"Your party lies broken and unconscious as the banshees wail still echos in your ears. In front of you the horrific ethereal form of an elven woman writhes toward you, her physical form flickering in and out of existence as her broken fingers claw at the stolen sword you took from her dead father. Roll to hit."
20.
"You bring the sword down again and again as her form splits and she screams in pain."
"[I]As I'm hitting her I'd like to scream '[B]DADDY'S HOME, TIME FOR BED, DADDY'S HOME![/B][/I]"
"Your party awakens more confused and terrified than before they were knocked out."
[QUOTE=Archimedes;49828966]"Your party lies broken and unconscious as the banshees wail still echos in your ears. In front of you the horrific ethereal form of an elven woman writhes toward you, her physical form flickering in and out of existence as her broken fingers claw at the stolen sword you took from her dead father. Roll to hit."
20.
"You bring the sword down again and again as her form splits and she screams in pain."
"[I]As I'm hitting her I'd like to scream '[B]DADDY'S HOME, TIME FOR BED, DADDY'S HOME![/B][/I]"
"Your party awakens more confused and terrified than before they were knocked out."[/QUOTE]
Ughhh I want a fantasy game I can just good around innn
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;49827527]I want my character to be a spear wielding dragon hunter (so basically a dragoon) how would I go about doing this in 5e or pathfinder?[/QUOTE]
There's a lot of different ways you can do it. I've yet to play 5e but i can give some general pathfinder advice. Going Ranger with the Favored Enemy: Dragon class feature would be an obvious choice but I'm not sure if Rangers get polearms.
Another thing you could do is go Fighter - Spears aren't a widely used weapon as far as I can see so you'll want to get all the feats you can to make yourself a melee monster. If you're using a polearm your main advantage is going to be range so it'll be capitalising on that - take combat reflexes and get AoOs for days, weapon focus and greater weapon focus, a high STR/DEX are important and it'd be a good idea to get dodge/mobility.
Two archetypes you could consider are [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fighter-archetypes/polearm-master]Polearm Master[/url] and [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fighter-archetypes/mobile-fighter]Mobile Fighter[/url]
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Spring attack can be used to cheese how you can strike people out of their melee range. If you can get the INT, Whirlwind attack can be really useful for a spear fighter. When picking a weapon I'd look for a polearm that has both Brace and Reach.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;49829844]There's a lot of different ways you can do it. I've yet to play 5e but i can give some general pathfinder advice. Going Ranger with the Favored Enemy: Dragon class feature would be an obvious choice but I'm not sure if Rangers get polearms.
Another thing you could do is go Fighter - Spears aren't a widely used weapon as far as I can see so you'll want to get all the feats you can to make yourself a melee monster. If you're using a polearm your main advantage is going to be range so it'll be capitalising on that - take combat reflexes and get AoOs for days, weapon focus and greater weapon focus, a high STR/DEX are important and it'd be a good idea to get dodge/mobility.
Two archetypes you could consider are [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fighter-archetypes/polearm-master]Polearm Master[/url] and [url=http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fighter-archetypes/mobile-fighter]Mobile Fighter[/url]
[editline]28th February 2016[/editline]
Spring attack can be used to cheese how you can strike people out of their melee range. If you can get the INT, Whirlwind attack can be really useful for a spear fighter. When picking a weapon I'd look for a polearm that has both Brace and Reach.[/QUOTE]
Thanks dude! I figured monk for 5e but it looks like I have a lot of reading to do for pathfinder haha. Thanks again!
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actually reading more 5e I guess Eldritch Knight would work better for making a Dragoon if I took a jump spell but I miss out on stunning blow which sucks
[QUOTE=SpartanXC9;49829936]Thanks dude! I figured monk for 5e but it looks like I have a lot of reading to do for pathfinder haha. Thanks again!
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actually reading more 5e I guess Eldritch Knight would work better for making a Dragoon if I took a jump spell but I miss out on stunning blow which sucks[/QUOTE]
I'd personally shy away from Monks due to past experience, at least melee monks. Ranged monks are a whole other story.
I want to play/run DnD 4e. Any takers?
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;49830023]I'd personally shy away from Monks due to past experience, at least melee monks. Ranged monks are a whole other story.[/QUOTE]
Monks are pretty solid in 5e, though fragile as ever.
