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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arc" data-source="post: 1872629" data-attributes="member: 12184">Another massive overkill story, that also involves a frenzied berserker.My character, a ratkin frenzied berserker, had a split personality. Normally, he was the ultimate pacifist, running from combat, hesitating to say mean things, and trying to keep his comrades from hurting anyone. Upon frenzying, he turned into the ultimate killing machine, eyes red with rage, muscles bulging, and indiscriminately slaughtering everything in his path. His name was Kyo/Kyoshiro, if anyone gets the reference. I must admit, I powergamed the heck out of this character, and the party was willing to let such a combat brute in, mostly because they were prepared to deal with his frenzy when it got out of hand, and needed the combat power (Demiurge was fond of throwing fairly hard encounters at us).On one occasion, while riding an airship being sabotaged by a former party member (Demiurge likes taking my PC's and turning them against the party... why is that?), and under attack from air elementals, he managed to quasi-intentionally kill two party members. The sabateur and another PC were both holding onto a rope dangling from the bottom of the airship, and so the FB, seeing an enemy in sight, gladly cut it. An eye for an eye, and all that. After this fairly brutal murder of a fellow PC (though all in good fun, since we were able to rescue the falling PC), he walks above decks, where the rest of the party is fighting the air elemental invasion. Another PC, characterised for being fairly gullible, looks to him.DM: Make a sense motive checkOther PC: Why?DM: Poor visibility on a speeding airship and all that. You need to roll to see whether or not you think Kyo (my frenzied berserker) is frenziedHe rolls a natural 1... and 0 has ranks in sense motive. We use the 'roll down for 1's' rule: 18DM: You think Kyo is not only fine, but is your best friend Other PC: Ah, ok. I walk over to him and try to give him a hugMe: Er... you do realize I have to attack youOther PC: Ah, yeah. I do. My AC is 20something (exact number forgotten)Me: Oh... my attack bonus is +33We figured out that, assuming the same power attack that I had used before (-5), and with the two confirmed crits I made, the 5 hits that landed (FB + kensai = broken) did, upon absolute minimum damage, something like two and half times the other PC's maximum hit pointsDM: Ok... [other PC] walks over to Kyo and tries to give him a hug. Kyo vaporizes him. A fine red mist coats the ship's deck.Me: Sorry... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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