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[Pillow_Killer]

Funny. Wall of Iron gives 11k of GD profit over course of half a year( or 62 GD 10 SD prfits a day), but can be used only like once a few years in every major trade hub, as it completely oversaturates the market. It does not breaks any thing other than NPC credit card score and completely ruins local metalsmith economy, but otherwise, it's a very minor, and, gotta say, not a very effective source of income, as you get whooping 2800 GD over course of six weeks, which, I gotta say, with how fast people are dying is a pretty slow pace. Why ban it?

[Heron TSG]

So Naren and I are going to start a band to attract one of the other two goddesses. It'll be pretty rad. You see, a DC 30+ perform check can attract the attention of an extraplanar being. With two of us constantly doing that, we may find some awesome gods to help us out. We need more cowbell, though.

[Lucus Casius]

You can never have enough cowbell.

But I don't think that plan will work, with the... situation the goddesses appear to be in.  Still, useful for attracting the so-called lesser gods, and we may get lucky.

[Shoruke]

Spoiler: Epic Journal of Wordiness (click to show/hide)

I woke up quite suddenly, in the Sorceress' magical cabin, with almost no recollection of any time passing between then and when the vampire said, "Kill". I suppose that I died and passed on, and the fuzzy, fading memories are of my time in the afterlife, experienced by my soul, but not my body.

I gather that the vampire Ficus has not been permanently routed, however. Damn. And apparently I was brought back to the mortal world by a lesser god, that my naively good-natured colleagues saw fit to resurrect. Apparently our reward is that we all get to be subjugated by a malevolent diety EVEN SOONER, and either worship her forever or perish. I can respect that my friends were simply trying to be good people, but I heave a sigh when I contemplate the consequences.

I also purchased myself a whole bunch of new gear. That vampire was only able to kill me because he had softened me up physically, and I find that most of my other opponents rely on brute strength to kill me. The obvious solution, then, was to make myself faster, and encased in more magical protection, to avoid being harmed. Combined with my ring, my defences should be adequate. I've also purchased a headband which improves my mental faculties, and everything seems to move slower to my perceptions. It should allow me to fine-tune my aim mid-strike, and target enemies' weak points even more efficiently than before.

Lastly, we went to the library. The upshot of our readings is that, due to a long-past war, the weapons of several slain gods now litter the world, and these weapons are the only things mortals can use to harm other gods. The spear of Odin, which we possess, is one such weapon, but it seems to be actively hostile towards the bard, at least. It turned him into a female elf for a while, although he was back to normal upon my return to life. Although, along with the memories I received from that angel we saved so long ago, I seem to recall that Odin was a warrior, devoted more to the thrilling chaos of battle than anything else... perhaps his weapon carries his will, and simply refuses to acknowledge a bard, who relies on spells and words? Though I scoff at the school of thought that says battles are won by raging the hardest, I may have to take up Odin's lance against the gods, being the only one of my group who is both suited to survive amidst chaos, and trained in heavy weaponry.

And perhaps, in the process, I will wreak my revenge... no, I promised myself I would let that conflict end more than a decade ago. I promised myself that the blood of my parents would be the last to be shed for a petty power struggle... and yet, I feel a tingle of anticipation, in repaying not only the church and priests that did the deed, but the god that sanctioned it.

And this is how you put more cowbell into your two-man band. Demonstrations by the inventor, and then by a hot chick. The relevant piece starts around the 3:15 mark in the video.

[syvarris]

Spoiler: Zooks journal, 26th scorch, 6551 ignan local time (click to show/hide)

All I remember is fire.  Lots of fire.  It was bliss, I even met a elemental, he said if I pleged loyalty to him he would grant me powers, beyond belief, that I would become living fire If I served him loyaly.  I did what any sane wizard would do, I CAST MAGIC MISSILE I swore alligeince to the creature, then I woke up next to a large crater with eafoth standing over me, slightly creepy, what IS he anyways?  After this we walked off with some girls corpse, and as it was the only available kindling I tried my new powers out on it... To interesting effects, dharsus jumped in front of my Ray of... Feathers.  I hope I didn't meet a planar con-... Mental?  Anyways apparently naren had killed the child and felt guilty about it so we hired some priest of pelor to raise the girl, after all she might think she was about to be raped or somthing with that masked creature standing over her, it turned out the girl was the daughter of the god of doom essentially, so... Yeah that turned out as expected I got launched through a wall and decided to cut and run and teleported out of there, amazingly the next day when I went back the town was still standing and naren was a male again, although still a bit feminine due to the elfishness.  Later the new wizard summoned a large iron wall and turned it into a huge armory of weapons, and promptly saturated the market with cheap goods, I kinda zoned-out for a while with them haggling over how much to sell morningstar #371 for, eventually we wandered into a library and I got drunk and don't remember much after that, I still have a hangover and it's late and I'm tired so that's the end of this "journal".

