[Umzamo] Adanar By Cometlight (A Campaign Journal)

[starwoof]

How is it no one has commented on the nat 15 on the d6 yet? Do these freak accidents of probability happen to everyone? Is this not as jaw-dropping as we think it is?

I think my brain just refused to accept that as a fact, heh.

[Fayd]

So... -5CL, take feat to negate it?

Well, it'll only boost CL by (at the most) 2, so you're still feeling it and for a while. And the second CL boost (going from 1 extra CL to 2) only applies at 6th level. So... magic is very screwed. And will be for a while. The comet only lasts 25 years!

I think my brain just refused to accept that as a fact, heh.

Yeah, ours did too, for a while. And the die was well thrown too... it was rolling and just sort of stopped on a corner. It had filleted corners, if that helps to explain what happened.

[starwoof]

Man I had to look that word up to see what the heck it meant in relation to dice, but yeah that makes... a little more sense.

[flabort]

Don't go "fixing" past events because of this, but if one of my dice had landed in a corner like that, I would have taken the number pointing "out", away from the corner.

But 15 on a d6 inside a tea-house/tavern makes sense... what with all that flammable stuffs the dwarf spilt.

[Cade Rentyr]

So... -5CL, take feat to negate it?

Sort of. The feat Fayd is talking about is called Magical Talent, and at its absolute best it grants you a maximum of +2 CL, limited by your character level. Normally, then, there is absolutely no reason for a mage to take this feat, since they have full growth in CL anyway (10 CL +2 = 10 CL by character level limitation).
However, since the -5 CL effect is applied before any other considerations, Yhennon taking it this campaign will effectively be playing at only -3 CL. Still a massive handicap for a mage --barely better than a magic swordsman under normal circumstances-- but that's where Yhennon's alter ego becoming a Winddancing Juggernaut Desert Griffon steps up to compensate.

[Fayd]

That... explains it better than I did!

[Cade Rentyr]

Don't go "fixing" past events because of this, but if one of my dice had landed in a corner like that, I would have taken the number pointing "out", away from the corner.

But 15 on a d6 inside a tea-house/tavern makes sense... what with all that flammable stuffs the dwarf spilt.

I think I have to clarify here.

Tam rolled the die into the middle of our map, a large, flat, space made of vinyl, with no crevices or bumps or irregularities. (darn nice map)

Tam rolled only one die, and it was a very clear distance away from anything else on the flat table, our character figurines included.

The die came to rest exactly on one corner joining three faces of the die --minimum possible surface area touching the ground. Only the fact that the die's corners were filleted allowed it to stay upright at all.

Due to this one-in-a-million balancing act --following an entirely fair roll, mind you-- the die presented us with three faces up --like a d4 does naturally.

Seeing this, Tam naturally concluded that he must take the sum total of the three faces (which happened to be 4, 5, and 6, making for maximum conceivable damage, 15)

Because of these [rude hand gestures] of probability and chaos, the wood demons, who had a weakness to fire, took 30 damage each from one tick of fire damage, rather than the 12 that should have been maximum possible.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is likely the only reason that our dwarven barbarian survived session one.

[Feichi]

To further clarify my madness with the feat "magical talent," I shall offer up yet more explanation.

It gives me a +1 caster level until epic, and then a +2 once I've hit epic.

Meaning my caster level progression from level 1 to level 10 (6 being epic in this system,) will look something like this:

1. Effective CL 0 (2 cl -5) (Mage CL 1 + Magical Talent.)
2. Effective CL 0 (3 cl -5)
3. Effective CL 0 (4 cl -5)
4. Effective CL 0 (5 cl -5)
5. Effective CL 1 (6 cl -5)
6. Effective CL 3 (8 CL -5) (This is where magical talent becomes +2)
7. Effective CL 4
8 CL 5
9 CL 6
10 CL 7.

This is to say, until I hit level 5, one below epic, I won't even be able to cast the magical equivalent of a pre-comet level 1 mage's spell.

At level 6, I'll be able to achieve magical effects equivalent to a pre-comet level 3 mage's, and so on.

This is why the shapechangerey will likely be my saving grace until epic, and even then, it is highly likely that I will switch between my two forms depending on the circumstances. My original plan for combat once I re-obtained my magical abilities is to modify the field of combat and then turn into the bird and take advantage of my modifications. (Recall the ice-slide I created during the first session, if you will.)

~Yhennon Dei's Player,
Feichi

[Fayd]

I would like to extend a public Thank You to starwoof for my avatar.

[starwoof]

I'm flattered you like it so much.

