BoG'r OOC.

Since she's low in the initiative count, Ya'shenn's actions will be influenced by how things are going for Du'minh. Will accordingly wait a little bit before posting... but please don't move into the next round without me.

Next on Pay-Per-View: Du'minh the Rish-i-Chal vs. the Whirlwind of Pain (tm)!

(I'm guessing 6+ attacks per round on that guy. Even more fun if It has stuff in the Multiattack or dual-wield feat lines, which it well might.)

Could be worse. You could have a broken weapon and a very tasty brain.

'weishan' wrote:

But you have 3 power points.

They're overrated, trust me.

(You have to admit, though, being violently de-brained by an enraged Tamer would be way up there as far as 'interesting and unusual PC deaths' go.)

Hey, can I cast a fireball in an enclosed space and execute a chair with that taunt, please?

*chuckle* *scared*

Well, Ya'shenn is very articulate. And that's a most amusing name for a dice-check.

Finally I have a chance to display my martial specialty.
The heavy flail is not only an overlooked weapon, forgotten in a blaze of sword-cliches, it also is effective in this niche of D&D tactics.

This constitutes a "feel good" moment.

Nah, not unless its largely martial in nature - preferably depending on weapons or tools, too!
Even so, Du'minh has pretty poor AC for his level so he could be ganged up on by multiple decent warriors pretty effectively (why am I advising the DM on how to kill my PC? ).

Not sure if Du'minh would be much good at higher levels where the threats mostly come in forms of effects that kick you out of the fight if you lose a save.

Uh-oh. Du'minh needs help. Quick! :shock:

Az, how many rounds to brain extraction? I see 3 tentacles, but I'm not sure if that's the... RPish way of showing what's going on.

(If there were only 3, it wouldn't be able to extract his brain till its initiative on round 3, since it would still need to attach the 4th tentacle, THEN extract his brain on the round after that. Just askin'.)

Oh, and Ya'shenn is more than a standard move away, with a broken missile weapon. Heh.

And Street will be picking himself up and won't be very happy, not that I should tell EvilDM this. :twisted:

Let's not forget that Ya'shenn also personally questioned the 'illithid-hood' of one of them -- but it's Street who reacted to it, so I doubt either of them is very happy with her.

'Azure' wrote:

YAY! Isn't this a fun campaign?

Mmhmm.

Just wondering, do these two illithids have names other than Portal or Street? (Not that the PCs would know said names, just curious.)

Sorry, is it Du'minh's turn? :queEs:

Technically, standing up is a move-equivalant action, so our good buddy can still make one attack (but not take a full attack action).

'Zimrazim' wrote:

'Burning Spear' wrote:

'Dunamin' wrote:

It was my impression that rather than last names githyanki have "fortress names", relating to where they serve(d), but I guess that's not terribly relevant for Git'riban locals.

Most of my characters only have single names anyhow, sometimes due to laziness, sometimes due to this being the way of the culture in question.

Actually, in Dungeon 100/ Polyhehedron 59, it states Githyanki take gi as a pre?fix, and then put the name of the mentor behind it, so:

O"trabando gi'Fistandantilus or somesort...

You made me go look it up.

Quoted: "A githyanki who has had the privilege of training with a great hero of the race often adds his mentor's name to his own, adding the prefix gi'- ("student of") to the trainer's name. Students of the renowned swordsman Khlasath, for example, append gi'Khlasath to their own names."

A typical githyanki wouldn't have a gi'- on his name, but those who have been chosen apprentices of a particularly famous warrior/mage/whatever would.

Jup, thats the one

Ya'shenn doesn't think this, but Zimrazim thinks that Du'minh could probably take out these guys all by himself...heh.

Edit: For the curious, Portal doesn't necessarily 'feel' like a Tamer, but Ya'shenn is assuming it is on the basis that it drew a physical weapon.

Edit #2: Why do I have the feeling that this party is going to develop some very weird team fighting tactics?

+17 attack bonus +4 Improved Disarm +4 Using a two-handed weapon +2 Using a flail = +27.

Note, the bonus from using a two-handed weapon is not a relative one. If your opponent is using a light weapon she gets a -4 on her roll, meaning the effective difference is 8 points.
So don't try to fling away a greatsword with a dagger.

I play consistently with the 3.5 content I have, and in my opinion most of the changes are good ones. Fighters are still the underdog but for a long time I've had a sort of nostalgic love for them, especially in light of how outclassed they've become in the game.

Recently found a fun incarnation of how others have presented this problem. Linky

As an aside, I bet illithids really like this

and this

(don't tell EvilDM)

I'm cautiously optimistic about the fighter in 4th Edition. Lots of changes I've heard sound alien to me (especially regarding world-building), but it seems they really are trying to make all classes fun and interesting to play.

Gah! Blasted blasting 'thids!