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.... aand session in about 33 minutes. Server online.

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At the time of the posting, technically it was 38 minutes till it officially starts.

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So I keep my clock fast. And I did say about....

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http://www.time.gov/

Accurate within 0.1th of a second.

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I'm already late thanks to sleeping in and I'm afraid I'm going to get a bit later as I still haven't eaten lunch. Sorry.

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Server closed.

No actual on-screen combat, today.... but 3,000 xp for everyone for plot.

Loot from previous session identified - two Greater Metamagic Rods of Maximize, one of Quicken. Pricy stuff. Let the loot division begin.

And three votes for Katsuro, he won the RP vote for last session uncontested (by a lot). Three votes, so 4,000 bonus XP to Katsuro.

Who roleplayed best this session?

Log hopefully attached.

And mixed news - I'm celebrating my birthday on the 18th of November... great for me, not so great for the session.

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I vote for Kaylin. And... ooo... I vote that Kaylin gets the greater rod of quicken out of party resources.

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I think the Maximize would be more useful... not a whole lot of high-level spells I need to Quicken, and dumping spells is a bit ... blech.

Douglas, would a rod of Maximise help Elorin much? I'm thinking we should split the Rods of Maximize between the casters and sell the Quicken, divide the loot amongst the others of the party, and Kaylin can owe money to the party pool. Or if Maximize isn't too useful to Elorin, then sell that as well, and divide among the party.

Aside from all of that, I thought Kibin roleplayed especially well this session.

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A rod of maximize would be of very little use to me. Let's see, one rod of maximize kept for full value and the others sold for half yields 53450 gp per party member. That plus the Kaylin's share of the silver is almost enough to pay for the rod by itself, so I don't think Kaylin will have to take a loan from anyone to buy it under our normal loot division system unless she's already spent a significant portion of that silver.

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Or we could, you know, keep a rod of maximize out of the party loot as a whole. So Kaylin can blast a lot more effectively.

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In that case I'd like the party loot pool to pay for a few enhancements on my bow so I can make pincushions out of monsters more effectively...

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But we didn't get a new bow, did we. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...ies/tongue.gif

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Douglas' idea of selling the other two works fine for me, Kaylin has enough gold handy to finish the buyback from the party. That good for everyone else? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Meh, fine. More gold is always good.

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Good with me.

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Crud... Sylnae just went offline... and my sheet was on it... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

So I'll have to reconstruct the sheet somewhere else... though I still have no clue what my money was around. Most of the details are on the OpenRPG node though.

EDIT: Nevermind... they just moved without telling anyone...

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http://www.thetangledweb.net/profiler/view.php?id=58

Where my updated sheet will be now.

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And just as a reminder, I'm not going to be able to make the session tomorrow. Err... later today.

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Yep. Happy birthday!

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Happy birthday!

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Bump. D&D again this Saturday, in case you forgot. Also, Happy Thanksgiving and happy birthday!

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Thanks.

And server online.

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Sorry for the late notice, but I have a group project due tomorrow to finish.

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Hey Jack! Where are you?

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It was a long dinner. I helped cook.

Server closed.
One CR 20 Cleric stoned
Two CR 18 Nightcrawler's defeated (one killed, one run off at about 30 HP)
Five CR 8 Young Adult Red Dragon Skeletons destroyed.

2,400 xp for those at 20th
3,230 xp for those at 19th
4,320 xp for anyone at 18th

A bonus of 1,000 xp to everyone for plot advancement.

One vote for Kaylin, one vote for Kibin; bonus 1,500 xp each.

And who roleplayed best this session?

Log hopefully attached

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Whoooo, 3,000 XP till level 21!

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Actually, if you want to cheese-out Hero System, here's how:

Gibberling Power: Summon Gibberling: Summon 100-point Gibberling (20 Active Points).

First round: 1 Gibberling. Second round: 2 Gibberlings. Third round: 4 Gibberlings. Fourth round: 8 Gibberlings.

And so on. Eventually, the whole world is overrun by Gibberlings...

This is probably one of the reasons Summon has a 'STOP' sign on it...

