Random DM nagging.

[Ebiris]

The bardic and war weaving buffbots will surely serve our forces well in the assault on Lethe!

[Nephrite]

Yeah, sneaking and motivational speeches don't usually go hand in hand.

[Yuthirin]

Had a bunch of time tonight so I looked at doing some purchases. While doing so, I was looking over Calleigh's stat block which I'm pretty sure is wrong. Too low in some places, too high in others. Want to adjust it before we go into battle. I'm not asking for help or anything, just giving a heads up that I'm going to be editing her block if I'm right.

[Anastasia]

Had a bunch of time tonight so I looked at doing some purchases. While doing so, I was looking over Calleigh's stat block which I'm pretty sure is wrong. Too low in some places, too high in others. Want to adjust it before we go into battle. I'm not asking for help or anything, just giving a heads up that I'm going to be editing her block if I'm right.

Sure thing.

[Nephrite]

Since this may actually come up in battle soon, what exactly are the rules on the range of bardic music? The abilities themselves just say, for lack of a better term "affects people who can hear it," but how far is that? Should it be quantifiable in some way or do we just kind of roll with it?

[Anastasia]

I usually consider it several hundred feet (shouting or silent conditions), a few hundred feet (typical conditions) or a hundred feet (noisy, loud battle, ect). It's the sort of thing you have to adjudicate. In combat or mass combat, I assume the bard is being as loud as possible.

Means to project your voice farther help, though common sense may be used to both limit and expand the range as circumstances dictate.

[Nephrite]

Fair enough. Clearly Moore will come up with a custom spell that makes the effects much larger.

[Anastasia]

That or an item, yeah. Both are reasonable.

[Yuthirin]

Alright, Calleigh is fixed. Her AC was flat out wrong. Wasn't accounting for her gear, and her saves weren't accounting for gear properly either.

[Anastasia]

Run me through how you calculated all of that, Yuth?

[Corwin]

Cleansing Rain, except can it be an extension of my evil-debuffing aura instead of rain? Centered on me rather than at range, maybe using my preferred medium of light rather than acid?

Centered on you and mobile, or just centered on you when you cast? A mobile version would have considerably different balance since you can move around with it and use it as an offensive aura that way.

I was originally thinking of mobile, but I'd be interested in seeing either version.

Maybe some defensive spell that triggers upon a charge/flyby and knocks people down instead of damage? Something of a cross between downdraft and that spell that zaps people when they hit you.

Doable. See future posts here.

Glee~

What do you think of a Miracle of Stabilization? 1hp healed to each being within a 1 mile radius, autostabilizes people bleeding out and infernal wounds?

Doable. See future posts here.

Grabbed.

Sunlance is great, but not applicable. However, I'd like to have a similar version for the lvl6 spell Bolt of Glory.

Check out Burst of Glory. It's a 12th level spell, see below. That said, how similar to Sunlance are we talking here? Shouldn't matter too much for balance, mostly on just how the spell's written out.

Burst of Glory
Evocation [Good]
Level: Clr 12, Glory 12, Pal 12
Components: V, S, DF
Casting Time: 1 standard action
Range: Close (25ft/2 levels); see text
Effect: Rays; see text
Duration: Instantaneous
Saving Throw: None
Spell Resistance: Yes

This spell sends Bolts of Glory at every creature within range of the spell. See the spell on page 35 of the Spell Compendium. You roll spell resistance and your attack roll once and apply it to all targets within range. The maximum damage for each bolt is raised, up to 30d12 versus natives of the Negative Energy Plane, evil outsiders and undead; 14d12 versus neutral outsiders and inhabitants of the Material Plane or Elemental plane; good outsiders and creatures native to the Positive Energy Plane still take no damage.

Burst of Glory sends bolts at all creatures within range, even allies and creatures that would not be affected by the bolt.

