Illiander
2008-04-13, 04:10 PM
Blink Dog Rogues!
I'm not that up on how all this would work, but here's the idea:
Give them a (custom) feat along the lines of:
Master Blinker:
PreReqs: Able to cast Blink and Dimension Door.
Effect: You have mastered control of your ability to blink, and can compleatly control how, when, and where you reappear, and can make a single attack as soon as you reappear, and can Dimension Door again after this attack.
Maybe split it into a 2-3 feat tree, adding in invunerability to weapons that can't hurt you when you're etherial if you see it coming (sneak attack rules?) for the last one.
Imagine, a pack of these guys are spotted on a hill, suddenly they disappear, and you hear a chorus of "SNEAK ATTACK" (in Blink Dog-ese) from behind you, and when you turn round, your entire army has just been massacred, and the Blink Dogs have dissapeared. Then they start surrounding Xykon, phasing in just long enough to bite off a bone, then phasing out and teleporting away, clearing space (in the same round) for one of their friends to do the same. Repeat for Readcloak :D Always attacking from directly behind him. Int 10, Wis 13 should be able to come up with this sort of plan (or at least understand it once an above-average guy explained it to them). And normally Lawful Good shouldn't have much of a problem defending the Gate, or even just defending the tomb of a worthy hero if they don't know about the gate. I'm thinking Tucker's Kobolds on the plains here, I can't think about a way to defeat them, but mabey I don't understand the rules for etherial creatures well enough.
I'm not that up on how all this would work, but here's the idea:
Give them a (custom) feat along the lines of:
Master Blinker:
PreReqs: Able to cast Blink and Dimension Door.
Effect: You have mastered control of your ability to blink, and can compleatly control how, when, and where you reappear, and can make a single attack as soon as you reappear, and can Dimension Door again after this attack.
Maybe split it into a 2-3 feat tree, adding in invunerability to weapons that can't hurt you when you're etherial if you see it coming (sneak attack rules?) for the last one.
Imagine, a pack of these guys are spotted on a hill, suddenly they disappear, and you hear a chorus of "SNEAK ATTACK" (in Blink Dog-ese) from behind you, and when you turn round, your entire army has just been massacred, and the Blink Dogs have dissapeared. Then they start surrounding Xykon, phasing in just long enough to bite off a bone, then phasing out and teleporting away, clearing space (in the same round) for one of their friends to do the same. Repeat for Readcloak :D Always attacking from directly behind him. Int 10, Wis 13 should be able to come up with this sort of plan (or at least understand it once an above-average guy explained it to them). And normally Lawful Good shouldn't have much of a problem defending the Gate, or even just defending the tomb of a worthy hero if they don't know about the gate. I'm thinking Tucker's Kobolds on the plains here, I can't think about a way to defeat them, but mabey I don't understand the rules for etherial creatures well enough.