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faustin
2019-10-06, 06:55 AM
Yes, I know the author considers D&D rules as mere guidelines to help deliver the story.

That being said, I'm curious about Minrah's current level and how much xp she needs to gain to be a contributing to the Order.

Sure she was pretty good in the Hel arc, but most of their enemies were low level vampires. It wouldn't make sense having her starting to kick ass as much as, let's say, Belkar or even Elan.

Mike Havran
2019-10-06, 07:16 AM
She is a multiclass Cleric/Fighter, and she has 3rd level spells, and did not demonstrate any spells above. So she has 5-6 Cleric levels and at least 1 Fighter level, minus 1 level because she died.

NerdyKris
2019-10-06, 12:16 PM
Level isn't everything. She can still contribute in ways that don't involve dealing large amounts of damage.

There was a whole sequence about that involving a certain elf, a raven, and a phylactery.

faustin
2019-10-06, 01:51 PM
Familiars are often underestimated and easy to dismiss in battle. An adventurer rarely has that luxury.

Ephemera
2019-10-06, 04:46 PM
She pretty much told Roy that he has no idea what level she is (and that might even have been a tiny bit of Rich trolling the forum on this very subject).

It wouldn’t be crazy to conclude that she was saying she has more fighter (or some other fighter-like class) levels than cleric, which combined with her having 5-6 cleric levels, would mean she’s already near (or at) a level where she might be expected to contribute. It’s not totally explicit though, that she has that many fighter levels, but it’s pretty clear that we can’t pin down her level any further than was stated above—just note that that’s a minimum and we can’t really establish a useful maximum given the randomness of damage rolls and hit point totals.

Also, whatever it was, it’s one less now that she’s been resurrected, but we don’t know if she lost a cleric level or fighter level.

We’ll be keeping track over in the geekery thread as more evidence presents itself.

Schroeswald
2019-10-06, 04:51 PM
She pretty much told Roy that he has no idea what level she is (and that might even have been a tiny bit of Rich trolling the forum on this very subject).

It wouldn’t be crazy to conclude that she was saying she has more fighter (or some other fighter-like class) levels than cleric, which combined with her having 5-6 cleric levels, would mean she’s already near (or at) a level where she might be expected to contribute. It’s not totally explicit though, that she has that many fighter levels, but it’s pretty clear that we can’t pin down her level any further than was stated above—just note that that’s a minimum and we can’t really establish a useful maximum given the randomness of damage rolls and hit point totals.

Also, whatever it was, it’s one less now that she’s been resurrected, but we don’t know if she lost a cleric level or fighter level.

We’ll be keeping track over in the geekery thread as more evidence presents itself.

We do know that it was a cleric level because she switched from fighter to cleric so her latest level was the one she lost.

LadyEowyn
2019-10-06, 10:46 PM
When she first joins the Order to fight the vampires she says she was a guard before she was a cleric and that “I’m not the best caster but I have a hammer and I know how to swing it”. In 1180 she insists that she’s “a great fighter!”.

I’d guess based on that that she has more levels of Fighter than Cleric, but that’s only a guess.

The Pilgrim
2019-10-07, 10:27 AM
Minrah describes herself as a "great fighter". Therefore, she has at least 4 fighter levels, as Level 3 is dumb level (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0064.html).

D.One
2019-10-07, 12:14 PM
Minrah describes herself as a "great fighter". Therefore, she has at least 4 fighter levels, as Level 3 is dumb level (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0064.html).

Even though I do think she has more than the minimum 1 Fighter level we currently estimate, I believe Thog isn't on good authority to call anything or anyone "dumb". :smallwink:

More on the discussions about Minrah's level (and stats, and feats, an skills) can be found here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?579856-Class-and-Level-Geekery-XVI-These-Characters-May-Now-Drive-the-Plot).

NerdyKris
2019-10-07, 02:02 PM
Familiars are often underestimated and easy to dismiss in battle. An adventurer rarely has that luxury.

