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2018-11-13, 11:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
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2018-11-14, 05:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Do we have a smily for her?
Come to think of it, a lot of smilies have disappeared because of image hosting issues... does anyone have alternative versions of those?Guide to the Magus, the Pathfinder Gish class.
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2018-11-14, 07:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
For Hilgya, you can try to ask Yendor, the author of this old post from 2009, maybe he has a copy. He's still active on the forum. Update 2018-12-15: never mind, that one is for Hilgya, not for Minrah, so it won't help.
Update: or here's a low quality preliminary icon based on #1145 (head cut out, transparent background, but original size so way too large for an icon) until someone comes and makes a proper one: Hilgya
I do, at least for some of the smilies. I didn't try to create any new images, I just copied the old ones over to a different external host. It's a pity this bbcode forum doesn't allow data: URLs for images by the way, that would be the cleanest for these smilies.Last edited by b_jonas; 2018-11-14 at 06:40 PM.
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2018-11-14, 09:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Great, that covers everyone except Shoulder Pads Guy.
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2018-11-14, 09:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Added Minrah, which is of course subject to further changes.
I have not listed her spells since it's all from the standard cleric list. It strikes me that 1105 establishes her as non-evil, because she casts Protection from Evil on herself and it doesn't harm her (whereas Belkar is harmed by that same spell). I am not sure where it is shown that any of her attacks fail to pierce DR though, nor that her armor is specifically breastplate. Also, why specifically might we suppose she has Knowledge (Religion) and Knowledge (Local)?Guide to the Magus, the Pathfinder Gish class.
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2018-11-14, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
The not making it through DR is from when she hits vampires who don't show damage. I think the KN-Local is from how she immediately recognized the feasting hall.
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2018-11-14, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-15, 03:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Is this say anything new about Belkar?
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/shows...&postcount=154Spoiler
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2018-11-15, 04:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
The "failure in bypassing DR" refers to the moments in which she hits without damage ("BONK", "CLANG", can't remember exactly the sound).
The Knowledge (Religion) is really baseless, now that I think of it.
The Knowledge (Local) is mostly from the fact that she was acting like a guide to the OotS, because she knew the place, and from the fact that she knew people there (Sidgi, for example), but since common knowledge can be rolled in a unskilled INT check, there's no evidence she has any ranks.
I've assumed her armor is breastplate or heavier mostly due to its appearance. It doesn't seems like any of the non-metal armors (leather, padded, hide...), and it doesn't seem to be just a chain shirt. It might be a chain mail or a scale mail, but those are as heavy as, or heavier than breastplate. Maybe I should rephrase my hypothesis as "unspecified metal medium or heavier armor".
Couldn't follow the link.Last edited by D.One; 2018-11-15 at 04:15 AM.
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2018-11-15, 06:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-15, 06:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-15, 08:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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2018-11-15, 02:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-15, 03:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Currently playing a level 20 aasimar necromancer named Zebulun Salathiel and a level 9 goliath diviner named Lo-Kag.
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2018-11-15, 03:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2018-11-15, 03:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-15, 03:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2018-11-15, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
The thing is, the one-step rule appears to be at most weakly enforced in OotS, with plenty of exceptions. Everything about Thor says that he's Chaotic (even in this last run of strips, where it's generally less exaggerated, witness his repeated griping about rules being stupid and downright glee that he could bend the rule against telling anyone about the Snarl out of all recognition with Minrah), but he's one of the major dwarfen deities, despite them being overwhelmingly Lawful [and Durkon, his cleric, being explicitly LG].
So, while Minrah is almost certainly LG, I'm not sure there's any way of proving it...
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2018-11-15, 06:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-16, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
In Roy's entry, the Spellsplinter Maneuver should link to #1003, where Roy uses that, and it's not in an illusion.
The maximum height is 4'5", the height of the legendary Bandobras Took.Last edited by b_jonas; 2018-11-16 at 04:55 AM.
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2018-11-16, 06:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Each one of us, alone, is but a drop in the sea
Our powers pale compared with the great heroes
Our battles don’t hit theheadlines or shake the earth
But they are few, can’t be everywhere, and we, many
So, when the world or universe needs saving, they come
But when people needs saving, we are the ones to appear
We're underdogs, but we rise up to the challenge to be heroes.
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"I really like the Geek Math'ology we do here"
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2018-11-16, 08:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Technically, he's only the third-tallest halfling in history, but then again, we have no evidence that Belkar benefited from the effects of an Entdraught.
On a less Tolkienesque note (alas), I got around to checking the SRD, and JumboWheat's memory is basically correct. The tallest a male halfling can be is 3'4" (2'8" + 2d4 inches; women are 2" shorter). So I guess that (probably) settles it.Last edited by Emanick; 2018-11-16 at 08:12 AM.
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2018-11-16, 08:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-17, 08:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Each one of us, alone, is but a drop in the sea
Our powers pale compared with the great heroes
Our battles don’t hit theheadlines or shake the earth
But they are few, can’t be everywhere, and we, many
So, when the world or universe needs saving, they come
But when people needs saving, we are the ones to appear
We're underdogs, but we rise up to the challenge to be heroes.
(Wishing Joe, a low-powered superhero)
"I really like the Geek Math'ology we do here"
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2018-11-17, 12:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-11-19, 08:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Random thought:
I don't see how http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0221.html shows Belkar has Spellcraft. However, does identifying Cure Serious Wounds scrolls without read magic indicate that he has at least 4 ranks? (<10 Int means -1 modifier at least, he would need a 23 for that check.)
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2018-11-19, 04:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Or just that V's already pulled the exploding note trick on him once or twice. It is a favored tactic for dealing with annoyances, after all.
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2018-11-19, 05:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
Yeah, I think concluding Belkar has spellcraft from that is a bit silly for several reasons:
1. Spellcraft allows you to determine spells and magical effects by examining them. It is not a prerequisite to recognizing a spell via casual familiarity - you can know what a Fireball is in a general sense, or know that a wizard is capable of Teleportation, and broadly recognize that a wizard might throw a fireball or teleport away when it happens, without having ranks in Spellcraft. Unlike Knowledge, Spellcraft just represents one possible avenue to identify magical effects.
2. More importantly, Belkar explicitly has to ask ("...this peace of paper has that Explosive Runes spell cast on it?") He doesn't know based on his own abilities, he makes a guess and Roy confirms it.
The CSW scrolls are better evidence. I mean, it's still probably just there for the gag, but going by the rules of the thread that one would indicate he has Spellcraft or Read Magic somehow, since he couldn't have figured out what the scrolls are any other way (he might have known that Durkon carried healing scrolls, but it's really unlikely he'd know what exact spell they contain.) Whereas I feel that the Explosive Runes one doesn't work even under the strict rules for the thread - he unambiguously has to ask to be sure, so if anything it's evidence against him having Spellcraft.
If he said "oh, a piece of paper that has Explosive Runes on it!", that would be different. But asking "is that a piece of paper with that Explosive Runes spell on it?" shows that he wasn't able to identify it himself.Last edited by Aquillion; 2018-11-19 at 05:57 PM.
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2018-11-19, 06:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Class and Level Geekery XV - What's the Damage of a Thrown Pineapple?
It is possible that Durkon, thoroughly Lawful as he is, properly labeled his scrolls so they could be filed in the proper sequence.
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2018-11-20, 08:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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