Never watched them - only reason I know about them is that Kumar did a stint on House for a while, until he got his character killed so he could go campaign for Obama in 2008. Was all a bit strange.
@Rob yeah, until you break production, and then it's a headache for everyone (my coworker did that yesterday...). We have 2 seperate test environs, one that is completely development, the other is our production backup, but we keep the data more current there so we use it for testing when we need to work on current data...but every once in a while we lose our minds and accidentally copy something to prod that we shouldn't (don't we all)
Hmmm, well I've been asking my DM if I could swap the Spirit Fetch ritual in the Feywarden theme for something more useful (like, anything :P) but they won't have it. Is it possible in 4e to change the default level 5 ritual given by a theme?
Or a way for me to cast Phantom Horses like it's a class feature?
@SimonGill Mostly because it seems like we are going to be doing a lot of travelling in the game and being able to call up horses who can fly at later levels and don't need to be fed would be
more or less nesessery.
I was thinking that since there are ways of casting rituals without expending reasoruces, this would save a lot of money in the long run
That sounds handy - but it does sound like something you can pick up as a cheap ritual. My question is more about why it has to be a class feature rather than just something you can use?
@Rob That's a shame. I don't know what the wand would do, or if that would be possible, but I suspect we would have to summon the horses one at a time or in randomised groups instead of just suddenly having enough for everyone.
The Vistani bloodline feat tree has the Vistani Pathfinder feat.
Benefit: You can master and perform exploration and travel rituals as though you had the Ritual Caster feat. Once per day, you can ignore the component cost of an exploration or travel ritual you have mastered of your level or lower.
Travel Mastery Prerequisite: Ritual Caster feat, mastery of two travel rituals Benefit: Double the duration of any travel ritual you perform. A group that includes you treats its speed as 1 higher for determining its exploration speed. Once per day, you can ignore the component cost of a travel ritual of your level or lower that you have mastered.
I'm putting together an adventure where the PCs are on a time limit. As such, travel times become quite important and I want to make sure that I've understood the different means of travel beforehand.
In a fantasy setting, when would PCs traveling overland choose to walk instead of riding?
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@BESW Well, apart from anoying people, I have no clue why I would want it when there are a huge pile of better communication rituals that cost roughly the same
@BESW I don't want to sound ungrateful, it might help at some point
@Vi Sure it does: it is free and you can do it without the use of a feat slot or scroll.
If you're stripped and thrown into a dungeon with nothing but a loincloth and a hungry rat that'll fight you for your gruel, you can send for help. Or taunt your captor, your choice.
@Vi Exalted Sorcerers spend Willpower and a chunk of Essence on one-way messages with low speed. It's a vital communication feature (except on the battlefield, it's a court martial offence to use it for battlefield communication).
Then there's this one chap in the group, I mentioned the tiers/classes thing and he said, "Didn't get it, if my ranger can do 100 damage, they should be tier one." well, never mind, in your mind you are...
And unfortunately a lot of folks get the wrong message from it because they forget that the tier for a CLASS is based on theory, but the tier for a BUILD can be different
People forget that playing a very high-op concept in a mid-op or low-op group is being rude - just like they forget that playing a very low-op concept in a high-op group is rude.
@Lord_Gareth I find more people – particularly those arguing about tiers in the first place – have the second issue. Some people seem to think it is their right to play some underpowered useless character for the roleplay!
Grease is a phenomenal spell for its spell slot, especially once you get a few Caster Levels under your belt so that it lasts. For many, grease is the go-to 1st-level combat spell after the first few levels.1
There are a number of reasons for this.
Area Effect
Grease has a goodly-sized area, t...
@KRyan - Because I am currently prepping a "You jackass would you shut the hell up about your 'fighters are good at combat' crap because they're not," post on Rogue
@KRyan - Do you know if by RAW a "Friendly" being (such as one that is Charmed) will still continue to make attacks on you, even if they're non-lethal attacks?
Yes, but you know what you're doing w/r/t Fighter and you are furthermore not under the impression that they are highly talented at fighting in a universe where magic is more common than water.
"[i]charm person[/i] specifically states that the [i]charmed[/i] person retains his own will and must be convinced to do things. Further, even Helpful characters can still hate your guts, and [i]charm person[/i] only puts you in "friendly" territory.
In the middle of a battle with goblins on all sides, the goblin wizard casting [i]charm person[/i] on the fighter can expect the fighter to try and subdue him and the other goblins rather than kill them, but he'd have to be a heck of a diplomancer to convince the fighter to actually switch sides, turn on his allies, or even just stop fighting.…
@Dampes8n That's all the rolls from a single session. I've asked him to continue recording his rolls, but he's across the ocean now so I can't be sure he will.
@Lord_Gareth Charm Person doesn't change their existing states though - so for a while it's like being caught between two violently argumentative friends.
A preliminary step: Record your DM's dice rolls for science! You may be succumbing to confirmation bias in suspecting he rolls too many 20's - you might just be noticing them more, or maybe you roll fewer than average! @BESW knows a player who always seems to roll badly, but we were never sure until he started keeping track of the rolls and we examined them. 45% of his d20 rolls were between 1 and 5! Unless you can be sure it's not just your imagination, you might be jumping at shadows. — Jonathan Hobbs14 hours ago
Specialization and Related Options
The extra spell slots are the intrinsic benefit of specializing, but they are not the only benefits: a number of Wizard alternate class features only work for those specializing in a particular school.
Focused Specialization
Complete Mage gives an option to b...
Grease is a phenomenal spell for its spell slot, especially once you get a few Caster Levels under your belt so that it lasts. For many, grease is the go-to 1st-level combat spell after the first few levels.1
There are a number of reasons for this.
Area Effect
Grease has a goodly-sized area, t...
