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Boy o boy. Level Seven. So many feats.

So little money. And feat slots.

Encounter 7 Power: Spikes of the Manticore
Retraining: Unless we miraculously get tons of gold, I'm changing Shadow Wasp Strike into Disruptive Strike.

Aw sheeeeet. Better wait till I'm sober to pick skillz.

I'll take Snap Shot. Attacking for a minor action is never a bad thing.

I'll be training in Phalanx Assault (Martial HB) and retraining Surging Assault to Scent of Victory (Martial).

Also, if I use Surging Assault, then I retrain at lvl up, will that slot still be expended?

Also, Combat Leader class feature isn't on my list, not sure if you've been automatically applying it or not, or is it replaced by battlefront leader? Can't find the literature on it.

Six players, woohoo! You're almost up to full Fellowship strength now. You just need wvlf to play a grumpy dwarf and four people to join as non-combatant halflings.

I'll take Bolts of Warding for my power, and I'm going to retrain my feat Weapon Focus (Spear) to Disciple of Divine Wrath.

Silverback's dead as of Puyet's turn. (We'll assume Garrmondo delayed). SOMEBODY KILL THAT APE

The July Errata seems to have the following effects:

1. Gheth's Shield of Faith strengthened into a Minor (from a Standard)
2. Puyet's Lead the Attack nerfed
3. Monster damage hugely increased by 25-50%, and AC/Accuracy boosts :(

We already increased monster damage once, didn't we? Something about less health and bigger dice? Will both changes take effect, or just one?

The nerf sword has struck me down. At least they added something to compensate.
I was considering retraining my dailies, but decided they were good enough to keep. Now I might change my mind and retrain them next lvl.

And on that note, waitin' on Pang Pang. Let's get this dungeon crawl rolling.

Well, since the apes were from MM3 they had the new damage boost pre-applied and I added my houserule boost on top of that. It seemed like a reasonable challenge for an encounter I literally threw together in 5 minutes to get Skex's attention.

You must remember that I am (honest!) trying to murder you, whereas the official rules only want to provide the illusion of murderousness. I wrote an ill-conceived analogy here about masseuses vs. prostitutes and then erased it!

I'll apply the level up changes once Garr responds with his choices.

I hope he retrains something so that he can use that armor properly, if possible *hint*. Glenn can't be elbowing Garrmondo in the ribs all the time - it's not easy to get him to feel anything through that stuff.

Zeph, I'm wondering if you're willing to consider retraining "Brash Assault" to "Direct the Strike." Since we have two ranged strikers, it'd basically give you a ranged option. With monster damage boosted and likely to outperform our attack damage, do you really want to give your target a free attack against you - with combat advantage? :p

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Garr can't take Plate training, unfortunately (need 15 constitution; he has 12). But there is something you can retrain: Weapon Focus (Heavy Blade) >> Weapon Proficiency (Bastard Sword) will increase all your attack rolls by 3, and reduce the static damage modifier by 1. +11 against AC isn't too horrible - it's about the old G-unit average (new guys will always have better gear, accuracy, and defense).

And of course if you ditch the plate, you join Glenn as the most accurate member of our current group.

I don't see any such power, Zerg. You guys are obviously pulling shit from somewhere I am unfamiliar with.

http://upload.jetsam.org/images//Dir...e%20Strike.jpg
Martial Power 2, Zeph. Page 83.

Edit: Um. I guess Pang didn't upload a copy. Let me see what I can do with 15kb/s.

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Well, I'll try and get my hands on MP2 before next level and see what kinds of goodies there are.

MP2 and the two race books (dragonborn / tiefling) added to OP.

Sorry for all the brevity lately, guys, I've just been really stressed at work, and trying to get my two weeks in so I can get ready for my new job.

As stated in my journal, I'll be gone for three weeks, and I'm not sure about my internet situation. So just in case, somebody should cover my character in case I don't post by Sunday night.

It might be this weekend before I can get you my sheet.

Gotcha covered broseph, provided you aren't gettin written out. Gonna let Pang call that or not, it's not like you've been around long this go yet, so.

Don't be trying to get me booted, yo. I'm not getting eliminated after just three rooms again.

Ehhhh, three weeks is a long time but you're covered and we're rotating someone in sans death anyways so don't sweat it.

Guess what, I have internets.