[DnD] D&D Discussion & Enlistment (Save Ends)

Originally Posted by Denicalis

God, why won't you fuckers die so I can play again?

^^^^^

Jam it back in, in the dark.

For the probably three people who might be vaguely interested, I've finished totting up all the retired characters' kills. Totals are:

Bob - 33
Soggy - 26
Argumentus - 25
Gabe - 24
Fescue - 8
Brigid - 7
Delic - 3

Details are in the attached spreadsheet. Bob's kills look high but he slaughtered his way through a ton of minions, 16 in fact. He did land the killing blow on both the Dragon and Von Versteckt though. Gabe killed 2 minions, Soggy 5 which means Argumentus holds the record for most "proper" bad guys killed with 25, Gabe has 22, Soggy 21, Bob 17, Fescue 8, Brigid 7 and finally Delic 3.

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In retrospect, I probably should have added up the number of times people got knocked unconcious while I was going through the threads, in the interests of nerd-stattery. I might do it anyway, seeing as how I've basiaclly re-read the whole lot and would just be skim-reading looking for the occasional PKO (Plus I can pretty much remember when they happened).

Also, Pang you really need to be throwing more diseased bad guys at the party. Last time anyone caught a disease was Argumentus catching coffin rot or something in HoH. The time before that was everyone except Bob contracting filth fever in the fight with the rats, right at the start of DoD, unless I'm forgetting something from the last couple of quests. There's not been many enemies who kill people just by standing next to them lately either...

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, if you think I'm going through and adding up every single damage roll made you can basically fuck off.

Damage dealt is nothing, it's all about the kills. Have you never played an FPS online? There aren't exactly many that give much credit for your total assists stat, although that would be one that pissed off acheivement slags and loner sniper-whores no end I imagine.

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

Originally Posted by Denicalis

Yours sounds whiny and gay.

The plant sounds metal.

There's nothing wrong with whiny, gay characters.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Zeph, the basic rules are the same as when you played last time. People tend to roll their own dice now but there's certainly no need to have quite the same grasp of the rules as Zerg has.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I have no intention of preparing one in 2014 when my turn rolls around. Just tell Pang you want some frog dude with psychic powers and he'll provide something I'm sure.

FELIPE NO

Don't worry Zerg, now you can provide combat advantage by flanking instead and I'm sure you'll be able to steal another horse easily enough.

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

Try to pick his pockets, he might have a magic sword in one of them.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Did Acer make that last post himself and if so, is he now actively trying to kill Cal? We've seem some dissent in the ranks before but this is the first bit of active team-killing we've seen since Bob caught Argumentus in a fireburst during the fight against the spiders.


And we all know how that fight turned out.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

If it means my turn to play again comes up before the Mayan calendar ticks over and the world ends, I'm all in favour of team-killing.

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

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

In my first turn, I dropped a monster with a nova.

What does this even mean?

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It is my job as a striker to damage a single enemy as much and as quickly as possible. I'm not a defender like Garrmondo who can soak up the punishment. You made a character whose most potent attacks are close bursts, which need you to get in melee range. And you wonder why you become a punching bag?

Acer's just roleplaying, dude. If I was in a group of five people and every time we got in a fight one guy ran and hid and threw stones, I'd get bored of him after a while too. You've got to remember Zerg that some people (i.e. everyone else) is playing the game for fun and laughs, not as a statistics exercise. Sure your posts are peppered with colour and filler but your calculated approach is completely at odds with the fun-loving, chaotic nature of the rest of the gang. In RP terms that's fine, Cal can be a cynical killer but he shouldn't expect the others to be too happy playing meat shield all the time.

Using the kind of terms you're so fond of, the first party had a striker with no weapon, a leader who never got involed in any fights, a rogue who prefered head-on combat and a controller who deliberately looked for more enemies to fight. You're pretty much the first person to take the game even vaguely seriously and try to "win", rather than just making silly posts for laughs.

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

There you go again with your insistence on using the "proper" phrases and shit. Arg did more damage than any two other team members combined therefore he was our striker. When I say Zeph went head on I mean literally, he only once ever pulled off a meaningful flanking move and spent most of his time shooting crossbow bolts or attacking on his own. Bob wasn't a ranged striker, he did fuck all damage to anything. His role was to exploit elemental weaknesses from time to time, cause status effects and solve puzzles, which is as I understand it the role of a controller on nerdy websites. Also, he once punched a halfling, it was epic.

If anyone else was trying to create and efficient, balanced party, do you think Acer would have gone triple-class?

I'm not suggesting that you should suddenly have Cal charge headlong into combat all the time, just that you'd fit in a lot better if you took your nose out of the rulebooks for five minutes and allowed yourself to get caught up in the character. Stop analysing the game so much and just do what you think your character would do, and leave the others to do the same.

