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Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« on: July 12, 2013, 11:53:15 AM »
Both of these builds were made by JanusJones on the old WOTC boards. I can't find them by way of the WayBack Machine though. All I know was that The Casio was a warforged and that Oddjob was an evil factotum. Does anyone remember anything else about them?
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2013, 12:56:02 PM »
I think Casio was a Warforged Bard/Warblade with Song of the White Raven (ToB), Song of the Heart (ECS), Dragonfire Inspiration (DM), Words of Creation (BoED), and Shocking Fist (PGtE).


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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2013, 01:12:58 PM »
I think Casio was a Warforged Bard/Warblade with Song of the White Raven (ToB), Song of the Heart (ECS), Dragonfire Inspiration (DM), Words of Creation (BoED), and Shocking Fist (PGtE).

Interesting. He had also posted another thread (that I found by way of the Wayback Machine) where he brought up the idea of combining the Lightning Throw maneuver with the Shocking Fist feat. In it he also discussed Bardblades as well. If you are remembering correctly than Casio could very well be an offshoot of the "megaman" build trick.
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2013, 05:28:04 PM »
There's a little more discussion about it here, but not much.

I wish WotC hadn't deleted so much old stuff.

EDIT:
A Bard-Crusader/Warblade by Janus Jones (not Gato, but the focus on energy damage may well mean it was part of the idea's basis)

EDIT2: Fuck it, sent an email.
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2013, 10:24:29 AM »
There's a little more discussion about it here, but not much.

I wish WotC hadn't deleted so much old stuff.

EDIT:
A Bard-Crusader/Warblade by Janus Jones (not Gato, but the focus on energy damage may well mean it was part of the idea's basis)

EDIT2: Fuck it, sent an email.

To Janus? You have his email address?
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2013, 10:28:37 AM »
To Janus? You have his email address?

Well, as hard as I looked (after giving up on finding the build directly), I could not get contact information for Janus - he never put any on his profiles. However, during my search I came across a post in the "CO Call Out" thread in which Janus stated something to the effect of "Tshern and I only know eachother through the internet, but Nine Inch Nall and I know eachother IRL."
Nine Inch Nall has an email address linked to his profile on the old boards, so I've emailed him (while apologizing profusely) and hopefully he's able to get into contact with Janus.

This Casio Keyboard Bard thing is bugging me. I want to know what it is, and the more I hear about it the more interested I become. Hopefully I'm not overstepping myself.

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2013, 03:25:53 PM »
I think Casio was a Warforged Bard/Warblade with Song of the White Raven (ToB), Song of the Heart (ECS), Dragonfire Inspiration (DM), Words of Creation (BoED), and Shocking Fist (PGtE).

Interesting. He had also posted another thread (that I found by way of the Wayback Machine) where he brought up the idea of combining the Lightning Throw maneuver with the Shocking Fist feat. In it he also discussed Bardblades as well. If you are remembering correctly than Casio could very well be an offshoot of the "megaman" build trick.

Mega Man build?  :huh
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #7 on: July 14, 2013, 04:19:19 PM »
I think Casio was a Warforged Bard/Warblade with Song of the White Raven (ToB), Song of the Heart (ECS), Dragonfire Inspiration (DM), Words of Creation (BoED), and Shocking Fist (PGtE).

Interesting. He had also posted another thread (that I found by way of the Wayback Machine) where he brought up the idea of combining the Lightning Throw maneuver with the Shocking Fist feat. In it he also discussed Bardblades as well. If you are remembering correctly than Casio could very well be an offshoot of the "megaman" build trick.

Mega Man build?  :huh

The Lightning Throw+Shocking Fist trick I described.
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #8 on: July 20, 2013, 02:27:02 PM »
It's been a week and I haven't received any response. Either he's ignoring me, or the email address is no longer in use. Sorry :(

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #9 on: July 20, 2013, 02:47:42 PM »
It's been a week and I haven't received any response. Either he's ignoring me, or the email address is no longer in use. Sorry :(

Awww  :(. That's unfortunate. And no need to apologize, I'm thankful you bothered to do so at all.

It's kind of depressing to see how many great optimizers from before seem to be gone and uncontactable now  :(.
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2013, 11:55:28 PM »
UPDATE: Janus and NineInchNall have replied in this thread I made over on the WOTC boards  :jumping
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2013, 01:28:55 AM »
Good to see you got a hold of him :D

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2013, 11:25:20 AM »
So did you actually get the builds? Or just find out what they were?

Cause to be honest I want to see the oddjob build haha... I always loved playing him in the 007 game on N64. He was so short he was super hard to shoot. Eventually my friends and I banned him as a playable character lol...
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2013, 01:53:05 PM »
The Lightning Throw+Shocking Fist trick I described.

thats really cool!

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2013, 02:17:23 PM »
So did you actually get the builds? Or just find out what they were?

Cause to be honest I want to see the oddjob build haha... I always loved playing him in the 007 game on N64. He was so short he was super hard to shoot. Eventually my friends and I banned him as a playable character lol...

Just found out what they were. It wouldn't be hard at all to build them though.
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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2013, 05:29:25 PM »
Hey it's a JJ sighting ... but C'mon you can't
really be suggesting that C.O. is not Real Life ?!


All those gleemax links should work in the wayback.

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2013, 05:40:00 PM »
Hey y'all!

Which builds you wanna see most?  The baby's waking up, so I only have a bit of time.

It's great to be back!   :D

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2013, 05:49:10 PM »
Lemme guess ... you had a "hard" time choosing
between having a baby and playing 4th Edition.

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2013, 05:55:24 PM »
"4th"?  "4th" what? What is "4th"?

I'm not sure I follow ...  :flutter

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Re: Does anyone remember The Casio Keyboard and Oddjob builds?
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2013, 07:23:31 PM »
are Megaman and/or Oddjob yours? if so, yeah
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