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[Heron TSG]

I know what I'm looking for: An item with a shield bonus to AC on it so I can swap out my shield for either an even bigger sword of dual-wielding capability. I'd even give away the +1 shield I currently have to a party member, if they needed it. By level 8 I plan to be wielding 2 medium greatswords with a -2/-2 penalty from dual wielding. Not too bad, considering they'd do 2d8+STR+Enchantments apiece, and HOT DAMN THE ATTACKS. TWF is lame until you do it with a pair of comically oversized weapons. I think I've been needing to get back to my original theme: An unholy combination of silly but awesome chunks that join together to form the ULTIMATE DUAL WIELDING WATER ORC SORCERER.

[RAM]

Fair enough, loot is a bit tricky, you can abstract a lot of it and most of what you miss out on is whether or not you go through a pocket or making sure that you specify every single cabinet individually. It also means that the D.M. has to pick out a hiding spot for every item we come across. But more realistic loot is not something I plan to oppose...

P.S.
 Centipedes do not have other sizes in their advancement charts, where as other creatures, hyenas, for example, can go from medium to large without getting a new statistics block... Elementals are the same but dragons have a full advancement chart...
 The significance of this is what feats a creature can qualify for and what its skill points are at each hit die. If huge centipedes are born huge than they can take power attack at first level, where as if they start tiny, then they only had 1 strength back then...

P.P.S.
 You want and animated shield, they are awesome, a bit expensive though...

P.S.P.S.
 Fiendish monstrous centipede:
 Level 1(tiny): weapon focus(bite), hide 2, spot 2
 Level 3(large): ability focus(poison), hide 3, spot 3
 Level 6(huge): snatch, hide5, spot 4
 Level 12(gargantuan): Improved natural attack(bite), power attack, hide 8, spot 7
 Level 24(colossal): improved bull rush, awesome blow, improved toughness(MM3 p207), powerful charge(MM3 p207), hide 14, spot 13

[Shoruke]

TWF is lame until you do it with a pair of comically oversized weapons.

Unless you have Boots of Speed, a couple levels in Swordsage, lots of levels in rogue, and your daggers have Holy and Flaming and stuff on them. Cerrad could roll a heaping pile of d6's all at once. 36d6 + 60 or something I think it was.

EDIT: assuming all hits and sneak attack opportunity but no criticals , Cerrad's damage output was 5d4 + 39d6 + 78. Plus another 6d6 if the enemy was evil.
(hmm, now I wonder what if Cerrad were using comically oversized weapons...)

[Heron TSG]

Yes, but Cerrad has the unfortunate drawback of not showing up to the last few sessions, greatly reducing his damage output. 

Utility plays second fiddle to BADICALNESS with this build. It'll be effective in it's own way, but if Maelrigar is to die, Maelrigar is going to do so in style, preferably taking a dozen enemies with him and roaring bloody murder.

[Haika]

I would be fine if we all agreed beforehand to split things evenly. But this just sort of came out of the blue. It was posted here that this is the loots, and then in game people started doing stuff all around, the GM asked what people were claiming, and since I said I was searching after the boss died, I claimed a bunch. Then went to use the restroom, when I returned, my claim was basically ignored, and everyone else was splitting up the gold and assuming the selling of the gems, and it all felt rather messy.

I know it's more work to separate and deal with each looting action in game. But when things like conflicts over the amounts people get, and people trying to sell treasure items that other people want, and random claiming of amounts, it just gets very chaotic, and playing a rogue type gets very difficult when everyone goes against your thiefyness.  I had no introduction to this group because of the poof in mechanic, so I have no idea how people are going to react to what my guy does. I just want to be able to search for my own loot, because I spent quite a few points on searching, and slight of hand and such because looting is very important to Izaak.

Now, before people start shouting thief and cutting off hands and stuff, I'm not trying to pickpocket my teammates, or take everything we find(though I admit, I did claim more than was fair at the time, because I thought people were all being distracted and I was the one looting stuff anyway). I'm just trying to get what I loot, and if caught my guy would probably reluctantly turn stuff over.

And now, I am going to bed. Been a long day, heh. and I'll repeat what I said in the game session. I still had fun, even if I wasn't much use, and this looting drama at the end.

[RedWarrior0]

First, we should let Myst Identify that rod.
Second, I (personally) only want cash. It's hard to make magical items using other loot.
I will probably be taking money from the party fund if we go over.

[syvarris]

TWF is lame until you do it with a pair of comically oversized weapons.

Unless you're Darth Maul, 'cause Darth Maul is one of the most badass characters in star wars and he never even said a word

[Kogan Loloklam]

Quick question, if you are a sorcererish kind of person and take a spell with a natural opposite (Darkness/Light, Enlarge/Reduce person) Can you automatically do the opposite?

I'm taking Trade Image (Custom, approved a handful of pages ago) and Reduce Person (PHB P269) for my 2 Spellthief spells.

[RAM]

repeating this in case my old edit is missed, also updated it slightly

Fiendish monstrous centipede:
 Level 1(tiny): weapon focus(bite), hide 2(total ranks), spot 2
  +1 to hit, vulnerable to mind effects.
 Level 3(large): ability focus(poison), hide 3, spot 3
  +2 to poison DC
 Level 6(huge): snatch, hide5, spot 4
  [urlhttp://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsterFeats.htm#snatch]improved grab[/url]
 Level 12(gargantuan): Improved natural attack(bite), power attack, hide 8, spot 7
  2d8 => 3d8 bite damage, two-handed power attack
 Level 24(colossal): improved bull rush, awesome blow, improved toughness(MM3 p207), powerful charge(MM3 p207), hide 14, spot 13
  4d6 => 6d6 bite damage, Push through other folk, throw folk around, +24 HP, +6d6 damage on a charge attack.

