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[Nephrite]

Goblin Bomb (3 MP)
Target: Single
Type: Non-elemental
The caster conjures forth a black metallic sphere topped with a lit fuse. It explodes instantly, dealing (PWR x 4) + 2d6 points of M.ARM Fire damage unless the target is of a lower level than
the caster. In such a situation, the attack inflicts (PWR x 8) +2d6 damage instead. There is a 25% chance that Goblin Bomb will explode prematurely, dealing damage to the caster of this spell
as well as the intended target.

For me, this does 12+2d6 damage.

Flash (7 MP)
Target: Single
Type: Non-elemental
Resistible
The caster creates a sudden explosion of searing phosphorescent light, inflicting (DEX x 3) + 2d6 damage to one enemy and inflicting the target with the negative status effect
Blind for one round with a successful opposed roll.

This is 12+2d6 damage. I'd assume the opposed roll is Force.


Poison Breath (6 MP)
Target: Single
Type: Status
Resistible
A morass of multicolored toxins is exhaled in a sickly plume. The target is affected by Poison, and the caster gains a +2 bonus on the opposed resist roll to apply this status effect.

No damage. Again, guessing Force.

Flamethrower (20 MP)
Target: Single
Type: Elemental (Fire)
Reflectable
The caster releases a blistering stream of fire from their mouth or fingers, scorching their intended target for (PWR x 7) + 2d6 Fire damage.

This does 21+2d6 damage.

[Anastasia]

Thanks. Yeah, the opposed rolls are force.

[Merc]

1. Merc, can you catch up with logs? They're getting behind again. Also, can you check out past logs for cut-offs? I know the most recently posted log cuts off early.

I'll do that some time this week.

2. We've had a lot of late session starts lately. This is caused by people being late (or no-showing entirely) and it's starting to become a problem. People, could you try and not schedule things that could run over just before the session? We have one shot at this a week and I'd rather not waste it like that. I understand that shit happens sometimes, but this is getting to be a real problem.

I've said it before, the new work schedule means I'm pretty much guaranteed to be late on a number of occassions during weekday sessions. I'll warn as usual by post, but not something that's gonna get better for me.

3. The party levels up to 4! This goes as normal, make sure to post summaries of what you gain from the level up.

The only thing of note for Santos is that he finally picks up First Strike. His accuracy also goes up, which doesn't mean much since he rarely misses already. I'm debating putting points into Dex since I don't get anything out of it now, but it pays off next level, whenever the hell that comes up. That said, I waited through three levels so I could pick up First Strike, so it's not something new to be playing a waiting game on Santos.

7. All the party (besides Penelo, but she's new so no limit break is immediately forthcoming while she learns the ropes) now a summon and their first limit break. Any comments on either of these so far? I know limit breaks haven't had a chance to come up yet. I thought Dynamite may have against Lich, since he had the damage and was weak to fire, but it didn't work out.

I probably won't use the limit break through the 3 destiny cost method. I might through crits, though it's hard to get to it since have to be below 25% HP without destiny expenditure. The times I do, I always end up unconscious by my next turn, or healed up out of that range.

Could we perhaps trigger for 1 destiny in place of a crit above, or something as such? I know you said you were going to mess with limit breaks and limit abilities.

Speaking of which, are you doing anything with limit abilities for this game?

[Merc]

<Change if Lekho is down or Shiva is summoned right now> Shiva's voice suddenly erupts from Lehko's mouth, "This spell, it's Ultima's chant, but he's changed it! If you get hit by this, you're dead! Finish it or swap us in!"

WOULD we have been able to teamwork attack against Nuke? If not, whatever Shiva says, as soon as he starts casting it if we don't have summons we're fucked -anyway-, since summoning is a slow action, meaning he'd get spell off before summoning would work.

Also, I was getting the impression that he was casting spells as standard actions, same as espers/summons, not slow attacks, so I never even bothered trying a teamwork attack.

[Anastasia]

Nuke has two rounds of charge-up. See his battle strategy section on his sheet.

[Merc]

Do you think we could get AVD to be based on Finesse instead of DEX? I understand where they were going but it seems weird to have one stat determine something defensive like that.

I'd have it be Job AVD Bonus + Finesse = AVD. It's more or less the same calculation, but it scales off of Finesse instead of off DEX, so everyone can benefit rather than just Lehko.

+Finesse is (Dex+Mind)/4 vs +Dex/4. So basically, it comes out to me gaining +1 avoidance, Penelo gets +3, everyone else gets +2. That makes me, as a ninja and the guy who's bitched about the avoidance system from before we even started SUPER SAD.

It's still a slight fix, and I'll take it, but that just means everyone now gets easier access to boosting avoidance since Mind is a helpful stat every time any of you guys boost it, dex is still a helpful stat for Lehko whenever he boosts it...and mind is useless to me, and dex only helps me every 2-3 levels if I boost nothing BUT dex.

