[4e] RB OOC Thread 2 (all welcome to post)

[LaZodiac]

Hello their, here is the second OOC thread for our campaign! Hope you enjoy, and here are the characters!

(and also the first thread): http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=198088

Mooncat, playing as Bast Halfcresent, a female Razorclaw Shifter Scout. Icon

Blueghost, playing as Juniper Xander, a male Half-Elf Bardic Paladin. Icon

Absolmorph, playing as Teodor, a male Genasi Warlord. Icon

Ranger Mattos, playing as Carric Theolon, a male Elf Fighter. Icon

Teddy, playing as Elden, a male Elf Invoker. Icon

Pink Hair August, playing as Adalhard Nikolayevich Abezgauz, a male Eladrin Swordmage. Icon

Character Sheets: Bast

Teodor

Carric

Juniper

Elden

Adalhard, Page 2

The current state of affairs is with our party beating up a (fake) drow fortune teller. Hooray!
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House Rule List: Using Surrealistik's house rules in regards to the free feats, and ritual rules, though with a few changes. You can use a surge to replace the component cost on any ritual, not limited to half your level as in the before mentioned base rules, and if you're out of surges you can lose hp equal to your surge value in it's place.

You can also used surges to increase the knowledge check needed by 5, but there is a three surge limit. There are also some "by the case" things that you'd need to ask me about (for instance, Phantom Steed gets easier if you summon less horses). This is essentially blood magic.

Another thing, difficult does not increase as you level up. Beating down a locked wooden door will always be the same check. If a door is wooden and locked at level 1 and it has, say, 20 DC to break it down, the identical door will still have 20 DC to break down at level 30.

Concerning multiclassing, it's instead more like hybridizing. When you pick up a multiclass feat, which must be obtained through plot methods (no just suddenly gaining berserker powers) you can pick from any abilities of the correct level from your multiclassed class. However, you must have your primary class's abilities as the majority. Additionally, since different multiclass feats do different things (some give you atwills as encounters, some just give stat training) what your feat actually DOES is a case by case basis. As you get stronger you'll also gain more benefits from the multiclass, again as a case by case basis (using an example, at Paragon tier Juniper will be able to minor action sanction a guy at will instead of encounter).

[Teddy]

Just to make sure, those two attacks with the monstrous attack bonuses and damage rolls was his basic attack, right? And you did account for the -3 penalty, right? I just want to make sure, because those were some terribly powerful strikes, and I need to be able to assess our enemy. Right now, he's right up there with Valindrell, and that seems a bit too over-powered for something that isn't supposed to kill us nigh instantly.

[LaZodiac]

What he did is a basic attack, yes, and I did factor in the -2 from Adalhard's mark. I'm not sure why it'd be a -3.

The good news is that he can't do what he did ALL the time. Minor spoilers, but since he's a Psionic powered character, he's got Power Points, so this is just an upgraded version of his basic melee. It keeps the basic melee indicator

[Teddy]

That... that seems more like an oversight (allowing the spending of power points) in Symbol of the Broken Sword than anything else, given that power points are the psionics' substitution for encounter powers, which don't tend to be basic attacks. Oh well, do with it as you wish, I don't really feel any need to complain about it.

Also, the -3 came from SotBS as well. Seeing as you didn't account for it, I'll undo the damage from Zenith's second attack against Elden, as it wouldn't hit.

[LaZodiac]

Lucky. I had completely forgotten it did that. Teodor still heals you.

[MoonCat]

Should you switch the icons for those of us who switched to the art of August's?

Also, August, could you repost those? I think it may be useful to have them on the new thread just so we can find them easily.

[AsteriskAmp]

Also, August, could you repost those? I think it may be useful to have them on the new thread just so we can find them easily.

I never posted the icons, just the big versions and the avatar sized ones.

Here they are at non-functional size.

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I'm also going away for 15 days from tomorrow, I probably won't get to Backlash anyone but the party does get stuck with another mute.
Leaving everything in more capable hands then mine though.