At the moment, from an observer's point of view, the game has changed a bit from watching someone play Monkey Island, to watching someone over-levelled playing SMT. Sure it's technically impressive but it's really boring and the only way there's ever any excitement is when the game throws an unexpected boss at you that's immune to all your best attacks, plus with your rulebook shenanigans it's a bit like you're playing with a walkthrough so there aren't any surprises. Pang could kill you but only by chucking ridiculous monsters at you and that'd be no fun for the rest of the party if they were just enjoying the RP side of things.

Of course I'm assuming here that Skex, Garr, Skills and Acer would rather play for fun than as an alternative to maths homework, if I'm wrong then I apologise for putting words in their mouths.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Looks like another fight with no casualties.

Zerg, have you given any more thought to running an arena combat style side-game? I think I'll die of old age before the back-up list for Pang's game gets round to me again.

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You only really need the combat rules though. There wouldn't be anything other that a party standing in an arena getting attacked. Ban Psions if you don't like the rules for them.

I'm sure there'd be a few people up for it, just the people on Pang's reserve list would make for an interesting enough set of campaigns if you based it on teams of two, seeing who could get to the highest "level" of the arena. Each game wouldn't take that long potentially and it'd be fun to try out different character combinations.

FELIPE NO

Not really, the hard part is killing one of you without making it look like he singled out that person for death. You'll notice that Pang never really presses home the advantage his monsters have on one person. If one character is dying, he'll attack others rather than having all the monsters pile-on with coup de grace attacks. If he wanted to kill someone he could have done so in pretty much every fight the present group has had, only whoever it was would feel rather aggrieved.

What he could do is hit you with a succession of smaller fights with no time to rest in between to burn off all your surges, combined with bad guys who can daze people or put people to sleep, to stop you being able to use healing powers. Is there a silenced status in DnD? There's also been no traps in the game since everyone nearly died falling into a hole in Crusader, that's always a good way to use up healing surges. I think Bob healed more trap damage than monster damage over the course of his career.

Also which one of you is supposed to be a nuker? None of you can dish out that much damage alone in a single turn, your fights drag on for months.

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

You made that tribute video yourself, didn't you Zerg?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Pang, have the portal expand suddenly and suck them in before they can leave the theatre.

I want to know if what I think is on the other side is on the other side.

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Edit: Ha ha, that was even better. Is there no achievement for indirectly being responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians and the potential economic ruin of an entire city? Will all the upheaveal in Freeport, I imagine the halfling mafia will be looking to consolidate their position, you guys should go ask them if they need a hand.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Good game by Acer and Skills and an awesome way to duck out. Muchos props to you both. Looking forward to seeing Zeph 2 and Hawkeye joining the team though. Will this mean another change of team name?

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

So long as it has things to hide behind I'm happy.

How ya doing, buddy?

Zerg, when was the last time you saw anyone getting told off for spam on the boards, let alone here in the Basement?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Not for over 18 months you haven't.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Yay, traps!

I want to see a trap like the ones you get in the second Great Wall level in Tomb Raider 2. Walk into a room, get eaten by a tiger, reload, dive sideways into the room shooting at the tiger, the ceiling collapses, reload, dive sideways into the room, kill the tiger, pull the lever, fall down a slope get impaled on spikes halfway down, reload, dive into the room, kill the tiger, pull the lever, slide, jump, slide, jump again, feel happy with yourself that you dodged that one first time, land in a corridor, get squashed by the boulder rolling down it, reload, repeat ad nauseum.

Being able to save the game where you wanted made it easier that the first. The developers deciding to make the last few levels completely unfair more than made up for it.

FELIPE NO

One of you should go and grab that frost goblin and feed it to the Pudding to slow it down a bit. First rule of dungeoneering, always engage as many hostiles as possible in any given fight.

Does anyone in the current party have an area attack? That many minions standing bunched up like that is crying out for a nice fireball or something.

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

I hope someone keeps up the tradition of shitting on the gems the blob was hoarding so nobody wants to take them after the fight.

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Also, at the risk of suggesting something sensible and preventing a team member getting killed, thereby hastening my own return to the game, remember the blob is blind and attracted to heat or something, you could conceivably lure it into the first room and into the pit trap, if everyone else charges the goblins to get out of the way and Hawkeye gets the blob to chase him round the corner, he'd need only to stand the other side of the pit and the blob should fall in. That's not to say it couldn't get out but it'd take it out of the equation for a while and if it was stuck in there you could spend all day shooting arrows at it until it died, or leave it for the next chump to fall in the hole.

Jam it back in, in the dark.