Using teleport when it attempts to save vs slow, teleporting to G10. FYI, I'm planning on waiting till you all go, knock it way back and retreat back into the corridor (hopefully less bunched up).
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Using teleport when it attempts to save vs slow, teleporting to G10. FYI, I'm planning on waiting till you all go, knock it way back and retreat back into the corridor (hopefully less bunched up).
Got it. Went ahead and updated the map.
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Bump! There's an undead aberration trying to eat your minds. What'ca gonna do?
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I'm gunna make it a helluvalot harder for it to kill our brains. Unfortunately, that was my lone action, and I am bloodied. If someone has a spare action on their turn to send one of Riley's heals my way, that'd be much appreciated.
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Apologies for double-post, but I didn't want Chambers to miss this if I Edited it in. After a few combats, I'm realizing that even with the "hot fixes" I applied during our last rest in an attempt to make Flavius work better, I still don't like how the character plays mechanically. I love the fluff aspect of him, and I like the way his Theme and Paragon Path fit that fluff; I also love having an insanely high Arcana bonus, since we've been making so many checks. I just don't really like the character's mechanical core. I feel like I tried to do too many things (crowd control & illusions, cold comboing, status effects, damage modifiers, ritual expert, etc.). I was wondering if I could prepare an overhaul of the character's mechanics, for your approval? I wouldn't switch him to the new sheet until after our next extended rest, so I wouldn't unfairly regain powers and such. I just don't like how the crunch came together on this one, and I think I can do it better.
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Apologies for double-post, but I didn't want Chambers to miss this if I Edited it in. After a few combats, I'm realizing that even with the "hot fixes" I applied during our last rest in an attempt to make Flavius work better, I still don't like how the character plays mechanically. I love the fluff aspect of him, and I like the way his Theme and Paragon Path fit that fluff; I also love having an insanely high Arcana bonus, since we've been making so many checks. I just don't really like the character's mechanical core. I feel like I tried to do too many things (crowd control & illusions, cold comboing, status effects, damage modifiers, ritual expert, etc.). I was wondering if I could prepare an overhaul of the character's mechanics, for your approval? I wouldn't switch him to the new sheet until after our next extended rest, so I wouldn't unfairly regain powers and such. I just don't like how the crunch came together on this one, and I think I can do it better.
Sure, that sounds fine. What kind of changes did you have in mind?
Also...
Dominate. Attack vs Flavius Will 31 (1d20+20)[30] Hit: Flavius is dominated (save ends)
Edit: Forgot that since Flavius is Dazed he's granting Combat Advantage, so the attack would be at +22, getting a 32 and thus a hit.
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Enslave. (Charm, Psychic) Attack vs Flavius Will 31 (1d20+22)[28] Hit:(6d8+8)[28] psychic damage. If this reduces Flavius to 0 HP or fewer he doesn't die but something else happens.
Edit: Flavius escapes being enslaved...for now.
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Blazing Starfall missed. Seems like the forum roller doesn't want to roll above a 10.
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Yeah, that misses too. Decent damage for a miss though.
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I'm going to let you post your Dominated action, since you know your character better. Use whatever would be the most damaging to the most targets.
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War Wizardy is about having allies in the spell area, but I think in this instance of being Dominated it wouldn't apply as you are specifically targeting them.
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Alright, no problem, was just wondering. Also, I used an At-Will because I am pretty sure that Dominated cannot make me use limited resources (e.g. dailies, action points, etc.). I know that when PCs dominate a monster it works that way, not sure if it applies across the board.
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I was wrong about War Wizard Expertise though. Being dominated doesn't change allies & enemies, so the feat would still apply to your attacks against your allies. The feat imposes a -5 to attack them, where are you getting the half-damage on the power from?
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I was wrong about War Wizard Expertise though. Being dominated doesn't change allies & enemies, so the feat would still apply to your attacks against your allies. The feat imposes a -5 to attack them, where are you getting the half-damage on the power from?
He doesn't have War Wizard Expertise, he has the War Wizardry feat from FRPG. -5 attack and half damage against allies with arcane spells. I've got the same feat.
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Just got back from my D&D game, so don't have time this evening to update. I'll post the next round tomorrow morning. Can Flavius shake off the domination or will he become the aberrations eternal slave?