[LaZodiac]

Somehow this does not mean me

[Teddy]

Have a nice holiday, Avgust! I'll handle my responsibilities at the best of my ability.

[MoonCat]

Waitaminute. The voice of Elden is now controlling Adalhard too?

There will be fireworks.

Teddy, please develop schizophrenia. For your own sake.

And my entertainment.

[Teddy]

Yeah, I was thinking about that too. Sadly, Avgust muted Adalhard the last thing he did (those marks on Adalhard's face does it for some IC reason that he never explained), so no lenghty arguments with myself. It's probably for the best anyway.

Speaking of nothing, where did LaLa go?

[LaZodiac]

Lala went into "I forgot to check the thread" mode

[MoonCat]

I feel your pain LaLa. And then laugh t it anyway.

[LaZodiac]

Hahaha, glad you enjoy it

[Blue Ghost]

Well! Levelup time!

For his level 6 feat, Juniper relearns Improved Initiative, though it will only last until he finishes training with the mini-succubus.

For his utility power, Revitalizing Incantation! 1/round minor action, target spends a healing surge, and also gains temporary HP equal to their healing surge value. More healing yay!

And Juniper retrains Versatile Expertise to Battle Song Expertise. This will come in handy eventually.

[MoonCat]

Rightio, Bastio has levelo...ed?

Power, an immediate interrupt power that lets any ally of mine within ten squares who has missed an AC-based attack try again with it being based against reflexes.

Feat, one that turns my combat advantage into +3. It is getting harder for people to avoid me now. ^.^

[LaZodiac]

Also, since I have to be in control of Teodor, I've done his powers as well!

For now he gets the daily power Invigorating Shout, daily range of 5, heals someone for their healing surge value and recovers one of their healing surges back. Quite usefull.

Then we get Lend Strength, giving an additional +2 bonus to damage when he's adjacent to a target he's asking someone (mainly Bast) to hit.

Also, Carric will be back Monday, so yay leveling up for him when he gets back

Additionaly, since Pinkhair has a super huge complex path going for his level up, I've not idea what I'm going to do with him if we get into a combat before he's back. I doubt we will though. Unless you guys intentionally piss off someone

[MoonCat]

Too tired to do roleplay, so I'll check out look tomorrow, but in all likelihood, there'll be a fight if Bast continues in her foul mood.

<coughsuccubuscough>

[Teddy]

Leyden (the succubus) should be gone by now, so that shouldn't be a problem.


Anyway...
For 6th level feat, Elden has gained Power of the Sun, which grants him a +2 feat bonus to Insight and gives any enemies hit by his Sun Strike vulnerability 3 radiant. (I would have been interested in Power of Hope as well, hadn't practically every single domain feat been tied to Avenging Light. That said, I certainly can find good use for this one. )

For his 6th level power, Elden has learned Astral Step, which is a daily power that takes a move action and allows him to teleport himself and all allies within 5 squares of him 3+Int (6, right now) squares, turning the battlefield even further into a game of divine chess to Elden.

Also, his max HP rises to a stunning 44.


I have no idea of what to do with Adalhard either. Avgust never gave me any instructions on the matter, and since I don't have the right book, I can't even tell what his new max HP becomes (probably 63). The skills won't be any problems, however.

[AsteriskAmp]

Additionaly, since Pinkhair has a super huge complex path going for his level up, I've not idea what I'm going to do with him if we get into a combat before he's back. I doubt we will though. Unless you guys intentionally piss off someone

Just let Adalhard stay a level 5 character, I think I've built him well enough so that a level gap isn't too much of a hinderance on his combat capabities.

I'll level him up as soon as I reach my home and wake up from passing out due to a number of things.

Now I go back to doing tourist and general touristic stuff. See ya!

[Ranger Mattos]

For Carric's new utility power, I picked up Battle Awareness, a daily power which gives +10 on initiative. I think it shall be quite useful.

