Shadows of the Past OOC 2

[Archmage1]

@Alan: No worries about me feeling bad about that. I was expecting you to have me fail the disguise check, so everything extra is a bonus.

[NathanB1486]

Alan, do you want me to move Xander's Action to IC, or do you want to resolve the one I posted in OOC? I believe Xander's action would take place before the giants, meaning, some of the giants may be disarmed/blind

[Archmage1]

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1st

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Obscuring mist: Aoe fog centered on self. Handy at times
Grease: What is not to like?
Comprehend Languages: So you can read all the loot(wand/scroll)
Detect Secret Doors: No hidden loot(might want to wand it as well)
Charm person: Can be handy for a tight situation
Identify(get an artificers monocle, and 5 ranks in Arcana.)
Shocking Grasp/Magic missile(flavor vs usefulness)
Silent Image(Must Have)
Feather fall(wand, or item)
So, given 5
Obs Mist
Grease
Silent image
Charm Person
either of the offensive ones
Note: You are missing shield/mage armor. Defence is nice, so you could replace the mist with shield

2nd

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Obscure object: Keep the loot hidden(scroll or wand)
Fog Cloud: Fog at choice location. Nice
Glitterdust: anti-stealth, and blind.
Web: Another good BC control
Locate Object: Find a specific item
See invis: When you need it, you really need it(wand/item)
Gust of Wind: Flavor
Alter Self: Incredibly handy
Recommendations
Fog Cloud
Glitterdust
Gust of Wind
Alter Self
invisibility

3rd

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Dispel Magic: A must have
Sleet Storm: Handy, plus flavor
Fireball(if fire doesn't solve your problems, you didn't use enough of it
Lightning bolt(required)
Fly: You are a caster, therefore, fly
Haste: Never hurts
Recommended
Dispel, fly, haste, lightning bolt
This is where sorc kinda feels sad. 3rd has one hell of a lot of good stuff

4th

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Black Tentacles: Awesome
Solid Fog: Awesome.
Scrying: you wanted divination.
Ice Storm: flavor. Kind of sucky, but still. Blast. you might want to find a better spell than this.
Polymorph: Brokenly good
Yes, I am missing out on some good stuff, but, well not enough slots
Polymorph, solid fog, scrying(make sure to get component), ice storm

5th

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teleport: Must have
Dominate person: Solves so many issues
Wall of force: wall can be nice.
cacophonic burst
prying eyes: Divination, situational
Freezing Fog: Must Have
Recommendations
Teleport, Freezing Fog, cacophonic burst

6th

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Freezing sphere: freeze a large area of water.
chain lightning: Flavor
Disintegrate: Handy, more support than damage
Recommendations: freezing/chain and disintigrate

7th

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Control Weather: Flavor, but on a boat, very handy

Seriously, you are wanting too much out of a sorc. They can be a good blaster or a good BC control, but not both. Divination is situational. If you want to have good divination, you want to be a wizard with spontaneous divination.

[dantiesilva]

thanks Tarith for the help

[AlanBruce]

Originally Posted by NathanB1486

Alan, do you want me to move Xander's Action to IC, or do you want to resolve the one I posted in OOC? I believe Xander's action would take place before the giants, meaning, some of the giants may be disarmed/blind

@Xander: Yes, your actions would come before them. I resolved that single giant assault with tarith. What are the DCs for each effect. I know one gets d6 damage from your previous spell.

[NathanB1486]

(1d6)[5] cold damage to one.

reflex save of 17 primary, and 13 for both secondary or drop there weapons do to chain target grease on there weapons.

finally 2 will saves at 18 or blinded via quickened glitterdust

leaving 3 giants possibly disarmed, and 2 of the disarmed ones possibly blind

[dantiesilva]

Hey not alot of damage but he got hurt and his friends may be dropping weapons and going blind.

[NathanB1486]

Dantie, the giant in the freezing fog will be there a bit, since he is restricted to moving 5 ft a round in it, and has a multitude of other effects he has to deal with as well, so he will keep taking damage for a bit

[dantiesilva]

Giants take up 20ft. so he only needs to take 2 turns to get out if I am not mistaken. And Alan are jacob and villagers doing nothing making it my turn or what?

[AlanBruce]

@Xander: And here I thought I had to send in Anzaril. You are one dangerous magus! will roll their saves now.

[dantiesilva]

Just ignore

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[NathanB1486]

Xander's goal isn't necessarily to be dangerous, he just wants to make as many enemies as he can utterly useless, then sitting back and watching the rest of the party have there way with the bad guys...would you be ok with Xander using Baleful Polymorph? As it is chainable as well, and turning enemies into harmless animals seems like a effective, and entertaining disable

[AlanBruce]

@Xander: I have banned polymorph from teh campaign, because it can get broken pretty fast. Baleful polymorph, however, is fair game, since Anzaril used it on Tarith (or tried to, at least). Love the idea of chaining it. Go nuts!

[dantiesilva]

Two giants left. got to get ready for work they should be dead by end of this round though.

[AlanBruce]

Waiting for Tarith and Xander to make a move. Then i believe I go.

[dantiesilva]

correct you are alan

[Archmage1]

Alan, if you needed to bring in Anzaril for this fight, it would be very sad. I suspect that Tarith alone could win, as they only hit on a nat 20.

[dantiesilva]

Indeed that would be sad. And with me taking a total defense they can not get by me to the temple without provoking an AoO from Tarith and me so...yea.

Well time to get dressed and everything. Have fun everyone. Please after battle is done wait for me if it seems like it is an important scene. For example when we get the goddess and question her. Thank you.

[NathanB1486]

Tarith, Xander was talking about Nerine having a regiment of archers, and Dantie walking straight into the shots.

[Archmage1]

yep. And Tarith re-imagined it for you.

[NathanB1486]

whats the range on a nymphs blind any way? while they are all aiming, can she just blind them...

[Archmage1]

30 feet.
If we are ever going to beat her, we either need a fort save of 25+(not doable.), or immunity to blind.

[NathanB1486]

I don't suppose we can get blind sight from any alter self forms, can we?

[Archmage1]

Alter self does not allow you to get different methods of vision, sadly. The first spell in the polymorph line that gives you different sight methods is shapechange, which is one of the more broken spells, although it is overshadowed by such things as wish, time stop, and gate.

[AlanBruce]

Nerine can be... difficult in battle. However, I wouldn't worry about her right now. She's gone, and for a very long time.

[Archmage1]

so... if we go to the ward, and open half a dozen invisible decanters of endless water, we would fail to kill everyone?

[Archmage1]

so... is that giant dead, or is there more fighting to be done?

[AlanBruce]

@Tarith- Your giant is on deaths door *you did miss some attacks vs. AC 20(. It-s just your giant.

Entering the Ward is possible, yes. Getting out, however, would be difficult. I know planeshift is an option, yes, but the Ward has formidable defenses, not to mention Nerine and Luther are in there. And those are just two of the ones you know OOC.

[dantiesilva]

Yea invading the ward...Not wise, but extremely funny. Could start trying to scry it if you wanted though.

[AlanBruce]

By the away, we reached past page fifty. Chapter III starts here.