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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #900 on: October 01, 2015, 05:01:10 PM »
I am currently cancer free so far as my docs can tell.  Last biopsy came in okay.

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« Reply #901 on: October 01, 2015, 05:10:15 PM »
Congratulations!
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #902 on: October 01, 2015, 05:22:11 PM »
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #903 on: October 01, 2015, 05:51:57 PM »
I am currently cancer free so far as my docs can tell.  Last biopsy came in okay.

Excellent. All part of my plan.

My plan to have a healthy Uncle Kitteh.
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« Reply #904 on: October 01, 2015, 05:53:30 PM »
Great news! Hopefully we can keep it that way!
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #905 on: October 01, 2015, 07:20:01 PM »
ya, keep it that way.  :clap
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #906 on: October 01, 2015, 07:41:45 PM »
I am currently cancer free so far as my docs can tell.  Last biopsy came in okay.

Excellent. All part of my plan.

My plan to have a healthy Uncle Kitteh.

Good plan!

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« Reply #907 on: October 01, 2015, 09:00:08 PM »
thanks guys  :hug

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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #909 on: October 10, 2015, 12:47:31 PM »
Yesterday was the best night of my life, hands down, one of the most amazing ever!
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #910 on: October 11, 2015, 04:20:31 AM »
Now, it's past 1AM, so I'm not thinking that clearly, but... I built an E6 wizard that kills standard ECL20 fighters.

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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #911 on: October 11, 2015, 08:18:44 AM »
Now, it's past 1AM, so I'm not thinking that clearly, but... I built an E6 wizard that kills standard ECL20 fighters.

As you already mentioned, immunity to mind-affecting completely nullifies your strategy. The item Third Eye Conceal from MIC, 120.000 gold, grants you:
 
Quote from: Third Eye Conceal
A third eye conceal protects you from view
by all devices, spells, or powers that detect,
infl uence, or read emotions or thoughts,
as well as those with mind-affecting or
scrying descriptors. It even foils bend
reality, limited wish, miracle, reality revision,
and wish when they are used to affect
your mind or to gain information about
you (however, metafaculty can pierce the
protective quality). In the case of arcane
eye, remote viewing, or a scrying spell used
to scan an area you are in, the effect works
but you simply aren’t detected.

So, blanket immunity to anything mind-affecting, up to and including Wish and Reality Revision. Nice.

But even if he didn't have blanket immunity, a a Greater Crystal of Mind Cloaking embedded in the armor would grant a +5 competence bonus against Mind-Affecting, and allow a re-roll once per day. Granted that will saves are a fighter's worst save and the crystal is only 5.000 gp, i'd wager it's a very good idea to get one, as it basically saves your ass from a save-or-die once per day. Pretty good for 5.000 gp.

The "Mindarmor" armor enhancement grants you +5 to Will Saves, for one turn, up to 3 times a day, as an immediate action, for only 3.000gp.

A Mindvault is a 8.000gp circlet that 1-day can negate any mind-affecting spell as an immediate action - strictly inferior to the crystal, but still able to negate fully the effects of any one failed save, so that's nice.

Spell resistance can also hose the Wizard, if the Fighter can get it high enough, as will Antimagic Field.

You also seem to have assumed the Fighter will be at melee range, when fighters can be very proficient with ranged weapons. If he specializes in them, the Wizard is hosed if he doesn't win initiative because he'll be unable to get far enough away from the Fighter that he'll be unable to hit him with his incredibly overpowered compound longbow & magic arrows.

Or, even if the fighter isn't built for ranged combat, nonproficiency is only a -4 modifier, meaning you can throw your sword with a 10-ft range increment with a -4, which probably would still be enough to hit the Wizard except on a 1. If he's farther than 10ft away, you can throw it farther with a cumulative -2 every 10ft, which isn't too bad.

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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #912 on: October 11, 2015, 10:03:06 AM »
Now, it's past 1AM, so I'm not thinking that clearly, but... I built an E6 wizard that kills standard ECL20 fighters.

 :lmao

No.

That is not how one becomes 'Helpless'.
You can enjoy such thought exercises as much as you like, but nowhere ever does this fly  :lmao

The standard fighter's standard cohort wizard and/or standard pocket cleric murders you.

As an apparently solo adventurer, there's no reason not to have Leadership.

Entirely likely and plausible to even have Heavy Fortification. If we're staying standard core here.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2015, 10:08:19 AM by ketaro »

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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #913 on: October 11, 2015, 12:27:08 PM »
Now, it's past 1AM, so I'm not thinking that clearly, but... I built an E6 wizard that kills standard ECL20 fighters.

