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2019-09-23, 01:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
And good insurance for when it gets loose and is feeling peckish.
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2019-09-23, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosaurus again?
Seems like he should. Personally, I still think it would be fun for someone to try debuffing the Order and get a facefull of Allosaurus for their trouble, though presumably that could have already happened in the meeting hall fight if Rich had wanted to do it.
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2019-09-23, 01:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
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2019-09-23, 01:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
Eh, sorta. The Handle Animal prereq means you have to have five class levels before you can qualify, so the earliest you can have a level in the Beastmaster class with your sixth character level...which would put your animal companion two levels behind Druid 6. And the scaling is in fact one-to-one after that, just like it is for a druid. On the other hand, the primary animal companion stacks with other classes' animal companion features; so Druid 5/Beastmaster 1 would have an animal companion equivalent to Druid 9....
All that said, the popular-and-convenient-though-largely-baseless guess for Oona is Beast Heart Adept rather than Beastmaster; mostly because it grants a non-animal companion (like a worg or yrthak) and because it appears in a book with Rich Burlew as one of its designers (Dungeonscape). And no; Beast Heart Adept says it doesn't stack with animal companion, so combining Beastmaster with Beast Heart Adept doesn't further this scenario much.FeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2019-09-23, 04:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-23, 04:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
See, when I hear "scales" I'm first thinking about the benefit gained by adding another level onto it; where Beastmaster and Druid both increase effective druid level by one for each subsequent level. Same slope but the Beastmaster has a higher y-intercept, you might say.
And then secondly I'm thinking about in proportion to character level, in which case being unable to take Beastmaster as early as you can Druid puts it behind. I'm pretty sure the "+3" is there precisely because of the inability to take Beastmaster that early, so even without boosting it'll come close to a druid if you take it as soon as possible (the prestige paladin variant does similar; the turning, lay on hands and special mount all operate three levels higher than for the base class paladin).
Of course, by the time I got that far I thought a more thorough treatment might be more interesting to readFeytouchedBanana eldritch disciple avatar by...me!
The Index of the Giant's Comments VI―Making Dogma from Zapped Bananas
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2019-09-24, 07:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
At Kraagor's Gate, in a climactic battle, Greyview the Warg takes a quick snack, swallowing whole a creature he assumes to be nothing but a small harmless lizard.
And that's when Durkon reverses the Polymorph.
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2019-09-25, 12:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
My call: It gets transformed back by accident (like someone trying to dispel the order's buffs).
It wanders off/ gets lost in the confusion. Yes, I know that alot of confusion is needed to lose a dinosaur, I believe the order is up to the task.
It gets killed by some unrelated adventurers who are flabbergasted that they had a random encounter with a dinosaur in the arctic.
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2019-09-25, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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2019-09-26, 09:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
See, the spell selection is different, but this outcome has been seen before.
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)
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2019-09-27, 08:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
Hmm...
Does this trick work on inanimate objects, I wonder?
Because then, to defeat the big bad evil villain, all you'd need to do is, like, find a big rock and transmute it into, like, a piece of candy.
Then just get your enemy to eat it, and then a simple reverse of the spell - he's dead.
I guess Xykon probably doesn't eat food. But this would work on any living enemies. Hey, how do we defeat Tarquin's conspiracy of evil? Well, Tarkers, how'd you like to have this nice refreshing margarita that's definitely not mixed with elephants transmorphed into tiny grains of salt?
See, fantasy heroes? You just need to start thinking out of the box.
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2019-09-28, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Even with living things (like the salt-Elephant trick) this seems like a gamebreaker, with the exception of the fact that I think the polymorph would be interrupted by the body of the victim. I'm guessing "titanium gullet" is an inherent feat possessed by most final bosses though.
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
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Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
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2019-09-28, 02:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-28, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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ABD wasn't a major boss, just an Ancient Black Dragon seeking vengeance.
(If Roy had been the one to kill the YABD, would the ABD have decided that the score was settled one way or another, or would she have hunted his body down and attacked relatives or something?)
That's what...uh...
I can't think of anything that would actually allow you to specifically do that aside from making the object fly and do its job. I guess no one thought of it thenAn explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-09-28, 05:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
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2019-09-28, 05:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
When Gontor sneaked (snuck?) onto the shop, Bloodfeast bit him and overcame his DR, showing he was still had an Allosaurus stat block if not its firm.
Just before the dining room fight, Bloodfeast gets a panel to remind us he was still with Belkar and hadn't been left on the ship.
Also, it would've been very easy for Rich to have left out Bloodfeast at several points in the story if he didn't have plans for Bloodfeast later. Instead of Baleful Polymorph, he could've been Imprisoned, Plane Shifted, petrified etc. When they were all escaping, they could've left him (although rescuing Bloodfeast shows Belkar cares about creatures other than himself and his cat, so long as that creature fits his worldview of 'awesome=deserving to live'). When the rats invaded, or when Blackwing detonated the scroll, Bloodfeast could've been a victim.
One thing I noticed in this latest book was reminders of running jokes that would be referenced later. Like Banjo being pulled out during the storm scene, so people who didn't know about Banjo would be able to follow the scene where they discuss Banjo as a tiebreaker God (which just thinking about it is giving me flashbacks to the state of the forum at the time..).
So yeh, Bloodfeast will redinosaur at some point.
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2019-09-29, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
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2019-09-29, 12:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-29, 02:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
I think he's referring to the part about how it's very hard to get an opponent to eat something you offer during a fight.
I contend that this is just a lack of creative strategizing. What you do is take a blue whale and polymorph it into a small polished pearl that pulsates with magical energy, then during the fight you loudly shout, "Oh no, don't let them get their hands on that object of great power that must be consumed orally to unlock its magic - it's so dangerous that no single being can be allowed to wield its power" before rolling it towards your enemy.
Or, you sneak it into their food beforehand. Most folks have to eat something. You polymorph a black dragon into a grain of rice, then mix it in with their sushi rolls. Or, you mix it into their daily vitamins, to make sure they swallow it whole.
Can you polymorph things into a gas? Because it occurs to me that there's not much your opponent can do to avoid inhaling an oxygen molecule.
Incidentally, this is why Antman is theoretically the deadliest being in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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2019-09-29, 03:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
How would a telecom satellite be useful in a D&D fight?
That could also have been done because the Mechane may not be up there when they try to return. Well, it's only been about half a day (in-comic time) since they left it, so you wouldn't expect the crew to get antsy and fly away in that short of period. I'd expect Bandana could hold them at least that long. So probably just another headfake.Curated Thread: Gazetteer of the Stick
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2019-09-29, 04:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
Two points:
1) If your enemy fails that Sense Motive check, they don't deserve to be the final boss in the first place.
2) If you snuck it into their food before the fight, then that's not in a fight, and also you might as well have just used poison, which isn't nearly as hard to get hold of as a polymorphed black dragon is.
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2019-09-29, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Are we seriously discussing this as if it was a serious suggestion on how to murder final bosses?
Arrrgh, here be me extended sig!
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2019-09-29, 07:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Will Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator become an Allosourus again?
*shakes Magic 8 Ball*
"Signs Point to Yes".
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2019-09-29, 09:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-30, 04:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Curated Thread: Gazetteer of the Stick
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2019-09-30, 10:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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