General chatter

[Anastasia]

For questions, comments, discussion and whatever else doesn't fit into other topics.

How are your characters coming along, y'all?

[Nephrite]

Could I get a specific list of the house rules?

[Anastasia]

They'll be posted tomorrow since I need to give them a final pass.

[Anastasia]

Q&As from PMs.

<Nephrite> I have a question: Would it be possible for my character to, in addition to the Shapeshift feat, also take the Druidic Avenger class feature? I would be willing to compromise and work with less spells or even no spells at all.

Yes, you can take it if you desire. It renders you and Eb a little same-y, but I asked him and he gave the okay.

<DarkFlameMaster> Does Dimension Hop (duskblade spell) exist, and if so, does it activate skirmish?

The spell exists but skirmish isn't triggered by teleportation effects.

<DarkFlameMaster> PrCs generally have skill requirements
<DarkFlameMaster> Can you be more flexible with those here?
<DarkFlameMaster> Pathfinder skills are 1 per level, unlike the 3.5 level+3 for class skills.

There's been a misconception here and I need to clarify it. We're using Pathfinder skills instead of 3.5 skills. This means we use perception instead of spot/listen and so forth. This doesn't mean we adopt any other structures of it, such as a changed structure for how class skills work. The max skill levels are still 3 + level.

On a related subject that was touched on, any prerequisites that require the old skills now require the new skills. For example, a prerequisite of spot 3 ranks becomes perception 3 ranks. We'll deal with any corner cases when they come up. This likewise applies to bonuses.

For example, the changes to Dervish are: Acrobatics 3 ranks for the prerequisite, the class skill list would be Acrobatics (Dex), Craft (Int), Escape Artist (Dex), Perception (Wis), Perform (Cha) and Swim (Str), dervish dance prevents the use of Stealth and Perception and she may take 10 on Acrobatics and Perform checks thanks to movement mastery. All of those work except dervish dance stopping perception, which is a case of searching being rolled into spot/listen being awkward. I'd discard that limitation in that case.

<DarkFlameMaster> Did you reconsider warshaper? Claymores are always a fun option.

Yes and yes. I still think the class isn't remotely balanced and is poorly designed for anything but druids (who it's crummy for, go figure), but I'll allow it. 

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Houserules will be up soon.

[Nephrite]

Q&As from PMs.

<Nephrite> I have a question: Would it be possible for my character to, in addition to the Shapeshift feat, also take the Druidic Avenger class feature? I would be willing to compromise and work with less spells or even no spells at all.

Yes, you can take it if you desire. It renders you and Eb a little same-y, but I asked him and he gave the okay.

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Houserules will be up soon.

Do you need me to nix spells in that case? Just making sure I have all my ducks in a row. :)

[Anastasia]

Q&As from PMs.

<Nephrite> I have a question: Would it be possible for my character to, in addition to the Shapeshift feat, also take the Druidic Avenger class feature? I would be willing to compromise and work with less spells or even no spells at all.

Yes, you can take it if you desire. It renders you and Eb a little same-y, but I asked him and he gave the okay.

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Houserules will be up soon.

Do you need me to nix spells in that case? Just making sure I have all my ducks in a row. :)

The spells are fine. If this ACF turns out to be of the broken or otherwise unpalatable we'll deal with it then.

[Nephrite]

You got it, bossman.

[Anastasia]

Game start is going to be late next week if all goes well. So let me ask now: What days are good for each of you so we can figure out what are on and off days are?

[Nephrite]

If we're doing early afternoons, I'm fine on any day.

[Ebiris]

Pretty much any day works out for me.

[Corwin]

I can commit to GMT 17:30-20:30, any day works.

[Nephrite]

And to answer the original question, my character is almost done.

[Anastasia]

Awesome to hear. I'll do sheet edits once they're all up. Likewise, I'll have more information on the exact starting date and game days tonight or tomorrow.

[Anastasia]

Okay. For now let's do Monday, Wednesday, Thursdays and Fridays from 12 30 EST to 3 30 EST. (The time bracket Cor said he's good for.) We'll begin next Friday, April 5th.

[Anastasia]

I'm assuming from the lack of comment the 5th works for everyone?