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Shooting Serini
In the latest comic, V chooses to use a Resilient Sphere instead of a fancy ray or something. While the Sphere is a viable choice disregarding a Dimension Door wand, V is now stuck on the floor in the maws of a mighty irrelevant beast.
Given that they've been stocking up on non-somatic component spells, are there any ranged options they could plausibly have that could hit Serini, assuming she hasn't had multiple turns to flee?An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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2021-11-12, 02:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-12, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Shooting Serini
Dimensional Anchor would be nice at this point.
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2021-11-12, 01:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Shooting Serini
We've seen V use Power Word: Stun. Serini probably doesn't have over 150 HP?
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2021-11-13, 12:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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As noted, Dimensional Anchor would be the most valuable now that they know she has a dim door wand.
V should also really be hitting the three pursuers with a Haste.Plague Doctor by Crimmy
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2021-11-13, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Haley has wands. Does any of them shoot something? V was helping her learn with a fire based wand on the airship.
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2021-11-14, 03:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-15, 02:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Shooting Serini
It wouldn't hurt, unless of course you were Serini. (Since my brain is all 5e at the moment, I am not sure how effective/lethal/scalable a magic missile wand is in 3.5). A wand of web, if it has/has the range, might catch Serini for a round or two ... since she currently can't see Haley casting at her ... (based on last panel 6 of strip 1247).
I may be reaching here.Last edited by KorvinStarmast; 2021-11-15 at 02:40 PM.
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b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2021-11-16, 03:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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In 3.5, wands default to minimum caster level, which means magic missile would do a grand total of 1d4+1. Haley's wand looks to have a higher CL than that (5th) for a total of three missiles, however 3d4+3 is unlikely to faze a character of Serini's level even if she has no defenses against it.
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2021-11-16, 09:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2021-11-23, 02:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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I think Haley should have whipped out a tommy gun and gunned down Serini. The most obvious and chronologically sound decision to make.
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2021-11-24, 08:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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2021-11-24, 09:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Which is more proof that all of the muses have left Hollywood for Bollywood. The only things to come out of Hollywood in the last few decades that didn't make me want to gouge out my eyes to avoid seeing it are the remakes of 1980 or older comic book stories.
Shooting Serini with anything that didn't leave her paralyzed wouldn't have worked anyway. D&D doesn't have any rule that allows wounding to disable a character. Even a called shot to her leg would only have inconvenienced her.
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Re: Shooting Serini
Web is usually a great spell because it entangles the target even if they make their saving throw, but Dimension Door still beats it. It needs to be a spell that inflicts a status on Serini herself.
Good options that you might plausibly put in a wand would be Glitterdust (blinds her so she can't find her escape route, also reveals invisibility), Confusion (about 50-50 chance that Serini does something other than teleport away), Suggestion (I suggest you stop running and try to talk this out), and Hold Person. Serini would still get saving throws and spell resistance (if she has an item), but it's your best bet.
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