@shatterspike1 That's not quite there... Usain Bolt's record is 100m in 9.76 seconds, which is 33.62 feet/second - 160 feet in 6 seconds is only 26.67 feet/second.
I once ran a combat with Far Realm creatures that could ignore normal movement unless they were within three squares of a sapient non-Far-Realm creature.
The MM3 has a minion that is removed from the board when it rolls initiative or is missed in combat, and at the start of the minion's next turn it could be placed anywhere in 10 squares of where it vanished.
Upper-dimensional geometry in three dimensions is going to look like three-dimensional geometry, but will be able to "move" in amusing ways. What is the fourth dimension for you? time?
In Flatland, a sphere comes to Flatland.
Only a single cross-section of the sphere could interact with Flatland at a time, because Flatland is two-dimensional.
So the sphere appeared to be a point which widened into an ever-larger circle before shrinking to a point again and vanishing.
As long as you don't ask them about certain things, at least
Star Control 2 is primarily an exploration game. You recruit a bunch of alien species kinda like how people recruit party members in CRPGs.
If you bug them too much about why you are meeting them in the ruins of a civilization whose last surviving texts describe reality-melting Cthulhoid horror, the Orz become * frumple *
Star Control 2 did it well I think, you get a half explanaiton that you can't fully understand from * Fingers * of the race that lives there
and the other race who knows, who doesn't have trouble communicating to you in your language, litterally does not want to tell you because not telling you is protecting you
it's enough to tease you into wanting to know, without actually trying to explain how it works
Alternatively, you could go all House of Leaves with your alien geometries. Really break that fourth wall, you know? I suggest covertly remodeling your house between each session.
@JonathanHobbs Fast Movement from barbarian, Run and Dash feats (1st level and Human, respectively), and Quick trait for 55 ft. move speed, and run action for 5x move speed as a full-round action, so 275 ft. moved in a round, or 6 seconds, for a speed of 45.833 ft/s, or just shy of 14 m/s. Usain Bolt's record 100 m dash lasted 9.58 s, for a 10.4 m/s speed.
@JonathanHobbs With the typical array (i.e. Con 11), while Raging the barbarian can run at this speed for a minute and a half straight, and then start to make Constitution checks that start at DC 10 and increase by 1 each round
@JonathanHobbs Failure on any check prevents him from continuing to run (for a minute), but has no other effect on him
jeez, I am not talking bout 3.5 all the way around, I don't have 2 weeks to dedicate to talking about this
lol :P
that extra feat from being human is useful, we can leave it at that
I just mean that if a racial speed bonus exists, at some point, for specifically speeds sake, that extra human feat will eventually only mean the same or less for movespeed
Too quiet. Allow me to note that there's a Bunkers & Badasses module DLC campaign for Borderlands 2 that offers such grenades as Magic Missile, a homing grenade that spawns two to four child grenades.
Sleep time now.
Oh, also, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fireball, and Fire Storm.
It's gonna be an adventure. I've chosen Expedition to Undermountain since it's modular and I always wanted to try it and never got the occasion. Forgotten Realms setting, core manuals and I must make my mind up on some completes and how much of PGtF to allow - Aaron was looking for something not optimized and not requiring him to read lots of things (or at least that's my understanding)
I'm GMT+1 so here is 01:13 PM (legal time), I usually end lunch at 2:45 or 1:45 depending on the weekday
we're running it on roll20 because Aaron can't install things on his at-work PC
@Zachiel I'm GMT+1 too, so that much would be good. I guess I'm trying to get a sense of how long this could be, both per session and number of sessions to expect. Wouldn't want to say "yes!" if I'm not going to be available most of the time ^^;
@leokhorn It's my first try at this so I have absolutely no idea. But as I said it's modular so we could easily drop after the first part and who wants to continue can. If I find a job, bye bye everybody, and so on.
and I keep having disconnections, NGGGGGHHHHHHHRRRRRRHHH
I'd rather have a good party (neutral at most) and characters with a personality, but I'd like some partecipationism on the players' side and no problematic character types.
Aaron is going to be a cleric (of Gond, mosst probably) so I think we're ok on the healing side. Since it'ss the low levels and there is not much splat I guess the tier thing won't be a problem right now (I'm eventually open to rebuilds if some character feels useless). I think it will be 3 players max because I want to ease players being there. I'm not this good with roleplaying in English so...
I don't know how deep characters could fare but keep in mind it's D&D, where the effective way to face adverssities is being murderhoboes
@Zachiel eh. Low-level helps but doesn't guarantee that there won't be a tier issue (particularly if others choose very low-tier options), and lack of supplements doesn't help much at all since all the best cleric spells are in the Player's Handbook anyway. Not saying there's likely to be a problem; you seem to be friends with Aaron so he's not likely to try to mess up your game. Just correcting some misstatements.
@KRyan PHB has no Divine Insight, for example, and that hampers some of the versatility - the thing that, way more than sheer power, makes tier 1 classes what they are
I've had the NPCs teleport in at night once, it was a fun battle. They eventually lost because they were surrounded and amassed in the middle of the room
@William'MindWorX'Mariager A man selling his soul one piece at a time in an effort to save his family all the while losing sight of both who he is and his goal in the process is a timeless, boundless story
@Zachiel it's missing spells but not the best ones. It's missing Divine Metamagic and Persistent Spell, but the cleric is still tier 1 without those. And non-full-casters are missing more without supplements. Basically my point is that supplements in 3.5 lead to greater, not worse, balance.
the cleric goes from "already overpowered" to "somewhat more overpowered"
the paladin goes from "well, two levels are good-ish; nice saves, anyway" to "hey, he's got some pretty nice spells, and he can cast them as a Swift action so it doesn't interfere with his fighting"
Most of the cleric's power comes straight out of the PHB, and adding bits and pieces to it won't make his power skyrocket the way non-Core content can make a martial character's power increase.
@Aaron I'm trying to see if someone else wants to join (@Leokhorn has expressed interest) and I both want to try for some balanced character creation thanks to the insight of the guys (and gals) here and to get all on thee same boat before starting. Apart for that I think I could play right now.
@Aaron, your character is going to be a wild one in the biggest town of the whole world. What's your idea for justifying that? (I also have a possible "he's forced to" hook but if you have some ideas I'd like your character to be yours as much as it can)
no, I'm just saying that I am ready, meaning you won't have to wait for me. But I expect you all to take some more time to be ready too.
I'm starting to think we could really open a room here for discussing perceived and/or balance problems we meet while playing and getting hints from the other guys on how to solve them.
