Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
White Dwarf Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Nest
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
EN Publishing
Twitter
BlueSky
Facebook
Instagram
EN World
BlueSky
YouTube
Facebook
Twitter
Twitch
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions, OSR, & D&D Variants
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
Melee Smackdown - Who kicks more butt, PsyWar or Ftr? Prove it!
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 1714330" data-attributes="member: 3146"><p>Well, then you're not doing more damage than the fighter. You could do more damage with different enhancements on your weapon. (I expect Hostile Empathic Transfer would work nicely with a vicious weapon). However, you chose not to have those enhancements on your weapon and went for flexibility instead. Claiming the abilities of the flexibility you paid for and then claiming the abilities of the damage-enhancers you didn't pay for is trying to have your cake after you've already eaten it. Plus, Flaming, Frost, Shock, and acidic would not really increase your damage very much against CR 20 monsters. Most of them are only vulnerable to one or two of those energy types.</p><p></p><p>My fighter deals more damage at the moment. His equipment could also be min-maxed more to deal more damage. (Probably the biggest way to maximize the character would be to depend more on his party. As written, he's not getting any help from anyone. If he relies on party members for enhancement bonusses, he can add vicious, psychokinetic, and wounding to his weapon (I very much like wounding weapons) and either crank up the abilities on his armor and shield or get a few other items to add to his abilites. Thinking about that, he really <em>ought</em> to do that since Scion's build is <em>heavily</em> dependent upon the party--he only has the 44 pp/day because he is depending upon the cleric for healing. Since the cleric is curing well over 90 points of damage spread out over at least 3 times during the day, the fighter is still less dependent upon the rest of the party if he picks up two magic vestments and a pair of greater magic weapons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elder-Basilisk, post: 1714330, member: 3146"] Well, then you're not doing more damage than the fighter. You could do more damage with different enhancements on your weapon. (I expect Hostile Empathic Transfer would work nicely with a vicious weapon). However, you chose not to have those enhancements on your weapon and went for flexibility instead. Claiming the abilities of the flexibility you paid for and then claiming the abilities of the damage-enhancers you didn't pay for is trying to have your cake after you've already eaten it. Plus, Flaming, Frost, Shock, and acidic would not really increase your damage very much against CR 20 monsters. Most of them are only vulnerable to one or two of those energy types. My fighter deals more damage at the moment. His equipment could also be min-maxed more to deal more damage. (Probably the biggest way to maximize the character would be to depend more on his party. As written, he's not getting any help from anyone. If he relies on party members for enhancement bonusses, he can add vicious, psychokinetic, and wounding to his weapon (I very much like wounding weapons) and either crank up the abilities on his armor and shield or get a few other items to add to his abilites. Thinking about that, he really [i]ought[/i] to do that since Scion's build is [i]heavily[/i] dependent upon the party--he only has the 44 pp/day because he is depending upon the cleric for healing. Since the cleric is curing well over 90 points of damage spread out over at least 3 times during the day, the fighter is still less dependent upon the rest of the party if he picks up two magic vestments and a pair of greater magic weapons. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
Melee Smackdown - Who kicks more butt, PsyWar or Ftr? Prove it!
Top