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Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« on: April 07, 2012, 04:51:14 AM »
How do you get around the troll-blooded feat's "fatigued when exposed to sunlight" aspect? Yeah you get Regen 1, but what good is that to you when you're constantly at -1 to Str and Dex except at night?
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2012, 05:36:17 AM »
Some options:

1. Adventure only at night.
2. Carry around an item of No Light (BoVD) and activate it when you need to get rid of the penalty.
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burqa

That said, Troll-Blooded is rarely used outside of builds that use it to gain immunity to damage altogether, in which case the penalty becomes kind of trivial by comparison.
« Last Edit: April 07, 2012, 05:37:51 AM by Agita »
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2012, 06:24:28 AM »
Or you can become immune to fatigue and not worry about it.
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2012, 10:08:48 AM »
Custom made item of Cloak of Dark Power to never be in sunlight (also great for HiPS).
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2012, 12:22:50 PM »
Tie an umbrella to your back.

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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2012, 05:28:55 PM »
Tie an umbrella to your back.
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2012, 05:35:36 PM »
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2012, 10:23:11 PM »
Liquid Night: It's not just for vampires anymore. :P (It's an alchemical item from Libris Mortis). Deeper Darkness is only 3rd level and lasts for days, also. So get/bribe/charm a cleric to hit you up with one of those every few days (and a way to ignore the 20% miss chance from it), and you're set.
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #9 on: April 10, 2012, 01:21:21 PM »
Deeper Darkness is only 3rd level and lasts for days, also. So get/bribe/charm a cleric to hit you up with one of those every few days (and a way to ignore the 20% miss chance from it), and you're set.
Or purchase an eternal wand of it. Lasts less time, but whatever. 2/day.
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #10 on: April 10, 2012, 02:25:27 PM »
Deeper Darkness is only 3rd level and lasts for days, also. So get/bribe/charm a cleric to hit you up with one of those every few days (and a way to ignore the 20% miss chance from it), and you're set.
Or purchase an eternal wand of it. Lasts less time, but whatever. 2/day.

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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #11 on: April 10, 2012, 03:11:54 PM »
Deeper Darkness is only 3rd level and lasts for days, also. So get/bribe/charm a cleric to hit you up with one of those every few days (and a way to ignore the 20% miss chance from it), and you're set.
Or purchase an eternal wand of it. Lasts less time, but whatever. 2/day.
Of a cleric spell?
I'm sure you could find a way. Isn't there a naga that casts cleric spells as a wizard or something?
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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #12 on: April 10, 2012, 03:31:11 PM »
It's also on the assassin spell list. 

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Re: Troll-Blooded's Short Coming
« Reply #13 on: April 11, 2012, 12:36:06 AM »
I use Troll-blooded to make some minor trolls out of Tanarukk (Monsters of Faerun). They have 5 HD to start with; a level of Scout gives them the skill points they need to qualify for Horizon Walker.  One level of that makes them immune to fatigue.  It's a good way to differentiate adolescents from adults.