roll to confirm just in case. And I rolled damage - 18.
So, yeah, I split the "vampire" in two. Turns out that he was just a necromancer, of course, and because it was a crit I did 36 points of damage to him (when he had hit points somewhere in the teens, I think, or twenties tops at that point.)
On a side note, it's pretty obscene that a shifter with a 16 strength and the longtooth shifter ability can take a level of barbarian and rage while shifting to get a Strength score of 22 at 1st level (of course, my guy's third, but still) and that I can do up to 22 points of damage in one attack with my greatsword at that level; 44 if I crit. Yikes! I wonder; I should look at how much it would cost to get Bull's Strength made permanent on me?
And the other players, as disgusted with the concept as they are, haven't killed him (though they expressed interest in doing just that) haven't twigged to the interesting part of this character yet:
