Random DM nagging.

[Ebiris]

The Master's mixed style with the prospect of specialisation for those who fit it seems to offer the best potential return from the options given. If anyone's pretty enough or shows the inclination then armed styles like the Graceful blow or the favoured styles of other Aurora leaders are also possible, but if they want to languish in monkdom I won't stop them.

[Anastasia]

The Master's mixed style with the prospect of specialisation for those who fit it seems to offer the best potential return from the options given. If anyone's pretty enough or shows the inclination then armed styles like the Graceful blow or the favoured styles of other Aurora leaders are also possible, but if they want to languish in monkdom I won't stop them.

Well, they already have inclinations and basic monk training. Hence focusing on those angles. If you want to pursue other angles entirely, that's fine too, say so.

[Yuthirin]

I still don't think that we should deny people the opportunity to turn themselves into dragons. If people want to turn into dragons, and we have a valid path that has been investigated and determined to not be THE DEVIL, we should at least offer it to them and explain the benefits and drawbacks.

[Merc]

...I'm seeing Annalise's sheet in the cemetary. What the heck happened to lead to her getting blown up by 21? 0_o

[Corwin]

Logs are up.

[Anastasia]

Yeah, just read the log. Shit got complicated.

[Yuthirin]

1. In the scope of Mass Awaken, the XP cost is 250. I see no reason not to use that on any animal on the Aurora that will be assisting in combat. Namely, the dire wolves. This could also be applied to trees though. In this scope, would the cost of XP->GP be direct, or modified?

2. In the MIC, there is an item called the Pearl of Speech. It is 600gp. Could this be used to allow Muirfinn to speak in shapeshift form? I totally understand if this doesn't overcome the Natural Spell ban (that's not what I'm getting at here), but I'd at least like to be able to communicate.

3. What would Muirfinn have to go about doing to reach Exalted alignment, and what would that entail?

[Anastasia]

With any luck, Simmer will be up tonight. Mei will be tomorrow night most likely, as I have too much work to do. Those two books Eb bought are due as well.

EDIT: On reading Yuth's post, that'll probably be tomorrow too since it's gonna be a bit involved to answer and require looking up shit.

[Anastasia]

Simmer's build in case I don't get her posted tonight is as follows.

Dryad 4/Half Fire Elemental 3/Barbarian (Hunter variant) 10//Sorcerer 5/Lord of the Bright Fires 10/War Mage 2

Hunter Barbarians get favored enemies and archery combat style while sacrificing rage related abilities. It's a so-so trade but it fits Simmer extremely well, down to the archery boosts. I originally considered pure ranger, but mixing in more spellcasting did not appeal nor did an animal companion. On the other hand, d12 HD and more standalone powers did. So there you go. War Mage is from Dragonlance: Age of Mortals and isn't the base class from Complete Arcane. Do note that this PrC was given errata in a later Dragonlance product. Battle Magic becomes 3 + con mod/day and isn't affected by abilities that influence variable damage, such as Empower Spell. Sucks for Simmer but such is life. They also get intimidate as a class skill.

For what it's worth, I'd have nerfed Battle Magic anyway. +3 per die of damage per spell is absurdly good. Hell, a free +1/die of damage is more than pulling its weight.

[Anastasia]

Mei's build isn't finalized and probably won't be until tomorrow. This is the rough build.

Warlock 17//Paladin 5/Voice of the Triune 10/Enlightened Spirit 2. The Enlightened Spirit levels may come before the Triune levels and be resumed after them, things are still fluid. She has VoP and a homebrewed Vow of Silence, so how that ties into pre-reqs and general fiddling is still to be fully determined.  Fortunately she has a bunch of spare exalted feats so she'll not have prereq problems. Her basic build is a ranged paladin, looking into the feats and allow ranged smiting and a custom exalted warlock feat.

Yeah, she's gonna be tomorrow most likely just based on the work ahead of me. Oi.

[Merc]

Animal Companion and the spells are pretty easy to ACF for ranger, there's the feats for spells trade from Complete Champion, and the distracting attack for companion (that Lief also has) from PHBII. She'd also get slightly more skills and class skills and a good reflex save.

That said, I'd rather she get barbarian just because of the giggles from Simmer going into a d12 HD class that also gets DR. Let's face it, even if it's silly, she could -really- use that. Unless she rolls crap, then...well, sucks to be her?

[Anastasia]

It makes sense to me. Get butchered by Senaril, take steps to be more enduring and able to not be butchered.

[Anastasia]

Won't get Simmer done tonight, so he's a few tidbits if you're curious.

Feats: Toughness(1), Eschew Materials(S1), Combat Casting(3), Searing Spell(S5), Weapon Focus(Longbow)(6), Fiery Spell(9), Rapidshot(B2), Spell Penetration(12), Manyshot(B6), Fey Bloodline(15), Empower Spell(WM2) (Yes weapon focus is a pre-req.)

Simmer casts as a 16th level sorcerer. Her themes are fire, more fire and FIRE! Oh, and a few protection too since fuck Senaril.

[Corwin]

When you have the time, I would be curious to see you post a few high-level NPCs on the side of Good. Not even necessarily people we'll ever come in contact with. Say like any of the angels that control a layer of Celestia, or anyone else really powerful and nongeneric (so not just Solar 33/Cleric 33).

[Corwin]

The intent is for Afina and Jaela to go on the Graceful Blow ancestor tomb quest tomorrow, along with Adrian, Misalea and Mirima. This lineup looks perfectly fine to me, but if they really want to take someone else, there are up to three more spots.