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2013-10-21, 07:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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Temptation
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2013-10-21, 07:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one.
Originally Posted by Braxton
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2013-10-21, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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The
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2013-10-21, 07:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Poor little street rat, covered in corruption.
Originally Posted by Giorgio
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2013-10-21, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm Batman
Originally Posted by Brooswayn Scourgesoul
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2013-10-21, 07:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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A single poisoned rose in a grove of health
Originally Posted by Angelique A'lanaleLast edited by Kuulvheysoon; 2013-10-21 at 10:11 PM.
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2013-10-21, 07:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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You know, this origin story sounds awful familiar...
Originally Posted by Shane McLaughlan
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2013-10-21, 07:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Fool! Be wary, or else he'll melt you down and wear you as a neck chain!
Originally Posted by Bug
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2013-10-21, 07:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Originally Posted by The Damned[COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"
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2013-10-21, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Path of Shevarash is not an easy one to walk.
Originally Posted by Rand TurimbarLast edited by Kuulvheysoon; 2013-10-21 at 07:50 PM.
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2013-10-21, 07:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist outside of our own hearts.
Originally Posted by Pantaleon Dalence
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2013-10-21, 07:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Stealing the innocence of children
Originally Posted by Leilani
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2013-10-21, 07:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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...and that should be all of them. If I missed anything, please let me know ASAP.
A lot (lot) more Spellthief than I expected, and a lot less Paladin. Interesting.
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2013-10-21, 08:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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And here I thought we'd have a small crop of entries this round. Silly me.
- Smeagol: Half Orc Half Orc Paragon 3/Ranger 1/Barbarian 1/Avenging Executioner 5/Corrupt Avenger 10
- Sir Driscoll Conia: Lesser Aasimar Paladin 5/Swordsage 4/Bone Knight 1/Corrupt Avenger 10
- The Lost Crab: Human Human Paragon 3/Maho Bujin 7/Corrupt Avenger 10
- Designation MDCCCLXXXVI: Warforged Ranger 1/Incarnate 5/Crusader 3/Corrupt Avenger 9/Soulcaster 2
- Magralyx: Succubus Battle Dancer 1/Corrupt Avenger 7
- Braxton: Human Warblade 5/Barbarian 2/Corrupt Avenger 10/Rage Mage 3
- Eillyassa Miltal: Halfling Spellthief 10/Corrupt Avenger 10
- Giorgio: Human Spellthief 1/Rogue 3/Battle Sorcerer 12/Corrupt Avenger 4
- Brooswayn Scourgesoul: Hellbred Warblade 6/Hellreaver 4/Corrupt Avenger 10
- Angelique A'lanale: Azurin Duskblade 3/Soulborn 4/Hellreaver 6/Corrupt Avenger 7
- Shane McLaughlan: Human Spellthief 2/Duskblade 3/Unseen Seer 4/Corrupt Avenger 10/Mage of the Arcane Order 1
- Bug: Diopsid Barbarian 5/Hellreaver 4/Corrupt Avenger 10
- The Damned of the Crab: Azurin Paladin 5/Totemist 2/Corrupt Avenger 9/Telflammar Shadowlord 4
- Rand Turimbar: Forestlord Elf Crusader 6/Corrupt Avenger 10/Jade Phoenix Mage 4
- Pantaleon Dalence: Illumian Fighter 4/Ranger 1/Soldier of Light 1/Corrupt Avenger 5/Swiftblade 9
- Leilani: Human Spellthief 8/Corrupt Avenger 10/Swordsage 1/Maho-Tsukai 1
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2013-10-21, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'm legitimately surprised that my build's focus turned out as unique as it did.
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2013-10-21, 08:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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This looks like a good match up, I think (redacted) will do really well because they are super unique with the (redacted) style and over powered with the (redacted) ability. Vote for (redacted).
GLAI am what lurks under your bridge, I am the troll...
Not sure about what I said, go back highlight it with your mouse and wham it's magically blue for sarcasm, so like everything on the internet take it with a grain of salt.
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2013-10-21, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 08:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow cool art. Also a lot of spellthief (I kind of considered that one). Maho-Tsukai is scary. I should look into hellreaver in retrospect seems like a nice obvious option. We also have two crabs one lost and one damned. I also love the introductory sentence of Brooswayn.
Well, gotta go back to my stupid project, which is not going to finish itself (I wish).Last edited by thethird; 2013-10-21 at 08:48 PM.
Thanks a lot Gengy for the awesome... just a sec... avatar. :)
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2013-10-21, 09:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Psst, even that can tip your hand a bit. Anonymity's the name of the game, folks.
Cheers, mate. Caught it and corrected above; will update the spreadsheet tomorrow. Now, to get judging.
Can't find a source on Corrupted Avenger, though--what book is that in? All I see in Heroes of Horror is Corrupt Avenger .
