I'm totally going to get a name change to Elfstar now.

Elfstar walks into a fogbank. The mists then dissipate. Lo and behold! Ravenloft. Enjoy.

My good nature is keeping me from real power. That and my level's still crap.

you live this time, soggy...

Shin and lurk get ready to close those doors, we're gonna make that ogre SQUEEZE

What kind of modifiers are involved when shooting spells past the ogre? Is there any danger of Bob hitting the elves or is he better off concentrating on killing the ogre first?

Also, we could try to persuade it to change teams again. Now it's bloodied it might listen to reason, has anyone got a decent diplomacy skill?

Firing ranged spells past the ogre and at the elves just gives a -2 because they're using the ogre's fat ass as cover. Sadly there appears to be no chance that a miss will hit the ogre instead.

There's no provision for using Diplomacy once you've already entered combat. You can always Intimidate, though, and Gabe's your powerhouse for scaring the shit out of people.

I take it the rules don't cover the additional blast from the spell being contained by the walls of the house and potentially setting fire to it? Is it in fact contained by walls or can Bob in effect shoot through walls by targetting the nearest space he can see with a burst spell?

Honestly if I set fire to every piece of scenery Bob threw a fire spell onto you wouldn't be able to see a damn thing for all the fire overlays. I just operate on the principle that it's wonderful, magical fire and doesn't burn anything you don't explicitly ask it to burn.

As long as you can see a space, you can make it the center of a burst spell. It's like tossing a grenade, the area you try to hit is much smaller than the actual effect.

But does the burst effect go through walls? I'm only really asking so I don't end up hitting any of the others if they're sheltering in the side rooms, given that I pretty much can't miss the ogre with Flame Burst but Ice Rays just bounce off him.

Noooooope.

Yay Shin put Robbie Williams in the thread! In an earlier faggier incarnation, even!

GHOST SOUND IS A STANDARD ACTION THESE RED-HOT MELODIES NEVER ACTUALLY OCCURRED :mad:

Aw, I coulda sworn it was a minor. How about Presdigitation? Would that work instead or is that a standard action too?

If not, assume Bob's just singing it.

:(

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I think whoever joins next should be forced to play a bard. If Bob dies I'm definitely joining the bottom of the list as a Minotaur bard but it could take a year or so for my turn to come round again (And I don't really want Bob to die) so someone else should be forced to do it instead for the good of the group.

I played a dwarf bard once but he gave inspiring speeches instead of song.

Well the written format of this game does rather lend itself to a poetic bard, although that might slow the game up a bit if it's someone who's no good at rhymes.

I'll be a deaf-dumb bard. My muse flows through me in the form of interpretive dance.

I thought there weren't rules in place yet for bards, and therefore ;____;

Just because there's no rules in place for the character class, doesn't mean a character can't be a bard as their day job. There's nothing to say you can't be a warrior who works as a bard. Not everyone with combat skills is a professional mercenary.

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Did the ogre seriously just nimbly dodge a fireball?

:(

Can I attack the ogre from where I am, Pang, or is that little bit of wall in the way?

EDIT: and I'm an asshole who forgets things, is standing up from prone standard or minor?

It's a move action. You're moving (albeit upward).

As for the ogre you have access to his upperleft quadrant so I'd allow it.

Not so much "nimbly dodged" as "watched it fly overhead like a beautiful bird in the summertime".

Ain't no Reflex score low enough to help you when you roll a 3

I like how our main damage dealer, who's now tooled up with a magic sword so powerful someone hired an ogre to retrieve it, has spent the entire fight mincing about throwing insults.

Well maybe if you guys would let the big hitty ogre with missile death squad come to US instead of being turned into human pincushions we'd be going somewhere.