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Sundays!

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Total Members Voted: 22

[Grek]

I'd prefer Monday, if possible. Any day but Sunday works, though.

PS. Updated character sheet since I dinged.

PSS. Will post journal superfast, before next session. Pinky promise.

[Shoruke]

HAH! Nice! I approve.

Subsequent skeletal minions also get the stats for a human warrior skeleton. Basically you can reuse its character sheet and maybe change the name upon it, write some new fluff. (since you're having Mael carry Freddy's stuff anyway)

[Kogan Loloklam]

Only Sunday works for our usual start time. Any other day and I'll be at least 2.5 hours late.

[Theoboldi]

Heh. I just noticed I forgot to add the bonus spells I get for my int modifier.
Time to change my journal a bit.

[The Fool]

Since the orb that Rush will be studying has a tendency to summon a lot of monsters, and he can only cast illusions I thought I may as well make a new back-up just to be safe. I picked a !!FUN!! goal didn't I?

For this one I was thinking of a baboon animal companion/VoP based Druid/Beastmaster. The RPing would be much more wild and natury than normal. To make this work epicly though I'd need the Aerenal Beastmaster feat approved, as well as the Beastmaster prestige class (CAdv, p.26), which grants more than one animal companion.

If you look at what each thing does you might go 'lol. Nope.' because +6 to effective druid level at level 6 (5 of which are actually druid levels, but still) is a bit excessive. Especially since I would have 2 baboons at that point. The beastmaster class when combined with the druid class grants a total of 5 animal companions at level 15 with an increasing level penalty for the last three. The major drawback of this build is that you are basically writing off wildshaping, and druidic magic, one of which are considered broken to many on the wizard forums if used correctly. In return there would be large amounts of crowd control... and monkeys... lots of monkeys. Fleshraker Dinos would have been cool, but they sound broken. Pounce/Trip and poison in one attack. Fun.

Anyways here is the basic feat description of the feat that I'd need approved:

Aerenal Beastmaster (RoE, p.105) - Baboon is added to your animal companion options at level 1, and is treated as three levels higher than normal. Being an elf is a prerequisite.

Are there any other animal companion based feats at all!? Other than Natural Bond I couldn't find ANY.

[Heron TSG]

It's dangerous to go alone, take this. Specifically page 76.

[The Fool]

That's helpful. Now I know that I need to find non-druid feats. Animal companion feats mostly are dependent on spellcasting, which I will be ditching early on. I'll find the feats I need eventually. I have a feeling that any VoP build I make will end up being a dodge tank. This will be awesome having AC again (assuming that the orb summons a lot of stuff, or one monster with true seeing). Until then I'll just confuse and irritate enemies like normal. 

[Shoruke]

I think Sunday gets the vote... so, tomorrow at the usual time.

There are a LOT of ways for me to be an utter douchebag to you guys during tomorrow's session... but I think I won't, I'll just try to make it a little hard on you all. he he he

[Heron TSG]

Great. Luckily I have nearly died and/or been threatened with character death so many times that I seem to have built up a stockpile of backup characters. I just hope that 'hard on us all' isn't a euphemism for falling rocks.

[The Fool]

Since I won't be there tomorrow Rush'll be making Use Device checks just outside the city walls. Let me know if all hell breaks loose and don't be light on the monsters if there are any. I knew this would be a harsh goal when I chose it.

On an unrelated note my back-up will be a Ranger/Beastmaster. Because the ranger feats work better with the build, and now I can avoid VoP.

EDIT: So yeah. I don't need Aerenal Beastmaster, and I think I may just go for a pack of Dire Wolves, or something more intense than baboons. Ranger 5 and Nature Bond (CAdv, p. 111) would bring me up to an effective druid level of 5 (max for the ECL) making Aerenal Beastmaster more of a limiter than anything else. This might be awesome if I play it right, and macro EVERYTHING. If I ever take too long to respond, and I have 3-4 moves/turn then for everyone else's sake skip me. So... how bout them Fleshrakers and Swindlespitters? (MM3, p.40/41)

[Heron TSG]

Ranger/Beastmaster sounds nifty. The Nature Cult is always recruiting.

[Grek]

Kimiko's Log:

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Our battle against the ooze elementals has reminded me of an enlightening tale told to me by Master Brennan. I shall record it here, I think:

Once upon a time in the days of Old before men lived in Arcadia and before the lands were set to float amid the sky, there lived a wise master sage, Saint Maxwell of Glenlair, who uncovered the hidden secrets of electricity and light. For a time, he taught his disciples at Aberde'en, studying the stars and the heavens even as he taught them the secrets of earth.

So Saint Maxwell taught for many a year, until it came to pass that an infestation of slimes had befouled the waters of the local wells and caused a plague to emerge in the city. The local clerics could not hold off the sickness, for the slimes would reinfest those that were cured within a day of their leaving the temple. Attempts to purge the wells of the infestation proved fruitless, for the beasts, living in water as they did, were immune to the cleansing flames of the local Pelorian order. Prince Dewar of Marischal, the lord of Aberde'en, sought out the saint for his advice.

It is said that Saint Maxwell agreed to clease the wells of the realm of Marischal, on the condition that Price Dewar grant him and his disciples a tower in which to study the heavens with. The Prince quickly agreed, and the Saint went out to purge the wells of all oozes and other infectious creatures. And so Maxwell went forth with his disciples, each wielding a long copper rod, and set forth to shocking the slime from all of the wells in Marischal.

I wonder if I might not reproduce such a spell myself...

[The Fool]

I'm kind of kicking myself for making Rush. He has the exact same RP issues that I encountered with Doctor Moon; he might kill EVERYONE. While I may not have mentioned it in-forum, Rush is trying to get to Limbo to get his wife back after he indirectly killed her. On top of that illusions lack all the utility and strength that I thought it would have, it seems that they also don't work on LOTS of things. What it all adds up to is a sub-par caster that aims to derail and kill everyone.

I swear, I should make a checklist when I write in a character. Step 1, will it not kill everyone in a direct or indirect manner? Step 2, does it have flavor text that won't make me headdesk? Step 3, are you SURE that what you picked isn't useless against most? I'm not intending to be the revolving wall of characters, but damn. Apologies in advance to Shoruke, because frankly I don't want to RP the death of everyone because I opened a gate to another plane, or because I traveled with someone and they encountered vermin. I'll post a character sheet in an hour or two and I'll write the backstory later.

EDIT: It should be complete, so here is the sheet so far. Backstory added. Don't save Rush any treasure when you finish the dungeon. It would be a bit of a waste, besides I doubt that I could claim treasure for anyone but Rush right now.

EDIT2: Just realized that Mael and Mysteller will have a hard time trusting a Fire Elf normally. I'm joining the Procan army. Yay.

[Kogan Loloklam]

That backstory makes me question if there isn't something hidden that fails step 1.

(Edit: Did we have a session on the 23rd? Because Myst has one for the 23rd.)

[Heron TSG]

I'm pretty sure that the Procan Cult could deal with the guards of a community of fire people.