He'd run in, plant the standard, use the move he'd made to position the SC, and then blow a stance or something with his minor.

The SC would then be in position to grant BAs to allies when enemies provoked OAs from it.

@BESW yep

After that, it was grant-grant-grant-grant.

He sometimes spent entire combats on his back, because minor actions were more useful than a move action to stand up.

@BESW makes sense to me.

and if he was as tanky as you say, who cares if he's got a -2 to all defenses

Encounter powers that let multiple allies attack, charge, etc... he'd fiddle with the battlefield from behind, like a true warlord.

He shouted a lot.

@BESW there is a Shaman PP that is really nice for that. Multi-charge is a nice opener

"On yer feet, soldier! My grandmother could shake off that wound!"

@BESW no doubt about that

@waxeagle Choosing his PP was a terrible task.

@BESW between both lists there are a lot of good options

actually no, I'm thinking of the cleric PP that does the chargy thingy

Yes, but just about all of them contain budgeted awesomeness he'd never use.

@BESW good point, can't have attacky encounter/daily powers or things that enhance your attacks when you're not going to be attacking...ever

And a lot of PP features make your attacks better, or trigger on your hitting things...

@BESW yep

Anyway, I should try to go to bed.

4d6

Damnit, gonna have to spend a Fate point.

haha

Goodnight.

2d10

Good advice from Sly:

@waxeagle love me some sly

@JoshuaAslanSmith he actually answers a question here every once in a while

thats awesome

@JoshuaAslanSmith I definitely geeked out when he first showed up in Feb

@MadMAxJr Yo

2d6

:(

@BESW Fair enough, I'm passingly familiar with Dark Sun

@waxeagle M'rr, that smacks of goblin dice to me. It's good advice within the system, but highlights one of the system's flaws that really rubs me the wrong way.

Basically, "If you can't remember how many rolls the player is supposed to be able to make to achieve a goal, give them the minimum number possible" is going to increase the uncontrollable randomness of the player's success potential.

@JoshuaAslanSmith I use a google doc with everything derived into easily selectable decision trees.

lol

It's all about borrowing cognition from when I have time.

it sounds like it takes a lot of time from when you do have time though

@trogdor not relative to building the character

ah I can understand that

when I was playing 4E though

all that time I spent on character creation

and I didn't even use most of em

Woo, we've got another new user who thinks anyone who asks for an answer to meet the site goals is a mod.

lol

I was a little confused when I couldn't comment on things

not that confused though

and if he paid attention, he would realize you were commenting on an answer to a question you yourself asked

@BESW that's fair. But if you can't remember what the actual mechanic is say for jumping, boil it down to a single athletics check with a DC you set based on your perception of the challenge level of the jump. (which isn't to much different from how it actually works mechanically).

And it's also subject to the golden rule: if failure isn't interesting, don't bother roling

@BESW Digger, while good, isn't for me. The slabs of black art and wall-of-text exposition are a turn off. Even as I like the themes, story, character.

Fair enough. I love the art and I like walls of text when they're well-written and amusing, so... it's very much for me.

My preferred black-density and text density is somewhere like Tintin. So I eat Maus up with a spoon for example. But Sandman irritates the living crap out of me.

Sandman in large dozes is irritating to me for other reasons, largely to do with "Once you've read enough Gaiman, everything you read by him seems vaguely familiar."

But sadly not in a King in Yellow type way. More in a Gaiman's bludging with volume again.

@BrianBallsun-Stanton [citation needed]