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((Handiwork isn't research, it's building stuff. Knitting, welding, and whittling have two things in common: They use Handiwork if you're crazy or in a weird and desperate enough situation, and they all involve following old techniques rather than inventing new ones. I'd guess science would be more of a straight Intelligence thing.))

We can use you as a mount!
YES
I will ride on your back
You will ride on my zombie minotaur.
We will find a Huge creature for the minotaur to ride.
And when I get my Tiny familiar next level, he will ride on me.

It must be done.

Didn't we go over this? You can't ride humanoid creatures!

2. I would actually love to see crits and sneak attacks increase DCs rather than add to effects. That would be brilliant, and would let those items stay effective into much higher levels than normal. Hm, a flat rate might not be the best for crits, considering that it would be far too much for lower-level items and too little for high-tier items. Multiply the DC by x1.3 on a crit, rounding up to the nearest whole number, perhaps? So a DC12 item that critted would have a DC of 18 for that attack, a DC25 item would have a DC of 37 for that attack, and so forth? That would come close to replicating the effect of a damage multiplier in terms of the effectiveness of the attack, keeping in mind that they'll only crit on natural 20s (unless I spend a feat just to expand my threat range with them to 19-20, which seems... wasteful).

For sneak attacks the dice roll for added DC seems good, assuming it scales with level. Maybe make it half the dice of my current sneak attack, rounding up. So for now I'd get 2d6 to DC, which would remain the same at 7th level, go up to 3d6 at 9th level, and so forth? At 20th level that'd give 5d6 additional DC on a successful sneak attack, which could range from near-pointless to a near-doubling of DC, depending on the roll and item. Just a thought.

The multiplicative crit thing seems to be fine.
I actually meant a flat +2 DC for every d6 you would have otherwise.

Naw. Elephants are so last week.

Bulette, instead. On a purple worm. Once we get high enough level that it won't be sacrilege, the purple worm will ride on the Red Wyrm.

And then I'll reanimate a fly and a toad. To ride on my familiar. Mountception must be done.

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((I highly doubt that you'd be able to find such crystal structures without a big lab and high skills in sciency stuff. If it's even possible--even diamond is horribly brittle.))

This is the exact moment to ask GWG to link the trope "color coded for your convenience" here.

Ask and ye shall receive. Although there are other options...

Quote from: syvarris on January 10, 2014, 08:26:01 pm

Zentol's face is a mask of rage as he assaults Derm.  His lips are peeled back from his teeth, as if he were going to bite Derm.  Spittle flies from his mouth as he screams at the man.

"SHAAZESHELIAL CALTAROTHCAL!  ZZERS!  HARIALLTONTAL!  SHAAZESHELIAL KARES SHAELSHAR! DORBAEDAL HALTHEL?!  PHAL-AEO!  PHAL-AEO ZZERS, HARIALLTONTAL, ZOTH-HARETH!  SHAAZESHELIAL BETHCONTHEL DORBAEDAL HALTHEL WORTEAL, BALTAEOL!

RAAAAGE.

((I actually feel somewhat guilty about this character.  I mean, it's designed entirely on killing you guys before you really have a chance.  Oh well, I DID offer you a way out before the game even began at least.))

From a RTS perspective, you are choosing the scissors path, trying to deny the mages paper (?) path. Being a mage is a long term investment, while physical characters have to deny that and switch to powerful mages before them become powerful.

What would be the rock, then? Physical characters with magic stuff? They get blasted by mages but smash physical characters easily?

Wonder if Mako died and who gets the credit/points for the kill.

Ah...re-science?

Polymorph Any Object, if you can't think of a spell. He said it gets a +1 to succeeding, too. That would let you turn the rapper into another toaster, with a good enough success. Or the frozen ocean into an icecube, and from there into a piece of plastic. From there you can breath fire to vaporize it...

Ooh. Clever. But I think that qualifies as abuse. Still...

If the above is acceptable, take it.

((Attempting to create crystals with intricate internal structures could lead to some interesting developments, depending on how PW takes it. Either that, or he'll just shock me and send me back to repairs.))

((No offense, but...aren't crystals defined by the simplicity of their structures? And if you're talking about just hollowing out strategic bits, well...what's wrong with metal?))

((Morul and Cog can attest to the "One does not simply fuck with alium tech." sentiment. Morul had his eyes burned out, his memories stolen, and is now a button press away from uncertain death. Cog got turned into sludge. Dammit, I spent so much time on Cog. Ah well. Such is life.))

((What about Grate? Mixed in with a "Don't screw with space magic" moral.))

((I still like the ancient technique of throwing something at it and running if anything happens. If nothing happens, proceed to phase two and hit it. Then you grab it and haul ass.

((Well, depending on how much we want to abuse Grate's immortality and risk the wrath of players who are almost always absent, we could try patenting the "Throw Grate at it" method.))

((> were just RP
> therefore unimportant

What are you even doing here man? ))

((Not so much "unimportant" as "I can post without reading this first".))

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Quote from: Remuthra on January 10, 2014, 11:44:10 pm

"MAP? THE ULTIMATE WARRIOR IS NOT FAMILIAR WITH THIS MOONSPEAK!"

The Fiery Heart of the Mountain started to speak and stopped as the hybrid monstrosity bellowed this, seemingly out of nowhere, at the top of his lungs. The Dragonlord stared at the hybrid blankly for a long moment, and sighed deeply.

Drakruldus, too, stared at the creature, before advancing with a bow. "I thank you for your gift. I would like the belt, if no one objects."
(My logic being basically that A. it helps my action economy--a major disadvantage of theurges--and nothing else caught my eye.)