NEW Immortals Handbook - Ascension thread

[WarDragon]

No such feat as Shield Focus, at least not in anything OGL by WotC. There's Shield Specialization, which does what you mention, though, in the PHB2.

 

[Frobojoe]

AFAIK, the Nightstick is an expendable item that gives you extra turn attempts, from Libris Mortis I think. It's abused to fuel powers like Divine Metamagic and other abilities that depend on limited numbers of turning attempts to be balanced, since for a highish-level character they're dirt cheap.

Nah, they just give you a flat 4 more turning attempts per day, which is even worse (stupid nightsticks).

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey WarDragon dude!

No such feat as Shield Focus, at least not in anything OGL by WotC. There's Shield Specialization, which does what you mention, though, in the PHB2.

Well I don't have the PHB 2, so that can't have been the one I saw, but if it does the same thing, then thats close enough.

 

[dante58701]

Anubis...what divine rank?

 

[Pssthpok]

No higher than Intermediate, I suppose. That would be my guess.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey dante mate!

Anubis...what divine rank?

I think I would make him a Neutral Evil Intermediate God, probably 66 HD/Levels

The Egyptian Gods suffer from not having a lot of obviously evil types.

So I think you need the likes of Anhur, Anubis and Set to fill those roles, even though its a bit of a stretch for two of them.

 

[mercucio]

For Anubis you could simply slant him towards self-interested NE as opposed to and active spiteful NE.

 

[WarDragon]

I think it's a mistake to make the characters "stretch" to accommodate a loose guideline, Krusty. Why not just make Set the only Evil member, and have him as a Greater God?

 

[dante58701]

Anubis is definitely NOT evil. I actually take offense to that for him. Especially so since I live with someone who actually worships Anubis.

In truth Anubis would be more likely to be Lawful Neutral. He stepped down from his position and gave it to Osiris. Not because Osiris kicked his butt, but because Osiris was the rightful ruler. It was simply his place.

Anubis is not evil, but he is certainly a guy without pity for lawbreakers. Darkness and Death are scary but not evil.

Have you all forgotten Apep/Apophis?

The reason there are so few evil Egyptian gods is because most Egyptian gods are some form of neutral, particularly lawful neutral.

Set would certainly be Chaotic Evil and probably either a Greater God or an Elder God with a slew of treacherous abilities.

Sekmet could be declared evil since Sekmet is the dark side of Bast.

 

[Pssthpok]

How the hell could you take offense to that?
'Death' is NE in the UKU, Anubis could be NE too if you have a death~evil view on alignments and the relationship between + and - energy. Get over yourself.