Morgan_Scott82
2007-07-02, 07:39 PM
"Grek, not Ogre, Grek half-ogre silly typing man! Grek Smash!"
Whoa, whoa! Ok sorry Grek, half ogre, that better?
"Yes, Grek Happy know."
That's good Grek, I need to ask a question to the fine forum posters now. You go sit at the back my imagination and find a nice halfling to play catch with, ok?
"Yay! Grek throw halfling good!"
Sorry about that folks, Grek's been at the forefront of my imagination since I thought him up on Saturday, he's got a bit of a temper, and whatever you do, don't call him short. Anyway, a friend is thinking about running a D&D 3.5 campaign and Grek was the first thing to spring to mind, and since I'm not one to argue with my own imagination (I'd look pretty silly yelling at myself) I'm going to run with it and play Grek the half-ogre monk.
As I was putting Grek together, I realized that by virtue of being a giant he was proficient with all martial weapons, that was when an idea started to form. Earlier in the process I'd decided on Deflect Arrows for his second level monk feat, since, lets face it an archer out of reach can end a monk's day pretty quickly, but with the door open to martial weapons, I started thinking about all the options out there... and kept coming back to the Guisarme. So here's the part I need verified:
As a large sized Creature Grek the Half-Ogre has a natural reach of 10ft, so give Grek a reach weapon, and how much reach does he have? 15ft? 20ft? I assumed 20ft, since the reach weapon doubled the reach of small and medium creatures I assumed it would do the same for larger creatures. That means that with a Guisarme, Grek threatens all squares less than 20ft but more than 10ft away, a total of 64 squares. But wait, Grek is a monk, monks have some crazy unarmed attacks, and you don't need a hand free to attack with unarmed attacks, so, even while weilding the Guisarme, Grek threatens all squares within 10ft, a further 32 squares, add the four squares that Grek himself occupies and Grek can cover a full 100 squares on the battlegrid, wow.
Of course after typing this I realize it sounds suspiciously familiar. Grek, have you been reading OotS again! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html)
"Uhhh...Ummm... Grek say, maybe?"
Well you can forget about that spike chain mister!
"Aw, give Grek credit. Grek not that cheesy!"
Ok, Greks subliminal manipulations asside, have I made any misteps here, is everything kosher, or have I misinterpreted or overlooked some rule?
Whoa, whoa! Ok sorry Grek, half ogre, that better?
"Yes, Grek Happy know."
That's good Grek, I need to ask a question to the fine forum posters now. You go sit at the back my imagination and find a nice halfling to play catch with, ok?
"Yay! Grek throw halfling good!"
Sorry about that folks, Grek's been at the forefront of my imagination since I thought him up on Saturday, he's got a bit of a temper, and whatever you do, don't call him short. Anyway, a friend is thinking about running a D&D 3.5 campaign and Grek was the first thing to spring to mind, and since I'm not one to argue with my own imagination (I'd look pretty silly yelling at myself) I'm going to run with it and play Grek the half-ogre monk.
As I was putting Grek together, I realized that by virtue of being a giant he was proficient with all martial weapons, that was when an idea started to form. Earlier in the process I'd decided on Deflect Arrows for his second level monk feat, since, lets face it an archer out of reach can end a monk's day pretty quickly, but with the door open to martial weapons, I started thinking about all the options out there... and kept coming back to the Guisarme. So here's the part I need verified:
As a large sized Creature Grek the Half-Ogre has a natural reach of 10ft, so give Grek a reach weapon, and how much reach does he have? 15ft? 20ft? I assumed 20ft, since the reach weapon doubled the reach of small and medium creatures I assumed it would do the same for larger creatures. That means that with a Guisarme, Grek threatens all squares less than 20ft but more than 10ft away, a total of 64 squares. But wait, Grek is a monk, monks have some crazy unarmed attacks, and you don't need a hand free to attack with unarmed attacks, so, even while weilding the Guisarme, Grek threatens all squares within 10ft, a further 32 squares, add the four squares that Grek himself occupies and Grek can cover a full 100 squares on the battlegrid, wow.
Of course after typing this I realize it sounds suspiciously familiar. Grek, have you been reading OotS again! (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0216.html)
"Uhhh...Ummm... Grek say, maybe?"
Well you can forget about that spike chain mister!
"Aw, give Grek credit. Grek not that cheesy!"
Ok, Greks subliminal manipulations asside, have I made any misteps here, is everything kosher, or have I misinterpreted or overlooked some rule?