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So Skills, whatchu gonna buy with the $33 Pang owes you? :tpg:

Did Garr manage to land a single blow during that fight in the end? If not, surely there's an achievement for that?

That will only add insult to injury :mad:

Yeah if I were to hand out achievements every time one of you fails at something mundane I'd be sitting in photoshop 24/7

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Didn't he win the GFF D&D Guess When Acer Posts contest event thing? :gonk:

No, he did not, because Acer's post did not actually enter the game thread until after midnight despite having created it in in the OCD thread several minutes earlier.

(Arguably no one could have won because Acer's post was created and then deleted several times in a sequence of events I am choosing not to consider suspicious at all*, so the actual timing of Acer's response post is kind of up in the air.)

*because I really prefer not to speculate on the notion that someone would cheat at D&D. That would be sad.

So Pang, how much useless things can I stuff into that wagon before the wheels (and the horse) give way? :)

A wagon can carry four tons of cargo :o

8,000/8,818/8,960 pounds of junk? Awesome :D

How about the horse? How much can he drag and remain at speed? (Garr's sheet say strength of 20 = 1000 pounds, so the horse's strength of 19 drags less than a half-ton. But my physics is rusty on how much that is mitigated by the friction-reducing wheels.)

8,960 surely? As if a fantasy setting like DnD would use New World crazy person measurements.

I suspect the exact definition of a 'ton' is a moot point. I'll be damned if I can even fill the wagon with a short ton-load of junk...

Exempting the heavy Player characters and their existing inventories, of course.

Though I must admit I find it strange you would consider the metric ton to be the appropriate medieval measure, compared to the Ye Olde England land gross ton...

I didn't bother checking my post, sorry. I glanced at it and assumed you meant 4 lots of 2,240 pounds, and picked the wrong option, i.e. a proper ton, or 20 hundredweight.

Learn to read (And count) Shin. :(

You underestimate yourself.

Cal will steal the houses themselves if he damn near has to, I'm sure.

So, small errata update:

The Cleric power Righteous Brand has been nerfed, but not in a way that actually effects Gheth. Originally it provided a bonus to ally attacks equal to your STR mod, but now it simply provides +3. Happily, Gheth's STR mod is +3 so uhhh this reminder is kind of unnecessary!

Zerg, Guardian Arrow appears to be safe; replaced the crop from Dragon with a proper power card.

This has been your March update for "Pang, Why Have You Crippled Me?"

Huh, so it looks like the nerf only affects Paragon to Epic-tier (ab)use of Righteous Brand then, eh? I can't imagine you'll be using at-wills at that level though, since you're bound to have some real sweet encounters and dailies by then...

I am glad I get to keep the controllerish power! What's the source of your power cards, Pang? They look completely different from the one generated by the character builder.

Hush you. Pang hasn't set any limits on wagon volumes. Stealing houses would be pushing his largesse ;___;

So crippled right now. ;_;

Bah, of all the players so far, only Cal's "Spitting Cobra Stance" has been well and truly crippled so far :mad:

ah yes, spitting cobra stance, the power you need to be within 5 squares of an enemy to use

you were totally going to get tons of mileage out of that Zerg

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Hey, even at level 1 you could have +5 to STR if you wanted to. And even at Epic battles can come down to At-Wills if they drag out long enough.

All it does is to ensure that all enemies are gonna stay five squares away from me. Admittedly I'd get more mileage out of it if Cal were built as a more flexible Hunter Ranger (MM2). Or if he had the ability to disengage from melee at will (Nimble Attack would do it). But changing at-wills is kinda low priority right now (I'd rather do Shadow Wasp > Disruptive Strike). I'm looking at an option that needs three feats to be completely effective - Superior Crossbow Proficiency, Speed Loader, and then Sneak of Snadows Multiclass Rogue. Still, I doubt Cal will survive that long, since there's no new feat at Level 7 :(

'Sides, it got nerfed before the Gnasc battle. I was already strategizing about teaming up with Garr on the Murkelmor battle. He'd mark the guy and shift 1 square closer to me. Murks would either attack another and eat the penalty, or he'd have to move closer and eat my arrow, just to attack Garr... Naturally the nerf led to a change of plans.

Why'd you think I asked the question that led you to investigate Spitting Cobra Stance in the first place? :mad:

That'd be terribly ineffective on other fronts - he'd be sacrificing a lot of other stuff just for a teensy bit of damage. I discovered this to my chagrin when rebuilding Cal. By changing what attributes were trained and the initial array, it was actually possible to let him have the same stats he has now, with 3 points leftover in the point allocation pool... Oh well, should have done the twinking out with Character Builder before, and not after...

But I'd guess epic final battles against Orcus or Tiamat might come down to at-wills... The Tiamat module was especially brutal. Instant death at Epic tier? Wow.

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By the way:
**Hidden Content**

Three questions!

1. How high up is the second storey?
2. Is there anything that bar the windows (ie grills) which would physically prevent a fastball special from succeeding?
3. Fastball special, Gheth and Cal! Acrobatics or athletics?

Zerg, did you really think assuming the guise of the priest who just dissolved into a pile of tentacley goo after being corrupted and slaughtering the village was a good way to make friends and influence people?

Really now, Shin. Must everything I do be optimal? Cal's intelligence is only 8, after all. He's practically the dunce of the party! :33:

Not at all. I wanted to see how Pang will play the NPC reactions! In all honesty I was expecting another encounter, not a social skill challenge!

From a story-telling point of view, the priest only became a slithering monstrosity after he met us. So for all the girl knows, his faith saved him.

Unless she was watching the fight through the window of course, in which case she just saw a bunch of dudes murder the gibbering remains of the townfolk before the minotaur who'd been hiding miles from the action suddenly turned into the priest and came to rape her.

I don't think any amount of dice rolling is going to get you out of this one, you should probably just tie her up and take her along as a meat-shield.

Ah well, as far as rape is concerned, Cal is probably not the one she should be wary of. Cal's totally 100% consensual, baby :tpg:

And we were totally doing her a favor by cleaning up the town of monsters. Kids these days, so ungrateful~~~ :mad: