The Reconquista OOC

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Here is another picture of the local area. Doesn't have much detail, although it does give you more of an overview.

 

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And here's a little GIF for Seeten

 

[Seeten]

Looks like a spellfire card.

 

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Looks like a spellfire card.

Hmm, not sure, might have been used for Spellfire. I got it from "From the ashes".

 

[Hypersmurf]

I like the story, and it's just the kind of hook I was thinking of for "unlocking" the weapon's ability. You know it's funny, because 3e D&D combat has such a strong underlying structure, everything can become very predictable at times. You know that the average stone giant will have so many hp, and your weapon, on average, will do so and so much damage. It's nice to see that incredible, heroic actions can sometimes still happen in these rules (just not very often, of course.)

Heh. I can just picture the scene around a gaming table, too, when that second 20 comes up...

Like the time I rolled 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 for a 5d6 Lightning Bolt

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"There's a challenge for you, One-Shot," Reivik commented to Morley after the battle with a grin. "Next time, let's see you take out two bugbear chieftains with a single arrow!"

-Hyp.

 

[Seeten]

Later that night, at the bar, while the tales are a recounting and the ales they are a mounting, Anastasia steals the bar, and examines it for "cheating". Once determined its loaded, she says, You dice cheat! This thing only has 20's on it!!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Later that night, at the bar, while the tales are a recounting and the ales they are a mounting, Anastasia steals the bar, and examines it for "cheating". Once determined its loaded, she says, You dice cheat! This thing only has 20's on it!!

Hey! I imagined rolling those attack rolls fair and square!

(Actually, the chances of those two crits are about one in three thousand; the chances of the maximized lightning bolt are more like one in eight thousand. I've done the second one with fair dice, so I don't see any reason why the first one couldn't happen! )

-Hyp.

 

[Seeten]

To be fair, I am not sure what is even possible with the charge on the Blackguard.

Lets work it out. I see her as fighter 2/Paladin 4 around this point, so about the same level as Reivik, I think, so she has spirited charge, but not deadly, which means the lance charge is...

3d8 + 42? If we assume she is power attacking for a boatload, the charge bonus for sure, but if she full power attacks, its what, 9, so 18, 18 +14(smite, divine might, str) 32 x3 = 96 + 3d8. If this attack is also a natural 20, that is 128(96 +32) + 4d8.

I know Hypersmurf will come point out all my math errors =)

But that looks like a total mashing to me! If he is still up after all that, well, that sword stroke definitely finishes it out. Hehe

Hrm...smite adds 6 to my attack roll...thats...a lot of dmg.

 

[Hypersmurf]

I know Hypersmurf will come point out all my math errors =)

Well, remember, a lance has a x3 critical, so a critical combined with a Spirited Charge is x5, not x4.

But that's probably overkill, since it wouldn't leave him up for the followup So just make it a moderately Power-Attacked Spirited Charge. You're relying on skill and valour, not luck!

-Hyp.

 

[Seeten]

So true.

Assuming a reasonable power attack, of 8, (the charge bonus and charisma bonus) thats 16 +14 for 3d8 +90. Most likely he is dead as a nit, and half off his horse/whatever before he is struck by the sword. Wow, this is why I never do the math ahead of time. Thats less dramatic =P