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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #40 on: June 03, 2013, 01:58:12 PM »
@ CNC:

Champion's Threat causes a preference, Strategic Provocation causes the target to be "forced".

This leads me to one of three options:
1) Follow the semantic, and have SP be the stronger effect.
2) Have the target be able to choose either of you.
3) Treat it as MMO "Aggro" gauges, where it is the last one to build mass threat is the new target.

I think I'd go with #3.

Out of the crunch, only defences and 'other' are left. @_@

You still have skill points to spend. At least from the levels of Paragon.

You still have more money to spend, if you want to.
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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #41 on: June 03, 2013, 02:01:39 PM »
Yeah, I forgot skillpoints. Lots of skill points.

Two levels of 5, four levels of 7, and the remaining seven levels of 9. The hell am I going to do with all of these?

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« Reply #42 on: June 03, 2013, 02:07:12 PM »
Yeah, I forgot skillpoints. Lots of skill points.

Two levels of 5, four levels of 7, and the remaining seven levels of 9. The hell am I going to do with all of these?

Intimidate seems pretty important for SP.
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« Reply #43 on: June 03, 2013, 02:12:07 PM »
May as well dabble in everything I can. Pick up Collector of Stories. :lmao

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« Reply #44 on: June 03, 2013, 02:22:04 PM »
May as well dabble in everything I can. Pick up Collector of Stories. :lmao

I'm really thinking I should consolidate the Knowledge skills.
Because Religion IS: History, Nobility, Arcana, Dungeoneering, Geography, Nature, and Planes.
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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #45 on: June 03, 2013, 02:26:51 PM »
I would honestly keep Nature out of Religion, because detailed knowledge of plants and what's biting your face off isn't really 'religion'. :p

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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #46 on: June 03, 2013, 02:34:44 PM »
When most of the plants and animals have origin stories involving one or more gods attached to them, Religion sort of does tell you what you can eat and/or what's biting your face off.

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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #47 on: June 03, 2013, 02:35:42 PM »
"I know the origin of all animals!"

"Now, if only I knew what the hell they looked like. D:"

Also, I know the first piece of equipment that must get to Phantasmwork if we reach 20HD and beyond:
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Phantasmwork-As Masterwork, plus you can freely share any and all of your immunities and resistances with your allies inside your armor's light radius.

Gold armour becomes very awesome.
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« Reply #48 on: June 03, 2013, 02:45:12 PM »
Oslecamo's response to the Khan buff sharing question:

If you're asking if it was intended to work with every new magic system that other people would come up with, no it isn't.

Altough in the end it would probably be for the DM of the campaign to decide.

So that's a strong maybe.

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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #49 on: June 03, 2013, 02:46:15 PM »
Okay, defences listed.

Waiting for information on knowledge consolidation before continuing.

In the meantime, I need to decide what the character's like. @_@

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« Reply #50 on: June 03, 2013, 02:50:58 PM »
Waiting for information on knowledge consolidation before continuing.

I don't think I should. I have quite a many fluff reasons to do so, but many more mechanical reasons not to.

In the meantime, I need to decide what the character's like. @_@

And, as part of that portion of the fluff, pedigree/lineage.
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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #51 on: June 03, 2013, 02:56:29 PM »
OK, here's an interaction question that I'll probably need to address in the GWRanger writeup. 

Pegs gets to use my maneuvers through the GWR mechanic.  How should that work with Silver Pegasus maneuvers? Do they apply to him because he's the mount? Do they apply to me as a mount-surrogate?

EDIT: Nevermind.  I'm swapping some of my disciplines, actually.
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« Reply #52 on: June 03, 2013, 02:58:59 PM »
Still fluffing the armour as jewellery, if that's acceptable. Because full plate, whilst mechanically straightforward, isn't so thematic. And how many Greek heroes looked like walking armouries?

Hmm... lineage, lineage... probably someone powerful. @_@

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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #53 on: June 03, 2013, 03:11:52 PM »
Will lineage be important to the campaign?

If so, is Carystus, son of Chiron acceptable?

Also, I'd like to switch some Hylian Warrior Disciplines. Not a huge deal, since it's only a 1 level dip with max maneuver level 2.