Vaarsuvius was also depowered at that point, and Ochul was without weapons and armor. the point of that scene wasn't "familiars can be sneaky in a big fight", it was "sheer power isn't the only thing that matters". It was a direct refutation of Xykon's rant. Or possibly confirming it, as he was using what would be a minor skill to find Vaarsuvius while Vaarsuvius used a minor spell to enable removing his phylactery from their possession.

To use a more well known example, Frodo, Sam, and Gollum weren't a threat to anyone but undoubtedly are the ones who had the most impact on the mission in Lord of the Rings.

Fyraltari
2019-10-07, 02:55 PM
To use a more well known example, Frodo, Sam, and Gollum weren't a threat to anyone but undoubtedly are the ones who had the most impact on the mission in Lord of the Rings.

Sam stabbed Shelob. Gondorian Knights and elf-lords have died to that thing. Beren freaking Erchamion, the greatest Hero of Men, failed to pierce her hide but Sam sent it crawling back to its lair bleeding quite possibly to death. Gollum routinely kills orcs, has travelled some of the most dangerous places of Middle-Earth completely alone, was tortured by Sauron in person and kept fighting after being slashed in the belly by a sword and thrown down a chasm. Even Frodo stabs wights and stands up to all nine Black Riders while dying of a witch-wound.

hamishspence
2019-10-07, 03:05 PM
Sam stabbed Shelob. Gondorian Knights and elf-lords have died to that thing. Beren freaking Erchamion, the greatest Hero of Men, failed to pierce her hide but Sam sent it crawling back to its lair bleeding quite possibly to death.

It doesn't actually state that Beren had fought Shelob before - only that if he had, he wouldn't have been able to pierce her hide with strength alone:



But Shelob was not as dragons are, no softer spot had she save only her eyes. Knobbed and pitted with corruption was her age-old hide, but ever thickened from within with layer on layer of evil growth. The blade scored it with a dreadful gash, but those hideous folds could not be pierced by any strength of men, not though Elf or Dwarf should forge the steel or the hand of Beren or of Túrin wield it. She yielded to the stroke, and then heaved up the great bag of her belly high above Sam's head. Poison frothed and bubbled from the wound. Now splaying her legs she drove her huge bulk down on him again. Too soon. For Sam still stood upon his feet, and dropping his own sword, with both hands he held the elven-blade point upwards, fending off that ghastly roof; and so Shelob, with the driving force of her own cruel will, with strength greater than any warrior's hand, thrust herself upon a bitter spike. Deep, deep it pricked, as Sam was crushed slowly to the ground.

No such anguish had Shelob ever known, or dreamed of knowing, in all her long world of wickedness. Not the doughtiest soldier of old Gondor, nor the most savage Orc entrapped, had ever thus endured her, or set blade to her beloved flesh.

Fyraltari
2019-10-07, 03:15 PM
Ah, I thought it did, which would make sense since Beren crossed the valley where she was born on his way to Doriath.

Still, Sam pierced one of her eyes. No one dealt her such a wound before.

Aragorn also commended his fighting skills back in Moria when he killed his first orc, saying that many warriors don’t fare as well as he did.

Quartz
2019-10-07, 04:28 PM
That being said, I'm curious about Minrah's current level and how much xp she needs to gain to be a contributing to the Order.

Before her being Raised she had at least 5 cleric levels and at least 1 fighter level. This is discussed deeply in the Class & Level Geekery threads.

Schroeswald
2019-10-07, 04:38 PM
Before her being Raised she had at least 5 cleric levels and at least 1 fighter level. This is discussed deeply in the Class & Level Geekery threads.

And for some likely stuff that is completely objective, she currently likely has 4-5 levels in cleric due to the raise dead, and likely has a few more than 1 level in fighter (I'd guess 2-3, maybe 4 levels).

Peelee
2019-10-07, 04:46 PM
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It's scary how quickly you can throw down relevant passages of just so many books, ya know. :smalltongue:

hamishspence
2019-10-07, 04:51 PM
I remember a snippet of it, and Google that snippet in the hope of finding a larger section which I can copy-paste.

Usually it works.

