PCs Still Kicking Puppies OOC [CLOSED, original players still welcome]

[Brother Shatterstone]

But they still see such creatures as a plague, one they wouldn't mind promoting if it left some people (especially themselves) still alive to spread other diseases.

Makes sense to me.

Anyhow after doing some reading and seeing the domains you will allow I think corruption and disease would be better...

detect good, charisma modifier to saves, immunity to disease. (both natural and magical.)

Now I have a few questions on the above... detect good is a great power but I think it would be better if Accalon was able to detect disease instead.

As for the immunity to disease it makes sense but can they lower this immunity to become infected with a disease?

Also remember... everything I've written about Bubophis is basically what the clergy teaches. Individuals (such as yourself) might have slightly different ideas about what Bubophis desires and represents.

I think it's close enough for him...

Also I'm caught up in the IC thread and sense they've really haven't entered the house of ill repute I think it might be best if Accalon was already in there... inspecting the wares as it where.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

The immunity could simply be to the symptoms of the disease, rather than the disease itself; you suffer no ill effects, but are still infected.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

oops, I forgot a few things...

Only one Gift of Darkness. I'll go with Contagion when the time comes.

and do I need to work anyone into my background or not?

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

The immunity could simply be to the symptoms of the disease, rather than the disease itself; you suffer no ill effects, but are still infected.

In fact, this would seem to make the most sense based on Accalon's background.

 

[Telsar]

Makes sense to me.

Anyhow after doing some reading and seeing the domains you will allow I think corruption and disease would be better...

detect good, charisma modifier to saves, immunity to disease. (both natural and magical.)

Now I have a few questions on the above... detect good is a great power but I think it would be better if Accalon was able to detect disease instead.

As for the immunity to disease it makes sense but can they lower this immunity to become infected with a disease?

Detect disease doesn't really have a lot to do with Corruption, though. I would let you exchange Pestilential Strike (the 1st level Disease power) for Detect Disease, if you wanted.

I don't know about the update, but the original book gives Dark Host as a Corruption power, which gives immunity to disease, but still makes you a carrier. I think that's the concept they wanted; you basically still become infected, and are able to transmit disease, but you never take any damage from it. Note: you'll still make Fortitude saves if infected, to find out how long a disease survives in your system. (Not counting the one you paid a feat for, of course. That one's always running through your veins).

Also I'm caught up in the IC thread and sense they've really haven't entered the house of ill repute I think it might be best if Accalon was already in there... inspecting the wares as it where.

That's exactly how I pictured it.

 

[Telsar]

and do I need to work anyone into my background or not?

Yeah, otherwise I'm not sure why you'd tag along with them, when you could just, um, spread you're special brand of love around the brothel. Either saying you're close to Alicia (who will be working for the brothel, and told to go with the party), or that you've had a previous connection with Lydia will work. Perhaps at some point Lydia was involved with a vampire, who you knew through his worship of Bubophis. Just an idea. Go with whatever works best for everyone.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Detect disease doesn't really have a lot to do with Corruption, though. I would let you exchange Pestilential Strike (the 1st level Disease power) for Detect Disease, if you wanted.

Hmmm, the issue with that is that Accalon would lose all of his "smite" abilites as Rotting Touch isn't a true smite abilites as you don't gain additional uses... :\

So why don't we swap out the rotting touch for detect disease or make rotting touch gain additional uses?

I don't know about the update, but the original book gives Dark Host as a Corruption power, which gives immunity to disease, but still makes you a carrier.[/quote

Well, you saw some of the the updates... There updates for the rules only and lack alot of the fluff from the UNholy Warrior handbook. In fact the Friends Update isn't really the whole unholy warroro's handbook, just the changes needed for 3.5 so I can see using a combination of the above.

I think that's the concept they wanted; you basically still become infected, and are able to transmit disease, but you never take any damage from it. Note: you'll still make Fortitude saves if infected, to find out how long a disease survives in your system. (Not counting the one you paid a feat for, of course. That one's always running through your veins).

Sounds good, and it makes the feat count also. I like this allot. (will you allow him to fail a save on purpose to collect another disease? Well until it’s run its course through his body.

 

[Telsar]

Hmmm, the issue with that is that Accalon would lose all of his "smite" abilites as Rotting Touch isn't a true smite abilites as you don't gain additional uses... :\

So why don't we swap out the rotting touch for detect disease or make rotting touch gain additional uses?

Sounds good, and it makes the feat count also. I like this allot. (will you allow him to fail a save on purpose to collect another disease? Well until it’s run its course through his body.

If you want detect disease in place of rotting touch, that would be OK. Rotting touch is much more useful, which is why I don't think it's a good idea to give it additional uses.

There's no way to willingly be more vulnerable to a disease, so you can't decide to fail the save to become infected (or to stay infected). You could subject yourself to the source of the disease multiple times, however (You obviously will have to find someone who has a particular disease in order to contract it). And even though you take no damage, whenever you should take damage, you can tell you're infected. Or if you get Detect Disease, you could tell that way.

You could also purchase any type of Con draining poison and drink it, which would lower your Fortitude save and make you more likely to get infected or stay infected. Of course, that's going to lower your hit points as well, but if you really want someone's disease, that's a way to do it.

All this disease stuff is getting complicated.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

If you want detect disease in place of rotting touch, that would be OK. Rotting touch is much more useful, which is why I don't think it's a good idea to give it additional uses.

Right now, yes it is indeed more useful, but without the added uses its not nearly as cool... Besides damage that simply can't be cured easily is to cool.

So yeah I swap Rotting Touch for Detect Disease.

 

[Telsar]

Hey, Serpenteye. Once you get your character Alicia done and put in the Rogue's Gallery, we can probably start/resume the in-character thread.

And Isida and Paxus, a question: still no word from Thomas Hobbes. Do you think he perhaps just hasn't seen the thread? Maybe when we restart, he'll see it bumped up in the Playing the Game forum, and rejoin. I hope so, anyway. Do you think I should NPC Rhesa for a bit, just to give him time to notice, or go ahead and figure out a way to have the character bow out?