Blood Spectre
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Wait, when did this start? Did I miss the first episode?
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Go Dramatic Look!
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I strongly considered What What In the Butt instead of Bohemian Rhapsody.
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Quote:goddamnitOriginally Posted by DMystic
Took me a bit but I finally found a real contender.
I'm killing 8 Bit-Trip
and replacing with
When Your Evil
because this draft was sorely lacking in the evil department.
I liked that song before that assbag got ahold of it. -
Lockin it up.
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Quote:It seems cool but it has serious flaws too.Originally Posted by DMystic
Absurd tricks aren't limited to 3.5 either.
A Two Weapon Ranger in 4E can actually have an infinite combo at level 21(granted this is epic level but an infinite is an infinite)
Starting with Twin Strike a Ranger at Will that lets you make 2 Attacks one Main hand and one off hand.
In Paragon Tier we add the Feat Heavy Blade Opportunity which lets you use an at will attack in place of a normal attack when taking an Opportunity Action.
Now in Epic Tier we take the Feat Two Weapon Flurry
Which allows you to make an off hand attack whenever you successfully hit with your main hand during an opportunity action with a -5 penalty.
With these feats I use Twin Strike(main hand twin) for an opp attack, if the main hand hits Flurry lets me make an off hand attack that can also be Twin Strike(off hand Twin). If the main hand attack of my off hand twin hits I can make another off hand twin which will set up more main hand attacks which in turn lead to more off hand twins.
As a result of this the target is dead unless I miss.
Primarily, there is no realistic reason any enemy that matters will ever need to provoke an opportunity attack from an epic level ranger.
Secondarily, this isn't 3.5. The way defenses scale with level, -5 to hit is not negligible. You will miss with that penalty a not inconsiderable percentage of the time.
Finally, two blade rangers have a hard time on the front lines. You need to have a serious investment in Strength, Dex, Con, and Wis to be viable, and there just arent that many points in the pot. If you're close enough to make an opportunity attack, you have a serious survivability concern.
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Quote:I just want to focus on this one thing. There is NOTHING low level about the way Evasion works. A Monk or Rogue's Evasion is a high powerd superhuman feat with few if any limitations. A character with Evasion can make his saving throw against an explosion of any save, and find a way to avoid all damage. Not even Spider Man can do that.Originally Posted by Nightphall
Evasion: Lowlevel superhuman agility
Keep in mind that for a character like this, Reflex is likely to be the best saving throw, and a Monk in specific is a class noted as having among the best Saves in the game. Most blasts are fairly low DC anyway, but even against an astronimical difficulty, a 20 always avoids any damage for the Evasion sporting character. That's a flat 5% chance of being completely unharmed by a city leveling blast dropped at point blank range.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Teldon
Excellent we have all our picks!
Now to make things a bit more interesting. You now know what you are up against. Do you feel comfortable about what you have picked? Well if not do not fear! From now until 11:59pm Sunday, you may kill one of your picks and replace it with another one of the same category. Since this was my idea I will wait at least 12 hours before I make the choice of whether or not to use it. If you are confident enough in your picks, please say that you "lock in your picks". The draft proper will start on Monday at noon.
We can do this any number of times or just once?
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Quote:The Marvel Zombies zombie plague was an extra dimensional universe level badness that specifically adapted itself to infect superhuman beings.Originally Posted by Halcyon_S
Well don't they have to actually drain and kill you to turn you into a vampire in the Marvel universe?
Dracula is just a dude from an old irish novel. -
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Did anybody PM Shawn Sage?
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On that I think we can all agree. The rules serve two functions, a shared basis of expectation, and as dramatic tools for story telling. Wherever possible, they should be blended into both services at once.
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I'm just killing thyme.
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Swandive!
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Quote:That isnt what happened. The DM produced an item that did not exist before, and used it's effect after the dice were already down. That's not fun. Fun would have been if the player's power had worked the way it was supposed to.Originally Posted by Kitsune9tails
Interpretation of the written rule is an art.
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Quote:If you're DMing by fiat, changing the written rules of items, adding them to the game on the fly, and then making them work how you want, you aren't playing D&D anymore. You may as well be playing cops and robbers, pointing your fingers at eachother and arguing "I shot you!"Originally Posted by PhroX
Actually, it works however the DM wants it to work
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I stand by my Morbo
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Not after you have already failed the saving throw. Once the dice are down, it's too late.
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Quote:Originally Posted by DMystic
And now a story from a previous game.
For this particular game the DM said anything goes, I want to see you break as much as you can.
So having been interested in shadow magic, I actually went ahead and built a Shadowmage from the Forgotten Realms setting.
Through class bonuses and some feat choices my character had absurd DC's for Illusion's and Necromancy effects. So much so that his level 1 spells had a DC of 19 (now remember base DC =10+Spell level+int mod).
So the game progressed and we ended up fighting a bbeg NPC Cleric(High Will and Fort saves), I opened with a Phantasmal Killer(Save vs Will to ignore, if that fails save vs fort or die) and low and behold the cleric actually failed both saves. The DM actually pulled a Helm of Telepathy out of nowhere so we actually had to fight this cleric, who was at a higher level than the party of which I was the lowest level.
Later on we found a collection of old 2E Drow weaponry(insane stats but eventually breaks in sunlight) realizing this I used Nystul's MAgic Aura to make the stuff appear as Normal magic weaponry with a bonus +1 higher than what the swords actually did, our Rogue with an absurdly high Bluf fSKill and miscellaneous bonuses from our Favored Soul that had morning buffs,afternnon buffs and night buffs convinced a store owner of the wepaons legitimacy (he couldn't see past the Aura, with his spells designed to see past such things) and we walked away with about a bazillion more gold than we should have been able to have for our level.
That was the last session for that particular game
/e Morbo
HELM OF TELEPATHY DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT!!!!
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It's stupid enough to bear repeating.
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Quote:No, that makes you a good person.Originally Posted by Terwilliger
If I want this to fail so hard Sony gets out of the Spider-flick business, does that make me a bad person?
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You had me at zombies.