OOTS #1107 - The Discussion Thread

[Keltest]

She may be underestimating the threat the vampires pose.
She might be totally optimized to defeat undead.
She may be far more powerful than any of us appreciate.
She may have carried this baby into a few dozen battles before this scene comes up.

We don't know. You are making more assumptions than I am.

Look, when I was in the military, there's no way I take my kid to battle. None.
But I didn't have magic, see, and in OoTS verse, magic is a thing. (I'll look up "protection from good/evil' 3.5 version and see what it does different to the editions I am more used to).

I recall that her original mission, for Loki, was to get her hands on the amulet for Loki, or Loki's temple
, which meant that she'd have to betray/backstab Nale to get the amulet to where she was supposed to get it. (Perfect example of a chaotic character; steal the quest treasure from someone else in the party. This archetype goes back to Arneson's original Blackmoor group before D&D was ever published, FWIW).

There is no amount of magic that is going to make going into combat safer than not going into combat. Buffs or not, that kid is at extreme risk just being in the middle of a fight. If someone points a flame strike at her, the kid is toast, period.