Random DM nagging.

[Anastasia]

I'm open Tuesday and Wednesday coming up. Thursday and Friday are work days. I'm open Saturday, but that's generally not a good day for Yuth.

[Merc]

Tomorrow works. Wednesday is a maybe right now.

[Yuthirin]

Worx

[Iron Dragoon]

> Soooo.....
> What would your opinion be on Splitting and/or Item Familiar?
> >.>
> <.<
> <Merc> Oh, comment on the splitting. It doesn't outright double your damage, since there's arguments that it doesn't apply to precision (SA) damage.


Posted as requested.

Just looking at options here, really. I know you have leveling all mapped out, and I have zero issue with that, but I think we can do something on the gear front to help up damage (though Lief does good damage already) and some AC.

[Merc]

Item familiar is weird considering you're not a mage.

You are a pixie though and hey, Ithea picked up Obtain Familiar, so who am I to say anything? :p

Do you have a feat slot for retraining for a familiar though?

[Anastasia]

> Soooo.....
> What would your opinion be on Splitting and/or Item Familiar?
> >.>
> <.<
> <Merc> Oh, comment on the splitting. It doesn't outright double your damage, since there's arguments that it doesn't apply to precision (SA) damage.


Posted as requested.

Just looking at options here, really. I know you have leveling all mapped out, and I have zero issue with that, but I think we can do something on the gear front to help up damage (though Lief does good damage already) and some AC.

Amaryl in B1 used splitting. My personal take is that I'd rather not deal with it here, since it's a huge damage boost (and doubly so if I allow SA to apply to it).

As for Item Familiar, what precisely do you mean by that? Gonna need some more details here.

[Yuthirin]

You know who I realized the other day that I've completely ignored?

That pack of dire wolves I took control of.

[Anastasia]

Got a plan with them or something? Also, go post in the away thread already for next week's sessions.

[Yuthirin]

I thought I posted. Sorry. And no, no plans.

[Iron Dragoon]

You know who I realized the other day that I've completely ignored?

That pack of dire wolves I took control of.

You should turn them over to the Military to be trained and bred as military style working dogs. In such uses, they'd be good for the fey and smaller races of Aurora to be fighting companions/mounts, and they could even be further trained for trip/pin moves in combat. Imagine you're a devil fighting a couple of Aurora soldiers and then suddenly a group of 2 or 3 dire wolves swarm your legs and pin one of your legs by the ankle, calf, and knee.

Depending on their strength ratings, they can be used for battlefield support, too. In WWI they were used to recover wounded and harnessed with carts to transport supplies like ammo and medical supplies; they'd need enough INT to recognize those commands, but with a speak to animals spell, it'd get around that.

They'd also help the Commandos and Scouts with detection and tracking. The military's trained dogs to sniff out traps and hidden personnel, so if we could figure a way for them to 'smell' magic or otherwise just track on scent, they'd help there.

The military has also controversially used dogs to intimidate prisoners. We can modify this for D&D with a look at circumstantial bonuses or whatever Dune thinks fits for a battlefield intimidation check. Same thing as I mentioned on the fighting dogs. You're fighting in a group and one of your group members gets dragged down by 2 or 3 dire wolves. As soon as they start making their way to you, you're going to start sweating.

It'd take a bit of work to make happen, and I'm not sure how Dune would want to deal with a breeding program for it, but hey, you said you had no plans or ideas, so there's an idea. And they'd buff up the Aurora Military! =)

If you're interested, I can give you some more detailed reasoning and uses for them in military/combat roles.

[Yuthirin]

They're as smart as humans. Sometimes smarter. They're magimical.

[Iron Dragoon]

Well there you go. Military dogs that can understand tactics and what-not.

You should also keep one, make it a Ice-Wolf and pit it against Ithea's fire kitty.

[Anastasia]

I'm really sore, tired and stressed out. Could y'all do me a favor and post the 2-3 logs that are missing in the Coda log topic?

[Yuthirin]

I'll do it tonight

[Anastasia]

Awesome, thank you!