Reboot
2019-10-07, 07:20 PM
And for some likely stuff that is completely objective, she currently likely has 4-5 levels in cleric due to the raise dead, and likely has a few more than 1 level in fighter (I'd guess 2-3, maybe 4 levels).

I'm betting she has at least 5-6 levels of Fighter, because she seems to say (in two separate strips) that she's a better Fighter than Cleric.

[I don't think she's of a level with the Order, but 10-11 seems a lot more likely than "5-6, mostly Cleric...]

KatsOfLoathing
2019-10-07, 07:35 PM
She was also able to defeat the unnamed dwarf vampire seemingly on her lonesome. Said vampire is at least 9th level (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1167.html), and a fair bit more dangerous than her class level would suggest thanks to being a vampire. Assuming Minrah did indeed win a one-on-one fight, that'd put her level at least in the high single digits, if not low teens. Still a fair bit behind the Order, but not by a huge gap.

Schroeswald
2019-10-07, 07:58 PM
I'm betting she has at least 5-6 levels of Fighter, because she seems to say (in two separate strips) that she's a better Fighter than Cleric.

[I don't think she's of a level with the Order, but 10-11 seems a lot more likely than "5-6, mostly Cleric...]
I shall point out that pre-death she was leveled 5-6 in cleric alone, I'd guess that currently she's about the same level as the OOTS was in strip one (so about 8, give or take one level), lower than the main Paladins, higher than Daigo and Kazumi, I'd guess that Bandana is the same level.

She was also able to defeat the unnamed dwarf vampire seemingly on her lonesome. Said vampire is at least 9th level (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1167.html), and a fair bit more dangerous than her class level would suggest thanks to being a vampire. Assuming Minrah did indeed win a one-on-one fight, that'd put her level at least in the high single digits, if not low teens. Still a fair bit behind the Order, but not by a huge gap.
Why would she defeat the vampire alone? There were like fifteen allies in the room with her and only 9 enemies (including the vampire), one of which was already knocked out when she started fighting, and then Logann seemed to get rid of 3 more all on his own, I imagine most of the guards were out quickly leaving quite a few left to help her fight Sandy.

Quartz
2019-10-08, 12:24 PM
And for some likely stuff that is completely objective, she currently likely has 4-5 levels in cleric due to the raise dead, and likely has a few more than 1 level in fighter (I'd guess 2-3, maybe 4 levels).

The thing is, we don't know if the level she lost was a cleric level or a fighter level.

Reboot
2019-10-08, 12:28 PM
The thing is, we don't know if the level she lost was a cleric level or a fighter level.

Yes we do. She essentially said she took the "guard" levels before she was a cleric, and the level lost is always the most recent. So she's down a cleric level, and if she lost more levels, it would keep being from the cleric pile until she ran out.

It's a similar situation to O'Chul - all his non-Paladin levels predate the Paladin ones.

Quartz
2019-10-08, 01:40 PM
Yes we do. She essentially said she took the "guard" levels before she was a cleric, and the level lost is always the most recent.

Really? Got a cite for that? Maybe I'm misremembering from 1E/2E days but I thought you lost a level in the higher-levelled class and if levels in the two classes were equal you could choose.

Jasdoif
2019-10-08, 01:52 PM
Yes we do. She essentially said she took the "guard" levels before she was a cleric, and the level lost is always the most recent.Really? Got a cite for that?Nothing authoritative.



When a character dies and comes back to life a level lower, are there any guidelines as to which level he must lose? Does it have to be the last level he gained? When he gains a level again later, can he choose a different class than he did originally? What about a 1st-level character (who instead loses a point of Constitution)? Can he begin with a new class completely?

The rules are silent on this issue, but it seems most logical if the character loses the class level he gained most recently. The same is true of any feats, skill ranks, or ability score adjustments gained due to the now-lost level. The character is under no obligation to make the same selection(s) when he next gains a level with XP.

A character who regains a lost level from restoration or a similar effect must regain the same class level (and other abilities) that he lost. In other words, you can’t use level drain and restoration to rebuild your character.