Your assumption seems to be that the Fighter is not similarly optimized.

No wonder the fight is one sided.
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #914 on: October 11, 2015, 12:42:11 PM »
To be less of a party-pooper:

I've gotten into the first IRL game that my friend is running, using Masks.

I'm playing a Russian chick with GHOST ARMS (stupid amounts of ghost arms) who will be pulled into Hell by the time she's 23.

The team consists of her, a Gravikinetic G-Man (his costume is literally a suit and tie), a telepathic alien visitor from a world where body modification is the highest form of self-expression, a girl with substance mimicry who is trying to escape from her criminal past, a kung-fu expert with minor psychic powers who was the protege of another superhero, and a juvenile delinquent who can wreck other people's powers by punching them in the face.

As someone noted, our team is stupidly multi-ethnic (asian, black, native american, caucasian, Russian, and blue).

Oh, and in the "how did you meet" thing we did to establish the state of our team, we kinda... upstaged a small child, beat up an old man, and demolished a city block. And then we had cake.

We might not be the best superheroes...

EDIT: To clarify - this is my first game in something like three years. Or more. I've lost track...
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #915 on: October 11, 2015, 02:26:53 PM »
... Yeah, figured I missed something.

A lot of things.

Goddamn, I must've been more tired than I thought.

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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #916 on: October 11, 2015, 06:47:27 PM »
To be less of a party-pooper:

I've gotten into the first IRL game that my friend is running, using Masks.

I'm playing a Russian chick with GHOST ARMS (stupid amounts of ghost arms) who will be pulled into Hell by the time she's 23.

The team consists of her, a Gravikinetic G-Man (his costume is literally a suit and tie), a telepathic alien visitor from a world where body modification is the highest form of self-expression, a girl with substance mimicry who is trying to escape from her criminal past, a kung-fu expert with minor psychic powers who was the protege of another superhero, and a juvenile delinquent who can wreck other people's powers by punching them in the face.

As someone noted, our team is stupidly multi-ethnic (asian, black, native american, caucasian, Russian, and blue).

Oh, and in the "how did you meet" thing we did to establish the state of our team, we kinda... upstaged a small child, beat up an old man, and demolished a city block. And then we had cake.

We might not be the best superheroes...

EDIT: To clarify - this is my first game in something like three years. Or more. I've lost track...

That sounds AWESOME!

Question, your Russian chick doesn't happen to be based on Elfen Lied, does she?  :D
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #917 on: October 11, 2015, 07:57:50 PM »
To be less of a party-pooper:

I've gotten into the first IRL game that my friend is running, using Masks.

I'm playing a Russian chick with GHOST ARMS (stupid amounts of ghost arms) who will be pulled into Hell by the time she's 23.

The team consists of her, a Gravikinetic G-Man (his costume is literally a suit and tie), a telepathic alien visitor from a world where body modification is the highest form of self-expression, a girl with substance mimicry who is trying to escape from her criminal past, a kung-fu expert with minor psychic powers who was the protege of another superhero, and a juvenile delinquent who can wreck other people's powers by punching them in the face.

As someone noted, our team is stupidly multi-ethnic (asian, black, native american, caucasian, Russian, and blue).

Oh, and in the "how did you meet" thing we did to establish the state of our team, we kinda... upstaged a small child, beat up an old man, and demolished a city block. And then we had cake.

We might not be the best superheroes...

EDIT: To clarify - this is my first game in something like three years. Or more. I've lost track...

That sounds AWESOME!

Question, your Russian chick doesn't happen to be based on Elfen Lied, does she?  :D

Nope! The inspiration was actually one of the Fatal Frame games - one of the ghosts is surrounded by a wreath of arms. It looks really neat.

Also, her being Russian means that I can use an outrageously terrible Russian accent. Everyone wins!

(I still need to watch Elfen Lied... I have been meaning to for almost 8 years. I should get around to it by the time I'm 30, at this rate.)
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #918 on: October 11, 2015, 08:14:33 PM »
You better wear feels protection man, that show is brutal.
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Re: Awesome Stuff You Have To Share, Part 3: You Can't Handle The Awesome!
« Reply #919 on: October 11, 2015, 09:56:33 PM »
You better wear feels protection man, that show is brutal.

Eh, I've watched Welcome to the NHK and Blood+. I lack the capacity for feels.
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