P.S.
 There are some compound spells, clairaudience/clairvoyance for example, that come as a bundle deal and are basically a single spell with multiple modes of use. Wish and Miracle would probably be the ultimate examples of this phenomenon. Other spells, such as detect Evil, or enlarge person, are distinct spells and do not come with any other functions... Darkness and light are two or three spell levels apart and have wildly different modes of operation, so are completely out, but do look at the countered and/or dispelled by lists for spell relationships. You may not be able to use reduce person to cast enlarge person yourself, but you can use it to stop other people from casting enlarge person...

[RedWarrior0]

Oh, shoruke, one question. Is the Ashworm Dragoon prestige class allowed?

Also, taking 1650 gold. Leaves the pearl, and 500 gold going to the party fund, if I'm correct.

Also also, that rod is probably some kind of Extend Spell rod...

[Haika]

Can't sleep, so Journal time:

Spoiler: Journal of Izaak Waveharp, Session 33 (click to show/hide)

Oh wow, I've got a journal now. Never would have thought this would be for me, but I suppose having some sort of record of things can't hurt. I wonder if I can get it in a small pink book, with a heart on it. ooo that would be just peachy.

Anyway, Today I'm going to write about animals. Now, I've worked in the circus for a while now, and we've had many a trained animal. Even had a mermaid one time that bit off this guy's thing when he broke in and tried to... ok I'll skip the details, before I turn my own journal into some raunchy sex novel. And frankly, that story wasn't all that interesting... the ending plain out SUCKed.

The reason I'm writing today about animals is that I finally decided to move forward into the spotlight with this group of adventurers I've signed up with. Seems a fine bunch, if a bit too much in love with trees. Had a little battle with some worm monster thing, that just seemed to keep bouncing my daggers off it's thick hide.

Most of my team-mates had one animal or the other. There were a couple dogs, maybe one was a wolf. Two giant legged worm bug things the elf girl summoned. Note to self: Get to know her better, not many females in this group. There also was some badgers, giant bats, a hawk of some sort.

And at least one of the magic types were talking about animating undead. I guess those could be considered animals or at least pets of some kind. Just as long as he stays away from me with the dead things. I did know a goth drow once who really was into that, but she was odd to say the least. Kept wanting me to cut her with a blade while in bed.

Either way, we busted down some glass and got another orb submerged into holy water, and the ranger finished off the worm beast thing that kept grabbing on to the Water Orc. Hmm, this somehow goes back to sounding like a bad sex novel. And the ranger shot his 'bow' as the orc writhed in the tight grip. Maybe if it was at least a female orc... ugh the reality of things make for a horrible image.. I really need to stop swapping dirty stories with that bard girl at the inn.

Afterwards we searched the room. And when I say we, I mean me. I was thinking about getting more for my trouble, but the group apparently has some sort of rule on splitting up loot. We found some wands, some gemstones, a fair amount of coin, and a jar of goop I'm told was glue. I managed to snag an emerald for my own, but I think next time I may want to keep what I find to myself.

As I was searching one of the halflings started asking me questions about my past. I think his name was Andre. He seemed to connect me to some of my more dangerous past involving the thieves guild. I don't remember if he was a member of that guild, but I should be wary about letting him or his sister know too much. I am in no way going to be roped into working for another guild that treats it's members as slaves to pay the leaders' pockets. I started up this whole adventuring thing to line my own pockets, not some guild's coffers.

At least I think this is session 33, if it's not. Let me know.

[Kogan Loloklam]

P.S.
 There are some compound spells, clairaudience/clairvoyance for example, that come as a bundle deal and are basically a single spell with multiple modes of use. Wish and Miracle would probably be the ultimate examples of this phenomenon. Other spells, such as detect Evil, or enlarge person, are distinct spells and do not come with any other functions... Darkness and light are two or three spell levels apart and have wildly different modes of operation, so are completely out, but do look at the countered and/or dispelled by lists for spell relationships. You may not be able to use reduce person to cast enlarge person yourself, but you can use it to stop other people from casting enlarge person...

Meh, I was hoping to make myself a bit more useful than I will be. All of my current favorite spells are Evocation or Conjuration. I don't like most of the low level spells from the Spellthief schools. The problem is, I won't ever get above Level 4 spells, nor will I ever get any Cantrips. (Unless stolen, but that's a different kettle of fish. Stolen spells have no school requirements. I could steal a Resurrection at level 14 from the local cleric

[Theoboldi]

I'll be taking the pearl and 100 gold.

The journal will be posted later.

[The Fool]

I was wondering. Could a Goliath (RoS, p.56) use a huge Greatsword if he took the Monkey Grip feat (CW, p.103)? It seems as if the feat description doesn't account for races, such as Goliath and Half-Giant, that can use those weapons normally despite the size difference. For my back-up character I was thinking of either a swordsage or a warblade that uses huge sized weapons.

[Heron TSG]

Monkey Grip and Powerful Build explicitly do not stack. I believe that's in the monkey grip description, but it may be in the Goliath's powerful build text.