Not bad, and I might grab it later once I have lvl12 spells. But I was talking about an 'epic' version of Bolt of Glory, which is a single-target blast like Sunlance or the original Bolt of Glory but much stronger. Basically, one of my specialties is the laser beam spam, and I'd like that to continue into epic under my own theme (light) and not someone else's (moonlight, sunlight, rain, etc).

I wonder if something could come from marrying Tyranny to Glaciante's Spiteful Ward. Something that goes Mind Blank and similar defenses, and upon success blasts the target into stupor for X rounds?

Depends on how you execute it. If it's simply a dispel with an extra kick, those sort of things already exist and are an easy model to work with. Are you thinking of something more defensive and counter-y instead?

Dispel with an extra kick, more or less. Instead of dispelling me and getting blasted for managing it like with the spiteful ward, I'd be the one actively dispelling people and if I succeed they're so overawed they lose their fighting will or something, inspired by Tyranny.

How would Epic Magic Vestment look? Epic Magic Weapon?

A few approaches here, depending on what you want to do.

1. Like the greater versions with bigger numbers that keep on going. I admit I'm less keen on this option, since it basically just replaces greater magic weapon and gets you bigger numbers. I try to do more variety with epic spells than that. A lot of spells have that due to the basic nature of how 3.5 spellcasting is setup, but I try to twist it and make it more interesting.
2. Customized single spells that have a set parameter and function, such as like Shardread Weapon. That spell's not the best example due to the short duration, but it frames the approach here - more niche and personalized.

Hmm. I can't really get the mage armor chain since I prefer armor, and I'd need to via domain anyway. But I do make use of magic vestment, so it would be nice to have it manifest an epic variant as well, so it could stand up to the epic mage armor.

I understand your thought process for magic weapon and the lack of an epic variant. I'll figure out some spear-boosting spell I want to use. Maybe borrow from Mirajane's spell for an immediate activation, then a customized +10 weapon (a preset of abilities costing +5 and the rest being straight numbers?) that overrides the actual weapon traits for the duration.

[Anastasia]

Spells will be worked on tonight, Sunday or maybe Monday. Depends on how it goes.

Burst of Glory does include scaled up damage from Bolt of Glory. It is a much stronger version of Bolt of Glory, now being multitarget and with enhanced damage capacity. To be honest, I figured you'd consider that the epic version of the spell, since it fits you so well. Laser beam spam at everything within range, as you'd put it.

Dispel + fear or something like that is manageable. To be completely honest, you could do it as a non-epic spell. So it would take some further spicing up or adjustment, I'll fiddle with it.

[Corwin]

I'd like to swap Greater Spell Immunity for Wall of Greater Dispel. Never used GSI, probably never will.

[Corwin]

Re: Bolt of Glory. I did see it all! You're just misunderstanding me. In nonepic, have both mass beam spam and single target focused beams. I'd like my epic arsenal to represent that as well, with a single target beam spell and a mass target one. Presumably, the singular spell will be either stronger/with more severe secondary effects, cheaper, or both.

[Iron Dragoon]

Back up stat rolls, going with set 1

> !rollchar
<Serith> 5, 3, 6, 5, 6 = 17
<Serith> 3, 4, 4, 2, 1 = 11
<Serith> 2, 6, 5, 4, 5 = 16
<Serith> 5, 3, 2, 2, 6 = 14
<Serith> 2, 4, 3, 6, 4 = 14
<Serith> 6, 3, 5, 6, 1 = 17
<Serith> Iddy's Scores: 17, 17, 16, 14, 14, 11
> !rollchar
<Serith> 6, 5, 2, 1, 2 = 13
<Serith> 4, 3, 3, 4, 6 = 14
<Serith> 4, 6, 1, 5, 5 = 16
<Serith> 6, 2, 1, 2, 2 = 10
<Serith> 1, 6, 5, 5, 3 = 16
<Serith> 5, 6, 3, 6, 3 = 17
<Serith> Iddy's Scores: 17, 16, 16, 14, 13, 10