BoG'r OOC.

Sure, I'll just work my mojo up to the roll while seeing how the others handle things.

I was skeptical about the 'dice of Gith' at first... but now I believe...

Doh! You guys have fun dancing with the flayers while Du'minh massages his temples.

Odds of 3 players all rolling natural 20 on their first Will save against a mind blast... 1 in 8000? (Not even counting the reflex save vs grenade here.)

Don't look at me, my PC is busy being stunned.

:oops:

OK, one more question before I post:

Assuming this is round 3, Daraz is currently scheduled to become a Tasty Snack (tm) at the beginning of round 5. Not round 4. Is this correct? (Just making sure, since Ya'shenn has the last action before round 4 starts.)

(Now, if only I can get this character killed off, so I can reroll something that doesn't frustrate the #$#@ out of me every single time we enter combat rounds. A commoner or an expert, perhaps...)

[You know, with the number of discarded weapons around, I'd be willing to chuck one of them at an opponent via telekinesis -- especially since her attack bonus is higher with TK than either melee or missile -- but I'm not sure what Azure wants the limits of her racial abilities to be, especially that one.]

I unfortunately second Zim, I should have done some thinking first.

You know your character is broken when your best statistical chance to actually hurt your opponent is to attack it, as a low-Strength psion, with a melee weapon in which she is nonproficient.

[Well, that's not entirely true. Better chance to actually hit it with the staff. I was wondering if the sword was an Incinerating Blade of Fried Calamari or similar, so decided to try it.]

25+ power resistance. In 3.0 (and to a slightly lesser extent in 3.5), that's very hard to get around (if you're curious, I'd have to roll 17+ on a d20 to get through it, not counting the additional PR from class levels Street and Portal probably have, and not counting their Will saves on top of that).

If I were a wizard facing SR, I could aim more for buff spells (i.e. hasting allies, improved invisibility on rogues, etc.), or area-effect spells where spell resistance does not apply. Even without PR being involved, as a 3.0 psion I'm kind of like a sorceror (in terms of limited spell list) without a sorceror's staying power. If I got, say, Greater Power Penetration, I could turn that 17 into a 13, but overall it's probably just better to reroll something else.

Psionic combat DOES ignore PR, but its 3.0 implementation is notoriously terrible (which I didn't realize when I made the character). Now, Psychic Crush isn't completely horrible, but -- for example -- being able to maybe do 1d2 temporary Intelligence damage just isn't going to accomplish much when one is able to psionically defend and still take a full attack action. Psionic combat exclusively uses Will saves, and there's no such thing as a psion with a low Will save. Psionic combat also eats PPs at a considerable rate.

Like I said, I'm perfectly ready to burn this particular character sheet and aim for something else.

(I asked about the dorje -- the odds of her successfully making the roll to find out how this one works in the middle of combat are very slim. And that's IF it houses a power that bypasses PR.)

[BoGr is a great game. It's just that this character just does not work for this game. I think it'd be better if she were anything but a psion. A psi-warrior or maybe soulknife would probably be fine.]

How about asking to rebuild Ya'shenn as a 3.5 psion, then?
I think she's an intriguing character, and it seems like a shame to give up on her because of mechanics.

Don't know much about psionics, whether in 3.0 or 3.5, but I got the impression that psions were pretty strong characters in a fight. Perhaps when we face illithids, effective powers are those that affect environment or ignore PR just like spells that ignore SR?

In any case, I'm sure there'll be enough variation in encounters that Ya'shenn can work her voodoo effectively on many bad guys down the road. Despite my PCs motivations, I'm personally also more keen on facing martial foes than those with Save-or-Suck-It effects.

Yeah, I didn't know of the online SRD at the time. On top of the general state of 3.0, I could probably improve a bit on my build as well. (At least that's possible via Psychic Reformation.) That's no fault of Bruce Cordell's.

Ah, yes, picking up a dropped weapon is a move-equivalent action.

Improved Initiative is not a bad feat, especially vs. mind flayers. They have it, too, and it's always better to be able to attack before the mind blast goes off.

Is Street looking "almost dead" or just "kind of battered" at this point...?

Doesn't look too good for Daraz, guys.

Can't decide whether it'd be more viable to grab the flail and pound away, or engage in grapple to tear the flayer off.
The former option is fairly certain to deal decent damage but its only one shot, while the latter option offers two chances of grappling but the attempts are relatively less certain to succeed...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliffhanger

Edit: Should Daraz not make it, I feel obligated to point out that the entire party is telepathically linked to him.