You can do what?
A short and simple example of why I should never be allowed to create characters for Dungeons and Dragons using the 3.5 edition rules.
A few weeks ago we talked about a character called Tialys, a monstrosity of GM design that was unleashing maximum damage with Fire spells from a low level and progressing upwards. During the weekly perusal of a few lists in preparation for the session on this coming Sunday I had a look at what combination of feats could rival her.
It should be noted now that 2 house-rules have been applied to the Wizard class for this to work. The first is allowing the player to swap out the Scribe Scroll feat at level 1 for a metamagic feat they qualify for. The second is adopting the Pathfinder feat progression system (feats every 2 levels instead of every 3). Normally these don’t unbalance the game. However…..
Allow me to introduce an unnamed Mage (9th level Human Wizard - Evocation specialist) that has a penchant for destruction. He has the following feats (in order of acquisition): Spell Thematics (Rainbow coloured ‘fire’-balls); Blistering Spell; Empower spell; Energy Substitution (Fire); Easy Metamagic (Empower); Energy Admixture; Easy Metamagic (Admixture); Arcane Thesis (Fireball)
The result is this sitting in a 5th level slot:
Fireball (Thematic spell). CL: 13, Save DC: 23
Empowered, Blistering, Admixtured.
Potential damage: 30D6 +6. All Fire
Yes this is a one trick pony. But dear gods that not nice, but it makes for an interesting villain…
Epic Moments in Gaming: 2
This is a short one, but one I feel is all kinds of awesome. Especially as I DM’ed the session with it in.
The setup: a Drow cleric standing in a magical circle, unable to see (due to a magical cloud of darkness) the Lizardfolk shaman and Human monk characters standing by a now opened casket/necromantic altar.
The Lizard asks if its a good idea to burn what’s inside the casket.
The Drow says yes.
The Lizard ‘hears’ her saying ‘burn the monk’.
So what does he do? He actually turns to one side and burns the monk with a breath weapon attack.
I mean seriously, one little sentence and the party starts killing each other for me.
Why do I think this deserves to be one of those epic moments: because the party in general could laugh and enjoy this, and the look on the cleric players face when she realised what she’d done was totally worth it.
”My familiar is this 15ft tall walking death engine, what’s yours?”
Also forgot that the Iron Kingdom’s RPG is getting revised at the minute and coming out later this year. Needs to go on the list.
About me
An experienced gamer, I've been playing tabletop games for over 10 years. In that time I've played all the major card games on the market, been involved with a number of gaming clubs and evenings, played and painted a lot of fantasy and science-fiction models as well as running a number of successful role-playing games.This blog is a collection of entries and thoughts from the darkest corners of my mind about gaming, CCG's, anime and a few related rants on these subjects.
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