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[The Fool]

Those bully chains sound like a D&D version of Warf's Klingon metal sash, so I can see those things as intimidating. Oh, and I totally didn't read that image...

[Shoruke]

And those occupy a waist slot? Yeah, the bully chain looks fine.

[The Fool]

Araph, I saw a feat that you may be interested in since you said you wanted to multiclass as a rogue. It's called Practiced Spellcaster (Complete Arcane p.82), it increases your effective caster level by 4. The catch is that the caster level can't be greater than your HD count. So if you take 3 or 4 rogue levels and you already have this feat you would stay caught up in damage as you level.

[RAM]

Your damage would stay up with the low level spells, but you wouldn't get the extra damage from having higher level spells. Good feat all the same, but it isn't full casting...

[Shoruke]

Caster Level also determines spell durations for your buffs/debuffs/miscellany.
Jussayin.

[Shoruke]

Double post for great justice?
Anyway, I'm announcing a new rule. I'll be rolling passive spot and listen checks privately, but active perception checks (for instance, "I spend a standard action to look for the invisible enemy") will be rolled by the players.

I might have to have more area description text to keep the players involved, though. And to avoid slowing the game down by typing out the descriptions and the PM's, I'll put them in macros. And while I'm at it, perhaps I could make a macro that whispers the results to people who pass the listen/spot checks. Yesss... this could work...

Quick request for feedback, though. How do you guys feel about the amount of descriptive text I give out? "Too much, I want to kill something?" "Too little, I don't feel involved?" "The monsters don't gib descriptively enough"?

[mission0]

I thought our last little fight and such was pretty good... I mean heck I managed to use diplomacy to get out of a potentially dangerous fight. I know that the summoned monsters weren't to powerful but I don't think I want to know the challenge rating on the guy with the pack filled with magical items.

[RAM]

It should be possible to stick macros on tokens that will allow the token to add itself to the token list. I think it is based around an option to prevent the players from editing the macro even if they own the token...

Those summoned monsters hit pretty hard, I mean, 12 damage isn't so much in the grand scheme of things, but it is plenty at low levels. That particular monster has an interesting ability too. Apparently the D.M. reduced or disabled it in some fashion, but, by default, if one of those abyssal maws knocks you into negative hit points, they deal extra damage. It has a sort of vaguely practical function of making it difficult for the party to recover its disabled members, but mostly it is designed to enhance the kill-count...

I like it if things keep happening, so spending 20 seconds on each attack to describe the angle at which it bounced off of the armour or precisely which point and at which angle the character was bisected wouldn't really add much for me. I would say that we need a lot of strategic information, stuff like where the landmarks are and What our supplies are like. Which factions we have met and how quickly we can travel, especially compared to the other inhabitants. Not to mention which regions have which natural resources. It would be nice to have constant access to a map to plan stuff if we find ourselves making decisions while busy on smaller-scale items.
As for tactical information, maps take care of most of the details, knowing how high and sturdy the room is are often overlooked details, but I would hope that, in general, you can get away with relatively little information...

[Araph]

I read that in some DnD games, the players can get there own land. Like, with a fortress on it. Any chance of that? I mean, when we reach the east.

[mission0]

Some items and spells give such an ability without really acquiring the land or fortress.... like

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/magicItems/wondrousItems.htm#instantFortress

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/spells/magesMagnificentMansion.htm

However for specifically what you are asking for it is probably Shoruke's call on that one.

[RedWarrior0]

Alternatively...

[Shoruke]

Yeah, you guys can set yourselves up a base of operations. There's even property for sale in Rivershire (and other major cities outside the Civilized Lands, for instance Sandtree Haven or Eriden in the desert), and everything is cheap compared to magic. Seriously, a decent-size house costs less than +2 full plate.

Also, ninja'd.

[RedWarrior0]

Oh yeah, I won't be able to be at tomorrow's session, and very unlikely for next week.

[mission0]

I will likely be at tomarrow's session, a chance of being late but not much I can do about it.

[Araph]

Tomorrow's session is the same time as last week's, right? If so, I'll be there.