It's late and I'm tired, does that count for the xp, and if so can I take ES for level eleven?

[RAM]

Encounters are based upon experience. Increasing money without also increasing experience by the same amount makes the otherwise appropriate encounters easier. Anything that increases wealth per level without weakening the character is unbalanced by definition because power(of which wealth is a contributor) per level is the basis of all balance. Item creation is another way of unbalancing wealth per level, but it costs a feat and reduces xp. This is one of the broken things about leadership, for one feat you can get an item creation slave with a mess of item creation feats that you are benefitting from without paying the usual costs. There are very well-founded reasons for a DM to say no to making money. Given that our DM has done so, you should look for other sources of income, you could ask the other players, or ask the DM to include an item for you in upcoming loot.

I could try wielding the spear, I have finally reached the point at which bear form is basically better than nonbear form so unless I can wield it as a bear it shouldn't see much use unless I am saving my rages.

How is Cerrad getting +15 to damage?

[Reese]

So far as income goes, it's pretty uneven; I am still using what I started with (level 10 stuff) and I don't even have enough money to buy more crossbow bolts to sling using Telekinesis, let alone finish scribing the scrolls I started with.

I suppose I should ask for some extra funds in character.

(and, you know, if the funds are there to buy enchanted flaming, frost, or shock bolts, that would be pretty awesome from the perspective of my potential single target DPR. Just throw all three on a stack of bolts; they're only single use with 50 shots for the cost of a +4 weapon, that's, like, 4 full salvos using Telekinesis It costs 32,000GP to fire Sasha for 30 seconds! for the record, that would be 1d4+1d6+1d6+1d6 times 11 shots)

[RAM]

Yikes, that is way too expensive, what you are looking for is Spell Storing, Wounding, and, assuming that you know false life, Vicious...

How many castings of Flame Arrow(3rd), Keen Edge(3rd), Greater Magic weapon(3rd), or any number of similar spells from the various splat-books do you have?

Have you considered adding insult to injury by rolling parchment around your bolts with the word 'bang' inscribed upon it in large, friendly letters?

[Reese]

Unfortunately, Keen Edge and Greater Magic Weapon are two of the scrolls I have yet to scribe in my spellbook.

But I can pack two of each once I have.  Right now I have 2x dispel magic, arcane sight, and haste ready to go. in 3rd level slots along with two castings of Flame Arrow.

Yet another thing I am unsure of: whether or not Telekinetic thrust takes advantage of weapon enhancement bonuses.

[Lucus Casius]

Spoiler: Journal (click to show/hide)

From the Journal of Naren Obosa, Male Female Male Human Elven Bard Sublime Chord

I suppose I'd best take up this old journal again, though much time has passed and many events have taken place since I last wrote within.

We pursued Ficus quite some way on the backs of Giant Eagles, which we had purchased from a rather nice man running a stable for exotic animals.  The Eagles alone would have been enough, but he gave me another offer, one I could never refuse.  Dragon eggs, fairly gained.  A chance that would have come along for me but once in my lifetime. 

Ever since I was a child, dragons inspired my imagination, the many epic tales centered around them driving me even to become a bard, and adventure in the hopes of one day meeting a truly ancient one, in the hopes that it would share its story with me, and I could forge my own magnum opus from it.  As time went on, my desires, admittedly, shifted away from that, but they awoke anew with my transformation into an elf.  The sorcerous powers awoken within me that day I now believe to be the result of draconic blood running within my veins (whether belonging to the human me, or to the elf, I do not know).  Whatever the reason, they returned my mind to my youthful dreams whenever I could pull it from the more immediate concerns of being an entirely different race and gender than what I was used to. 

That I could gain an egg for myself...  What an opportunity!  Not only would I be linking myself with my apparent heritage, I would actually be able to witness a dragon's story first hand, and, in fact, be one of the leading participants in its life!  Of course I accepted the man's offer... and, as fate would have it, managed to purchase not one, but two eggs!  A gold one, and a silver!  Thanking the man profusely, I took them with me on our quest, storing them safely in my pack to protect them from harm.

Following that, we pursued Ficus to a ruined tower after managing to fight off some mechanized birds.  There, to my surprised, I found a familiar face- the girl who had hired us to destroy the bridge leading here.  Judging by the talk of Ficus and another there, Lord Marandar or something similar, as well as the talk of the girl itself...  she was clearly some force of evil, so I took the only course presented to me.  I cast a spell... and she died.