For my new feat, I selected Superior Reflexes, which gives me +2 to Reflex defense. I also get combat advantage against everyone during my first turn. Handy.

[Teddy]

For my new feat, I selected Superior Reflexes, which gives me +2 to Reflex defense. I also get combat advantage against everyone during my first turn. Handy.

It is indeed. Welcome to the club.

[AsteriskAmp]

Waitaminute. The voice of Elden is now controlling Adalhard too?

There will be fireworks.

Teddy, please develop schizophrenia. For your own sake.

And my entertainment.

Yah. I've relinquished Adalhard until the 16 when I come back from the States.

And I think it wouldn't be schizophrenia so much as disociative identity disorder seeing as the voices on his head ARE there.

Have a nice holiday, Avgust! I'll handle my responsibilities at the best of my ability.

Thanks, and i trust you'll do, hence me leaving them to you.

Additionaly, since Pinkhair has a super huge complex path going for his level up, I've not idea what I'm going to do with him if we get into a combat before he's back. I doubt we will though. Unless you guys intentionally piss off someone

You overstate my little frost shenanigans. I'll be taking either Winter's Touch [From LaZ Refluffing Repository of Ripostes] (+2 to cold damage) or Winterkin Heritage (Adalhard can teleport and get partial concealment if hit, and has a permanent 5+half level (?) cold resistance), in both cases it is not so much a "if" but a "when" for each one. For the power I get I'll be using my theme's power selection and get myself "Shield" (the wizard's level 2 encounter/daily (?) power) {by paragon I plan to retrain it to the swordmage stance that prevents enemy teleportation, because by then it is actually worth, meanwhile, cranking my AC is so much better}. And I think I wanted to retrain something but I need to get to my PC to remember what.

Sorry for imprecisions, doing everything from the top of my head from a hotel computer while in Boston.

[LaZodiac]

Winterkin Heritage is 5+half level, yes. And Shield is an encounter

[MoonCat]

August, you'e in the States!?! Holy crap!

Any chance you can make it to the West Coast from Boston in ten days?

You could totally couch crash over here...

[AsteriskAmp]

August, you'e in the States!?! Holy crap!

Any chance you can make it to the West Coast from Boston in ten days?

You could totally couch crash over here...

Well, after Albany I go to Washington... the other one though.

So if I managed to free myself from my family while they go to Virginia I could catch trains until I was at the opposite end of the continent. At that point I could spare some days in non DC Washington and then set north until Edmonton, take a ferry to Yellowknife and return by plane to my home by the 19th. Unlikely though, because parents would probably notice my absence and just deny the funds for my voyage and I'd end up in the literal middle of the States by myself (which could be fun though).

[Teddy]

And Elden was like "Hey, guys, look, something cool!" and everyone else was like *chirp chirp chirp chirp*.

[LaZodiac]

I knoooow XP

[MoonCat]

Don't blame me, I've only been online when I'm not wandering all over Vancouver B.C, or passed out from exhaustion because I just wandered all over Vancouver B.C.

And I don't even know how to get Bast to respond to Elden right now. She's furious with him, remember.

[Teddy]

I remember (although she could at least say something about the statue, unless she passively-agressively ignores everything Elden says, which is fine. Elden doesn't care much either way, or at least not enough to make an idiot of himself again ). And I can't have Adalhard respond especially proactively either, because he's mute, and say whatever you like, I'm not up to playing the pantomime of "Adalhard agrees with Elden" or "Adalhard opposes Elden but agrees anyway because he's a greedy bastard*", no matter how hilarious it would turn out to be. In fact, the only one who I really expected any response from is Juniper (although Carric made it close to the list).

*Okay, "resource conscious" is probably a more accurate term, but it's pretty much true that Adalhard's the most stereotypical adventurer on the team when it comes to securing wealth, and Avgust's orders to me were pretty much "Take everything of value". A bit more specific, but that was the spirit of it.