Now DM earlier mentioned that there were "clashing of metal and whatever" which means it's unlikely (though not impossible) that they're not casters
Oh wait they can't be casters
Very, very unlikely
Because they're wearing heavy armor. Casters don't wear heavy-armor unless they have some two or three different feats all dedicated to just wearing armor
> two very bulky, heavily plate-armored figures carrying battleaxes emerge, riding huge warhorses in iron horse armor. They ride at full tilt down the road past you, heading straight to the forest at top speed; they do not seem to stop or notice you at all, and seem completely focused on the woods ahead. The drumming of their hooves starts to fade into the trees.
what if i said that i just gave them fun stat blocks and powers to match their backstories and i didn't really sit down and be like "ah yes they are these classes and have these exact feats"...
Plate armor is quite expensive, so they are probably pretty experienced mercenaries. You'd need a strength of 15, and they have at least an AC of 18 -_-; this is going to be rough
they have classes but i bend the rules a tiny bit if something isn't technically RAW allowed, i.e. giving classes unique armor proficiencies if they had a reason to learn it in their past
if you analyze everything to the point where you find mechanical flaws in my designs, it makes me feel like there are holes in my world and is somewhat discouraging
"WHY THE HELL ARE YOU ALWAYS DOING THIS TO ME DAMN IT"
They seem to have some weird supernatural thing about them. 'borg kept on bringing stuff up about how "you got really bad vibes" and like "eerie things"
and we were joking around and I said "hey i've started DMing this group online and we do this thing where we label our sessions with out of context descriptions of what happened"
and we agree that they're gonna try and guess what our sessions are about
then we go to "buying a rapier", "snuffs a pipe" and "vs. Racist Guy"
and i had told them a little bit about each character to help them decide
so the group decides this is obviously the campaign villain and the reason the fight started was because the dwarf snuffed the pipe and he's racist against dwarves
and obviously pipe must have been some kind of important magic item
and then finally we get to "deadly poetry" and i kid you not, one member of the group immediately guesses on the money that the party must have killed an enemy with either Vicious Mockery or Dissonant Whispers
and i was like "yup"
and then we have to figure out what "glowy balls" means, and party has many guesses
they decide that it must be relevant to the earlier plotlines about paladins/churches and the racist guy with the pipe, so clearly the glowy balls are religious artifacts of some kind and the ink in question must have been a magic item
and then i challenged them to decide what "shieldbrella" was relevant to
immediately one player says "well obviously the shieldbrella was a magic item"
and another player suggests that maybe the dwarf (who they decide must be a paladin, by the way, given earlier guesses) got a magical umbrella like in Adventure Zone
so i said "okay, now given all this, what do you think is the main plot"
and their ultimate conclusion is this: the dwarf paladin is a member of a church that discriminates against dwarves, hence the confrontation with racist guy and the church reference. they get a magical umbrella and steal religious artifacts (the glowy balls) and now the plotline is about using the magical balls
and the seagull is an important shapeshifter NPC, maybe a moon druid
someone else also thought there must be some kind of plotline where elf and dwarf hate each other but gradually become friends, and i was like honestly that's not too far off
if i remember correctly that was when the druid stole back some stolen goods and was attempting to justify it to the authorities because they had technically already been stolen and he was "un-stealing" them
but honestly there has been so much chaos that i can't even recall
the sky will be blended blues and purples, the glowy balls will be outlined bright yellow with mini-scenes drawn inside, brown will be used for trunks and branches, and is there a color to use for "ground"?
I can totally break out all my weird neons and such for the tree leaves
there was one time partner and i were staying at a friend's cottage and i went into the bathroom and there was a bee sitting in the bottom of the bathtub, and i screamed like the manly man i am and fled for safety
one time my mom had gone out to get coffee at a rest-stop and came back and a wasp stung her and she spilled two cups of boiling hot coffee all over herself
@Sciborg yes - the sad thing is that I am mind-numbingly afraid of the ones I know can't hurt me...
You know Ink's mind-block indecision at the pool... that is me with huntsmen and the inability to leave them be or kill them or pretty much do anything.
Yeah huntsmen can do that... and do the rear back thing to look terrifying... and are the size of my hand outstretched... but in reality are pretty much harmless just terrifying.
@Sciborg which is exactly where the indecision thing kicks in :P I can't kill them I can't have them in the house I can't stop watching them but I can't bear looking at them...
i know i should be a Tough Guy and be able to just squash bugs in my apartment, but then i think about how they're living and they are small creatures just going about their lives and they didn't mean to scare me ;-;
@Graylocke I just finished reading through everything, and god I'm laughing
Okay, but I was watching the defense team do their trial (I'm in prosecution, but I came to watch to support and whatnot) and holy CRAP that was the funniest trial I have ever seen
