Let's Cast Magic Missile!

Originally Posted by AniMechanic

I just realized there have been no descriptions of light sources since the first room.

Originally Posted by Shin

Picking up my staff, I raised my fingers to the tip and uttered the cantrip "Illuminos".

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

I lit my sunrod and muddled up the stairs with the rest of the group of mostly halfwits.

Originally Posted by Player's Handbook, page 221

Sunrod: This minor magic item sheds bright light to
a radius of 20 squares for 4 hours before burning out.

That last little flurry was interesting. We're on Argumentus now, right?

Ah, I see. So they don't have to worry about it for a while. Will be interesting to see what happens if they run out of sunrods without finding any illumination. Although I guess as long as Bob is around they'll have some light. I have no idea how much though because I have not read that skills description.

The light cantrip only has a 4-square radius, so if they run out of rods they'll just have to cluster tightly around Bob like the meatshields they are.

Originally Posted by BEARD

We're on Argumentus now, right?

Indeed so!

The dwarf roared in pain as the fire engulfed him. The flames blistered his skin, singed his beard and heated his armour.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

The light cantrip only has a 4-square radius, so if they run out of rods they'll just have to cluster tightly around Bob like the meatshields they are.



Indeed so!

The dwarf roared in pain as the fire engulfed him. The flames blistered his skin, singed his beard and heated his armour.

Where in the hell did you find that? That's fucking brilliant.

Damage via misadventure? How's that work?

And those goblins sure take a beating.

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

Damage via misadventure? How's that work?

Read as: "as a direct consequence of being dumb as fuck". Knives, axe, boot to the head.

I have to mix it up a little, since the smart thing for the goblins to do would be just to sit on the other end of the room and spit javelins at you all day. Boring.

Goblins have feelings too, you know. They're not just soulless calculating machines. =/

And one would imagine that eventually, they'd run out of javelins, unless we started throwing them back of course.

Oh, I just got that the thing in front of the northern door is a spent javelin.

I gotta say, Pang, you're doing a great job with the atmosphere.

All right, I'm a bail for about six hours, and then I'll be back for a bit.

Take it easy.

NEXT DAY EDIT:

Dropped my track. Now I'm off to play footy for a couple hours before work. I should be able to post again before I leave for the pub tonight if we get around to it.

HELLO THERE, VARIOUS LURKERS

I know I clicked on it at least twice...

Funny how Bob rolled last in the previous round, and this time he's first.

Originally Posted by Zephyrin

I know I clicked on it at least twice...

Funny how Bob rolled last in the previous round, and this time he's first.

If that goblin doesn't die soon, I'm going to run out of movies to quote.

Looking over the player's guide has given me a few ideas about my character, but I want to ask in the interests of practicality and fun factor: would it be too much hassle to make my character mute?

I think it would be interesting to see a "leader" character who doesn't speak, but it might cause problems down the line.

Has anyone tried this personally?

I've pretty much decided that even if he's not mute, I'm going to cripple his charisma to buff strength and wisdom.

Well, having a Cleric who's unable to speak puts a crimp on a few things; a lot of the cleric powers involve spoken prayers. If you can work around that limitation I don't see a problem with it; if we can deal with a fighter with no weapons, we can accept a cleric who can't pray.

Dysfunctional to the max, eh guys?

A wizard who dresses like a woman. A dwarf who quotes movies. Aren't we a team to remember.

Originally Posted by Pangalin

Well, having a Cleric who's unable to speak puts a crimp on a few things; a lot of the cleric powers involve spoken prayers. If you can work around that limitation I don't see a problem with it; if we can deal with a fighter with no weapons, we can accept a cleric who can't pray.

I was thinking along the lines of a monkish Cleric who uses a staff (with holy symbol headpiece, of course.)

I could swing either way, though. A very reserved Cleric works pretty much the same as a mute one for my purposes. I thought it might be funny to see what happens when the more...boisterous heroes don't see Silent Bob motioning them to wait while he inspects the trap door.