[Feichi]

I rather like it too. :3

[Fayd]

Due to a scheduling conflict (Ninja is going to go be a viking for the weekend) we will be playing... at a different time than usual, and thus the next journal entry will be slightly delayed. My apologies.

[LordShotGun]

Due to a scheduling conflict (Ninja is going to go be a viking for the weekend) we will be playing... at a different time than usual, and thus the next journal entry will be slightly delayed. My apologies.

No offense but anyone who had been reading your other campagin journal regularly knows not to expect anything by a hard and fast schedual.

[Fayd]

No offense but anyone who had been reading your other campagin journal regularly knows not to expect anything by a hard and fast schedual.

Heh. Fair enough, I suppose! We're going to (try to) be better about that.

[Keito]

First of all I'm playing "the nobleman" in this campaign, the reason he was "the nobleman" was because I only had enough of my character sheet done to actually play the game, meaning no name, little backstory, but all the required numbers/feats/skills to play.

After that night the character sheet was deleted but the skills remain, so I had to redo the entire character sheet *sigh*. Currently, the character sheet is all done, and I'm finally getting down to figuring out a name, and flushing out the background story.

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btw heritage/class pathing inspiration for my character comes from Tsukune Aono, the protagonist from my favorite manga series always, forever, THE END, Rosario+Vampire. So if you want to find out more about my character read some of the manga (but don't watch the anime [they took away the reason to read the series the comedic ecchi moments *shakes fist*])

[Tam_OConnor]

Ladies, gentlemen: the wiki.

[Fayd]

Ladies, gentlemen: the wiki.

Feel Free to post questions. I'll answer what I can, and if I can't, I'll have Tam field them (or he'll field them before I get to them, or something. It'll work. I promise!)

[RdMarquis]

Ladies, gentlemen: the wiki.

Nice! I've got to test this out when I get the chance.

[Feichi]

Now that the Wiki is up, we could probably do a little expose on our feats at some point or another; alternatively, a "guess the feats" game could be amusing too. XD

[Fayd]

Nice! I've got to test this out when I get the chance.

Just let us know how it works out for you.

[RdMarquis]

Sure. Might take a while, though. I'm in the middle of running an Eberron game.

[Dragonfire]

Ladies, gentlemen: the wiki.

Yes! I'm going to give this a try, thanks for posting it!

[Bharg]

Sure. Might take a while, though. I'm in the middle of running an Eberron game.

TPK FTW?

[flabort]

I just realized... FTW is WTF spelled backwards...
although TPK isn't anything spelled backwards...
Kill Pink thing?... Kingly person's table?...
nope. got nothing. the other one is cool, though.

[Feichi]

So, I recapped session one at the beginning of session two with the following series of Haikus:

Please, enjoy.

Gav sang in tea house
People didn't much like that
Thus ensues a brawl

Mage makes an ice slide
A peasant seeks some help
Knight falls on table

Then all hell broke loose
"I want organic matter"
cries out the old mage

Organic Demons
They kill almost everyone
The dwarf gets pissed

Fire-dwarf fury owns
15 damage on D6
Fairy-powered crit

The PCs survive
No thanks to the scared mage
Gav's not famous yet

[RdMarquis]

So, I recapped session one at the beginning of session two with the following series of Haikus:

Please, enjoy.

That's some nice work, but have you considered using the format of a drinking song (admittedly, you started out in a tea house)?

[Fayd]

That's some nice work, but have you considered using the format of a drinking song (admittedly, you started out in a tea house)?

True, but the entire campaign has a bit of an eastern/kung fu flavor, which is why we ended up going with haiku.

[Cade Rentyr]

That's some nice work, but have you considered using the format of a drinking song (admittedly, you started out in a tea house)?

I'd like to point out that the entire town we were in was incidentally governed by a martial school that banned alcohol, meaning that the teahouse served absolutely nothing intoxicating.
I learned this fact after session, which means that I made Gav's fake drunken-idiot act even more socially obnoxious completely by accident.

I am having WAY too much fun on the Chaotic side.

[Fluffy the Orc]

Yes. Speaking from experience, Chaotic is FUN.

[MountainKing]

Speaking as a player with a history of having to clean up after Chaotic players, I have to say that no... No, they aren't. It seems like it doesn't matter what I try to play; even my Chaotic characters end up changing alignment, because Chaotic players tend to just... break... everything...

I once made more progress on a quest playing a CN BARD than the Lawful Evil gnome wizard and the True Neutral elf ranger did COMBINED. What were they doing? Using Invisibility Sphere to infiltrate a house of ill repute.

...in a campaign where arcane magic was outlawed...

...and punishable by death...

<--- That was the look on my face.