A 1st-level character doesn’t lose a class level, so he can’t change his existing class level.

Ephemera
2019-10-08, 05:15 PM
Technically I’m not even 100% sure we can safely conclude that she never took another fighter level since she multiclassed to cleric...

D.One
2019-10-09, 08:12 AM
To sum up what we have on Minrah's level:


She cast Searing Light, so she was Cleric 5+ before death.

She was a guard before being a cleric, so she had 1+ level(s) in some martial class before death.

She said she was a great fighter. That leads to the conclusion that her martial "guard" class was Fighter, hence Fighter 1+.

She died and was raised, thus losing a level. That level might be a Cleric one, or a Fighter one, so Cleric 4+ (since we didn't see her casting any 3rd level spell yet after being raised) and Fighter 1+ (because, even if she lost a Fighter level, she shouldn't lose her first one).



And that's how we have Fighter 1+/Cleric 4+.

That's the bare minimum we've been able to gather evidence for. The "great fighter" speech seems to imply she has more levels of fighter, and I fully agree with it, but we have no idea how many more, so 1+ still holds true.

She seemed unharmed (besides the blindness) right before being one-hit-killed by the Empowered Flame Strike, which means her Hp went from full to (at least) -10 with that attack. Hylgia's Empowered Flame Strike dealt something beetween 11 and 135, which means her full Hp should be equal or less than 125. From the previous strikes she took from Belkar, we know she has at least 53 Hp in full Hp, possibly more (more on the calculations here (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=24152392&postcount=979)), which means her ull Hp is beetween 53 and 125, a fairly wide range, that can be achieved by various ways. Sorry. No additional clues here. :smallfrown:

Quartz
2019-10-09, 03:33 PM
She seemed unharmed (besides the blindness) right before being one-hit-killed by the Empowered Flame Strike, which means her Hp went from full to (at least) -10 with that attack. Hylgia's Empowered Flame Strike dealt something beetween 11 and 135, which means her full Hp should be equal or less than 125.


There's an exception to that. She could have failed a Massive Damage save (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/injuryandDeath.htm#massiveDamage). Any time you take 50+ HP in damage in one go you must make a DC 15 Fort save, and anyone can roll a 1.

D.One
2019-10-09, 03:42 PM
There's an exception to that. She could have failed a Massive Damage save (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/injuryandDeath.htm#massiveDamage). Any time you take 50+ HP in damage in one go you must make a DC 15 Fort save, and anyone can roll a 1.

That's right, but, as with the wide Hp range, this just tells us that Hp won't be of much help to pin down her level.

EyethatBinds
2019-10-10, 04:41 AM
There's an exception to that. She could have failed a Massive Damage save (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/injuryandDeath.htm#massiveDamage). Any time you take 50+ HP in damage in one go you must make a DC 15 Fort save, and anyone can roll a 1.

Massive damage is an optional rule.

D.One
2019-10-10, 07:45 AM
Massive damage is an optional rule.

Even so, for this analysis, it adds uncertainty to an already uncertain scenario.

Quartz
2019-10-10, 09:36 AM
Massive damage is an optional rule.

Not in the SRD it isn't. There are, however, variants of the Massivve Damage rule which are optional.

D.One
2019-10-10, 05:08 PM
Other evidences:

Until now, she seems to have the feats Knock-Down and its pre-requisites Improved Trip and Combat Expertise. For three feats, and with at least FTR 1+ and CLR 4+, her minimum total level is... 5+.

No big conclusion yet...

On a side note, for what we've seem until now, she has a good or very good STR, a good INT and a good WIS. I expect her to have an at least moderate to good CON (being a dwarf and all), and I think she may have a moderate to good CHA, even being a dwarf, which would put her on Roy's small club of characters with mostly good stats.

CriticalFailure
2019-10-10, 05:21 PM
What leads you to believe she has good int or cha?

Schroeswald
2019-10-10, 07:18 PM
What leads you to believe she has good int or cha?