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2013-10-21, 09:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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... I'm impressed.
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2013-10-21, 09:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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This was my aborted entry:
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LN Human Ranger 3/Thug Sneak Attack Fighter 3/Corrupt Avenger 10/Alchemist Savant 4
ACFs:
Favored Organization (replaces Favored Enemy)
Voice of the City (replaces Wild Empathy)
Thug Fighter (lose first level feat)
Sneak Attack Fighter (lose bonus feats)
NAME OF ENTRY
{table=head]Level|Class|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Skills|Feats|Class Features
1st|Ranger 1|+1|+2|+2|+0|Craft (alchemy) 4 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 4 ranks, survival 4 ranks, knowledge (religion) 2 ranks, knowledge (dungeoneering) 4 ranks, knowledge (nature) 4 ranks, spellcraft 2 ranks|Track, Least Dragonmark (Mark of Making - Make Whole), Quick Draw|Rival organization, voice of the city
2nd|Ranger 2|+2|+3|+3|+0|Craft (alchemy) 5 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 5 ranks, survival 5 ranks, spellcraft 2.5 ranks, knowledge (nature) 5 ranks, knowledge (dungeoneering) 5 ranks, search 1 rank|Two-Weapon Fighting|Combat style
3rd|Ranger 3|+3|+3|+3|+1|Craft (alchemy) 6 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 6 ranks, survival 6 ranks, spellcraft 3 ranks, search 4 ranks|Endurance, Strong Stomach|
4th|Thug Fighter 1|+4|+5|+3|+1|Craft (alchemy) 7 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 7 ranks, spellcraft 3.5 ranks, survival 7 ranks||Sneak attack +1d6
5th|Thug Fighter 2|+5|+6|+3|+1|Craft (alchemy) 8 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 8 ranks, spellcraft 4 ranks, survival 8 ranks||
6th|Thug Fighter 3|+6/+1|+6|+4|+2|Craft (alchemy) 9 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 9 ranks, search 4.5 ranks, survival 9 ranks|Craven|Sneak attack +2d6
7th|Corrupt Avenger 1|+7/+2|+8|+4|+2|Craft (poisonmaking) 10 ranks, search 5 ranks, survival 10 ranks||Armored casting, detect sworn foe, sworn foe +2, taint suppression
8th|Corrupt Avenger 2|+8/+3|+9|+4|+2|Craft (poisonmaking) 11 ranks, craft (alchemy) 10 ranks, survival 11 ranks||Tainted strike 1/day
9th|Corrupt Avenger 3|+9/+4|+9|+5|+3|Craft (poisonmaking) 12 ranks, craft (alchemy) 11 ranks, survival 12 ranks|Brew Potion|Grim resolve
10th|Corrupt Avenger 4|+10/+5|+10|+5|+3|Craft (alchemy) 12 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 13 ranks, survival 13 ranks||Sworn foe +4
11th|Corrupt Avenger 5|+11/+6/+1|+10|+5|+3|Craft (alchemy) 13 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 14 ranks, survival 14 ranks||Frightful fury
12th|Alchemist Savant 1|+11/+6/+1|+12|+5|+3|Craft (alchemy) 14 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 15 ranks, survival 15 ranks|Lesser Dragonmark (Mark of Making - Minor Creation)|Efficient alchemy, poison use
13th|Alchemist Savant 2|+12/+7/+2|+13|+5|+3|Craft (alchemy) 15 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 16 ranks, survival 16 ranks||Brew spellvial
14th|Alchemist Savant 3|+12/+7/+2|+13|+6|+4|Craft (alchemy) 16 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 17 ranks, survival 17 ranks||Efficient alchemy (2 potions/day)
15th|Alchemist Savant 4|+13/+8/+3|+14|+6|+4|Craft (alchemy) 17 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 18 ranks, survival 18 ranks|Mother Cyst|Create alchemical mixture
16th|Corrupt Avenger 6|+14/+9/+4|+15|+7|+5|Craft (alchemy) 18 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 19 ranks, survival 19 ranks||Tainted strike 2/day
17th|Corrupt Avenger 7|+15/+10/+5|+15|+7|+5|Craft (alchemy) 19 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 20 ranks, survival 20 ranks||Sworn foe +6
18th|Corrupt Avenger 8|+16/+11/+6/+1|+16|+7|+5|Craft (alchemy) 20 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 21 ranks, survival 21 ranks|Practiced Spellcaster|
19th|Corrupt Avenger 9|+17/+12/+7/+2|+16|+8|+6|Craft (alchemy) 21 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 22 ranks, survival 22 ranks||Unnerving fury
20th|Corrupt Avenger 10|+18/+13/+8/+3|+17|+8|+6|Craft (alchemy) 22 ranks, craft (poisonmaking) 23 ranks, survival 23 ranks||Sworn foe +8, tainted strike 3/day[/table]
BONUS FEATS:
Weapon Finesse - Though much of XXX’s attacking is done at range, Weapon Finesse allows him to switch seamlessly into melee, using Quick Draw to draw poisoned light weapons to TWF. It also makes his touch attacks far more effective against enemies with a high touch AC.
