Tuesday 3/11

[Eric Pearson]

Hey All!

Great session everyone! Are we on for next Tuesday? I'm gonna cut around some stuff and find a way to finish the story next week.

Also, Here's a bit of advice for how to play some of the classes. Go to Player's Handbook and then Character Classes to get more info:

http://www.purpleworm.org/rules/

Warrior/Fighter -  You're made for battle and can take lots of damage. You get bonuses through spells cast on you, potions you drink, going berserk, and circumstantial adjustments. You can also recruit tons of followers and have them help you.

Wizard/Mage (I'll use spellcasting times next time, forgot this time) - You have spells and there's a wide variety of what you can do. You can buff characters, including giving them extra attacks; you can cast defensive spells (usually necessary because you have low hit points); you can cast spells outside of battle to search areas, travel, and get information. You can almost always use the spell ESP to get information. Pretty much no one is immune to it and you can just cast it multiple times if you have someone captured. If there's a wizard who has this spell, you never have to torture, negotiate, or make threats to gain information. Charm spells also make for really interesting plot devices as you can use spells like Quest or Geas to make NPCs go elaborate lengths to do your bidding.

Priest/Cleric - You have spells that do damage and heal people and you're great in combat, but that's not what makes a Cleric interesting. Clerics can talk to gods and usually have the strongest network around. If you find a branch of your god in an area, they're always willing to help and many will lend you soldiers. There are also many spells that feed off of the number of priests in an area. Chant is incredibly powerful with multiple Clerics, as is Uplift for raising spellcasting abilities. 7th level spells are pretty nuts and you pretty much have the power to bend time and space. You can even merge with other priests DBZ-style to become an avatar of their god.

http://www.purpleworm.org/rules/TM/DD04386.htm

http://www.purpleworm.org/rules/TM/DD04387.htm

http://www.purpleworm.org/rules/PHB/DD02282.htm

Also, I found this stupidly overpowered combat spell:

http://www.purpleworm.org/rules/PHB/DD02283.htm

Rogue/Thief - You're not made for combat, though you can do some serious damage if executed properly. This is mainly through backstabbing, where you get large multipliers to your damage and bonuses to attacking as well. You can also read some magical scrolls, though you could read them wrong and have the spell backfire. You can also recruit followers to help with thieving and combat. The thief's strength is the ability to use all of the skills at their disposal. However, you can't use any of them passively. They're great characters if you want to climb a tree to scout ahead, pick pockets to see if other characters have anything important, pick locks to gain entrance to areas, listen and look to see if people are following them at any time, detect and disable traps, read languages, and hide in shadows. In combat, a thief will usually find a way to backstab and then retreat. You can retreat by going invisible, or having some sort of distracting and then going away to hide in the shadows. 

Eric Pearson

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[Max Lerner]

If its cool with everyone I would like to call dibs on the rod of withering as my first piece of loot I'd claim (it is inherently evil and does very little damage anyhoo). I have an idea to turn me into an effective tank for the remainder of our quest, but I'll need a few bucks for the gear and this things worth bank.

Is that kosher with the team?

-Max

[John Gawarecki-Maxwell]

Go for it, dudebro!

[Max Lerner]

The plan is I buy Wake Barrier Shield, which is a tower shield that can additionally as an immediate action protect me and everyone behind me in a 60 foot cone from three area spells per day, which would actually allow me to tank for the team if I stand in front.

I would also like to add hooks onto the inner side of the shield so I can fasten a portable hole to it that can easily be unfastened from my side at will. I am ditching my weapon in favor of a rope of climbing (an animated rope that can knot/un-knot at will to be used as a whip, and I can shield bash as a free action (sacrificing the ac boost of the shield) once I ensnare creatures with the rope I can pull them in and bash to envelop them in the hole. If I pull the hole off my shield they suffocate in a non-dimensional space after 10 minutes, and unless they can travel between planes this is gna be a 1hko.

Thats about as effective as I can figure my dude could be versus the spider god summoners haha.

-Max

[Eric Pearson]

looks pretty sweet! would you link the shield and hole please?

Eric Pearson

Eric.A....@gmail.com
1-917-284-5325

[Max Lerner]

Things to buy:
Sheild: http://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Wake_Barrier_%283.5e_Equipment%29 (15k)

Rope: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rope_of_Climbing (3k)

Hole: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Portable_Hole (20k)

Things to sell:
Rod: http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Rod_of_Withering (25k)

Also I believe since the hole is a physically sewn item I could request to make it smaller (and therefore use less materials) for a lowered price (since it stretches quite large normally but I only require it to be the area of the shield).

[Eric Pearson]

This is 3.5 content, but I'll allow it since everything transfers pretty easily in this case.

Since the rope can do 10ft away, in one round, you could get a creature to come in from a maximum of 5 ft away (5ft to get rope there, 5 ft to get it back), and you would need to roll a check to ensnare as well as one to move. Sounds like a pretty cool strategy!

Eric Pearson

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1-917-284-5325

[Max Lerner]

Thankya kindly, I might even be able to salvage materials for the hole from Gorans spider spell haha!

-Max

[Eric Pearson]

i dont think he would have access to that many phase spiders without some heavy plane traveling. let's just say you buy it in town before heading off to the scythe

Eric Pearson

Eric.A....@gmail.com
1-917-284-5325

[Max Lerner]

Woo !

-Max