For intelligence I think it’s a prerequisite for one of those possible feats for her to have (though Minrah doesn’t exactly strike me as high intelligence), and she needs at least six charisma to ghostify (and I’d take a guess that she has pretty decent charisma).

KorvinStarmast
2019-10-11, 07:37 AM
For intelligence I think it’s a prerequisite for one of those possible feats for her to have (though Minrah doesn’t exactly strike me as high intelligence), and she needs at least six charisma to ghostify (and I’d take a guess that she has pretty decent charisma). She could have a 10 INT and a 10 Cha, could she not, or does she need a 12+ Int for the feat?

Minrah: 5 Cleric 5-5 Fighter ... while a touch low for the order, she can make a contribution.

D.One
2019-10-11, 08:52 AM
She could have a 10 INT and a 10 Cha, could she not, or does she need a 12+ Int for the feat?

Minrah: 5 Cleric 5-5 Fighter ... while a touch low for the order, she can make a contribution.

Combat Expertise requires INT 13+.

Charisma is just a baseless impression, nothing more, but hers must be at least 6 due to the haunting (aka becoming a ghost) thing.

HorizonWalker
2019-10-11, 09:28 AM
Combat Expertise requires INT 13+.

Charisma is just a baseless impression, nothing more, but hers must be at least 6 due to the haunting (aka becoming a ghost) thing.

Wait, how did Minrah's ghost get involved in this? I don't remember seeing a ghost from her.

Schroeswald
2019-10-11, 09:29 AM
Wait, how did Minrah's ghost get involved in this? I don't remember seeing a ghost from her.

When she decided to come back to life she told Durkon if she wasn’t raised she would haunt him.

Aeson
2019-10-11, 12:01 PM
When she decided to come back to life she told Durkon if she wasn’t raised she would haunt him.
Making a threat is not in and of itself evidence that you can carry through on it.

Mind you, the only objection I have to calling Minrah's Charisma 6+ is that Minrah doesn't seem to me like a character who has abnormally-low Charisma and so 6 seems low for a minimum.

Schroeswald
2019-10-11, 12:17 PM
Making a threat is not in and of itself evidence that you can carry through on it.

Mind you, the only objection I have to calling Minrah's Charisma 6+ is that Minrah doesn't seem to me like a character who has abnormally-low Charisma and so 6 seems low for a minimum.
It’s enough for the C&LG thread (which is why it’s 6+, cause we assume they tell the truth unless otherwise shown not to), and I don’t think anyone thinks her charisma is six but that’s the minimum we have any evidence for.

D.One
2019-10-11, 12:35 PM
Making a threat is not in and of itself evidence that you can carry through on it.

Mind you, the only objection I have to calling Minrah's Charisma 6+ is that Minrah doesn't seem to me like a character who has abnormally-low Charisma and so 6 seems low for a minimum.

I also think she has more than 6 in CHA, but 6 is the minimum we can verify, since we consider that, when she says she'll haunt Durkon, she expects to be able to do that, and thus, knows she has the required stats.

Dr.Zero
2019-10-12, 12:42 PM
I've got the overall impression that she is very low level, since her first appearance, where she and her friends tried to bluff about the spells they could use and the comments of the Order, where everyone (starting from Belkar to Haley) stated that she was low level; to her first fight, where her only hit didn't surpass the spawn damage reduction (btw, she was dominated as well, in that fight, which makes her comment about "cleric who fails will save" -or whatever it was- kinda hypocrite); to the main fight, where she didn't manage to keep her concentration to heal V and apparently couldn't harm Belkar not even in the slightest (not for lack of trying, because I remember she swinging her hammer at him), a Belkar who, apparently, wasn't even retaliating the attacks, but only stopping her from getting near to V.

Whatever her level is, it appears that she cannot make a difference, power-wise. Of course, she can make a difference in a lot of other ways, since even Blackwing almost managed to fool Xykon.

hamishspence
2019-10-12, 01:18 PM
(btw, she was dominated as well, in that fight, which makes her comment about "cleric who fails will save" -or whatever it was- kinda hypocrite).

