mabriss lethe
2009-09-08, 12:44 AM
I'm playing in a game right now with several people who are all relatively new to D&D. We've got a pair of fighters, a ranger, a druid, and me filling in all the gaps as best I can with a fey heritage warlock/chameleon. I usually keep his aptitude fixed on divine, usually cleric, for the combination of retaining armored casting and the boost to two saves. His chameleon feat is usually locked on Fey Legacy for that extra point of DR from Fey Skin(Unless, of course, I know something else will be more useful for an encounter). Today that happy little accident saved the party.
We were getting mauled by some rather nasy hobgoblins with PC class level. Nothing went right. The druid's player refused to drop mass vigor because he thought he'd get more out of it after combat than as a roving pick-me-up in the beginning. My chameleon buff spells were stretched pretty thin(only being able to cast 2nd level spells as a 10th level character). I got in a couple of nasty shots on the enemy wizard (dropping him to negative hitpoints *twice*) using a combination of items and empower SLA to turn the warlock into a howitzer with a few good shots per day. Then I got deafened and dropped down to 6hp in the course of a round. the wizard had blur up so that meant I had to roll against two percentile chances to fire off an EB or a single chance to screw up any other invocation/spell.
Needless to say, I figured it was goodbye warlock, hello new character time. But I did what any caster would do in trouble, run for the bushes and try to avoid damage. As I fled, I remembered that lonely little Chameleon feat. Fey Legacy. Three SLAs once per day. Spell Like Abilities. Normal spell like abilities, not invocations. Things that don't require anything other than the will to use them, no somatic or material components, and more importantly no verbal ones for me to screw up. One of them is Summon Nature's Ally 5. Well, we needed the cavalry, so I called it. In the form of a friggin' Rhino! The Druid did a facepalm and decided to follow my lead, moreso that he wouldn't be outdruid-ed than any other reason, I suspect. So the Rhino Cavalry, now dubbed smoochie and moochie, comes and smears the rearguard of the hobgoblins (including that twice maimed wizard) into a thin red paste. The next round, I'm still quite deaf, so I drop another of the Fey Legacy SLAs, Confusion. It only snagged one of them, a mid-level fighter (the other two were a level appropriate cleric and a paladin of tyranny, they shrugged off the save fairly easily.) He immediately turned around and decided that those rhinos had to die. It was short and brutal and the layer of red paste on the terrain got a little thicker when it was all said and done. Not the best result, but better than I had any right to expect.
That's when the two survivors, now on the wrong end of a very unhappy group of PCs ( and a pair of rhinos) decided it was time to retreat.
The day was saved thanks to a single feat that I picked as a lark. What's your story?
We were getting mauled by some rather nasy hobgoblins with PC class level. Nothing went right. The druid's player refused to drop mass vigor because he thought he'd get more out of it after combat than as a roving pick-me-up in the beginning. My chameleon buff spells were stretched pretty thin(only being able to cast 2nd level spells as a 10th level character). I got in a couple of nasty shots on the enemy wizard (dropping him to negative hitpoints *twice*) using a combination of items and empower SLA to turn the warlock into a howitzer with a few good shots per day. Then I got deafened and dropped down to 6hp in the course of a round. the wizard had blur up so that meant I had to roll against two percentile chances to fire off an EB or a single chance to screw up any other invocation/spell.
Needless to say, I figured it was goodbye warlock, hello new character time. But I did what any caster would do in trouble, run for the bushes and try to avoid damage. As I fled, I remembered that lonely little Chameleon feat. Fey Legacy. Three SLAs once per day. Spell Like Abilities. Normal spell like abilities, not invocations. Things that don't require anything other than the will to use them, no somatic or material components, and more importantly no verbal ones for me to screw up. One of them is Summon Nature's Ally 5. Well, we needed the cavalry, so I called it. In the form of a friggin' Rhino! The Druid did a facepalm and decided to follow my lead, moreso that he wouldn't be outdruid-ed than any other reason, I suspect. So the Rhino Cavalry, now dubbed smoochie and moochie, comes and smears the rearguard of the hobgoblins (including that twice maimed wizard) into a thin red paste. The next round, I'm still quite deaf, so I drop another of the Fey Legacy SLAs, Confusion. It only snagged one of them, a mid-level fighter (the other two were a level appropriate cleric and a paladin of tyranny, they shrugged off the save fairly easily.) He immediately turned around and decided that those rhinos had to die. It was short and brutal and the layer of red paste on the terrain got a little thicker when it was all said and done. Not the best result, but better than I had any right to expect.
That's when the two survivors, now on the wrong end of a very unhappy group of PCs ( and a pair of rhinos) decided it was time to retreat.
The day was saved thanks to a single feat that I picked as a lark. What's your story?