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Started by Dracos, November 23, 2009, 05:02:20 PM

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Dracos

I should've left already, but I haven't.  I may be late.
Well, Goodbye.

Anastasia

Hell of a session. I didn't expect the harpy bitch to be that hard a fight, but Hatbot had a flair for the dramatic. Did you guys enjoy the session?
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

VySaika

Got to bring out a unexplored part of Adail's personality a bit here, so that was fun. He kinda goes into "hehehe fighting is fun~" mode when someone actually manages to hit him but isn't approaching OHKO levels like the XORN did. Of course when his friends start taking massive damage, that goes away. He's not totally nuts, just a somewhat violent adreneline junky(especially for a celestial).
All About Monks
<Marisa> They're OP as fuck
<Marisa> They definitely don't blow in 3.5
<Marisa> after a certain level they basically just attack repeatedly until it dies
<Marisa> they're immune to a bunch of high level effects
<Marisa> just by being monks

Anastasia

Quote from: Gatewalker on February 17, 2010, 03:44:51 AM
Got to bring out a unexplored part of Adail's personality a bit here, so that was fun. He kinda goes into "hehehe fighting is fun~" mode when someone actually manages to hit him but isn't approaching OHKO levels like the XORN did. Of course when his friends start taking massive damage, that goes away. He's not totally nuts, just a somewhat violent adreneline junky(especially for a celestial).

Celestials are often white-washed. They're perfect good, they're boring, blah blah blah blah blah. I welcome this in giving Adail more personality and more depth. An adrenaline freak celestial? Now that's more interesting than the stereotype.  It's a nice take on the righteous wrath angle.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Carthrat

It was a decent set piece for a fight, the kinda tactical stuff I like, and Kam's stunt was pretty cool. The villain today was kinda nonsensical though. So it was a good fight in weird context.

I have to admit that I'm somewhat nonplussed by having someone DIE and then come back to life in the same session for a trinket, with no real repercussions. Yeah, D&D, but... well. <_<
[19:14] <Annerose> Aww, mouth not outpacing brain after all?
[19:14] <Candide> My brain caught up

Anastasia

Quote from: Carthrat on February 17, 2010, 03:49:50 AM
It was a decent set piece for a fight, the kinda tactical stuff I like, and Kam's stunt was pretty cool. The villain today was kinda nonsensical though. So it was a good fight in weird context.

She was basically the flock leader of the harpies and kept the best raiding spot to herself. She was basically an egomaniac and used to being the top dog of her little world.  This is all about raiding and following her little black heart's desires. To her, you were just some prey and an easy mark to hit on. The way the fight went, she never got a chance go into this. If you'd surrendered to her or things went differently somehow, this would've been gone into in more depth.

QuoteI have to admit that I'm somewhat nonplussed by having someone DIE and then come back to life in the same session for a trinket, with no real repercussions. Yeah, D&D, but... well. <_<

Agreed 100000%.

For the sake of not having Drac sit out several sessions I fast-forwarded the resurrection. I'm not a fan of this, but if I can't get the needed effects before he comes back, by Ogremoch, I'll get them in after. Practical DMing had to trump world flavor here. Letting Drac stew in dying for a week or two just wasn't a good idea.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Dracos

I had fun last session, even though hatebot hated greatly and the initial setup (With a great deal of prodding from others) convinced that I couldn't just jump down there.  Though I suppose Mari paid for convincing me that I couldn't for a while.

There were a lot of fun lines and a lot of little scenes.  I definitely understand the conflict on numerous fronts.  On my side, that was one of the more OOC action choices I've had Kamvakua take.  Exterior to it, it was awesome, but not only did I take an OOC action, I suicided on it.  And it was really only a small chance of that happening too.  Less than ten percent I'm pretty sure.  But that's how the dice were going with me that night anyhow.  It might've been a very different story had I simply gotten back up, but the dice were against me as they tend to be.

As I did die there, I understand it promptly tosses dune in a bad situation between putting in punishment to make death painful and generally epic, but really, I'm glad the choice was made as such.  Sitting out a couple weeks would've been really lame.

eh, I am failing to put concept into words.  oh well. 
Well, Goodbye.

Dracos

<dracos> mmm, aww, that's not so interesting.
<dracos> I did the math on the odds of kamvakua's death on that action.
<Taishyr> 129%?
<Kotono> Oh?
<Kotono> 34%
<Kotono> ?
<dracos> It ranged from a low of 1.15 percent to a high of 2.73 percent.  Mmm, though I suppose that's not entirely true.  It's probably that 1.15 added to a small amount, so closer to 4 percent.  But that's still not 5 percent, which is what my whimsy said would be hillarious.
<dracos> (1.15 percent was the odds of it doing instant death.  2.73 percent were the odds of it doing just enough, and failing on the recovery rolls).
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Anastasia

Did you factor in the odds of the AoO missing or landing a crit? An miss I think almost ensures your survival, while a crit is almost certain death.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Dracos

I did not factor in the odds of a crit.  I did factor in the odds of missing.  So it may be a bit higher.  Adding in the crit vastly complicates the math here (much as properly summing the percentile chance between recovery and instant death would).

I'm using a program called SmallRoller to do most of the math and then taking the rest with a calculator.  My hand work with probabilities on high varieties of dice is quite slow these days anyway.
Well, Goodbye.

Anastasia

The odds of a crit nudges it a hair closer to 5%, I guess? It's not a huge change I imagine, since it was 50/50 she'd hit and the same odds on a crit confirmation.
<Afina> Imagine a tiny pixie boot stamping on a devil's face.
<Afina> Forever.

<Yuthirin> Afina, giant parasitic rainbow space whale.
<IronDragoon> I mean, why not?

Dracos

a 1/40 odds multiplier really.  If it was considered a sure thing that that killed, it would add 2.5 percent and subtract about .3-.4 percent from the previous numbers.  It'd probably push it around the 5 and a half percent range.
Well, Goodbye.

VySaika

About 5%? So...about the same odds as rolling a 1 on a critical save when that's the only way you can fail, then? <_<;
All About Monks
<Marisa> They're OP as fuck
<Marisa> They definitely don't blow in 3.5
<Marisa> after a certain level they basically just attack repeatedly until it dies
<Marisa> they're immune to a bunch of high level effects
<Marisa> just by being monks

Carthrat

#178
Surely it was higher than that.

12d10 is an average damage of 66, and the harpy had a 50% chance of dealing at least 1d8+1d6+30 or so due to power attack I think, which itself at a 50% chance of hitting... hmm okay maybe not with 100+ HP.
[19:14] <Annerose> Aww, mouth not outpacing brain after all?
[19:14] <Candide> My brain caught up

Sierra

Quote from: Anastasia on February 17, 2010, 03:54:28 AMTo her, you were just some prey and an easy mark to hit on. The way the fight went, she never got a chance go into this. If you'd surrendered to her or things went differently somehow, this would've been gone into in more depth.

It's probably a good thing for Mari that we didn't surrender.

As for Kam coming back posthaste, yeah, understand fully why you did that, Dune. Missing sessions would suck. I'm not convinced that's free of repercussions, anyway. Guessing Kam respawned with some inhibitions against crossing Ogremoch.