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[Anastasia]

Thanks.

[Merc]

+1 avd made zero difference on my end.

As for the hydra, given that my armor took effect three times, I tend to see it as three attacks. So yes, I still feel I should have gotten all the counterattacks on the hydra.

It's a rare surprise round also, I mean really, they've come come up what, four times total not counting the use of first strike?

The situation where it comes up is only where enemies gang up on me on a surprise round, and that's really where I'm most dangerous after all. I don't feel that its unbalanced, and if the enemy manages to take out Santos in the opening gambit in exchange for the wounds? Well hey, good for them...

Anyhow, middle of gaming, DM always has the right of it, and I bowed down on that ruling, but I still feel otherwise.

Apologies for not catching up on logging. I'll post the last two logs tomorrow. I saw Soul and Neph posted the ones I missed on vacation.

[Anastasia]

Fair enough then, Merc. If you run into that sort of attack again, I'll allow the counters to apply to all of the hits.

[Soul]

I agree, the +1 AVD didn't change much. I find it weird that you roll to hit but you don't roll to dodge... or that dodging looks to be such a low stat. Even if you have 10 AVD, the enemies rolls 2d6+Somenumber, which could potentially be twice your dodge.

I'm not sure what to suggest, though.

[Anastasia]

+1 AVD didn't change much, so we'll try a session of +3 AVD for everyone. That should, ideally, provide everything with an elevated chance of dodging. See how it plays out and how y'all feel after.

I suspect this will hurt low ACC monsters and PCs and not terribly slow down warrior-types, but we'll see.

[Anastasia]

How did you all like +3 AVD? It caused some misses in the Ocho battle. Did you all like that or dislike it?'

Just feeling out opinions, one normal enemy battle isn't much of a sample size.

[Iron Dragoon]

It appears to have saved my life from laser death, so I approve >.>;

[Nephrite]

I wasn't even attacked, so I can't comment really. The low rolls usually end up missing anyway.

[Anastasia]

Yeah. It's worth mentioning that we'll use this next week, since we only had one combat this week. Y'all short circuited a few possible encounters.

[Anastasia]

REMINDER: We'll be using +3 AVD again this session. Good luck!

[Anastasia]

1. As mentioned last night, the swamp dragon was a boss and you did defeat it, sort of. You can class change if you please.
2. The stats for the swamp dragon won't be posted since you didn't kill it. It was a multiphase boss with escalating counters as hinted in its first shift. Esper blitzing rather neutered the battle.
3. Make sure to update your sheets with new spells/abilities that you got. I noticed some of you haven't yet, so make sure it's done soon.
4. Dragon loot will be posted tonight or possibly tomorrow.
5. How was AVD+3 for y'all? Opinions?

[Iron Dragoon]

Can't really say about the AVD. The Hydras got nuked too fast, and I shifted to Shiva, so it didn't matter.

Penelo can probably give a good opinion, though!

[Soul]

As a mage I have a low AVD so I can't speak for myself. I think the AVD would be a bigger thing for those who try to get into melee, really. I still got hit.

Maybe enemies hitting should be a 1d6+bonus. :D
(I'm not serious on that.)

[Nephrite]

I didn't hit with any of my attacks during the session. Likewise, we weren't really attacked, either...  so it's hard to say exactly, but of the three (?) times I attacked, I missed all of them. I think two were because of the AVD?

[Anastasia]

That sounds correct, Neph.  Observation suggests that low ACC monsters and PCs will be hit by this the worst. Morrie and Mycol seem like the two bruised here.