"Miss Cleric Who Can't Resist Domination Magic"

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1162.html

Clerics have Good Will saves. Fighters have Poor Will Saves:

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/cleric.htm
http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/fighter.htm

The point being that Hilgya has a Good Will save, and still failed her save against Domination.

And Minrah emphasises that she's a great fighter, not a great cleric:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1180.html

So taking a shot at Hilgya, isn't necessarily hypocritical - Hilgya was more likely to pass the save than Minrah was.

Plus - when I check, Minrah was never dominated - she passed her save, like Roy and V:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1122.html

then got blinded:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1127.html

then got killed:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1128.html

Dr.Zero
2019-10-12, 02:02 PM
The point being that Hilgya has a Good Will save, and still failed her save against Domination.


Ah, I see. More "Miss high level cleric", then, but it makes more sense in that way.



Plus - when I check, Minrah was never dominated - she passed her save, like Roy and V:


She was in her first fight, I clearly remember that. OTOH my memory sometimes is lacking. I'm going to try to find it.

Edit: found! http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1103.html, it was easier than I thought, luckily. Even, to be fair, now I'm not 100% sure that she was already dominated (and snapped out by Roy) or that was an "intermediate phase" to visually show the domination attempt to the readers.

hamishspence
2019-10-12, 02:05 PM
She was almost dominated:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1103.html

but Roy's interruption followed by "Close your eyes" stopped it from taking hold.

Dr.Zero
2019-10-12, 02:06 PM
She was almost dominated:

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1103.html

but Roy's interruption followed by "Close your eyes" stopped it from taking hold.

Ah, Ninja'ed. by a couple of seconds!

AdAstra
2019-10-12, 07:49 PM
I think her statements on being a solid fighter and an amateur cleric would point to at least one of two possibilities.

-She has/had more fighter levels than cleric levels

-Her wisdom is substantially lower than her strength

Both of those things could be true, but if neither were true her statement is definitely not accurate, so it’s probably safe to assume at least one is

Schroeswald
2019-10-12, 08:55 PM
I’d say we can also see her statement as meaning her fighter and cleric levels are similar, but while being a fighter is completely useless for spell casting being a cleric advances BAB (albeit at a slower rate) and you can still be a decent weapon fighter as a single class cleric (see Durkon), so a multi class 4/4 fighter/cleric would be a better fighter than they are a cleric.

AdAstra
2019-10-12, 11:03 PM
True, I guess it’s partially down to whether she means fighter the role or Fighter the class. That and the fact that her clerical training is treated as very much on the side and something fairly new. If the leveling scale in-universe starts out fast and generally slows down as you get more experienced, then it makes very little sense for her more recent cleric levels to be equal or greater than her fighter levels, especially since she was just resurrected and most likely lost a cleric level.

Dr.Zero
2019-10-13, 08:54 AM
Anyway, domination notwithstanding, my previous points remain: she can be good to swing a hammer, but the only times we did see her doing so was 1) vs a spawn, and didn't manage to surpass the damage reduction (first fight); 2) against some after spawns, and indeed she did manage to surpass damage reduction; 3) against Belkar, and she didn't manage to accomplish anything.
The last point is paricularly interesting because we see her swinging her hammer to Belkar, in his face, with him being completely unfazed (a complete miss? I don't think Belkar has any sort of magical damage reduction item), while we never see him counterattacking, but only hitting her while she tries to reach for V.
While when Roy goes on B, he hits him hard.
Granted she could have rolled a couple of natural 1s on hitting, but, very bad luck aside, she doesn't look impressive at all.

Crusher
2019-10-13, 04:17 PM
How many attacks/round have we seen her make? 2 or just 1? I can’t recall. That should tell us her BaB range.

Schroeswald
2019-10-13, 04:19 PM
How many attacks/round have we seen her make? 2 or just 1? I can’t recall. That should tell us her BaB range.

Possibly two, but people can not take actions and it might have been 1.