That means in a couple of levels, instead of everyone but Lehko hating avoidance...it'll just be me.

[Anastasia]

I've said it before, the new work schedule means I'm pretty much guaranteed to be late on a number of occassions during weekday sessions. I'll warn as usual by post, but not something that's gonna get better for me.

Yeah, I'm not faulting you for that. We'll see what days look realistic once Iddy gets info about his class schedule.

The only thing of note for Santos is that he finally picks up First Strike. His accuracy also goes up, which doesn't mean much since he rarely misses already. I'm debating putting points into Dex since I don't get anything out of it now, but it pays off next level, whenever the hell that comes up. That said, I waited through three levels so I could pick up First Strike, so it's not something new to be playing a waiting game on Santos.

Fair enough. First Strike's shiny at least.

I probably won't use the limit break through the 3 destiny cost method. I might through crits, though it's hard to get to it since have to be below 25% HP without destiny expenditure. The times I do, I always end up unconscious by my next turn, or healed up out of that range.

Yeah. As you gain more powers/limits I'm going to be tweaking those factors. I don't disagree, I'm just taking the long view.

Speaking of which, are you doing anything with limit abilities for this game?

They'll appear via DM fiat, items and possibly achieving goals. They're a mixed bag and I'd rather control them while ensuring you get them all for free instead of spending precious job abilities.

[Anastasia]

Do you think we could get AVD to be based on Finesse instead of DEX? I understand where they were going but it seems weird to have one stat determine something defensive like that.

I'd have it be Job AVD Bonus + Finesse = AVD. It's more or less the same calculation, but it scales off of Finesse instead of off DEX, so everyone can benefit rather than just Lehko.

+Finesse is (Dex+Mind)/4 vs +Dex/4. So basically, it comes out to me gaining +1 avoidance, Penelo gets +3, everyone else gets +2. That makes me, as a ninja and the guy who's bitched about the avoidance system from before we even started SUPER SAD.

It's still a slight fix, and I'll take it, but that just means everyone now gets easier access to boosting avoidance since Mind is a helpful stat every time any of you guys boost it, dex is still a helpful stat for Lehko whenever he boosts it...and mind is useless to me, and dex only helps me every 2-3 levels if I boost nothing BUT dex.

That means in a couple of levels, instead of everyone but Lehko hating avoidance...it'll just be me.

Basically. Inclusive to Neph's post with that suggestion, I'm going to table this until the next update for FFd6 comes out later this month. I want to see what tweaks they make in regard to AVD. That should be 2-3 sessions most likely, and the next few may well be more RP focused anyway. So this shouldn't be a big deal with any luck.

If the update gets pushed back any farther, I'll make my own houserule regarding it.

[Nephrite]

This is just an FYI to Dune, I'd like to take the Staves to the Serrendale White Wizards and see if anything can be done to remove their tainted-ness. Obviously we need to make the trip IC, I just wanted to note it is something I'd like to do.

[Anastasia]

This is just an FYI to Dune, I'd like to take the Staves to the Serrendale White Wizards and see if anything can be done to remove their tainted-ness. Obviously we need to make the trip IC, I just wanted to note it is something I'd like to do.

Sure, I'll tab that down for later reference.

[Anastasia]

Okay, speaking of that, Neph raises a good point. Y'all are going back to Serrendale for the first time since you left for Galimond. It's been awhile! Is there anything you want to do in town or the area around it? Let me know so I can plan accordingly.

[Iron Dragoon]

Okay, speaking of that, Neph raises a good point. Y'all are going back to Serrendale for the first time since you left for Galimond. It's been awhile! Is there anything you want to do in town or the area around it? Let me know so I can plan accordingly.

I'd like to hit the White Wizards myself, just for story interaction stuff. I think we still have some side-quests to do, don't we? From the feast?

Barring that, is there like a Paladin guild or something? Or like a temple to Shiva or something? Or an engineer guild?

[Anastasia]

I'd like to hit the White Wizards myself, just for story interaction stuff. I think we still have some side-quests to do, don't we? From the feast?

Entirely possible, and Mycol also got a promise (later) of audience, I believe.

Barring that, is there like a Paladin guild or something? Or like a temple to Shiva or something? Or an engineer guild?

You'd need to poke around town a bit for the first two. The third you already know there is one; you'd know since you spent time as an engineer in Serrendale.

[Nephrite]

I'd like to do some research on Marilith and see if we might be able to get an idea of where she might be hiding. If we can find the location sooner, rather than later, the fight might be a bit easier to deal with.

Perhaps see if there are any legends on other Espers... or just ask the Espers themselves. Not that we want more, but they might know other things.

[Iron Dragoon]

I'll hit the engineer guild just as a check-in, since I'm still advancing my Tinkering, and then try to find the Paladin guild. Since I'm a 'new' paladin, I figure I should register or something. Same for the temple of Shiva.