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Ah, like the Wight Apocolypse; an 8th+ level Evil cleric and an 7th+ level Wizard, working together, can have a limitless number of Wights under the Evil Cleric's indirect control....

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How does that work?

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Well, enervation applies negative levels to a creature. It's a 4th level spell, so an Evil Wizard-7 can cast it.
The enervation targets a commoner-1, who's slain by negative levels.
A creature killed by Negative Levels either rises as a creature of the kind that killed it (for certain creatures), or as a Wight the next night. As the Evil Wizard doesn't have a specific spawn clause, the commoner-1 rises the next night as a Wight.
Well, a Wight is a 4 HD undead; an Evil Cleric-8 can Command it.
A Wight has the create spawn ability (which is what all this is leading up to):
Feed your Wight commoner-1's that you've gotten from... wherever. Kidnapping, maybe. Or have it go harvest a few small villages, whatever. Each wight it creates is under it's control. It is under your control. You tell it what orders to give out. There's no limit to the number of wights it can control, but it wouldn't matter much if there were, as each enslaved wight can make more enslaved wights.

So you Have a Commanded Wight (let's call him First). Who has, say, 10 spawn (10 seconds). Each of those 10 spawn have 10 spawn (100 thirds). Each of those spawn have 10 of their own (1000 fourths). Each of those spawn have 10 spawn of their own (10,000 fifths).

If you go ten ranks, you have have 1,111,111,111 total wights under your (indirect) command.

And they have an Int of 11, so they should be able to relay orders properly, even.

Fragile, though - one assasination, and suddenly you have ten firsts... and you can only Command two. They probably don't like you very much.

Edit: And lo, the mouse did ask to see the cheese, and the cheese was dripping, and stinking, and plentiful.

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Whoop, that summon chain wouldn't actually work that way; have to write it like this: 'Gibberling Power: Summon Gibberling: Summon 2 100-point Gibberling (25 Active Points)'.

So 1, 3(2), 7(4), 15(8)...

Plus, given the rules, the GM can easily rule that the Gibberlings start fighting each other; basic summoned creatures start out neutral with regards to the summoner. Of course, a disadvantage: 'Psychological Limitation: Loyalty: Other Gibberlings (Very Common, Total) (25 Active Points)' would take care of that. Except that that's not really a disadvantage, but that rule still requires GM fiat.

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I've been thinking about random chargen. Particularly, also about the blandness of point-buy.

So, what do you think?

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Rolls can easily be tampered with unless you roll in front of the GM. Also, there's randomness in it, which means that one person could get several 16-18s, while the other person has all rolls under 10.

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So we roll in front of the GM.

The randomness is the whole point. Roleplaying a character that you didn't purpose-design. Random rolls are a lot more organic.

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I'd be OK with randomly rolled characters... for future characters, correct?

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I for one don't like the randomness, also means character generation takes longer for me since I have to fit it around a few random rolls...

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Yep, future characters.

@Ashton: Live in the moment! Be spontanious! Leap without looking!

Oh, and don't roll a three.

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That, and the powergamer in me will just want to keep having characters die till I get perfect scores.

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I can't do anything about that.

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Slight issue.

Power's out due to a storm. Might be up tomorrow, might not. Meanwhile, there's another on the way (storm, that is).

Cafe's are great, aren't they?

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Yeah... steam is also down.... probably will be back up tomorrow(I hope)

Otherwise I have no games to play.

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Power was down for me last night in the storm but it's back up... I should be able to come tomorrow so long as there isn't another outage.

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I'm thinking it's back up again, because the Steam servers are back up. Power, that is.

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Fall semester just finished for me, so I'm at home now and probably won't be able to play until January when I'm back at my own computer.

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Sister's coming over. Going to have a pre-Christmas celebration.

So, of course I'll be there! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Joking. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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So I guess no session today, and possibly for a while given that Douglas will be likely unable to join us?

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Finally. Power!!!!! About five minutes ago.

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Ah, so maybe not the same city that the steam servers were in.

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That's good.

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This might be off topic, but I thought of you Narf when I read this.

Q: How do you circumcise a hillbilly?
A: Kick his sister in the jaw.

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