Ephemera
2019-10-14, 08:46 AM
At this point we’re pretty much just rehashing conclusions from the geekery thread. That thread has particular assumptions we make and you could make different ones in an effort to conclude what’s most likely (as opposed to provable by the somewhat arbitrary rules we follow in geekery), but all of the evidence was pretty thoroughly hashed over, so probably best to just continue there if anyone has anything real to add.

KorvinStarmast
2019-10-15, 07:34 AM
Plus - when I check, Minrah was never dominated - she passed her save, like Roy and V:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1122.html
then got blinded:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1127.html
then got killed:
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1128.html All in all, a successful day as a side kick. :smallyuk: (We recently had a sidekick. Now we have a little marker on the wall of an old tower where the side kick was splattered all over the stone thanks to two crits on a multi attack by a monster ...)

Edit: found! http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1103.html, it was easier than I thought, luckily. Even, to be fair, now I'm not 100% sure that she was already dominated (and snapped out by Roy) or that was an "intermediate phase" to visually show the domination attempt to the readers. Same thing as Roy "almost being dominated" while fighting Durkula (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1001.html).

At this point we’re pretty much just rehashing conclusions from the geekery thread. That thread has particular assumptions we make and you could make different ones in an effort to conclude what’s most likely (as opposed to provable by the somewhat arbitrary rules we follow in geekery), but all of the evidence was pretty thoroughly hashed over, so probably best to just continue there if anyone has anything real to add. Yeah, that thread has the indepth look (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?579856-Class-and-Level-Geekery-XVI-These-Characters-May-Now-Drive-the-Plot/page37).

Dion
2019-10-15, 11:08 AM
Has anyone said “she’s exactly the level that she needs to be to contribute to the story” yet? Because I’m happy to say that.

But my question is “how old is Minrah?”

So far, she seems to be the dwarven equivalent of an adolescent or a very young adult. Other than hints from her juvenile behavior, do we have any information about her age?

HorizonWalker
2019-10-15, 11:19 AM
Has anyone said “she’s exactly the level that she needs to be to contribute to the story” yet? Because I’m happy to say that.

But my question is “how old is Minrah?”

So far, she seems to be the dwarven equivalent of an adolescent or a very young adult. Other than hints from her juvenile behavior, do we have any information about her age?

She's Durkon and Hilgya's second child who traveled back in time to help save the world.

The reason her clan name is Shaleshoe instead of Thundershield or Firehelm is because she was adopted.

Peelee
2019-10-15, 12:42 PM
Has anyone said “she’s exactly the level that she needs to be to contribute to the story” yet? Because I’m happy to say that.

But my question is “how old is Minrah?”

So far, she seems to be the dwarven equivalent of an adolescent or a very young adult. Other than hints from her juvenile behavior, do we have any information about her age?

She’s exactly the age that she needs to be to contribute to the story.:smalltongue:

Dr.Zero
2019-10-16, 10:25 AM
She’s exactly the age that she needs to be to contribute to the story.:smalltongue:

And if sometimes it appears differently, a wizard did it!

Schroeswald
2019-10-16, 10:33 AM
And if sometimes it appears differently, a wizard did it!

That’s ridiculous! A cleric must have done it, V would never do that unless it was really funny.

D.One
2019-10-16, 12:53 PM
Has anyone said “she’s exactly the level that she needs to be to contribute to the story” yet? Because I’m happy to say that.

But my question is “how old is Minrah?”

So far, she seems to be the dwarven equivalent of an adolescent or a very young adult. Other than hints from her juvenile behavior, do we have any information about her age?

I have a better question. Why is Minrah?

Dion
2019-10-16, 02:34 PM
And if sometimes it appears differently, a wizard did it!

Or a witch!

D.One
2019-10-16, 02:43 PM
Or a witch!

Which one? The Sand Witch?

Psyren
2019-10-16, 03:46 PM
If class levels were the only measure of contribution to a party, Blackwing and Mr. Scruffy would be useless. Clearly they're not.

With that said, threats that come after the Order tend to powerlevel weaker allies (http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0508.html), so if she survives she should get some pretty solid benefits from hanging with them.