[DnD] D&D Arena Signups and Discussion

Gee. I can't think of why people would be hesitant to play in a game run by zerg.

O yeah.

He's a fun rapist.

Seriously Zerg. Loosen the tie a bit. It's D&D.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Shin will not be tolerant of your mistakes.

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Monster Manual 3 is interesting, but I still haven't had time to go through the whole thing.

Didn't see any playable monster races, in my first read.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Maybe I want to play a race of sentient black jell-o from beyond the reaches of the mind, Pang.

Maybe I want that.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

You can use each daily you have once per day.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Nah, no September revision, Zerg.

They pushed it back until October (early) so that they could get the Dark Sun and Essentials stuff in there.

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Zerg, do you have to work hard to be this not funny, or does it come naturally?

I know I'm not the only one who is curious.

I mean, Yama wasn't even a troll. He was just fucking stupid and pretentious.

FELIPE NO

You know, Zerg, I'd forgotten about his defacing the wiki.

I stand corrected. He sucked at trolling as well as life.

Also, the trick with divine types is generally to take the feats that create radiant vulnerability, and then proceed to stack on damage. I'm playing a wizard|Invoker hybrid in my weekly game, and he's been ruining both undead and the living alike at level 6. Generally divine has a certain amount of control inherent to them, too. So a build that has controller at least as secondary works as well.

I happen to be playing with a dragonborn paladin, and as we've gone through combat, it's become apparent you want things that mark with your divine sanction and divine challenge as much as possible. Sanction especially. There is a daily in your level range, Rychord, that when it hits makes the opponent suffer from your DS damage until it dies. No save ends. Just eventually the thing dies.

The more you mark, the more off-turn damage you can do, the scarier you become.

And, as for your holy symbol, you don't need it in the off-hand. I don't know why it is doing that to you, as you can actually equip a holy symbol TO your weapon, thus why the CC lets you put it on like a ki-focus and the like. You absolutely do not require a free hand. You can rock a heavy shield and a holy symbol.

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Marking with Pallys is super easy.

You have two: Your divine sanction and your divine challenge.

Your challenge you use a minor action to lay, or can do it with certain powers, and it can be put on one enemy at a time. Basically what it does in a nutshell is make you "sticky." It makes it hard for enemies to ignore you. If they attack someone who isn't you on their turn, they take a -2 to attack and you deal 3 + your CHA mod damage to them. So they either have to face you and your huge manly AC, or take damage and a -2 to hit.

Your Divine Sanction is a newer addition, came up in the Divine Power expansion. It basically makes your marks useful. DS is only laid via powers, and lasts as long as the power description says it does. Same effect. -2 to hit not you and 3 + CHA modifier damage if they attack someone else.

Basically, you mark a single target every round with DC and then use DS to mark additional targets. The more people you mark, the more you force people to deal with you or get punished.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Zerg, I think you got it right with martyr's blessing.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I've always DMed it as ANY attack against a target that isn't the one that marked you.

IIRC, though, minions have to be killed by direct damage, no? So no divine sanction can take them down.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Ah. A DM of mine must have houseruled the indirect damage thing.

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Divine Sanction does, indeed, carry a -2 penalty I think.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Zerg, in my current game I'm playing a wizard with the sleep spell. We have had four coup de graces because of it. 4 outright kills. 2 from a rogue, 2 from a Paladin.

You burn a daily and murder the fucking thing outright.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

We played tonight. Sleep'd a green dragon. Epic round of crits. Fucking thing still took almost an hour to kill.

FELIPE NO

It isn't sleeping, it is put to sleep by magic.

Different.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?