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[Akura]

I can't remember the last time someone just handed me a huge pile of expensive potions before a big battle. They either make me pay for it or just give me the trash-tier crap they have in surplus. Then again, even if they did, I'd probably never use them. Even if it's the final battle.


While I'm certain there's a significant chance of Minrah getting killed there, the main thing is she'll die in battle, and thus go to Thor even if Hel does win.

[Zangi]

She has a name, so that drastically increases her chance of survival.  Or at least going out with a big bang.

[MrWiggles]

She might turn into a Paladin during the battle, and be an Avatar of Thor on the mortal realm to fight this scourge. That would be cool. Then she would die.

[hops]

She has a name, so that drastically increases her chance of survival.  Or at least going out with a big bang.

Doesn't render her immune to being incapacitated or put on a bus, tho

[Akura]

She might turn into a Paladin during the battle, and be an Avatar of Thor on the mortal realm to fight this scourge. That would be cool. Then she would die.

Paladin's have some multiclass restrictions, not to mention conduct restrictions, and a multiclass 1st-level paladin/cleric/fighter probably isn't any more useful than just a multiclass cleric/fighter.

[Reelya]

I can't remember the last time someone just handed me a huge pile of expensive potions before a big battle. They either make me pay for it or just give me the trash-tier crap they have in surplus. Then again, even if they did, I'd probably never use them. Even if it's the final battle.

There's a good reason for that. Making you pay for the good stuff is a money-sink, reducing adventurers spare cash and maintaining the appeal of future lucre. Also, as you admit if they gave you the good potions, you'd just stockpile them leading to ever-increasing equipment lists of over-powered loot, causing the DM to have to ever-inflate the amount of magic gear held by enemies you're fighting to try and maintain combat difficulty and believability (why should only the PCs all have magic swords?). Too much magic loot causes exponential growth in the need for more loot. The DM is smart if they know that.

[Enemy post]

OOTS 1100

[smjjames]

Is it smoky in that corridor or is it just getting darker away from the door?

[Rolan7]

Good question, I wonder if it's one of the vampires in mist form?

[Greiger]

I would assume it's just a dark hallway.  With it being all underground and noone around to maintain whatever dwarven light source is used down there.

P.S. OOTS probably follows more sensible rules and a single lignite pebble probably won't stay lit for a year in their universe after all.

[Mathel]

Do dwarves not have darkvision?

[Imic]

Do dwarves not have darkvision?

They don't have see invisibility, though.

[Akura]

Do dwarves not have darkvision?

They don't have see invisibility, though.

He's questioning the existence of a dark hallway, not invisible vampires. It'd actually make sense for the most part for a dwarf-only hallway to not be lit if you have a racial ability to see in the dark. You'd save a lot in lighting costs. The temple is probably lit since worship of Thor isn't explicitly limited to dwarves, and there's the fact that darkvision doesn't allow one to see color. A nondescript hallway is fine, but a lavishly decorated temple would be a waste if you couldn't see the colors that went into it.

On the other hand, it wasn't so dark when the vampires came through(look back at #1087), so it's possible the vampires cast a Darkness spell to ambush the Order. Vampire!Durkon probably picked that trick up from Living!Durkon watching Roy and Haley ambush Tarkin with a smoke-stick arrow.

[Imic]

Do dwarves not have darkvision?

They don't have see invisibility, though.

He's questioning the existence of a dark hallway, not invisible vampires. It'd actually make sense for the most part for a dwarf-only hallway to not be lit if you have a racial ability to see in the dark. You'd save a lot in lighting costs. The temple is probably lit since worship of Thor isn't explicitly limited to dwarves, and there's the fact that darkvision doesn't allow one to see color. A nondescript hallway is fine, but a lavishly decorated temple would be a waste if you couldn't see the colors that went into it.

On the other hand, it wasn't so dark when the vampires came through(look back at #1087), so it's possible the vampires cast a Darkness spell to ambush the Order. Vampire!Durkon probably picked that trick up from Living!Durkon watching Roy and Haley ambush Tarkin with a smoke-stick arrow.

That or they just extinguished any torches.

[Reelya]

He's questioning the existence of a dark hallway, not invisible vampires. It'd actually make sense for the most part for a dwarf-only hallway to not be lit if you have a racial ability to see in the dark. You'd save a lot in lighting costs. The temple is probably lit since worship of Thor isn't explicitly limited to dwarves, and there's the fact that darkvision doesn't allow one to see color. A nondescript hallway is fine, but a lavishly decorated temple would be a waste if you couldn't see the colors that went into it.

Also, there's the problem of oxygen if you're underground. Lit torches eat up oxygen, and if you're underground and you have darkvision, you shouldn't want to waste oxygen. And if you did have lighting for color reasons you'd want it to be very dim, definitely nothing like what humans would want.