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[chess]

I probably owe you all a LJ entry, although I'm still stuck at skip=100 right now. In case I hadn't told you, I'm
off to freeze my butt off on a campsite near Manchester this weekend, in the name of Live Action Role-Play. This is all phamster's fault. Should be fun,
even if my period decided to be a week late, in the spirit of 'turning up at precisely the wrong moment'. Technically
I should have expected it, with all the random swapping around it's done in the past to safeguard me from going anywhere near a swimming pool at a SU holiday.

I've spent the last week expecting to have a period and hence being very snappy and PMT-ish; I was meant to be leading at CH last Thursday but thought it was best not after having chewed several people out over the course of the day. I probably should stop beating up on Helena for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but it doesn't seem to bother her, so I guess it's not too much of a priority.

We had Economics in the computer room yesterday and she discovered how to make Laura (the small one) jump, and then we sent a wheely chair over (express delivery) and declared that it was 'give Laura a heart attack day'. (The chair was originally aimed for a) the centre of the room, b) Mr Moore, but I decided it was altogether too obvious that I was the only one with a good angle to those places whereas as Helena had already been tormenting Laura she was the first suspect for the chair delivery.)

Yes, I'm mean. Did you have a question?

Anyway, Laura was playing Tetris and Pacman when we were meant to be working; at least we were pretending to be working while we talked about AD&D characters. The reason I'm at skip=100 is that I've spent an inordinate amount of time creating and messing with an 18th-level AD&D character for a random Rondak's Portal game Melody insisted we both applied for. I burnt two evenings trying to maximise her saves and AC. Her history is over 3500 words long - well, she *is* an eighteenth level elf, 170 years old, multiclassed four ways (Barbarian 1 / Fighter 4 / Order of the Bow Initiate 8 / Ghostwalker 5). And now her fortitude save is +30 and her AC is 41. She has four or five arrowshots (five if she
takes -2 to hit) at 1d8+13+1d6 per arrow, add another damage if she's firing masterwork or magic arrows. I still don't
give her thirty seconds against Melody's sorceress, though.

I am skipping school today. This is Naughty. Then again, I *am* in the 6th form and my parents are fully colluding
on the issue, so *shrug*.

Comments

[passage.livejournal.com]

Now I suspect some of those are prestige classes, but even so: exp penalties?

Do you know abouth those things.

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

I need to know exactly how to do what i want to do and what it actually does. so that my gm can decide weather he will let me play it.


Please educate me

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Go out and buy a Players Handbook you cheapskate.

(The character descriped by you would incur a -20% XP penalty unless they were human, half elven, half orc or possibly dwarf (not sure about the last, my PH is packed).

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[dr-vannacutt.livejournal.com]

i know that mate. sorry i was talking about the litch stuff.

And thanks i just re-installed win 2k and you have helped me test that my lj still works.

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[chess]

Mm. That could complicate my history, but I could make her half-elven at a stretch.

Re: Do you know abouth those things.

[passage.livejournal.com]

I meant dr_vannacutt's character.

I can't work out the XP penalties for your character as you have several classes not listed in the PHB, which suggests to me that they're prestige classes and therefore might not suffer XP penalties.

However, you'll certainly suffer a -20% XP penalty for having 1 barb, 4 fighter.

Either go for 2 Barb, 3 Fighter, or pick a race which favours either to avoid the problem (Human or half elf (but half elves kinda suck) or half-orc or dwarf).

[chess]

I have to have 4 fighter for weapon specialisation. (Originally she was 5 barbarian, but then I couldn't have Order of the Bow.)

Half-orc almost works with the history, but she's meant to be a dex monster, so losing two points messes that up a bit.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Ah, look more carefully: you don't need level 4 fighter to get weapon specialisation, you just need some fighter and a base attack bonus of 4 or higher, now if you were purely fighter then that doesn't happen till fighter level 4, but a 3 Barb/1 Fighter could get weapon specialisation.

Personally I've been considering getting 1 level of fighter just for this, the XP penalties would hardly matter as if we advance another level it will certainly be the last of the campaign. However it would be deeply out of character, a clear act of max/mining.

How about 3 Barb/2 Figher, as you don't get an extra feat for 3 fighter?

[chess]

Ooh. Good idea. That would be more useful in general, too.

[passage.livejournal.com]

Oh pants, I'm wrong. I checked again and it is actually lv. 4 fighter rather than the base attack bonus (just about all the others run on base attack bonus and it seems I got confused), sorry.

[chess]

I'm playing 'let's see if they notice' right now (due to not knowing how to calculate the wretched thing), but I can lose a level or two of Order of the Bow Initiate without losing much of the coolest stuff, so it won't be a great problem.