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Death Tentacle Flurry. (Close burst 1) Attack vs Jarl AC 34(1d20+24)[32]
Hit: (1d8+8)[10] necrotic damage and Jarl is dazed (save ends)
Death Tentacle. Attack vs Riley AC 35(1d20+22)[24] Hit:(1d8+8)[12] necrotic damage and Riley is dazed (save ends)
Enslave. (Charm, Psychic) Attack vs Flavius Will 31(1d20+22)[38] Hit:(6d8+8)[40]] psychic damage. If this reduces Flavius to 0 HP or fewer he doesn't die but something else happens.
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Can everyone put a mini statblock at the bottom of their IC posts like Jarl please?
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Flavius Resist Psychic reduces the damage to 29, so he's at 10 hp currently. Good thing you cast that or you'd be finding out what the "something else happens" is right now.
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Can everyone put a mini statblock at the bottom of their IC posts like Jarl please?
Are the Status spoilers that I've been putting in all of my combat actions' crunch spoilers sufficient, or do you want the information like bloodied and surge values that Reverent-One has been putting in and I haven't?
Also, if I were to grant Flavius a free-action move with Dominant Winds, would he choose where to fly to, or would the monster? The Dominated effect doesn't prevent taking free actions, and in RC only explicitly allows the dominator to choose a single action on the creature's turn, so it's not clear whether off-turn free actions are affected.
I think the best use of my standard action for this round will be to try a Heal check to grant a save to Flavius. My AoE spells aren't much good against this thing, and my only remaining single-target spell hits Fort. If I can draw Flavius back down the hall where he's out of the auras and break its control, I think he'll live.
Are the Status spoilers that I've been putting in all of my combat actions' crunch spoilers sufficient, or do you want the information like bloodied and surge values that Reverent-One has been putting in and I haven't?
Also, if I were to grant Flavius a free-action move with Dominant Winds, would he choose where to fly to, or would the monster? The Dominated effect doesn't prevent taking free actions, and in RC only explicitly allows the dominator to choose a single action on the creature's turn, so it's not clear whether off-turn free actions are affected.
I think the best use of my standard action for this round will be to try a Heal check to grant a save to Flavius. My AoE spells aren't much good against this thing, and my only remaining single-target spell hits Fort. If I can draw Flavius back down the hall where he's out of the auras and break its control, I think he'll live.
All I'm looking for is HP, Temp, Defenses, Surges, and Bloodied. Feel free to put more stuff in it as it's certainly useful for the players, but that's the minimum of stuff I need as a DM.
I think Dominant Winds, or any ability that grants Flavius an action won't work. First line of Dominate is "The creature can’t take actions voluntarily". So Flavius can't do anything by himself. The monster controlling him can only make him act on Flavius turn, according to the text, so neither of them would be able to use the action.
A saving throw would probably be useful for Flavius now. That or some healing; anyone can use the Heal skill on Flavius to make him use his Second Wind (if it's not already spent from the fight during the vision). It's a standard action that requires a DC 10 Heal check and you have to be adjacent. Also as a standard action (DC 15 Heal) you can grant him a saving throw or give him a +2 bonus to a saving throw at the end of his next turn.
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Yeah, unfortunately it looks like Flavius did use his second wind in that fight. I definitely agree we need to get him to save and we need to get him some HP on top of that, but I also think I need to keep trying to deal radiant damage to this thing to prevent it from regenerating.
What consumables do we have that would be helpful here?
Oh and yeah, it looks like I'm the one who keeps forgetting about the status box, I'll get that taken care of. Right now his HP should be at 93/111 (bloodied 55), 5/9 surges used, and defenses should be the same as everyone's thanks to the Mantle of Unity: 35 AC, 28 Fort, 33 Ref, 32 Will. I'll add that to my combat posts from now on. Edit: actually since Valen doesn't take the necrotic aura damage this round he'd still be at 98 HP.
I didn't contribute any of those (though Fort is a tie at least). Man I suck.
I think Rileys Mantle of Unity was only for that turn.
I got the number from your stat block IC, I may have read the wrong one.
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Looks like Flavius is no longer Dominated. Nice save NecroRebel.
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