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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 3:08:39 GMT -5
Lol i and Shaso are trying to teach one guy from our place how to play D&D... we needed 6 hours to: explain the basic rules, make characters and get thru 2 fights lol... and for those 2 fights (2 players and 3 NPCs each) we needed like an hour lol. I just hope we will learn to play faster or ill be 20 years old before we finish 1 quest  But afar from that we are doing quite fine... may the PnP mania begins hehe. |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 17:03:37 GMT -5
Ppl need to talk here... im stuck at my comp cuz im scanning it for viruses (even more, usimg deep scan etc.) and the hour at me is midnight. Ill fall asleep at my comp lol.
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Post by MarkhamOkhotnik on Oct 23, 2004 17:21:34 GMT -5
Hehehe, you just THINK it's a high-powered campaign. You should try one of MINE sometime. All the characters are so ubermunchkined out that it would boggle your mind. We can role play, but when it comes to min/maxing, well, we have the experience! At any rate, you could always ask someone that has gone through one of my adventures. As a DM I have a mean streak about three miles wide.  |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 17:23:22 GMT -5
Hehe i just made a minotaur, half-dragon char. For the ability bonuses i used dice rolls not the 30 sistem that NWN uses. My chars base strenght was 33 hehe.
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Post by Aranan on Oct 23, 2004 17:23:47 GMT -5
Markham.. I doubt your min/maxed characters can compare to the stuff a friend of mine churns out. He scares me. Nightmare: With such a high ECL, your character's going to have crap for BAB, HP and levels. I hate high +ECL characters  |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 17:26:33 GMT -5
14 hours of PnP, yeehaw! The other is a high-powered action campaign with three characters, and one is both the DM and a PC. (We're a little strained for members, can you tell?  lol i heard that one guy was once playing PnP alone... he was a DM AND was controling 3 PC chars... |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 17:28:26 GMT -5
Nightmare: With such a high ECL, your character's going to have crap for BAB, HP and levels. I hate high +ECL characters I know all that but at the start this guy would rock. And the DM can change the rules hehe |
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Post by Aranan on Oct 23, 2004 18:04:34 GMT -5
I know all that but at the start this guy would rock. And the DM can change the rules hehe Okay, I'm bored so I'll address this Assuming 3.5 rules, a "starting" half dragon minotaur would have a level adjustment of +2 (minotaur) +3 (half-dragon) for a total of 5. He would also have 6 racial hit dice for monstrous humanoid from the minotaur levels. This means a half-dragon minotaur with NO class levels is equal to a level 11 character. You'll have, on average, 45 HP. At level 11. For a fighter type. A level 11 human fighter with only 14 con will have, on average, 87 HP. 14 con for a figher is a low estimate, too. Your base attack bonus is a whopping +6 (so you have two attacks). A level 11 figher has +11 (which grants 3 attacks). Your total attack bonus will be something around +13 (+6 BAB, +8 str, -1 size). A level 11 fighter with 16 strength (again, a low estimate) can easily get +14 strength. That's not counting the fact that they'll have six fighter bonus along with 4 normal feats available while you'll only have 3 feats (from your racial hit dice). They can grab weapon focus, weapon spec, and a lot of combat feats. Okay.. I'm done [edit] I forgot to address the "DM can change the rules" bit. After writing a long rant about it, I decided not to include it, either |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 18:15:24 GMT -5
Well i builded that char on the 3.5 rules. And it had round 100 hp. An if it uses a double-handed weapon it had +22 on damage and 18 to hit (non enchanted weapons). As a half-dragon he can fly, have some immunities, special attacks... and his racial hit die is changed to d12. So with 20 con... Btw that char wasnt made becouse i wanted to have the best character ever... it was something really diffrent. As for the DMs changing rules thing... we dont play very serious (at least not for not) and are more or less just trying diffrent combinations (the more strange it is the better lol imagine a minotaur with wings that can breathe fire lol). |
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Post by The Messiah on Oct 23, 2004 18:19:59 GMT -5
Down with 3.5! We're all way too cheap to buy all the 3.5 books, we're sticking with 3.0. That said, it took me about 20 minutes to learn how to play PnP, because of my vast knowledge of NWN. It's extremely similar, all you have to do is remember PnP adds way more realism. And of course, way more stuff, but I can just look at indexes for that! Well I'm not trying to blow you guys away by saying high-powered characters, its just what my friend/DM said they are classified as. Since we rolled our statistics with 4d6 (and took the 3 top) instead of 3d6 and having a much better chance of getting stuck with a vomit statistic. He also said it was rather odd to walk out of a 2.5 hour quest, having obliterated an entire bandit organization, plus a random ettin, at level 1. By complete chance too, we found a +1 1d6 frost warhammer for our dwarf cleric. It was good stuff. My other character is probably more fun, because druids are immensely powerful in PnP....I mean......wow. |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 18:22:44 GMT -5
By the way i apologise for all the silly stuff i have wroted in few last minutes... im half asleep So please excouse me for other silly stuff i will write until the scan finishes and i go to bed lol |
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Post by Ael'Thas on Oct 23, 2004 18:32:51 GMT -5
Yey its over. I can go to sleep now. Thanks all you guys that posted here so i wasnt that bored. Goodnight
PS: bout all that things be4... this is a place named senseless blabbering...
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Post by Aranan on Oct 23, 2004 18:40:53 GMT -5
That's not high power, actually. It's standard stat generation for PCs. NPCs are the only ones that ever use the 3d6 method.
They get cooler in 3.5. How's spontaneous casting of Summon Nature's Ally sound?
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Post by The Messiah on Oct 23, 2004 18:51:23 GMT -5
Well, I cast non-attack spells before encounters anyway, so it doesn't affect me. And we used the NWN statistic system for my druid campaign. Only we had 25 points to allocate, instead of 30. |
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Post by Aranan on Oct 23, 2004 19:09:23 GMT -5
Okay, you goofballs. It's called "point buy", not "NWN System" *chuckles* |
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