So won the final fight of the mek-boxing tournament in Ap's mekton game last night
After we saved the day, stopped the terrorists who were trying to blow it up, and got interrogated by the police, got into the fight
Started off pretty well. Took off his head with my opening move, dodged a lot, then disabled a leg with a lucky punch. And then he got a hit in. Just one after another. Stunlocked me in short order, taking off an arm, a leg, and my head. Fortunately, this guy was an honorable warrior type, so while he soliloquiesed about baring ones soul for combat, I managed to get back on my feet and get a few punches in. His mek was tough bit not particularly agile, so I was getting hits but only armor-piercing ones did anything, so it was taking a while, and all he needed was one more punch to my torso and I was history
He finally makes his saves. Four punches come at me. I dodge three, but not the last. Defeat stares me in the face. GM brings up a rule he was considering, where we can permanently burn a point of luck to succeed at a check. Initially, I'm skeptical, because the reason we entered this tourney was to get to the final round so they guy I'm currently fighting would give us some critical info. But then he basically poses it as 'you've come this far, and this is a guy who's gone the distance to try even when it wasn't necessary', and my course became clear
Burned the luck. My previously-ruined left arm came to life and caught the incoming punch. Threw him back. Two more punches into his torso, and it was just enough. Suffice to say, accolades of crowd, party, and opponent soon followed
Save for possibly my fight against the death-worm in Adeva two years ago, probably the closest RP fight I've had to date.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;49828322]I'd say that sessions went fairly well.[/QUOTE]
Absolutely. Since last week I was dreading the potential conflict and inevitable fight between me and the Ranger, but this... cut right through the problem. You know, like a decapitation?
Funny thing though. There's a reason that I was away when he actually died. The anticipation of Xaveak trying to kill me, and the thought that either me or him were gonna be killed kinda fucked with my stomach.
I was literally shitting myself in fear.
Quote of the day:
"Can we use the barrel of dragonshit to block the door?"
[QUOTE=Pezgod1;49830470]Absolutely. Since last week I was dreading the potential conflict and inevitable fight between me and the Ranger, but this... cut right through the problem. You know, like a decapitation?
Funny thing though. There's a reason that I was away when he actually died. The anticipation of Xaveak trying to kill me, and the thought that either me or him were gonna be killed kinda fucked with my stomach.
I was literally shitting myself in fear.[/QUOTE]
Really hope that wasn't an in-person game, for the rest of the group's sake :v:
[QUOTE=Nerts;49831344]Really hope that wasn't an in-person game, for the rest of the group's sake :v:[/QUOTE]
It was an online game. We all cracked up when we realized he wasn't there when the Ranger died.
[QUOTE=Damian0358;49832114]It was an online game. We all cracked up when we realized he wasn't there when the Ranger died.[/QUOTE]
"Alright, I'm back, what did I miss?" As the head slowly rolls away from the Ranger's corpse.
Worst part about it was I had zero influence in the events leading to his death, all I could do is watch them unfold and laugh in desperation v:v:v. But hey atleast my pet dog barely survived.
I'm gonna play some kind of rogue who everyone thinks is basically robin hood, but actually he's an evil mastermind. What races are the most "good" ones, and what archetype should I go for?
[QUOTE=Confuzzed Otto;49832755]I'm gonna play some kind of rogue who everyone thinks is basically robin hood, but actually he's an evil mastermind. What races are the most "good" ones, and what archetype should I go for?[/QUOTE]
Aasimar is literally the angel-blooded race, and most settings will have them hailed as good people on the assumption that they must be because of their race. They don't have to, though.
Halflings have a rep for being either slaves or liberators, that could work too.
[QUOTE=Jrose14;49832149]"Alright, I'm back, what did I miss?" As the head slowly rolls away from the Ranger's corpse.[/QUOTE]
But hey, I did have a reaction.
[t]https://i.gyazo.com/cddb62361fbc500fecb653bdeb67b6bd.png[/t]
Why is it so hard to organize a game? We've got four players and a DM that made it very clear when we meet, and so far we've missed 4 of the 6 sessions we should've had by now because the same player rarely shows due to illness, falling asleep mid-session, or has internet trouble, on top of the occasional other player not being able to show for the same reasons.
If you can't find the time for a 4 hour session every weekend, then just don't bother applying.
[QUOTE=Rats808;49832834]Aasimar is literally the angel-blooded race, and most settings will have them hailed as good people on the assumption that they must be because of their race. They don't have to, though.[/QUOTE]
That's perfect, I'll run it by the DM
Had a pretty fun session today.
I got doused in poison by a green dragon and only survived because I made the check, slayer20's monk got knocked unconscious by a strong wind, the party amiably asked a hobgoblin, at swordpoint, to note the location of his friends' base on our map after killing all of his subordinates and chasing him across the forest.
[QUOTE=_Vendetta_;49834361]Had a pretty fun session today.