Greater Dragonmark (Mark of Making - Fabricate) - Fabricate will drastically speed up the creation of alchemical items and poisons when crafting from scratch, and will allow XXX to function as a toolkit, crafting items as they are needed. It will also provide him with additional uses of Minor Creation.
If you are playing in a campaign where feycraft weapons are readily available, Weapon Finesse becomes less necessary. If this is the case, consider swapping it out for Dragonmark Adept (Quick Potion), which will give you an additional daily use of Minor Creation while also allowing you to make potions on the fly, or Sickening Strike, which is one of the few ambush feats that can be used melee or ranged, and can add on a sickening rider to all of your attacks with no saving throw.
Starting stats: Str 10/Dex 16/Con 14/Int 10/Wis 10/Cha 16
The basic idea was to TWF tossing poison bombs (alchemical poison vials) and alchemical spellvials of Corrupt Avenger spells. In particular, Necrotic Cyst and Vampiric Touch as splash weapons via spellvial + alchemical mixture, to deal sneak attack (and Craven) damage while also passing on the spells or poison. Also would combine the tainted strike and sneak attack/craven to boost the damage/healing from Vampiric Touch.
Used Strong Stomach to avoid the negative consequences of gaining corruption. Since gaining corruption requires you to make a save every time, and be nauseated on a failure or sickened on a success, Strong Stomach would drop that to nothing on a successful save or sickened on a failure.
Fluff was going to be that he was a member of House Cannith who discovered some sort of nastiness within his own house. I was planning on writing a story where he falls in love with someone from outside of his House, only to see her fall mysteriously ill. Eventually he uncovers that she falls ill due to some magical experimentation by House Cannith, so he swears secret vengeance against his own house.
I just... couldn't get motivated to do the write-up, for some reason. I had the table done fairly early on, and was pretty happy with the build, but every time I started on the write-up I found myself hitting a block.
Looks like some very interesting stuff this round! I've only skimmed the entries so far, but I look forward to reading through everything in greater detail.Optimization Showcase in the Playground
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2013-10-21, 09:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 09:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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It does indeed look awesome, and it is quite original.
Thanks a lot Gengy for the awesome... just a sec... avatar. :)
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2013-10-21, 09:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Never seen so many Spellthieves! And quite a few Hellreavers too. Interesting there was a few Incarnum wielders, but no Binders this time around.
I really wish everyone would get on board with writing a brief description someone near the top of their entries (i.e. CG Human Barbarian 5/Ranger 5/Corrup Avenger 10 etc.) - it makes it so much easier as a spectator (and judge) to know up front what they are looking at instead of wading through tables and working out what you actually are.
Small personal grievance, but generally an excellent quality of entries.My winning competition entries: Kinvig Arrumskor | The Great Pumpkinhead | Wynfrith d'Acker
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2013-10-21, 09:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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I am also surprised with the number of spellthieves. Though, in hindsight, combining a partial arcane casting class (Corrupt Avenger) with Master Spellthief ... Brilliant. I can see spell resistance being a problem for everyone else. Not for the spellthieves.
EDIT: Yeah, I didn't make a spellthief :PLast edited by Eldonauran; 2013-10-21 at 10:01 PM.
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2013-10-21, 10:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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2013-10-21, 10:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I suppose either of my character concepts would have worked, then.
One was a Swordsage base, named Herobrine. For those who play Minecraft, intent is obvious.
The other was a nhilist using Spellthief and UrPriest, advancing UrPriest with the SI and gaining high corruption for ridiculously high DC's and 9th level spells by level 20. In effect, this was the Power play. "The gods do not exist, the Weave does not exist. The only thing that exists is entropy and decay into oblivion, and I am that force made manifest."
I also had an idea for a Paladin/Blackguard/Corrupt Avenger, getting twice my charisma to saves, casting nearly everything as a swift action with high DC's, and beating things bloody.Last edited by ShneekeyTheLost; 2013-10-21 at 11:00 PM.
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2013-10-22, 04:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Darn. Now I'm kicking my head for not making my first idea: binder/knight of the sacred seal/corrupted avenger using paimon to fight. Oh well, maybe my other entry will do well.
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2013-10-22, 07:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow! looking over these builds I can truly say I'm impressed, by some builds more so then others. And some of those charadcter stories! I can see people have really put a lot of effort in their builds. I will start judging right away, even though it will take some time. So stay tuned.
P.S. I was under the impression that master spellthief is a hidden classfeature, just like natural spell for druids...Warlock Poetry?
Or ways to use me in game?
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