The battle did not go well for us.  Two of our number fell, and three, including one of the fallen, were sent to another plane.  Still, we drove away Ficus and Marandar... as a city of the dead rose around us, ancient structures rising from the ground with the bones of former residents returning to the land of the living and going about their work as they had done in life.  I ordered Dharsus to grab the corpse of the girl with the intent of reviving her as soon as we reached a priest, hoping to find out what was going on, then fled with the others on our Eagles.

As we flew away, a veritable army of Chromatic dragons flew toward newly risen city, closely pursued by the Metallics.  Knowing in our weakened state, we would be of no help in the brawl, we continued to retreat, when I heard a loud noise from my pack.  Peering within, I spotted a large crack on the silver egg, and was struck by a rush of excitement despite the situation we were in.  A guard of silvers surrounded us, protecting their kin as it broke fully free of the shell.  Finally, within my pack rested a small, beautiful silver dragon.  I spoke to her in the draconic tongue, then fed her a small amount of beef jerky (she looked like she would rather have had something better, and I can't blame her, but its not like I can keep much else for food in there).

When we stopped that night, we chose to return to the city, where we immediately revived Zook, and headed to the temple of Paladine in order to revive the girl.

Unfortunately... she wasn't what we had expected.  Her quick, simple death in the ruins was only brought about by chance.  Now...  now, it appeared, outside of the rituals of the broken temple, she had all the strength of a goddess.  She WAS a goddess.

Luckily for us, she did not seem the killing type, and let us go with a warning of the conquest of our world... as well as a name, and the knowledge that she was not truly invulnerable. 

That night, though worried about the impending danger I may have just unleashed upon the world, I decided to name my new companion.  Using what I knew of Draconic lore, I dubbed her Levixvaeri, which roughly translates to "Enchanted Dance."  A name I hope she will bear well in the years to come.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Leaving out the bit about the library, because I am tired, and I didn't write this all that well in the first place.

[RAM]

I it says they deal standard damage, except as though they were daggers and no strength bonus. Damage would ordinarily include strength and enchantments and whatever else, so it depends upon the definition of standard damage. Bear in mind that it would seem to deal 1d4 damage per level, which is low, but it seems to ignore spell resistance, and yet, it deals damage in discreet packages that are easily resisted by DR and energy resistance. If it doesn't deal enchantments than you can either carry a single spiked metal ball and deal your 1d6/level damage, which would be consistent with spell damage rules. Or a mess of bolts that can be completely nullified by dr5/magic. If enchantments ARE allowed, then you will have the potential to deal 1d4+5+1d6 per level which is huge, but it would still suffer from being completely nullified by DR 10/anything other than piercing or magic and fire resist 10(5 would be enough...). What really worries me is what happens if you manage to collect a suitable mound of returning greatswords. You could mix a few of them in with your bolts and get permanent enchantments on them...

It is a tough call, 3d6 damage per level is huge, but it is easily defeated by damage reducing effects, and it costs multiple spells and requires a certain degree of preparation. If I was the DM I would be tempted to patch something in, like saying that you can't throw them from inside the quiver, then you would be forced to take the quick draw feat and leave a hand free or something similar.

[syvarris]

I should really give Reese some poison... 11 chances to do 3d6 str/con damage is pretty good in my book.

[Pillow_Killer]

Hmm, okay. Even without wall of iron to provide base material, I can still make money that wy, by simply buying required amount of materials with gold first, and then fabricating it. Will DM now rule out i cant buy materials?

So far as income goes, it's pretty uneven; I am still using what I   started with (level 10 stuff) and I don't even have enough money to buy   more crossbow bolts to sling using Telekinesis, let alone finish   scribing the scrolls I started with.

I had around 70 kg of iron unused left from fabricate spells, because of rounding down. Sure, it would yeild me a few dozens of other weapons, but eh. Can we rule that I made some bolts from that, when I was fabricating?
Say, 400 bolts or so will be enough, methinks.

[Heron TSG]

It's only 56,000gp (or 112k, can't remember) for an amulet of continuous death ward, if you still have money left over. I've a feeling that mine will come in handy. I'll be writing a journal later, but I'm in a bit of a hurry right now. In the future, may I use the LA buyoff variant from Unearthed Arcana?

I think that that dead city is actually the one that 'Shonus' besieged with his five million shonus-filled friends.

As for the items I bought, I got myself a Bracelet of Friends and a Choker of Eloquence. The choker gives me +10 to bluff, diplomacy, and perform(sing). The bracelet allows up to four people to be keyed to it, so that I can teleport you to me as a standard action so log as we are on the same plane. Pretty useful for healing and other tricky maneuvers. Falling down a huge cliff? I warp you to me as a standard action. Awesome stuff. However, our party is larger than 5 people, so which 4 do you guys think should be keyed in?

[Lord Shonus]

All journals qualify for XP.