I got doused in poison by a green dragon and only survived because I made the check, slayer20's monk got knocked unconscious by a strong wind, the party amiably asked a hobgoblin, at swordpoint, to note the location of his friends' base on our map after killing all of his subordinates and chasing him across the forest.[/QUOTE]
I really got the [I]wind[/I] knocked out of me there.
eh? EH?
How do you really stop people who have the ability to reshape matter at a rate of ~1 ft^3 / second? It's an ability in Numenera and it sounds totally unacceptable.
[QUOTE=munky91;49834536]How do you really stop people who have the ability to reshape matter at a rate of ~1 ft^3 / second? It's an ability in Numenera and it sounds totally unacceptable.[/QUOTE]
Any sort of magically nullifying effect?
[QUOTE=slayer20;49834508]I really got the [I]wind[/I] knocked out of me there.
eh? EH?[/QUOTE]
Indeed. It was quite a [i]breathtaking[/i] battle.
[QUOTE=munky91;49834536]How do you really stop people who have the ability to reshape matter at a rate of ~1 ft^3 / second? It's an ability in Numenera and it sounds totally unacceptable.[/QUOTE]
Materials that can't be shaped
It's Numenera, you don't need to explain shit, because the players shouldn't actually understand anything
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;49834681]Materials that can't be shaped
It's Numenera, you don't need to explain shit, because the players shouldn't actually understand anything[/QUOTE]
Numenera; It Just Works: the Game
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Also, today, in Demon:
[quote]Mr. Heart wakes up to a message from "MarZPan", the original poster that got him and Ms. Diamond talking to each other about how they all woke up in the same Facility. Ms. Diamond starts digging up information about Carmen Ellsworth, the CEO of the company who probably owns said Facility, and finds out that the company who previously owned the building the Facility is located under went bankrupt after all of their partners pulled out, for various reasons(death of the previous CEO, for one of them). Ms. Spade wakes up and starts looking into Heart and Diamond's private messages, having previously read their thread posts about the Facility, and figures out where they planned to meet up.
Heart gets to work and identifies someone who might be MarZPan, who wants to meet up with him after work, to discuss something. He also digs up the names of the other partners that pulled out of funding the company on top of the Facility. Diamond notices a pen on another student's desk at school fall, but disappear before hitting the ground, and manages to pinpoint that one of her fellow classmates is an Angel that steals pens, for some reason. Spade buys some adderal and gets high, then heads to the park where Heart and Diamond met up. She traces the security camera's feeds back to the office where the monitors are, and watches footage of Heart and Diamond's meeting, then steals the hard drive so nobody else can find it.
Heart gets a visit from the journalist he talked to the day before his Fall, who wants to ask more questions about the monthly date night his company does for those in a program it runs. After he finishes asking questions, though, he starts speaking in Russian(then Polish, when Heart tries to brush him off), and asks if Heart has seen a local legend; a tall man in a suit that some believe to be an Exile(an Angel who has no mission), but he hasn't. He also implies himself to be a member of one of the bigger agencies in the city, Rebelles Ex Nihilo, and gives Heart a new number to call him on if he sees anything re: tall man in a suit, or otherwise wants to talk about Demon things.[/quote]
TL;DR Much plot and setting development.
[QUOTE=munky91;49834536]How do you really stop people who have the ability to reshape matter at a rate of ~1 ft^3 / second? It's an ability in Numenera and it sounds totally unacceptable.[/QUOTE]
The only thing that seems unacceptable about that is if it also works on organic matter. Since that would basically make it an instant death gg no save spell
[QUOTE=munky91;49834536]How do you really stop people who have the ability to reshape matter at a rate of ~1 ft^3 / second? It's an ability in Numenera and it sounds totally unacceptable.[/QUOTE]
Really doesn't seem that overly powerful. Especially when there's some classes that get abilities like that or being able to slowly phase through walls, with little else until they get some experience. In comparison to abilities like being able to throw lightning around or be really effective in combat it doesn't really seem like you'd need to restrict it and it's probably got some pretty fun uses that someone thinking outside the box could tap into.
In truth, though, as the others said, unless you're spending a lot of time it's not that game-breaking. Most powers like that in Numenera don't work on living things, most forms of numenera can't really be fucked with unless they run out of power, and depending on the method any number of material properties could make things immune (nanites kept back by magnetic fields, all manner of physical effects ignored by materials purpose-built to do that), plus you obviously can't use it to make things you can't understand or don't know how to make, etc
It's basically a marginally more useful Stone Shape but taking much longer to occur, and aside from (very slow) dungeon bypasses I'm not sure what threat you're seeing in it
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