[DnD] Let's Cast Magic Missile!

Oh no, I wasn't suggesting you'll struggle without me, just that it'll be interesting to see what tactics you lot come up with and how many fights suddenly happen against archers hiding up walls in Pang's desperation to get me back to the top of the list again

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You should go for an Orc or Goblin, Zerg. Then everyone could shun you and call you names until you managed to save all their lives and be a hero and really popular like in an American Teen movie.

Edit: Came here before reading the main thread, fucking hell Acer that's post of the year material.

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Originally Posted by Skexis

I actually thought about taking the initiative, but I didn't know if the cleric should be the one leading the party into battle.

I guess with our party the way it is, made up of so many rear-quarters fighters, it doesn't really matter.

I was expecting a rather more bloodthirsty leadership battle actually but Skexis seems to have taken the role on with a minimum of fuss and got straight down to the important business of leading the others to almost certain death without doing any preparation work first.

It's like the spirits of the original horde are there, guiding him along. Don't forget that the best way to open strange doors is have whoever's wearing the least armour kick it in.

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For what it's worth Skills, I propped that post using my miraculous mod powers of communing with dead posts. The good ones always seem to die so young.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Also I'm loving the irony that the party now has a really good use for a stick of never-ending chalk, now that they no longer have one.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by a lurker

The Horde has a long and storied tradition of making executive decisions when the rest of the team are asleep. You've noticed Shin posts the most AND is on GMT right? Just go for it.

Yeah, I think we all realised after the first couple of non-fighty sections of the Dungeon of Doom that unless someone just goes ahead and does something, you end up spending a lot of time kicking your heels. The nature of play by post gaming is that waiting for everyone to agree on a plan means taking a week to explore every doorway.

Sure it means not everyone always gets their choice of which tunnel to walk down but it also leads to amusing situations where your wizard is going toe to toe with five sets of walking armour and all the tanks are taking a nap two rooms away.

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

If every random encounter is going to eat dailies like that one, you guys ought to stock up on rations as it's going to take weeks to search the labyrinth if you need a six hour rest after each fight.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

To be fair, although the game has been running for ages now, the party are all new and haven't fought together before. Even by the time the original Horde started planning for their various retirements we were still displaying an almost complete lack of any tactical sense or ability to coordinate our battle plans.

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I don't know about all this skill rolling malarky. Time was all a party of adventurers needed was a big retard to kick the doors in and plenty of healing surges and a spot of divine intervention for when the ensuing fight went badly. Ah, it was a simpler time back then, I remember when all this was fields...

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Not enough angry dwarves and troll sized retards is the main problem I think.

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

Surely the fort you're in has some windows facing the bridges? Why not just have someone peek through the windows to look where the arrows come from while someone else opens the door with a long stick or something? Either that or make models of yourselves and put them in the windows and let the bad guys shoot arrows at them until they run out of ammo.

I was speaking idiomatically.

So you can't circle people without shifting and not get AoO'd? I guess that makes abilities that let you shift multiple squares a lot more useful.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

The current team's fondness for planning, basic understanding of the rules and a willingness to actually read any of the manuals certainly seems to have made them much harder to kill then the original Horde. We never would have made it past the angry dwarf in the forge without loss, let alone across the fortified bridge. Nobody in the G-Unit's even been reduced to zero hitpoints yet have they?

FELIPE NO

We were quite a traditional DnD party certainly. If anything though, that limited our options outside of smashing things up when it came to fights. Wizard utility spells certainy make traps and puzzles a lot easier and Bob's decent knowledge skills meant we knew a bit more about the world around us without having to read the books but our main combat approach was always going to be wade in and attack things until they or we died.

I'm sure that if we spent a little time more planning things and a bit less writing mini-novels about unrequited gay love we would have made a slightly more efficient fighting force though. Skills and Acer's inventiveness is a whole different kettle of fish mind you, I'm enjoying the thread just as much as an onlooker as I did as a player.

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

It's going to take you guys until Easter to kill that thing. You should try to collapse the tower on it's head or something. It'd be quicker to dig out the bricks than try to whittle down all those hitpoints.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I made a thread for player planning, but I need Pang to post in it once to threadban him and only an admin can ban guests from a thread as far as I know.

I probably can do it actually but I've no idea how. I've only been a mod for about three years, you can't expect me to have worked it all out yet.

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No posthumous achievements for the retired characters then?

And I'm sure someone could persuade Zerg to go through all the old adventure threads and add up kill tallies for them too.

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Does the character creator thingy cover minotaurs and either way, do we have tp use it if we're one of those old school types who doesn't really give a fuck about all the numbers and maximising their character's efficiency and shit? I know it's going to be a long while before I'm up again but when I am, I'll probably be happy with whatever Pang gives me that fits the basic description of a big-ass minotaur with two fuck off great axes and anger issues (I'm thinking a barbarian now as we've had a few bards and Zerg's experiments in poetic posts were painful ot say the least.). Of course I'd flesh out the character but I kind of glaze over when reading all the different modifiers and dice rolls and stuff.

I'm not knocking the current mathematical style of play but you don't want to put any of the new players off by forcing it on them.

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Like I said, I'm not knocking it, it's just a bit beyond me and I'm sure I'm not the only one here. Was just pointing out to those on the top of the reserve list that you don't need a degree in applied mathematics and statistical analysis to have fun playing the game.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I'm not completely stupid mate, I get how the rolls work, I just wasn't arsed about knowing exactly what number I needed, let alone picking through all the feats based on relative probability of attack successes.

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Cool, well all I need now is a few cases of sudden death in the party and we're golden.

FELIPE NO

You guys should totally just set the elemental free, what's the worst that could happen?

Shame you never really got into a proper conversation with the mysterious wizard-esque chap you met looooooong ago near the start of the adventure, it's probably his elemental.

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

Gotta give kudos to Zerg for switching to first person narrative after disguising himself as Scary Bob.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If only you guys had a ballista or something that could pierce multiple enemies this fight would be over in minutes.

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Seeing as how the dice roller has decided it might be time for a new player soon, has Zeph elaborated any on his choice of "Some dude again"? I think if not we should have a community vote on it.

I'd favour a Bullywug Psion, the group as stands is crying out for a psychic frog.



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