Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3249290" data-attributes="member: 29014">The Swordsage was actually Lawful Neutral--there's a &quot;Special&quot; clause on Brand of the Nine Hells that says that devils may give the brand to favoured followers who are not Lawful Evil devils at the GM's discretion (Levistus likes having this guy around because he basically just has him duel enemies, including many devils and demons, and by being Lawful Neutral, he can wield Holy weapons without issues).&nbsp; This prevented a whole bunch of things from working, unfortunately, including its Holy sword.&nbsp; It could have used Power Word Kill and barely killed the Swordsage on the round it cast Heal (he was just under the threshold), but it couldn't have reasonably been sure of his HP in a metagame way, and it would have died for certain if the PWK didn't work for it, so it needed to cast Heal to be sure.&nbsp; After the Swordsage also healed, PWK was never going to work, so the Tulani tried to run at the end.&nbsp; It did use Bardic Music, usually to buff its attack and damage because it hits for a very minor amount (1d8+9 I believe).The Swordsage won handily, but it wasn't a slaughter either--he had to use up his recovery to get back his manoeuvres as a Swift action and also a healing potion.&nbsp; He would have probably won by more if he had taken Improved Critical instead of Keen and made his weapons the evil version of Blessed, since most of his hits were also critical threats, and he did some nasty Icy Bursts on those crits.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3249290, member: 29014"] The Swordsage was actually Lawful Neutral--there's a "Special" clause on Brand of the Nine Hells that says that devils may give the brand to favoured followers who are not Lawful Evil devils at the GM's discretion (Levistus likes having this guy around because he basically just has him duel enemies, including many devils and demons, and by being Lawful Neutral, he can wield Holy weapons without issues). This prevented a whole bunch of things from working, unfortunately, including its Holy sword. It could have used Power Word Kill and [I]barely[/I] killed the Swordsage on the round it cast Heal (he was just under the threshold), but it couldn't have reasonably been sure of his HP in a metagame way, and it would have died for certain if the PWK didn't work for it, so it needed to cast Heal to be sure. After the Swordsage also healed, PWK was never going to work, so the Tulani tried to run at the end. It did use Bardic Music, usually to buff its attack and damage because it hits for a very minor amount (1d8+9 I believe). The Swordsage won handily, but it wasn't a slaughter either--he had to use up his recovery to get back his manoeuvres as a Swift action and also a healing potion. He would have probably won by more if he had taken Improved Critical instead of Keen and made his weapons the evil version of Blessed, since most of his hits were also critical threats, and he did some nasty Icy Bursts on those crits. [/QUOTE]

Verification