Masters of the Arcane

[Walking Dad]

Another good looking, charming and somewhat arrogant young human male stepps in front: "I'm the sorcerer supreme from behind the lands of the rainbow and will now show you the great secrets of prismatic magi..."

The sorcerer freezes in his tracks as a nearly skeltal hand touches his arm.

"I had heard enough of this fool's claims", the lich declares.
Now you see a demonstration ith more meat on it... an blood."

A group of commoners, led by skelton warriors is brought between two walls. The lich points at one of them and shoots a black ray of necromantic energy from his outstretched hand, causing one of them to violently purge blood vessels through its skin. The purged blood vessels spread outward, creating a many-layered mass of bloody, adhesive tissue that traps the others in a gory horror. Next a cold mist kills most of them, followed by a green one, that burns the rest and destroys the bloody chains.
With a last word and some thrown crystals, the dead rise again and bow before the lich.

[sblock=Used Spells] Avasculate Mass (8th), Kelgore's Gravemist (2nd), Acid Fog (6th) and Plague of Undead (9th)

BTW: First action was the liches paralysing touch (Save DC: 27).[/sblock]

 

[Graybeard]

Walking Dad,

I love this line: Age: 92 (Looks around: dead)

That's great. Can't wait to play this game.

 

[Graybeard]

After watching the column of stone arise from the ground, the fireworks display, and finally, the clearly evil skeletal figure lay waste to perfectly good servants, a young blond haired man steps forth.

Such wastefulness. They were perfectly good servants, you realize. Now I suppose it's up to me to clean up this mess you made. the man says haughtily to the necromancer.

With a few well chosen words, the young man is soon replaced by a colossal Gold Dragon. The dragon unfurls its wings and lifts off the ground. After a few circles above the area, it hovers above the servants and lets loose an awesome display of fire, laying waste to the newly undead servants.

The dragon settles back to the ground and changes back to the young man.

Now, I'll do the responsible thing and put out the fire.

Using specific arcane gestures and words, the man calls forth a massive avalanche of snow, quenching the fire.

Then, brushing off his hands as though they were dirty, he steps aside.

[sblock=spells]
Spells used: Shapechange and Obedient Avanlanche
Damage from breath weapon: 24d10=132 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1610705/
Damage from avalanche=87 http://invisiblecastle.com/roller/view/1610719/
57 crushing damage and 37 cold

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[Walking Dad]

"Now you have destroyed some perfectly good servants. But the raw material is regrowing... My name is Gregorius, by the way."

 

[Graybeard]

I agree it was a waste. Good servants are so hard to find these days. The name is trevor Southworth IV. Though some know me as Oberon. You may call me Oberon my new friend. We do have quite a crow here though. It should be interesting to see what the others can do.

OOC: we both play in Scotley's Tomb of Horrors game. Good to see you again.

 

[Halford]

Halford raises an eyebrow atthe Lich's performance.

"Well I have to give him points for a certain macabre style."

In response to the later mage's use of Shapechange, Halford smiles.

"Ah, I have always felt that polymorph effects were exceptionally utilitarian, let us hope our colleague does not forget his true calling with all those scaly muscles."

[Sblock=Quick Quibble]Sorry to be a pedant, but Shapechange is capped at 25 HD and a Colossal Golden Dragon has a minimum of 38 HD, Huge is the best you can get at 23 HD and for that you must have a casterlevel of 23. Shapechange is a powerful enough spell as it is! It really doesn't matter in this context though.[/Sblock]

 

[Graybeard]

Sorry. I was going by the spell description in the PHB and did not check the errata. I'll leave it up to our DM as to which version is allowed. I'll go by whichever version he rules whether it is the errata or original.

 

[Dire Lemming]

Speaking of quibbles. You aren't allowed to bring allong anything you can't carry yourself, so Gregarious Greg wouldn't have had any victims to slaughter.

 

[Halford]

Ah, I was actually consulting my PHB so I guess I must have a newer version with the errata in. Yep, sounds like a DM ruling to me, I might change my spell selection accordingly!

Personally I always subscribe to the RPGA Polmorph standrds, e.g., that Polymorph, etc., are banned its just far too Easily exploitable without serious controls. At minimum I would switch allowable forms to only those in the PHB. Some people, will spend hours looking for the most powerful possible forms, not me honest.

[Sblock=Sense Motive DC -5]I was not being honest.[/Sblock]

As to Walking Dad bringing people, its not like he's got them anymore... Seems fair enough as a simple style issue

 

[Jemal]

TO Halford - My PHB says 2 hd/caster level (max 50)... all of our PHB's do, so I think yours may be a typo (we have like 5 in the house, and I checked them all *L*)

TO ALBEDO: My questions:
First: I'm rethinking Wild Mage, I'm not too fond of keeping the idea for my character.. unfortunately, the only other way I know of meeting the knowledge requirements for Loremaster (Which I DO want to keep) is the Education feat, from both the Players guide to Faerun and the Ebberon book. I've hesitated to request it before now b/c it's only in setting-specific books, but It would make more sense for my character than the wild mage level. Would you allow it?

(What it does: Makes all knowledge skills class skills and gives you a +1 bonus to two different knowledge checks)[/quote]

Second : What limits do we have on Arcane Foci/Material Components? I understand that they have no 'worth' in the school, but how much can we start with, and will they be available to get later? You stated they have no value here, so does that mean we can't buy them if we need more in the future? or that we'd have to travel elsewhere to obtain them? Or would they simply be 'available' without having to pay?

Third : I have a request; Mordenkainen's Sword has an arcane focus requirement of a 'miniature platinum sword worth 250gp'... For story & Thematic purposes, could I substitute a crystal sword for this, considering that either way they'll be 'worthless' to the general populace? I'd also plan on enchanting it in the future to grant various abilities (most likely not as a weapon, as a 'wondrous item), but those would be of course subject to further DM approval, and kinda irrelevant to the current question.

Finally : As to our going nuts with the Conversation.. perhaps we could start an IC thread just for roleplaying purposes while everything else is finalized, so as not to clutter this thread? I for one am very much enjoying the bantering and showing off.