Metahuman1
2012-01-25, 08:19 PM
Ok, so we've got a fairly new player at the table for my real life gaming group. So far, she'd keeping it simple with a "Hulk Smash!" Approach to the game and a character I helped her build and optimize to do that. (She specifically said that was all she wanted to do to start with so she could have time to learn what everything else does via reading and watching.)
Build is Barbarian 4/ Warblade 2. Gonna take Exotic weapons Master for 1 level when we level up again, then I've advised and she seems to like the idea of Unarmed swordsage 1 (For those bar room brawls and epic moments of unarmed badassdom.), Cleric (Travel devotion and turn undead to grant some extra mobility.) and another level of Warblade before PRCing out for the rest of her Career as a Frenzied Breserker. (DM house rule: You don't auto fail a save on a 1, you can still make it if your total check number is higher then the DC, and I've got it worked out so that she'll have a total +22 to her Will saves when she hits that first level of FB. Meaning no accidental TPK's. )
And she's using the Half Minotaur Template, again, my suggestion.
Now, so much for the preliminaries, on to the point of the thread.
So last session during a large scale combat against some Necromancers and there minions, my wizard had to do some summoning, and I brought out a large creature to help handle the mass number of mooks we were having to fight. I had already used enlarge person on her a couple of rounds earlier, bringing her to Hugh size.
Upon Questioning from her, I related it to being, in comparison to a large dog, which she found hilarious and adorable for some reason.
Later in combat, we got the final boss for the session and story arch, a Skeletal Dragon, which the Dm informed me after a successful knowledge check and spot check was Gargantuan size. During combat, the Player threw it across the battle field to get it off me and the rogue as we were taking massive damage. I Illustrated it for her to emphasis who impressive that was by explaining that it would be like her taking a Clydesdale and throwing it form the back tables in the game shop we were playing at all the way to the front door.
This impressed her, greatly. She was also very taken between grappling to set up the throw and pulling it off with getting a mount or other "Big Pet."
I told her I'd look into it for next session.
Toward that end, I come to the playground. What would be some really awesome Pets we could see about picking up for her that range form large to Colossal size.
DM is Luke warm about dragons for this purpose and as an optimizer so am I. So something other then dragons would be a good consideration.
And she has maxed ranks in handle animal if it helps, as well as a helpful party Wizard.
Build is Barbarian 4/ Warblade 2. Gonna take Exotic weapons Master for 1 level when we level up again, then I've advised and she seems to like the idea of Unarmed swordsage 1 (For those bar room brawls and epic moments of unarmed badassdom.), Cleric (Travel devotion and turn undead to grant some extra mobility.) and another level of Warblade before PRCing out for the rest of her Career as a Frenzied Breserker. (DM house rule: You don't auto fail a save on a 1, you can still make it if your total check number is higher then the DC, and I've got it worked out so that she'll have a total +22 to her Will saves when she hits that first level of FB. Meaning no accidental TPK's. )
And she's using the Half Minotaur Template, again, my suggestion.
Now, so much for the preliminaries, on to the point of the thread.
So last session during a large scale combat against some Necromancers and there minions, my wizard had to do some summoning, and I brought out a large creature to help handle the mass number of mooks we were having to fight. I had already used enlarge person on her a couple of rounds earlier, bringing her to Hugh size.
Upon Questioning from her, I related it to being, in comparison to a large dog, which she found hilarious and adorable for some reason.
Later in combat, we got the final boss for the session and story arch, a Skeletal Dragon, which the Dm informed me after a successful knowledge check and spot check was Gargantuan size. During combat, the Player threw it across the battle field to get it off me and the rogue as we were taking massive damage. I Illustrated it for her to emphasis who impressive that was by explaining that it would be like her taking a Clydesdale and throwing it form the back tables in the game shop we were playing at all the way to the front door.
This impressed her, greatly. She was also very taken between grappling to set up the throw and pulling it off with getting a mount or other "Big Pet."
I told her I'd look into it for next session.
Toward that end, I come to the playground. What would be some really awesome Pets we could see about picking up for her that range form large to Colossal size.
DM is Luke warm about dragons for this purpose and as an optimizer so am I. So something other then dragons would be a good consideration.
And she has maxed ranks in handle animal if it helps, as well as a helpful party Wizard.