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Facebook Aunt posted:He was an adventurer and probably killed loads of evil things, saving lots of people. But so does a CN adventurer. Slaying evil things is good, but it isn't enough on it's own to get you into the LG afterlife. At this point, the old man's probably had plenty of time to just bug off and enter a different afterlife, so if anything, it's his dogged insistence on getting into the LG afterlife, with all the bureaucratic functions it entails, that makes him Lawful Good.
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Plus, at the level the party operates, a set of +2 or even +4 Gauntlets of Strength would be pocket change, and doubly so if it's an obsolete hand-me-down from Roy. I know the comic doesn't obligate itself into adhering strictly to RAW, but I thought it was implied or assumed somewhere that everyone is keeping up on their armor enchantments and Cloaks of Resistance and other essentials? Anyways, carry capacity tables are kind of worthless here anyways, since it only tells you what kind of loads you can carry indefinitely for a long period of time, which is absolutely not the same as what you exert yourself into doing very briefly.
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Wanderer posted:Burlew has repeatedly noted that he's willing to play fast and loose with RAW when it would make for a better narrative, and an arrogant dragon being caught absolutely flatfooted by a sudden thrown allosaurus attack strikes me as 100% believable within the bounds of the narrative. And Bloodfeast isn't just any ordinary, wild Allosaurus but a trained, war Allosaurus; for all we know, it could have loads of class levels under their belt, a powerful bespoke Blood Empire Warbeast template, or at least a few extra Hit Die of advancement, plus some more bonuses if it's Belkar's designated animal companion. Edit: It would be hilariously appropriate if a hypothetical Blood Empire Warbeast template gave fire resistance and other anti-red dragon defenses, just to stop the Empress from chowing down on so many of their war animals. lightrook fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Feb 20, 2024 |
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sebmojo posted:What sort of damage would Belkar be doing? I assume they're ~17th level by now? Considering this is 3.5, anywhere between 0 to 1000 per round. 
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Phenotype posted:Does it, though? I mean, mechanically speaking, sure, but a vampire is basically just a regular guy with a side hustle and some awkward neuroses. There's no reason he couldn't be studying magic or martial arts or whatever, is there? Right, which is why that was an option too, in 4e. You can play the vampire class (as any race) to be a full time Dracula with all the cliche powers, you could play a Vyrloka race with a day (night?) job as a wizard or something, or you could do just about anything in between, depending on how you choose to interact with multiclass feats and/or hybrid class. "Being literally Dracula" is very barely just enough of a design space for an entire class, complete with class progression, but you'd also to be right to say it's kind of a thin concept as far as an entire 4e class goes, when the conventional wisdom is that a full class needs a minimum of 100 distinct powers.
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NihilCredo posted:3e templates were crazy difficult to balance, but they made a ton more sense than "you need to train and unlock your magical vampire/werewolf/hill giant abilities in a way that's suspiciously similar to a regular class". You're a mythical monster, you're stronger than a regular human, that's it. In practice, it was pretty much the exact opposite. Level Adjustment was basically a total failure, even on top of all the problems of per-level multiclassing. Your level 1 Vampire Fighter would die to a light breeze standing next to the level 6 druid, and it wasn't even close. At some point the writers realized this problem, and introduced racial classes that let you progress through your abilities over time, so your level 1 vampire is supposedly on-par with a level 1 fighter, and your level 6 vampire, with most of their abilities and a normal amount of hit die, is hopefully on par with a level 6 fighter... which is frankly a pretty low bar to pass. Race-as-class arguably still had issues in 4e, but at least Vampire is a functional - if limited - class with one novel gimmick, and it functions as written if your goal in D&D is to play as Literally Dracula. And hey, if you still wanted to play a Vampire Fighter, you can still do that, as a hybrid, and then you're not only on-par with everyone else in levels and powers, but even pretty functional, with both infinite healing over an adventuring day to take lots punishment, and also a mean backhand for pushing people around. It exists, it works, and it's pretty balanced in practice, which is a lot more than can be said about any version of Vampire in 3.X.
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Gwyneth Palpate posted:So is Serini just gonna stand there for the entire encounter or something? What is she even doing? Serini's main means of contributing is by digging through an immensely deep bag of magical consumables accumulated from a lifetime of adventuring to find the perfect silver bullet - emphasis on magical consumables. She could plink with one crossbow bolt a turn (or hell, even three) for modest Sneak Attack damage, but with an anti-magic field in play, she's got pretty thin odds piercing its immense Natural Armor without any extraneous magical help - and that's assuming it doesn't randomly have a non-magical source of Fortification to just no-sell Sneak Attacks regardless. In other words, the best case is pretty bad, and the worst case is basically hopeless.
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