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2021-09-23, 10:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
I believe Serini is Troll-blooded at this point due to the changes in her voice and her extremities having regenerated.
It's worth pointing out she's using the adamantine dagger effectively as a piton. That lowers the DC considerably. With that said, her comments about winning the second-story championship definitely show she has actual ranks in Climb too.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2021-09-23, 11:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
A climber's kit gives only +2 bonus. It might seem strange that equipment specifically designed for climbing barely actually helps you, but remember that D&D is permanently stuck in fantasy mediaeval technology, so they don't have modern lightweight ropes made of synthetic textiles. As for the adamantine dagger, it's probably not magical, so I don't think it will give more of a bonus than a dedicated climber's kit.
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2021-09-23, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
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2021-09-23, 01:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2021-09-23, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Dunno...she's repeatedly climbing up and stabbing the dagger into the rock. She manages to catch herself using it while falling, then pull it out, and herself up in panel 4, then puts it back in the rock in panel 6. Even if the dagger qualifies as an artificial handhold, surely the ability to place it securely requires a harder climb check (which takes us back to whether an adamantine dagger could reasonably be supposed to offer a better bonus than a climbing kit).
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2021-09-23, 08:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Adamantine weapons can cut through rock like butter. Though I presume that they don’t go with onion bagels that well…
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2021-09-26, 11:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Not really.
A climbing kit gives you a +2.
A hammer and pitons sets the check to 15.
Using a climbing kit to climb placed pitons makes the check an effective 13.
An adamantine dagger is like a piton that doesn't need a hammer and doesn't take the time (and noise) hammering a piton would take.
It is however, only 1 piton.
For all the "don't fall off the wall while dodging crossbow bolt" type checks, the dagger probably reduces check to a flat 15. Gaining altittude requires hanging onto wall while stabbing dagger higher.
Given that you also have the hole the removed dagger made to provide a little bit of a grip (and while removing dagger you could carve out a larger handhold before sticking it in higher), I'd say most GMs would make it easier than climbing the wall but probably a bit harder than the flat 15 a series of preplaced pitons would give you.Last edited by Seward; 2021-09-26 at 11:56 PM.
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2021-09-27, 04:48 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
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2021-09-27, 05:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
I don't suppose we can get another smiley for Serini?
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2021-09-27, 05:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-09-27, 05:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Uh... I should have phrased that as "can anyone make a new smiley since she looks so different from that one now," sorry if there was a misunderstanding.
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2021-09-27, 07:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
So what's actually in a climber's kit? I seem to remember something about special gloves or some such but I'm probably half-remembering something from a PHB of my youth that might have been 2e or even AD&D.
Notably though, the rules about pitons say that you need to place one every three feet, at one minute a piece in order to get a DC 15 check. I think this is based on a radical misunderstanding of how real-world climbing works and just how many pitons this would mean you need and how much they'd weigh. IRL you use pitons to anchor your ropes, and generally you climb back down and remove them, but it's time-consuming (less so with modern spring-loaded gear of course), and even 20' of hemp rope is heavy. Also, you can't hammer them into a rock face, you place them in appropriate cracks.
But in any case, the point is that a handhold every three feet means you are 3-point anchored while you are carefully hammering in your next piton. This is a far cry from being able to place a dagger into the rock as you leap upwards, and if the adamantine can actually cut the rock like butter, she's got a whole different problem, which is that she needs to somehow place it just right so it doesn't just cut through the rock all the way down to the ground (imagine trying to stop your fall by sticking a knife into a wall of butter...).
I guess what I'm getting at is that even if we accept that the dagger is a good handhold, being able to place the dagger as she does seems like a considerably harder climb check. Or just artistic license, sigh.
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2021-09-27, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Originally Posted by 3.5 PHB, p.130
Well....for Uncanny Dodge to have done anything in the situation, Haley would need something like the "combat climb" modifier in the expanded skill description in Complete Adventurer to have her Dex bonus to AC while climbing in the first place...and that involves taking a -20 on the check. That'd be doable with the DC 15 "adequate handholds and footholds" base DC, or even the DC 20 "some narrow handholds and footholds"; but at DC 25 "natural rock wall" it'd take boosting her level (for max skill ranks) or assuming a feat.Last edited by Jasdoif; 2021-09-27 at 02:02 PM.
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2021-09-30, 05:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Sure. Do you find any of these acceptable?
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2021-09-30, 07:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Hey, I’m not the curator.
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2021-10-01, 06:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-10-01, 06:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-10-01, 06:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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If we can vote, I vote for the second.
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2021-10-01, 07:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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Those show up just fine, yeah! I can see them in Google Drive; I only pointed it out because it might be better to host them somewhere where they display for all users.
Also, Luis, do you mind if I steal one of those smilies for the Number of Character Appearances thread? Her current smilie there is just as outdated as the one over here.
I tried that on both my iPhone and MacBook Pro, yes. Didn't work.
That was with Chrome. On Firefox they simply don't appear at all, not even as null symbols. (The smilies in the OP show up just fine everywhere, FWIW, so this is a problem specific to these new Serini pics.)Last edited by Emanick; 2021-10-01 at 08:13 AM.
Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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2021-10-01, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
If the Giant does not mind, I certainly will not!
But just in case, may I advise you to attempt a peek at https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QO...-no?authuser=0 ?
Since it appears that there is a real limitation, I have created alternate hosting URLs.
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2021-10-01, 08:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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Number of Character Appearances VII - To Absent Friends
Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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2021-10-05, 01:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
We can add tumble to Serini's skills. I believe Rich has used that swirly pattern when others have been tumbling.
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2021-10-05, 01:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
I just want to focus on this point to underscore again the problematic standard of proof shift we see when it comes to the casters v.s the non-casters. Compare the proof used here, of "that swirly pattern looks the same", to the proof demanded of V proving level 17. when fighters are shown doing 3 attacks in a round it's "well, that's it, it must be proof of X", but when casters use a spell that requires level 17 people cast around for other explanations. In this case maybe the illustration means nothing. When the art shows 3 attacks per round maybe the author just didn't show us all the action, or is ignoring the rules. I don't think we should use either of those explanations, but we definitely could. Yet when V performs a telepathic bond which requires level 17 to do, it's "well, Rich might have not been paying attention to the rules here".
I would just ask again whether people are ready to list V as level 17 yet. To me it's pretty clear. The author has shown the familiar distance limits don't bind Blackwing before (see True Seeing in the desert search for the Gate), so we can disregard that. The author has also shown us the caster level generally effects spells per usual (e.g. 12 pikeman can be effected by level 12 V). Ergo the Occam's razor conclusion is V is level 17. It's far stronger proof than the non-caster characters feats seem to require.Last edited by TooSoon; 2021-10-05 at 02:28 AM.
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2021-10-05, 02:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
Uh, if you mean the Forcecage that's because of the ioun stone.
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2021-10-05, 02:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XVIII - Everyone's an Expert
No I'm talking about the ability of Telepathic Bond to be cast and link the whole party. That requires level 17 (even including the ion stone). Though Forcecage is another example of how caster level is clearly being used for spell results (it last X hours because V is Y level).
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