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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #54 on: June 03, 2013, 03:17:55 PM »
Still fluffing the armour as jewellery, if that's acceptable. Because full plate, whilst mechanically straightforward, isn't so thematic. And how many Greek heroes looked like walking armouries?
Yeah, at most, some of them wore breastplates.

Pegs gets to use my maneuvers through the GWR mechanic.  How should that work with Silver Pegasus maneuvers? Do they apply to him because he's the mount? Do they apply to me as a mount-surrogate?

GWR Mechanic?

Anywho, unless "GWR" says otherwise, it depends on the maneuver. Pegasus doesn't have a mount. And when those maneuvers say "mounted", it means the one using the maneuver is on top.
Example: Mounted Charge could be used by Pegz, but it would not gain the "If you are mounted" bonus; Furious Stallion would not have any effect when used by Pegz, because it only affects your mount.

Will lineage be important to the campaign?

If so, is Carystus, son of Chiron acceptable?

Also, I'd like to switch some Hylian Warrior Disciplines. Not a huge deal, since it's only a 1 level dip with max maneuver level 2/

Not much beyond fluff and RP. But fluff is kind of the point here, or else it would just be a monster-rush tournament.

That being someone with no real importance other than for others genealogy, yeah, that's fine.

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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #55 on: June 03, 2013, 03:21:08 PM »
Hmm... lineage, lineage... probably someone powerful. @_@

Hephaestus, Zelus, and Athena all seem appropriate in their own ways.

One way or another, while most of the others are going to start out being told to go to the forge of Hephaestus, you are just going to be told to stay there.
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« Reply #56 on: June 03, 2013, 03:25:08 PM »
Hmm... lineage, lineage... probably someone powerful. @_@

Hephaestus, Zelus, and Athena all seem appropriate in their own ways.

One way or another, while most of the others are going to start out being told to go to the forge of Hephaestus, you are just going to be told to stay there.

Heheh.

The alternative, so far as I can tell, comes from Saint turning you into an Outsider and giving you a nifty glowing aura, along with the general air of 'I'm awesome' that comes from both Feater and Paragon: Hyperion. Though seeing as he's also involved with Wisdom, of which I have none... XD

Also the hardest to explain. Well, easier than Hephaestus; how the hell'd he have a child? @_@

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« Reply #57 on: June 03, 2013, 04:01:25 PM »
The alternative, so far as I can tell, comes from Saint turning you into an Outsider and giving you a nifty glowing aura, along with the general air of 'I'm awesome' that comes from both Feater and Paragon: Hyperion. Though seeing as he's also involved with Wisdom, of which I have none... XD

Also the hardest to explain. Well, easier than Hephaestus; how the hell'd he have a child? @_@

All of that is also why I said Zelus.
"Zelus personifies dedication, emulation, eager rivalry, envy, jealousy, and zeal. The English word "zeal" is derived from his name."

Then again, right now I'm mostly focusing on things / people that are involved in the plot, meta-plot, and opening scene.

... Hephaestus has a bunch of kids.
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Re: Olympians of Conquest (O.o.C.)
« Reply #58 on: June 03, 2013, 04:04:38 PM »
Huh, I didn't think he slept around with mortals. @_@

Zelus is appropriate. Hephaestus kind of falls flat since my Charisma's still kind of handy. Athena... is probably not.

Just seems kind of out of place for Zelus, minor guy that he is, to lead to Paragon... unless... could create the world's weirdest family tree, but Thetis? Also explains Outsider. >.>

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« Reply #59 on: June 03, 2013, 04:11:39 PM »
Question about Ride by Attack based on this passage from the mount handbook:

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The downside is that, well, by RAW it isn't actually possible to keep moving in a straight line after charging except in a small number of situations, since this would result in you moving through your enemy's space. The designers probably intended either that you could end a charge in any space from which you could attack the target, or that you could make an overrun attempt as a free action as part of using this feat (it seems to have been written before those rules were finalised), but make sure you clear up this issue with your DM.

Thoughts?

Also, Riding Boots from the MIC. 12,000 gp, here's their text:

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Can a centaur benefit from those (refluffed as horseshoes, or something)?

Also also, is there a way to increase the number of charges on a charges/day item (specifically thinking of Boots Horseshoes of the Battle Charger)?